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Nobody on their deathbed ever said, "I wish I'd been less grateful."
this was so sad and also exactly what GOP lawmakers voted for....
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3h agoThe U.S. is undergoing one of the biggest changes to its social safety net in recent history, with huge numbers of people getting dropped from the government’s food assistance program. Nowhere has this been more dramatic than in Arizona. Listen as we explain why and its implications on "The Daily."
“In 2024, an uncertified company [in Jiangxi Province] was found to have improperly dismantled 364 metric tons of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries. The resulting contamination caused vegetation to die across 6 acres of forest and killed more than 420 cubic feet of standing timber.”
China’s EV Market Is Booming. There’s Just One Problem
More EVs reaching the end of their life means more batteries to recycle. But waste management companies have yet to catch up to the new reality.
wired.com
These numbers should make me happy or at least feel vindicated but all of these things (except the ballroom, I guess) were obvious two years ago and people voted for him anyway.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d agoTrump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
Not only are they shithole countries, they can't stay in one place.
@garyhageman.bsky.social · 6d agoAccording to this map, one can practice their Portuguese in Addis Ababa.
This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I'd be a reporter and feature writer. I'm a reporter and feature writer.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
It fills me with optimism that the many online experts on dress colors, voting machines, and the physics of shoddy deep water exploration vehicles are now experts on The Odyssey.
Who can blame them, when you don't know what Rand Paul will do next?
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.K-pop powerhouse BTS said they will not submit their music for consideration at the forthcoming 2027 Grammy Awards.
That Comey seashells filing today outlining how hard FBI agents worked to indict their former Director and how Trump was personally demanding to see interview notes suggests Fauci had no choice.
Charlie Savage@charliesavage.bsky.social · last wk.Seeing people confused about Fauci taking the Fifth even though he was pre-emptively pardoned by Biden. Pardons only cover past conduct; they don't immunize future lawbreaking. Fauci's claim is Trump II DOJ would gin up a perjury investigation into him based on anything he says today.
There is never anything to be accomplished by attempting to answer in good faith a question asked in bad faith.
if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
Trump has extensive stock holdings in tobacco companies: kffhealthnews.org/courts/fda-t...
Trump Bought Tobacco Stocks and Raked In Industry Donations as FDA Eased Standards - KFF Health News
The Trump administration has pursued an extensive pro-tobacco agenda as the president and his political movement have been buoyed by a flood of tobacco industry money, federal records show.
kffhealthnews.org
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.There was an era not too long ago when the White House publicly promoting tobacco products would've been seen as a faux pas
Known thing: Paint dries 3x faster when exposed to a Ross Douthat video.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
{watching this video of emily wilson reciting aloud from the odyssey in the original greek} Ma'am,, respectfully,,,, 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
A medical error caused by AI, and the problem of pushing paranoia onto a technology's own customers. An American free-market problem, even as many begin to doubt the ability of this ideology to deliver for the many. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/the-excell...
The Excellence Problem
AI enters our lives as a work in progress, but we weren't sold to be suspicious.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com
NYP reports on Mamdani's success at getting criminals to self-deport from NYC. nypost.com/2026/07/23/u...
Exclusive | Jared Kushner’s father is leaving New York City over mayor, first lady’s ‘antisemitism’
“I don’t want to pay taxes and live in a city with a blatantly antisemitic mayor and his antisemitic wife,” Charles Kushner told The Post.
nypost.com
I'm so tired of everything being basically like the most seedy New York real estate transaction, circa 1977.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."
If you stop funding something and that has lethal consequences, the issue is not, "Well, why didn't someone else jump in and immediately fund it?" I'm astonished that the interviewer can say "fair point" to any of this. It's garbage.
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
The White House says it will be a "unifying but vicious" speech. Another reason to skip journalism's worst meat parade.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2w agoU.S. President Donald Trump will address the White House Correspondents' Association at a rescheduled dinner on Friday, nearly three months after a shooting at the Washington Hilton hotel interrupted the event.
I was walking through a Barnes & Noble and spotted Olivia Nuzzi's book and now I know what it was like when they first spotted a coelacanth in a fish market.
Someone get me in a room with MacKenzie Scott’s folks and I’ll deliver my impassioned / well-constructed argument that it’s a moral imperative that she give $20 million to a new distributor specifically for nonprofit and small presses in order to offset her ex’s dismantling of the book industry.
The weird thing would have been if they'd let the best person win based on merit.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w agoThis story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Stephen Miller mocking other people for their appearance cements the Trump administration’s reputation as the least self-aware in history.
One or two revs away from bringing on a scientist so the on-air talent can shoot nerf balls at them and make them fall into a water tank.
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 3w agoFox host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the advice of the network’s own senior medical analyst, Dr. Marc Siegle, by saying there is “not a chance” he will wear a KN95 mask.
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
wired.com
“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”
