Amanda Mecke
@readtosurvive.bsky.social
A Literary Agent/Book Coach with 45 years experience in both U Press and trade publishing, UCLA English PhD, Pitzer College BA, dog parent, teacher, married LGBTQ advocate. Democrat as long as this GOP exists. Independents, please pick a side.
GOP has failed small business farms.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d ago1/ What’s going on with America’s farms and food? Join us for our next Inside the Big Story event, a virtual discussion about America’s farms, how our food is made and where regulations are failing to keep workers and consumers safe. Members, check your email for the invite 📩
www.livescience.com/planet-earth... Sounds serious to me. How could engineering not have seen this potential maintenance issue from serious low flow droughts?
Half of the world's dams could be 'functionally inoperable' by 2060 from being flooded with sediment — and the American West is a major hotspot
Research shows a fifth of the world's reservoirs are currently at high risk of filling with sediment, creating a "ticking time bomb" that threatens lives and livelihoods.
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... We need a list of which companies received refunds and for which products. Then we need to publish the list of products and show pre-and-post prices tariff that reveal what increased cost retail consumers paid. Prove purchase, receive refund.
US refunds $100bn of Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs
More than half of tariff income refunded after supreme court ruled Trump’s levies were illegal
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We need to protect this water for bring prosperity to domestic farmers who can cease to be subsistence farmers and sell cash crops on increasingly arable land. Without the healthy rivers that still existed to refill Lake Chad, this water might have been wasted. Environment matters.
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 8h agoWater is returning to the African Sahel. After the catastrophic droughts of the late 20th century, aquifers from Senegal to Ethiopia are refilling, water tables in Niger have risen four metres, and Lake Chad has swollen to ten times its mid-1980s size. Yale E360 buff.ly/SUrDAnL #ShareGoodNewsToo
www.newsnationnow.com/jesse-weber-... I suspect the immigrants abusive fraudulent “Sober Houses” who were billing Medicaid for enprisoned Native Americans were not “illegal” just criminals.
Families call for accountability in Arizona sober living fraud
Advocates say sober living homes targeting Native Americans led to thousands of rapes and deaths.
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hms.harvard.edu/news/traditi... Not hard to do but requires MAHA to be more than a slogan.
Traditional Food Program Reduces Heart Failure Hospital Visits in Navajo Nation
Culturally and medically tailored meals improve cardiovascular health, food security
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And their employers and families are without them.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · yesterdayThese troops -- who are generally very friendly and have no say in what they've been assigned to do -- are walking around in circles all day, around the perimeters of parks, up and down neighborhood streets, with hardly anything to do.
www.the-scientist.com/early-verdic... Can AI tell you what paywalled articles it couldn’t access for humans to evaluate from a legal subscription?
Early Verdicts on Claude Science: Faster Workflows, But Gaps Remain | The Scientist
AI giant Anthropic recently announced its scientific workbench, Claude Science. While scientists praised many of its features, they noted that its reasoning needs work.
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www.news-medical.net/news/2026080... Will this promising Immune Cell research continue with funding despite evidence of clear genetic difference that sre more important for women”?
Study of lung immune cells uncovers roots of autoimmune disease
A massive analysis of immune cells in human tissue is yielding clues to the root cause of lung and autoimmune diseases.
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unpblog.com/2026/08/04/o... If you ever took Anthropology classes in the 20th Century you will smile at this story of Boaz and his Russian collaborationists.
Of Letters, Bridges, and Transnational Arctic Anthropology
Dima Arzyutov is a historical anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University. His research examines Arctic and …
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nativenewsonline.net/environment/... Environmental Good news!
Michigan Supreme Court Overturns Line 5 Tunnel Permit, Delivering Major Victory for Tribal Nations
Overview: The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned a key state permit for Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, ruling that regulators failed to comply with Michigan envi...
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www.the-scientist.com/war-fracture... We cannot expect First World Medicine in regions targeted by the Iran and Israeli Wars can survive just because they have had International support in “normal” times.
War Fractures Emerging Clinical Trial Infrastructure in the Middle East | The Scientist
As conflicts escalate, resource shortages and patient safety force researchers in Middle Eastern countries to make difficult decisions about clinical trials.
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New from 404 Media: Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he became disillusioned. I spoke to Paz about how he first joined Flock, what he was lied to about, and why he had to get out www.404media.co/why-a-flock-...
Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned.
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Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned. He talks to @josephcox.bsky.social about the "propaganda" inside the company, and why he decided to leave. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYY...
I heard this one from a librarian and it blew my fucking mind
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d agoas a zoomer it was extremely weird in college to see people say that helen keller wasn't real or was a hoax, like, for what reason
👉NEW -- BBC censored film on British army killing child by @annecadwallader.bsky.social Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972 www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-censored...
BBC censored film on British army killing child
Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972
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REAL HEADLINE: Trump and Cronies Manipulate the Stock Market for the Umpteenth Time www.npr.org/2026/08/02/n...
Trump says he's canceling Iran strikes; deal pending
Trump said Iran and other Middle Eastern countries had asked the U.S. "to hold off any attack" on Iran because "the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to."
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The traffic Jam in SF during a World Cup Game that was so big Waymo cars ran out of gas and blocked more lanes while stranding both cars and passengers. Prove the point that AI investment has no immediate economic benefit like transportation does for human workers still need to live in and travel
Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 2d agoI have long wanted to write for the excellent Bay Area publishing collective COYOTE...and they let me write something that honestly no other publication would. All hail independent media!!
Under US law, it is nearly impossible for a person to file a civil rights lawsuit against an individual federal agent. But an increasing number of people harmed by ICE and DHS agents are filing tort claims: demanding monetary compensation from the federal government for what has been done to them.
“The ICE agent behind me grabbed the back of my shirt and just threw me like a sack of trash”
People keep suing the agency for beating them up.
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... One consession from a man proven more loyal to his Former Client than the Constitution will hardly prove more loyal to anyone he was forced to negotiate with than Trump any more than any other Cabinet Member has been once under the full control of this President.
Blanche formally rescinds Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization fund’ ahead of nomination hearing
Todd Blanche issues formal order terminating measure widely derided as a ‘slush fund’, in move that could clear path for his nomination as attorney general
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interestingengineering.com/military/us-... Protecting Taiwan seems more important than an expensive War to gain oil reparations from Iran or Venezuela?
interestingengineering.com/energy/us-fi... Where the New Deal almost 100 years ago brought the Grid to Appalachia is being upgraded to model protecting the entire country in the 21st Century without gas or oil. Do not tell 47.
US firm to boost next-gen grid modernization, advance battery storage
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory selected Viridi’s fail-safe battery energy storage systems (BESS) to install at ORNL’s Grid Research Innovation and Development Center (GRID-C) as part of the testing...
interestingengineering.com
Daily reminder that we don’t have a president. We have a mob boss masquerading as one.
It has lain at the bottom of the Thames Estuary since 1944, carrying 1,400 tonnes of wartime explosives. Now, work is finally about to begin on removing the SS Richard Montgomery's iconic masts – its only visible presence above the waterline. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
Britain’s most dangerous shipwreck needs urgent attention
The SS Richard Montgomery, a wartime wreck that still contains 1,400 tonnes of explosives, is still a major threat
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another big victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is now 0-19 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
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A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections
We won't survive if we try to play by their rules.
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