**Taps sign**

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

Thread on the wildfires moving through, of all places, the peat bogs of Wales. Drought has turned plants into kindling and peat into fuel.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2w ago

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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@skwinnicki.bsky.social I was chatting with someone today who mentioned that his elementary school aged daughter is a huge birding fan - uses Merlin etc. Do you happen to know of birding resources for kids?

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

This was the intent of HR1, the goal is to starve and kill Americans while there are endless funds for the war machine

Andrew Russeth@russeth.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

The one and only Odyssey take you need

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 2w ago

as a dad who has also been delayed getting home to Ithaca after a work trip that wasn't a lot of fun (although professionally successful), I greatly enjoyed the Odyssey

It's a tie! They can share the Cup.

*watching The Odyssey, becoming disappointed* Me: I was in Greece last year and there were lots of cats. There are no cats in this movie

So you’re telling me the ONLY safe foods are ice cream and ravioli?? That I have to *exclusively* eat ice cream and ravioli until this butt parasite is resolved? Well gosh that sure is terrible news. I hope they get to the bottom of this soon.

Car dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

One of very few articles about the Cyclospora outbreak that mentions how Taylor Farms was also the source of E. coli in McDonald's onions outbreak in 2024. When I read Taylor Farms was the Cyclospora source yesterday, their 2024 E. coli outbreak was my first thought. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/b...

Taylor Farms to Remove Products After Lettuce Is Linked to Cyclospora Cases (Gift Article)

The Salinas, Calif., company grows produce in more than 12 states, and in Mexico and Canada. Some Taylor Farms lettuce suspected of causing sickness ended up at Taco Bell.

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Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.

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Liu Xiaobo was a writer, Nobel Peace laureate, former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC), and #FreedomToWrite Awardee. Today marks 9 years since he died while in custody of the Chinese government. Liu was serving an 11-year prison sentence for his words. pen.org/press-releas...

why do so many presidential statements sound like intro to American politics essays from students that didn't come to class all semester?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

WELKER: What is the legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham? TRUMP: He's got so many, but one is a Supreme Court justice who is excellent named Brett Kavanaugh ... I thought he was just going to live forever, and it didn't work out that way

I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency.

Derek Hill manufactures a run for the Phils!

Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.

Important statement from the New York Times

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should be with his family today. Instead, he was killed by ICE — and his family learned of his murder by hearing his cries on social media, like Silverio Villegas González in Chicago. His family must hear the truth with a full, transparent investigation.

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

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Stock says abandonment, it's abandonment. Umps are letting the Reds play games.

watched a Belgian fan say "we have been making beer centuries longer than they have been a country" and ykw, fair play

Haven't seen the Flemish this upset since I asked that woman in Brussels for directions in my high school French

happy just circling back eve

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

What she said. It’s an out of control court when the completely nutso executive order on birthright citizenship draws any measure of support.

Melissa Murray@profmmurray.bsky.social · last mo.

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.