Gift link and important summary thread from us (at the Science and Environmental Health Network) on health harms from the gas-burning plants that are powering mega-data centers. 👇 Glad to see this NYT coverage. Documenting air and water pollution from data centers is one of our core projects.

Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)@sehnetwork.bsky.social · 7h ago

"Less mentioned has been the pollution from the scores of gas-burning plants that will power these data centers....Nationwide, at least 82 gas-burning power plants are being built or have been proposed to power data centers" as per @envirointegrity.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...

Here's a recommended book-list-interview, for a UK publication. For everyone who has had enough of discourse (as I certainly have): it has a tiny mention of Nolan as the hook, but then we move on to some reading. www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/emil...

‘Homer Is For Everyone’: How Emily Wilson Elucidates & Obfuscates In Equal Measure

Classicist Emily Wilson has made headlines in recent weeks for slating Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey – for which the director,

countryandtownhouse.com

We had a stunning sunset a week or so ago. I sat and watched the colors fade into night. #eveningsky #sunset

Entirely consistent with @theatlantic.com's general politics-they don't mind at all if the dehumanization of the left results in violence against the left. They put more effort into defending the FEELINGS of the right/fascists than they do into defending the rights of the left to even exist.

Nathalie Maréchal, PhD@nathaliemarechal.net · 2w ago

*Parasites* ??? Really, @theatlantic.com ? We get it, you love centrism, but dehumanizing language is never ok.

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

sciencenews.org

I just got sent another one. This is actual punt yourself into the sun stuff when you write your own work.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last mo.

The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...

She was hunting me for lunch. #Caturday

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

"Amy Coney Barrett has two adopted Black children from Haiti AND she helped clear the way for Haitians to be stripped of protection and thrown into the mouth of deportation. That is not a contradiction. This is how whiteness works." #Adoption #Adoptee #Haiti #Haitian #Immigration #TPS #SCOTUS

I say to you what I say to Schumer Your lack of follow up plan is disgustingly and irresponsible. A 5-4 ruling shouldn’t be a victory lap It should be a sobering call that we need a proactive plan It should include a real message about how this affirms an America you will protect

Hakeem Jeffries@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · last mo.

Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. Out of many, one!

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · last mo.

Justice Thomas, also in dissent, similarly claims that it "devalues" citizenship to recognize the children of "birth tourists and illegal aliens" as citizens. Again, as if the quality of American citizenship depends on who else is a citizen.

Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.

still annoyed when people like elon musk tell massive obvious lies and instead of addressing them as such, people roll with his framing and just say it/he is stupid instead of condescending and soulless

have you wondered how the federal govt became convinced there was an "antifa cell" operating in north texas? in part, it began with a self-described christian fascist college student's desire to be fox news famous during the first trump administration hotel-florida.ghost.io/between-neo-...

Between neo-Nazis and elected Republicans, Kelly Neidert is a bridge-builder

I was standing in line to buy lunch at a Tarrant County College cafeteria when I learned I had been doxxed. It was a Thursday afternoon in early August. I'd spent the week attending and taking notes ...

hotel-florida.ghost.io

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

The judge is openly declaring that the fascism is the point.

DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.

My piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that lays the evidence out: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

bostonreview.net

pack the court is the centrist low-lift establishment position

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon. A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a “lunar biocontainment facility.” gizmodo.com/biologists-w...

Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a “lunar biocontainment facility.”

gizmodo.com

New from 404 Media: Madison Square Garden made a dossier on activists who have opposed the venue's facial recognition program. MSG scans faces of people so some can be arbitrarily denied entry. Dossier includes specific activists, their contact info, tweets, etc www.404media.co/madison-squa...

Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition

The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.

404media.co

No, AI is not the answer to an overburdened review system, groaning at the seams. No, AI should not replace reviewers: authors did not consent to having their unpublished work fed into LLMs by journals and/or unscrupulous academics like you.

The Republican Congress' confirmation of the most incompetent and unqualified Secretary of Health, RFK, Jr. has created a major health crisis in Utah..... RFK, Jr. is killing Americans

When the Reflecting Pool was replenished after a $14 million-plus renovation, ducks quickly took to the water. But then dead ducks were found nearby. The carcasses found in Constitution Gardens will undergo necropsies to determine cause of death.

A dead duck was seen in the Reflecting Pool. Then two more were found nearby.

The two ducks that were recovered from Constitution Gardens will undergo necropsies to determine their cause of death.

washingtonpost.com

The city at sunset #eveningsky

The Temple of Khnum at Esna, about 50 km south of Luxor, Egypt 🇪🇬 still preserves its vivid painted reliefs thanks to durable mineral pigments

Caturday Hester is Not a Cat

⚠️ WARNING: ICE abducted a pet owner, leaving two dogs to starve for a week. Only the landlord saved them. This isn't a mistake; it’s a sickening pattern. When agencies treat people as disposable, innocent lives become collateral. This cruelty must end.