And on top of all this, like the article cites, about a third of in home aides are immigrants. Some may be unauthorized, but likely few are NOT touched in some way, through their families and friends, by ICE raids This administration is making a huge problem worse www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...

The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.

The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.

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This emacs user was not happy to see Chrome trying to yank away ^g from me to open up a Gemini window no matter where my focus was No thanks, I'll take that key binding back from you and let emacs have it again

Family farmers may be a small share of the population, maybe 1%, but Obamacare and its pandemic enhanced subsidies surely benefited them a lot. Great article that makes clear the costs of what this Congress did last July 2025 www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Healthcare costs have more than doubled for many farmers this year, on top of soaring expenses

When Congress allowed Affordable Care Act tax credits to lapse, healthcare premiums spiked for millions of Americans — especially self-employed farmers and ranchers. That added cost is multiplying the...

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The L.A. Queens with the first win in the #WPBL Can’t wait to check out the Firebelles tomorrow!

First @wpbl.bsky.social is in the books! We have to work on our fielding but it was a good game! Grateful to have been able to see it. 🥹 #WPBL

At one point NY Was up 7-2. it is now 10-8 with LA ahead and still time left....but this game has featured pretty much everything you want in an inaugural game to a new league: Lots of offense, a Home Run, plays at the plate, comeback....who knows maybe it goes to Extras....good stuff. #wpbl

“But can the Alien president do this accordion thing while speaking, to make his points as clear as I can?”

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump having a normal one today

@datageekb.bsky.social Can you believe that for the first time ever in memory, I saw a student write "Consensus Bureau," which is now by far my favorite social sciences typo

More fisticuffs between the WSJ editorial board and the FDA on drugs and procedures for rare diseases. We'll see who is listening, and what actions they take. FDA, not editorial writers, needs to verify that drugs work and don't harm people www.wsj.com/opinion/fda-...

Opinion | The FDA Deep State Strikes Back

The agency’s staff twist reviews to kill therapies for late-stage melanoma and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Maybe another move to push folks toward MA plans www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy

Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.

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We knew A's owner John Fisher was going to need investors to help fund the ballpark. With Mark Cuban's group joining last week and Chan Ho Park's Team 61 -- which includes Suga of BTS, Ken Jeong and Daniel Dae Kim, the strategy is becoming clearer.

Athletics add international investor with Las Vegas relocation set for 2028

A South Korean group led by former MLB player Chan Ho Park and features Suga of K-pop group BTS is officially investing $70 million into the Athletics in a strategic partnership.

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An elegy for the WHCA Dinner I like Colbert’s the best, of course I did. Genius. Wrote itself A close runner up was Cecily Strong’s. Brilliant. Hilarious. Arguably harder to pull off because she didn’t have the persona developed years in advance like Stephen Colbert did youtu.be/uH5XAeKdrjM?...

Cecily Strong complete remarks at 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN)

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Daft. Sociology (and economics) are plenty more than activist dogma. This is a vacant reading of real problems in a discipline (which have analogous problems in all other disciplines) Just a daft piece. The qualitative-quantitative rift is far more interesting www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Essay | Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?

Sociology has long been tasked with investigating society’s most pressing challenges. But these days, sociologists’ greatest obstacle may be themselves.

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Not a great look for NIH to overrule the scientific review committee with its own judgment of the scientific merit and study design in a proposal Apropos of the moment though. When the executive branch decides it’s smarter than everyone else

Science Magazine@science.org · 2w ago

Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pF6Mvy

If your solution is “I would simply fail everyone who I think is using AI”, you don’t know how universities work. If your solution is “I would simply have all assessment be in-person written or oral exams” you didn’t read to the end of Andrew’s post and also good luck in your reconstruction efforts.

I know that many of you have invested in the format and set up incredible courses, but that AI will be the death blow to asynchronous teaching is, on the whole, a good thing imho.

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · 4w ago

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

This is wild. WSJ first reported it, but NYT provides more context, and CBO posted about it on 6/15/26 WSJ: "No Surprises Act awards tripled in 2025, compared with year earlier" www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Exclusive | Medical Billing Arbitration Paid Out $15 Billion to Providers in Surprise Bill Disputes

No Surprises Act awards tripled in 2025, compared with the year earlier.

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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER)@libbycudmore.bsky.social · 2w ago

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.

I just flat stopped reading after I learned Kratsios had a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton and no other degrees. Great. Another Pete Hegseth. As an alum of the university “in the nation’s service,” I would actually like to apologize to the nation www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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I would start in either FL or AZ and lean hard into the impacts on those states’ seniors (and on those senators) that assisted living workforce shortages will have It’s got to become a story about political benefits or costs for Congress to act on immigration www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Elder Care

Retirement communities already grappling with labor shortages are being forced to terminate caregivers at a time when more Americans are living longer.

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The Welsh name is absolutely perfect

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wonderful #map shows the name for the #Smurfs across Europe. The map also wins my award for best legend of the year! Source: buff.ly/2DkpbGw

Interesting look at the likely new head of BLS, Brett Matsumoto. I’m not a fan of EJMR, but his AER methodological note that he reports gestated there reads as professional, which acknowledged thanks to the authors www.wsj.com/us-news/bret...

The Data Nerd Inheriting Washington’s Radioactive Numbers Job

Brett Matsumoto spent a decade in the trenches of how the government measures the economy. Now he must convince Americans the stats can still be trusted.

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My man looks like he regularly tries to use ethnic slurs in Scrabble

Brilliant interview with @kschake.bsky.social Come for the “meat grinder” quote, stay for the “snail” Plus plenty of observations about Ukraine and European postures and capabilities www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/o...

Opinion | ‘A Million Men With Kalashnikovs Are Dangerous’

A Q&A with Kori Schake on the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Abolish ICE. Now.

We put the newsletter to bed just before news of the ICE shooting in Maine. I urged a focus on Epstein at Blanche's hearing. But I'd add that Blanche's DOJ has refused to investigate ICE shootings, and has tried to impede states and localities from doing so. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Jeffrey Epstein Takes Center Stage

At Todd Blanche’ confirmation hearing.

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The aftermath of the Jon Lester trade was the nail in the coffin of the Billy Beane bullchip about how chemistry and psychology is an outcome and not an input to success Also he stank at keeping runners on base. “Oops,” said the A’s front office of 2014, facing the Royals of 2014

Beth@girlanachronism.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sure, I'm already bitter about Mookie and Xander and, hell, I'm still a little sore about Jon Lester, but don't think I've forgotten about letting Kyle from Waltham walk, either. #redsox #ASG #HRDerby