The Trump administration appears poised to gut the central policies that shape Head Start, a popular and long-established early childhood education program that serves the country’s neediest children, including thousands in California. cal.news/4fO8BBJ 📸 Florence Middleton

J.A.R.V.I.S. chatted — wants changes. blogmickey.com/2026/08/dama...

D'Amaro Details How AI Is Reshaping Disney Theme Park Attractions, Imagineering, and More

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro pulled back the curtain a bit on how Disney is using AI, not only at Imagineering, but throughout the company

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I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Oh wow: ESA announces it has a positive detection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage booster impacting the moon! I still haven't seen any images of a flash, but that's not surprising. It was faint. Here, they saw evidence of gas (vaporized material) in the impact plume by taking spectra.

ESO@eso.org · 4h ago

Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.

“For though your body will shrink, your mind will expand.” On this date 59 years ago "Adventure Thru Inner Space" opened at Disneyland! The attraction's "Atomobiles" were powered by the Omnimover ride system, which would power the "Haunted Mansion" Doom Buggies two years later.

This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Reminder: ChatGPT first came online in November 2022. We’re attributing “inevitable” societal changes to a technology that has yet to see its first midterm election.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 24h ago

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

"So facts can't persuade him by definition." That in itself is the definition of MAGA.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

August 4, 2026 is the setting of the Ray Bradbury short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" So if today you are feeling like the only structure left standing after a nuclear war, that is probably why

Alberta and Washington are run by women who like to serve young women up to adults.

Cookie Monster is in the booth with Boog at Wrigley, will be singing Take Me Out (to the ballgame, not the Franz Ferdinand song, unfortunately) in the 7th

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fake outdoors inside will always be my favorite theme.

History@Disney@historyatdisney.bsky.social · 23h ago

Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort, Centre Town, Old Port Royale (1988-2017) One of my favorite parts of the resort was Centre Town as it put you right in the middle of a Caribbean village as you browsed local shops for a meal any time of the day, and always under a blue sky.

Cookie Monster's Take Me Out To The Ballgame

While centrists continue to think Dems need to moderate on abortion, Kansas overwhelmingly rejected a collateral attack on the right to choose via an amendment (which would have switched to elected justices) after overwhelmingly rejecting an amendment to directly ban the right to choose in 2022.

TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · 19h ago

It's official. Kansas Republicans have lost their State Supreme Court referendum attempt, and it won't even be close. Fantastic news.

TERFS are not feminists, a list: 1. Trans women are women, and you’re not a feminist if you’re actively trying to strip rights from any subset of women 2. Their ideological allies aren’t other feminists, they’re right-wing misogynists 3. They never seem to advocate actual feminist causes

Thomas K. Dye@projectionedge.bsky.social · yesterday

Yes, because they are NOT feminists

There is a lot of very bad stuff with this story, but: One hundred and fifty milligrams in ONE gummy? Insane levels of weed consumption

David Earl Williams III@dewforpolitics.bsky.social · yesterday

Sen. Bernie Moreno said Rep. Max Miller refused to return his granddaughter’s favorite blue bunny. Reports also show that photos of a syringe and 150mg weed gummies were found in Miller’s bedroom.

Air France poster design by Jean Carlu, 1957. Great colors. #wardsmorguefile

According to two regional sources, the deal under discussion sets up a 60-day temporary arrangement between Oman and Iran in the Hormuz strait, which could be extended. All inbound traffic of ships through the strait and into the Gulf would go in a northern lane through Iranian waters.

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Voters Reject Republicans’ Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door

Voters Reject Republicans’ Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door

Kansas voters foiled state Republicans’ latest scheme to snatch back their abortion...

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They think about genitalia constantly and yet this is the only joke they can come up with.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h ago

JFC! Clay Travis: "I am putting in an application to get a WNBA franchise for my home, Nashville. It’s going to be the most inclusive team that has ever existed. Only trans. Only men who identify as women on the team. Our motto: one love, two balls. The Nashville Balls... The best women are men."

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

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For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

This summer marks a moment of transition in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip: the first in many years where there is no clear center of the band's universe. Where do Deadheads go from here?

The Ripple Effect: The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip might keep going forever

This summer marks a moment of transition in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip: the first in many years where there is no clear center of the band's universe. Where do Deadheads go from here?

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the ceasefire plan is, was, and will forever be a lie intended to get the international community to pretend things were getting back to normal and that there was therefore no longer a need for mass protests or sanctions or any consequences for israel

The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas has been completely disarmed.

Maybe don’t call them Democratic socialists. Maybe we are FDR Democrats or New Deal Democrats. The idea is we need a party that looks out for the people again.