Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterdayLon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...
The “Why would a woman I’ve made worry that I will hurt her if she displeases me cook to placate me?” question is only asked by the least self-aware domestic abusers.
SpaceX rocket that exploded shortly after takeoff destroyed land & wildlife: Concrete chunks had left craters a foot deep & were strewn across tidal flats, almost four acres of state park burned, 7 bobwhite quail eggs & a collection of blue land crabs incinerated. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief Over Environmental Damage
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.
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Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
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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@cultexpert.freedomofmind.com Dry eye: I highly recommend IPL (intense pulsed light) procedure. In < yr, I went from 11 semi-functional meibomian glands to 50 functional. Also meibo drops. I have an rx now, but they are available OTC in other countries for $40! Also diligent electric heat mask.
Nicole Wallace ☠️☠️☠️ "Riddle me this: when Obama ran intelligence, the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016… But when Donald Trump and all of his boobs were running US national security, it got all effed up. Is that the theory?"
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
MCDOT "Safe Routes to School" crash infrastructure review, Bauer Dr at Russett Rd, 10/9/25 (Wood MS): "Following the fatality, the intersection was converted to all-way stop control in December 2025." We should not have to pay for safe streets with the blood of children.
Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe Summer Lim Memorial All-Way Stop at Bauer Dr & Russett Rd, near Earle B. Wood MS. We should not have to pay for safe streets with the blood of children.
I want all the cis men who are wondering why a woman didn't come forward UNTIL NOW and are musing that women certainly aren't powerless and blah blah blah First, shut the fuck up. Second, I want you to, while shutting the fuck up, think about the time you didn't say anything. You know, at work.
Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups
Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough
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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4w agoOne of the first things Facebook’s algorithm showed me today was this propaganda post by Patriot Front. It’s not just that FB is platforming fascists. They are algorithmically PROMOTING and amplifying them.
Microbiologist & stem-cell researcher Dr. Ann Tsukamoto co-patented a process to isolate human hematopoietic stem cells, 1991. Her work laid the literal groundwork for modern regenerative medicine and cancer treatment. She was born #OTD in 1952. #WomenInSTEM #medsky
I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions
The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.
Plaintiff in Children’s Health Defense Lawsuit Charged With Murder
A mother who blamed vaccines for the deaths of her toddler twins and joined the anti-vax group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics has been charged with murdering her children.
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three-time U.S. Olympian, David Hearn, for destruction of federal property. I think this needs an investigation and prosecution.
If David Hearn had instead rubbed feces on the walls of Congress he'd be free right now
It's amazing all this money and effort is going into AI, when the really undervalued industry to fund is probably mRNA cancer vaccines. Even the old immunotherapy tech already earns so much than their pipe dreams ever will. Keytruda alone sees as much revenue as Anthropic and way more profit
Imagine using the National Guard to protect green algae but not US democracy on January 6. Trump is sickening.
If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo agoVance blasts Israel’s response to Iran deal: “You're a country of nine million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”
Six years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled LGBTQ+ employees are protected from workplace discrimination under federal civil rights law. As the Trump-Vance admin tries to undermine progress made, we’re committed to pushing forward.
Self-proclaimed centrists, as a class, seem far more preoccupied, not to say obsessed, with the flawed attempts to do good on their left than they are with the open, naked, ugly determination to do evil on their right. I would just like them to grapple with that fact, a little bit, for once.
Imagine how angry Americans would be if the media had adequately explained to them that Obama had secured a deal that was preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and Trump blew it the fuck up.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump on his message to Americans suffering because of high gas prices: "Once you explain that this is all about Iran having a nuclear weapon, people are willing to pay a little bit more."
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTB6LTkGx/ All of those Republicans who claimed that Obamacare was going to create “death panels,” didn’t give a shit that insurance companies are death panels every day. EVERY. FUCKING. DAY! So yeah…Luigi…uhm….🤷🏽♀️
The Texas surgeon who went viral for challenging UnitedHealthcare is bringing her message to Capitol Hill. Dr. Elizabeth Potter joined hundreds of healthcare workers at the bipartisan "Healthcare is H...
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Because you can't fight the algorithms that compel everyone to fight.* *used to be "city hall"
