MAHA is destroying the drug approval process, unleashing a new era of blood-letting. Read more on why and how in my latest on Cross Pollinations <3 crosspollinations.substack.com

Panic reading The Iliad so I can read The Odyssey so I can see the movie

Writing and reading are at the center of my life but the spread of fascism and recent encounters with oral traditions has led me to wonder whether my uncritical reverence for books has blinded me to their drawbacks. Do books give us permission to forget? READ: substack.com/home/post/p-...

How I fell down under and into deep time

Songlines, writing, and memory in wild places

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Thanks to @gregsargent.bsky.social for making the point clearly: when Musk says "zero died" from DOGE cuts, what he means is nobody who *matters* died.

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids

In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.

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Hegseth's testosterone screening plan is absurd. Nearly 14% of men are already taking testosterone enhancing drugs hawked by influencers. Encouraging more indiscriminate use is doping, not therapy, and its dangerous for troops and the rest of us too crosspollinations.substack.com/p/the-cult-o...

The Cult of Testosterone

"Humanmaxxing" and mass doping troops is a public health disaster in the making

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Trump mentioned Maduro tonight as part of his election conspiracies. I stand by my prediction that he is going to make a deal with Maduro where he will say Venezuela was part of a conspiracy with China to rig 2020 in the US. That line tonight was another step to that happening.

“an obvious truth” this guy is high on his own supply. it is not actually an “obvious truth” that some cultures lack the capacity for self-government. that is a proposition that you need to argue. i know wurman does not take me seriously, but i would be interested to see him actually make the case.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Responding to @beaubaumann.bsky.social’s post today, Prof. Wurman deploys the same rhetoric used against every immigrant group in America. Is this racist, he asks? Judging whether one can be part of America based on a culture’s supposed "capacity" for self-governance is the structure of bigotry.

the source is a "draft press release" What a crock

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is quite clearly a total lie. The story quotes a "draft press release." This is why we meed to support independent pro-democracy media rather than the stenographers for the administration. Begin by subscribing to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

NEW STORY: Calling newcomers “ecological tumors” reinforces the antimigrant ideology that’s tearing our communities apart—even when the newcomers are botanical Http://crosspollinations.substack.com

"Father says" Dating myself here but I remember when the paper of record had investigative journalists who could verify basic facts as well as most high school journalism interns, instead of hedging the shit out of anything they say that might contradict the ruling regime.

“Is Rape Bad? Opinions Differ.” -The New York Times

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4w ago

#BrokenTimes: "Republicans have taken a different tack.... It is a question on which the left and right have largely diverged"

The NYT's illustration for a recent op-ed on "kidmaxxing" revealed a disturbing truth: the techno-natalists' fantasy is to erase women from reproduction crosspollinations.substack.com/p/the-woman-...

The Woman-Hating Lie Behind Kidmaxxing

Why the billionaires' fantasy of passing down "superior" genes is doomed to fail

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“President Trump said he didn’t know what a red card was before he intervened in a decision that would have caused the U.S. team’s top scorer to be suspended for an elimination game against Belgium on Monday.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Update from Erica L. Green

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apple news really needs to tell its voice actors to stop emoting so much when they narrate other writers’ stories

Horrifying 4th in DC rn with the Patriot Front out of their caskets marching in full sunlight

Rafael M Batista@rafmbatista.bsky.social · last mo.

Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

"...cede the Reflecting Pool to the algae...This would be a new kind of monument: dynamic, alive, its borders open to spores of every kind and color, home and testament to Earth’s original founders." Welcome to Team Algae @alanburdick.bsky.social crosspollinations.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

E Pluribus Algae: Why Green Pond Scum Is as American as Red, White and Blue

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Very on brand "Mr. Trump seems to have turned portions of the city into either a construction zone or an armed camp as he seeks to prove that he alone can improve a city he interacts with primarily from his armored limousine or presidential helicopter." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Washington Is Fenced In for the 4th as Trump ‘Beautifies’ the Capital

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In Texas, Protesting ICE Can Get You a Life Sentence www.thenation.com/article/soci... Most of the eight Prairieland defendents are still being held in solitary confinement after sentencing, 23 hours a day in 10 x 10' cells.

In Texas, Protesting ICE Can Get You a Life Sentence

Under Trump, eight Prairieland defendants were sentenced to a combined four and a half centuries in prison.

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Are we moving towards a laboratory discovery cycle with AI involved in every step? go.nature.com/3R6SQh0

AI systems devise hypotheses and ways to test them

AI agents collaborate to generate biomedical hypotheses and analyse data, moving towards a laboratory discovery cycle with AI involved in every step.

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Trump's battle for blue water in the reflecting pool, as a quest for purity unpolluted by the greenness of chlorophyll & life, is the same battle he's fighting in our communities: to take our messy diversity and sterilize into pure types crosspollinations.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

The case for green water

What it really means to be Team Algae

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BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.

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Guys you're not going to believe this but Zohran Mamdani was also a field organizer

Daniel@escargotpro.bsky.social · last mo.

Darializa only came out of nowhere if you didnt know her as one of Zohran's primary Washington Heights field leads. AOC only came out of nowhere if you didnt know her as one of Bernie's primary Bronx field leads. Will journalists start respecting field leads? Probably not!

Canada has long benefited from its constant comparison with the US. However, it too is a full-fledged part of the anti-migrant agenda that is fueling the rise of authoritarianism. Its Safe Third Country agreements with the US is simply a way for Canada to accept Trump’s white supremacist agenda

Deportees From the U.S. Won’t Find an Open Door to Canada

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“Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Meagan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison. Maricela Rueda, another demonstrator, was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Benjamin Song, who fired the gun at the police officer, was sentenced to 100 years in prison.”

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

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You paid for a plane with "a level of luxury that nobody has never seen before". And he's apparently taking it with him once he leaves the White House. The plane. The ballroom. The corruption. This guy thinks taxpayers are dopes. Your money is just his to live a life of luxury.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump on the new plane he's been gifted from Qatar: "This plane was transformed into a White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before"

#bloomscrolling

The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself. And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.

After Hegseth ended mandatory flu vaccination, vaccine rates dropped from 100% to 40% and an eruption of influenza infected 160 trainees at Lackland Air Force base in Texas, where a 25-year-old trainee named Keon McDaniel is now dead. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional

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Good news: That plan for scientists to stop monitoring the ocean? The administration has backed off. Another example of pressure working. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

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Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More destruction of U.S. science leadership, infrastructure and invaluable research and information that affects all of us. This sounds like another lawsuit in the making. At least I hope so. Gift link. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Trump: everyone cancels on his lame-ass 'concert'. Obama: let me call up a few friends to perform just for fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmHs...

WATCH: Stevie Wonder leads musical legends in 'Higher Ground' for Obama Center celebration

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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