Stretch Ledford
@stretchledford.bsky.social
Multimedia Journalism prof, UIUC. Currently collaborating w students & faculty at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone & the University of Birmingham in the UK, investigating grassroots solutions to global issues of women's health. #periodpoverty
Uefa says they have reason to believe that Trump, Joshua Kushner and Infantino hatched a corrupt scheme involving the privatization of Fifa, and they are suing for damages and the ouster of Infantino. They have issued an anti-spoliation letter today demanding preservation of documents..
Its easy to see how America today is failing on the International stage. @nickkristof.bsky.social’s unblinking reporting makes clear how we’re also failing our fellow citizens here at home. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/o...
Opinion | Surviving With $3.78 in Her Bank Account by Selling Blood Plasma
Millions of Americans struggle in sometimes unimaginable ways, and Trump’s cuts in food stamps and other benefits are now making life even more precarious.
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The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the White House press corps knows and accepts both the appearance and reality of its obeisance
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago“.. he was met with applause from roughly half the room .. before turning toward new #WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich, who smiled .. and embraced the man who had just spent more than an hour assailing the work of those seated before him.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/the-white-...
Neil Armstrong narrates the final three minutes of the moon landing. You know the result and it's still terrifying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqe7...
Neil Armstrong Narrating his Apollo 11 Moon Landing
YouTube video by Peter Aylward
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AI models have clung to one particular cliché when writing text—and no one seems to know why chatbots are so enamored with it, @willoremus.com reports: theatln.tc/dtZR4fhE
you're telling me you believe in the power of markets but also people are sitting on evidence of fraud that would make them rich and famous? nope.
It took a team of AP reporters about 2 days to get this information. The same information ICE could have gotten before they hired the man who said he shot and killed an immigrant in Maine.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w agoICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
SCOOP: A 28-year-old man running from “an encounter” with federal immigration agents at a gas station in St. Augustine, Fla., was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Tuesday morning, according to a state highway patrol spokesman.
Man in Florida Fatally Hit by Truck While Fleeing ICE, Official Says (Gift Article)
Details about what exactly happened at a gas station in St. Augustine before the man was hit were unclear Tuesday.
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge tossed out the Department of Justice’s lawsuit to access West Virginia’s unredacted voter rolls, which marks 13 straight court losses for the department’s floundering effort to seize sensitive voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ 0 for 13 in voter roll grab after court dismisses West Virginia lawsuit
A federal judge also raised concerns about DOJ obfuscating why it actually wants access to every state's voter rolls.
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[Me after getting thrown out of a bar] I own this bar, actually
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "The USA will be, from this point forward, known as 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,' but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security ... "
"(Graham) should instead be remembered for using his power to bow and scrape, to change his political colors, largely if not solely in service to himself."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoNew in PN: Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism "Graham died a coward. From Gingrich to Trump, he embodied the movement-to-racket transformation of the GOP. Has America ever seen a capitulation so self-abnegating as his conversion from snarling Trump critic into swooning cheerleader?"
After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band. n.pr/44YC9HN
Flea and the Honora Band: Tiny Desk Concert
After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band.
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A colossal screw up resulting in lives lost. Unacceptable. (Gift article) wapo.st/4vty9Ku
Survivors of Iranian attack that killed 6 U.S. troops say generals ignored warnings
The drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait occurred on the second day of the war. Those who were there say they fear no one will be held accountable.
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I feel like the U.S. in the Iran War is probably the most disproportionate war in human history in terms of the "lack of fucks given" to "fuckworthy strategic implications" ratio.
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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The United States 1957 vs. 2026: The same vibe, an innocent black girl surrounded by the same damn problem, white supremacy.
This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)
First rate journalism from @nc5_benHall.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last mo.🚨WOW — “Don’t voters have a right to hear from you? We asked you for interviews multiple times.” @MarshaBlackburn RUNS 🏃🏻♀️from @NC5_BenHall as he asks her why she refuses to debate her GOP primary opponents for governor…AWKWARD! 😬 Great job Ben 👏🏽
This, which Lalas has apparently said more than once, might be the dumbest soccer take I’ve ever seen. And the context makes it even dumber. Every soccer power on the planet is multiethnic. www.on3.com/pro/news/ale...
Alexi Lalas blames U.S. Soccer's struggles on 'diversity'
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TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...