By politicizing the federal grant process, the OMB Grant Proposal will substantially weaken our scientific enterprise that has made the United States a global leader in innovation. Take action against the proposal the link: zurl.co/Au4wk Article: zurl.co/dGIrM

How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.

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Yet another hint that Trump's big Dr. Evil plan is to own the still fictitious Northwest Passage.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

President Trump decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers, worth almost $7 billion, after a game of golf with Finland’s president. The question, experts say, is how many the U.S. really needs. nyti.ms/4hK355K

You know what really emphasizes how bad things have gotten for Jews? When someone unexpectedly decides to publicly take a stance about it. Like Boy George. And then the vocal left does everything they can to dehumanize them. In the exact same way they have been dehumanizing Jews.

Sure the DOJ confession about the reflecting pool is a big deal... But I really think that Trump denying that a foreign nation is attacking us, and therefore blocking us from defending ourselves against that attack, is an even bigger deal.

Thomas A. Fine@thomasafine.bsky.social · 5d ago

By denying there was any cyberattack at all (regardless of whether he blames Minnesota), he blocks Presidential Policy Directive #41, and the related National Cyber Incident Response Plan, from being implemented at all. And CISA (which is part of DHS) is hamstrung in other ways also.

By denying there was any cyberattack at all (regardless of whether he blames Minnesota), he blocks Presidential Policy Directive #41, and the related National Cyber Incident Response Plan, from being implemented at all. And CISA (which is part of DHS) is hamstrung in other ways also.

So how long until this gold starts peeling away in big chunks, and then the DOJ prosecutes some rando for Trump's incompetence?

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 5d ago

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

I've been reading about the FBI voter IP address thing and frankly there's not enough information out there to comment. And not enough to be outraged about. We have zero real details about the investigation or warrant. It even appears that FBI's motive - geolocation - is just Axios' supposition.

Just like that Roosevelt speech: "I don't think so. I think Hawaii is behind it. You know who is behind it? Hawaii. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was a Japanese carrier attack. I think Hawaii ought to get its act together."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.

People should not support badly written and/or obviously unconstitutional laws. No matter their intent. And people should not base their support or opposition solely on the position of a perceived political opponent. The fact that Musk opposes this law does NOT make it good.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 5d ago

33k people are cancelling me on Threads and I’ve been trending for 2 days straight bc I said that Minnesota’s AI nudification law is bad and has serious first amendment concerns, meaning xAI is actually right to try to get it overturned: www.bedrockprinciple.com/p/minnesotas...

Today is Sysadmin Appreciation Day. (For those who celebrate it.) sysadminday.com

Once you learn to identify influencer Tik Tok talk, you can't unhear it, and for me personally it kind of grates on my nerves. Especially since it's now becoming a style that professional voiceover is mimicking on purpose.

For all the corruption we have seen, I still think people have not done a deep enough dive into how the Trump family is directly profiting from these moves.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · last wk.

Americans are having to adapt to the biggest price jump on groceries in 50 years thanks to Donald Trump. And instead of helping you, he’s adding more tariffs, more gas price hikes, and more chaos at home.

There was this weird (and obvious) propaganda push a few days ago to promote the idea that the National Defense Authorization Act was going to "merge" U.S. and Israel militaries.

The raw antisemitism on display in claims that Israel "made" Ukraine attack Iran is 100% in line with pre-Holocaust Nazi claims about Jews secretly controlling all world politics. And I see this in lots of mainstream accounts right now. And from both the left and the right.

As companies start trying to get their money back from illegal tariffs, it is becoming apparent, to no-one's surprise, that no large corporations will pay money back to the consumers who companies charged higher prices to cover the tariffs.

Thomas A. Fine@thomasafine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The problem I have with this great idea is that (I assume) CAH is a relatively small business. And I heard from another small business owner (that imports most of their supply chain) that the costs of pursuing a refund were likely to be higher than the refund.

Trump orders the installation of "temporary exhibits or signage" on the sidewalks outside the National Museum of American History "that corrects inaccurate information presented in the Museum." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...

Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

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I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms

Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda

Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.

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One thing we absolutely know for sure, but which nobody really says out loud, is that Turing was wrong. The Turning Test is 100% not an adequate method for deciding if a piece of software can think.

2026 is the year in which both U.S. political parties really began mainstreaming antisemitism. And to be clear, such voices have always been there, on both sides of the aisle. The change is that leadership voices in the parties are now spreading this bigotry.

After switching my home laptop to duckduckgo for a few weeks, the results are not encouraging. Yes, the output is not filled with ads and AI like Google is. But the results are often unsatisfactory.

Why is it always true that when there's big news stores about a dicument or documents, it's always super hard to find the original link to the releases document(s)?

Remember that time that the FBI arrested Fruman and Parnas and almost completely derailed the Burisma - Biden election propaganda plot? Still, with an even more corrupt Trump back in office I sometimes wonder if it even mattered.

It is DARK in the Boston area right now. Like "about to thunderstorm" dark. But the radar is totally clear. On the other hand, the GOES satellite live view shows us under a giant river of brown from the Canada fires.

Apple's response to a copyright lawsuit alleging stolen data for AI training is kind of fascinating and disgusting. Apple claims that the DMCA definition that would make this illegal does not apply because there was no access control.

Here is where you can comment on the OMB rule change that will insert Soviet-style political monitors into every single federal grant decision, overriding experts on grants based solely on politics. Or as some have put it, blocking "woke" science. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

federalregister.gov

Modern Jewish gallows humor: A Zionist Jew and an anti-Zionist Jew walk into the bar. The bartender looks at them both and says: "We don't serve Jews."

Vance says the quiet part out loud.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

"incels". Involuntary celibates. Angry bitter hetero males who blame other people for their inadequacies. Here's a thought: if you are a hetero male who isn't getting laid, the LAST group on the planet you should join is a male-only group who collectively do not know how to get laid.

The Iran/USA MOA reads like we surrendered to them.

Does anybody have a good central resource on the "Atomic Arch AUR" supply chain hack? I have a lot of open questions and am having a hard time finding answers (see below).