Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has admitted his country doesn't have enough potash to satisfy Donald Trump's demands for the critical fertilizer.

Lukashenko says Belarus doesn’t have enough potash for Trump

“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes,” said the Belarusian president.

politico.eu

I don't have the energy to rebut everything in this piece, but it reaffirms the impression that these people did not know or care how government works and never bothered to find out. The reporter's framing is pretty credulous "many people disagree" with stuff that is easy to fact check.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · yesterday

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Hell of a story from @propublica.org

Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social · 7h ago

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

Concerning. Troubling.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h ago

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.

The deadline to register in Texas is October 5th.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3y ago

As always, my advice is: If you see a poll that worries you, roll up your sleeves and get to work. Donate, register, volunteer. And if you see a poll you like? Go to the same things.

"It is utterly shocking that the American military is facing its most consequential defeat in several generations because it has not adapted to a revolution in military affairs and Pentagon leadership is worried about . . . testosterone levels in the ranks."

Trump’s Forever War Is Sucking the Life Out of Him

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

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How much corruption is enough Texas?

Medical history in the making! A paradigm shift in how we understand the brain and treat neurological conditions?

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h ago

Fascinating study which shows that at a fundamental level the brain is two separate organs, essentially the brain stem is one and the rest of the brain (forebrain and midbrain) are another. Distinct from the beginning both in formation and evolutionary history. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

WIRED: “Census Bureau Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank — home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person, used for drawing congressional districts + allocating federal funding…” Nothing to see here, folks! 😕🤷🏼

The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

wired.com

5. STAY ON MESSAGE. The message is simple: Trump and his cronies want to destroy the publicly funded scientific ecosystem so they can take the spoils for themselves and their Tech Bros. It’s that simple. None of them are good. You don’t need a nuanced take. You can just say NO!

Cat Smacks Other Cat in Playful Swat

ALT: Cat Smacks Other Cat in Playful Swat

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4. GET LOUD! Tell Congress to reign in Vought’s power. We’ve got easy emails, automatic calling, scripts, and everything you need to yell at your members of congress: fight2win.standupforscience.net

Stand up for Science

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3. VOTEEEEEEEEE!!!! VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS. Vote.org to check your status and register if you need to.

Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

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2. GET ON THE PHONE. Volunteer with @standupforscience.net for phonebanking! It virtual, easy, free, and a great way to support candidates in flip districts if you’re in a safe blue seat! www.standupforscience.net/take-action#...

Take Action NOW — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

"Get in dorks!" is our shared battle cry for joining the fight by signing our petitions, working on the ground to turn back Trump and donating to support our work of saving American science and health...

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Donate to the Science Victory Fund

The Science Victory Fund fuels the victories required in this fall's Congressional elections to stop Trump and save science.

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Alright, let’s all get on the same page about Vought/NIH/Trump. THEY👏WILL👏STOP👏AT👏NOTHING👏 The goal is to destroy the STEM ecosystem, universities, and democracy as we have known it. PERIOD. The only way to win is to impeach them all…which means we need Congress. HERE’S HOW WE WIN 🧵

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

apnews.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · yesterday

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 22h ago

The Trump administration is considering data center-related projects across at least 17,600 acres of public land — far more than previously reported. Reminder: 70% of Americans oppose data centers, but Trump is heavily invested in the corporations pushing AI. Always follow the money.

Now that the first phase of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's wonderful "250 to 250" project has wrapped, I'll share all the videos (one per day) for which I wrote scripts. Some were recorded nearly word for word; others underwent much-needed editing for clarity & brevity. Tonight: Ellis Island.

Ellis Island, Narrated by Ken Burns

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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September 21, 2026

September 21, 2026

On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

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2/2 But this data on enslaved people themselves, derived from the registers of the ‘amelioration’ period is a yet more significant resource on captives & for their descendants: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...

Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.

The Register of British Slave-Traders

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

britishslavetraders.org

NEW Nimrud was a major Assyrian capital, but most research there has focused on its royal architecture, limiting our understanding of everyday life in the empire. A new project explores Nimrud's Lower Town, shedding light on the city's ordinary people. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Communism? Explain your explosive outrage

In other news staff working on Ai are burning out and off sick due to the stress of the project with fears about the harm it could do, the loss of control and a sense that making Ai safer felt like ”an impossible task” bsky.app/profile/fasc...

Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10h ago

The State is suing Open Ai in relation to the mass killing at Tumbler Ridge school in British Columbia leaving 9 dead and many more injured. It turns out that in June 2025, months before the attack, OpenAI’s automated monitoring system identified the shooter’s account and sent it for human review

Google data centre sparks protests in Austria. While Europe lags far behind the US in capacity, there are already hundreds of data centres across the continent, with many more planned. Protests have also grown as the AI boom accelerates u.afp.com/SjtG

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘@kojamf.bsky.social · 10h ago

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Are you a climate change denier? Insurance companies aren't. Private insurers may increase their prices as climate risks become more and more difficult to predict, especially in areas more exposed to the effects of extreme weather.