Fires are impacting air quality across the western U.S. This experimental NOAA GSL tool shows where the smoke will travel today and tomorrow. Explore surface smoke, air quality index (AQI), and more: sites.gsl.noaa.gov/desi/

FEMA National Risk Index data on interactive map. Displayed by state, county & census tract, depending on zoom level. Click feature to show dozens of risk index attributes. www.femafhz.com/map/37.78224... #fema #gis #gischat

And I'm sure other countries know this by now. The population is sick, our air/water/soil is polluted, vast amounts of people experiencing poverty, climate change causing various catastrophes while FEMA denies aid..... We wide open for an invasion. Lol

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · yesterday

www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

It's not just that the federal downsizing occurred without any meaningful effort to sort out between high and low performing employees. They did not assess agency needs. It was fire first, figure it out after.

America’s biggest companies report ‘rock solid’ profits as consumers face higher costs, FT “…robust profits at a time when many Americans are struggling with affordability could provoke a public backlash, particularly given the rise in energy prices caused by President Donald Trump’s Iran war.”

Moralistic finger wagging from malevolent boomers will do wonders for sagging enrollment at an institution that probably has a sub~50% graduation rate. Hell if I had to guess I’d wager they already nixed all literature, humanities & social sciences in favor of “vocational technical training.”

Harper@jodhsidhu.bsky.social · 2d ago

Southern university requires business suits, bans du-rags and other headwear in new dress code www.foxnews.com/us/southern-...

Claim of the moment: "Donald Trump has gone to remarkable lengths to make the US a breeding ground for a widening range of viruses, bacterium, and parasites — and no, we’re not talking about his cabinet." futurism.com/health-medic...

America Getting Lesson in Consequences of Trump's War on Public Health as Rare Disease Outbreaks Ravage the Country

Diseases are ravaging the United States, thanks in large part to deregulations forced by Donald Trump and his faithful cronies.

futurism.com

Why it's impossible to get relevant news on Google News elgan.com/why-its-impo...

Why it's impossible to get relevant news on Google News

If you search for a specific phrase in quotation marks, Google News will spam you with social media garbage instead of news that's relevant to your search.  If you remove the quotation marks,...

elgan.com

Claim of the moment: "podcasts ruined America" www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

How Podcasts Ruined America

“I was just speculating for a podcast. I had no personal information. I was just speculating for a podcast.” This was the testimony of Howard Lutnick, the sitting Secretary of Commerce, to the House O...

compactmag.com

There’s an entire company in Brooklyn whose whole shtick is like “we’ll figure out the Byzantine overlapping regulations for you AND help with the logistics and maybe even instal*” (*if you own your own roof). A modern grid would allow This at scale. Distributed generation is a game changer.

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 21h ago

I talked about it in my newsletter a few months ago and got a very detailed email from an electrician out in Oregon who installs balcony solar. He said that it is more complicated than that and there are some code changes that need to happen in the US to make it safe and widespread. Interesting!

I couldn’t for the life of me figure out which of our like dozen regional grid systems can actually do bi-directional flow like this. I tried.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 23h ago

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

It would be funnier if they were actually Plátano…

onion person@junlper.beer · 20h ago

suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile

I remember when I got dysentery back when we had a semblance of a functioning public health system. My states department of health did contact tracing and found me, interviewed me, did full contact follow ups, health inspectors visited several places i remembered eating from. That’s what we cut.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 19h ago

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Fucking finally someone says the thing we all knew deep down but everyone was scared to print. The one thing that all human life depends on. The food. Crops in the ground. Wilted, dried up, burned by fire or burned by salt intrusion, stunted without adequate fertilizer & stressed by pure heat.

Serene Doomer@serenaribena.bsky.social · yesterday

'China warns of crop risks as heatwave sweeps agricultural regions. China’s corn, rice and cotton fields are at heightened risk of crop damage in the coming days as a heatwave sweeps through key agricultural regions in the country’s north and east.' www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...

www.imf.org/-/media/file... I saw Fressoz, author of “More and More and More,” and “Happy Apocalypse,” and I knew this was gonna be good. Readable, direct and to the point. Typically I prefer listening to authors present their projects & books in a lecture with notes & slides, but not here.

ok how many GOP members of congress are secretly dying/dead? this is getting out of hand

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"

Just another casual reminder that you’re being laughed at by corporates because a) governments facilitate them and b) we don’t push back. Cost of living crisis, for you not for them.

Was just listening to the BBC on NPR and an analyst was trying to decipher an Iran-related Trump position as if Trump and the whole lot aren’t know-nothing loons and it was pretty funny.

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social has been conducting polling on this for @heatmap.news and the difference between this year and last is a monumental shift. EVERYONE hates data centers. There’s no organic constituency out there hacking FOR data centers that isn’t paid by the lobby.

Reyhan Harmanci@harmancipants.bsky.social · yesterday

All year, I've been watching data centers take hold as THE political issue of this cycle. But no one has dug into it quite like @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/how-da...

for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:

How Data Centers Broke American Politics

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

wired.com

and when the lead and/or senior author is some bigwig who does not appear to have done much work on it the taste is even worse

NEW: An unusually widespread outbreak of the foodborne parasite Cyclospora has been causing illness across the U.S. this summer. Regulatory neglect, corporate consolidation in the food system, and poor labor conditions for farmworkers helped drive the outbreak. www.iatp.org/industrial-f...

Contamination by Design: How an industrial food system has driven the Cyclospora outbreak

Regulatory neglect, corporate consolidation, and poor labor conditions contribute to the spread of a diarrhea-causing parasite.

iatp.org

fortune.com/2026/07/26/g... The American dream is now just another get rich quick scam bc people don’t have money to live, enjoy culture, dream or the mental space to aspire to better things. They’re so thoroughly ground down that they fall back on addictive self-soothing & self-medicating.

Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

fortune.com

palmer's rule: the chance that the U.S. government will solve a problem is inversely proportional to the number of think tank papers produced on it.

I watched a video about cat and dog DNA changes to be domesticated. Wolve's DNA changes in a bunch of different ways. Cat's DNA had ONE change. The fear response to humans was turned down. That's it. Otherwise their DNA matches wild cats. Cats are basically wild animals that tolerate you.

This is hilarious and I know a few people who could use one of these popping up unannounced. Just enough of a double take to make them question their entire reality…

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 24h ago

Folks... they're here.

This is a start, but we really need to start simplifying & explaining the political economy of CFAS>CVAS. We are all carbon vulnerable asset holders. We all depend on the availability of home owners insurance, we all eat food & drink clean water. Carbon forcing asset owners burn the world for $

Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social · yesterday

They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.

RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

I will forever refuse a vehicle with a fucking screen full of dangerous distractions in favor of old-school, proven, tactile buttons. And this is supposedly a luxury brand. People max out their pathetic credit scores and go deep into debt to lease these shitboxes made for aspiring Bourgeois asshats

Matt Thrower@mattthr.bsky.social · yesterday

BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.