congrats everyone

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 7d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.

Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥

Sometimes being thought-provoking crosses over into gaslighting: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/o...

Opinion | Is This What a Post-Literate Era Looks Like?

It’s not the children who stopped reading. It’s their grandparents.

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These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Does Article 27 have a clause requiring Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal to recreate this photo in the World Cup final? 🛁

"Across all of the services, public affairs officials have been quietly ordered to go through their units’ social media accounts and delete posts that refer to the “first woman” or “first African-American” to achieve a military milestone." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions

For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

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Is Trump engaging today in the "statecraft" Mohamed El-Erian fantasizes about?

Trump did his usual "magic" with USMNT, but it actually is possible for a soccer fan to root for both the USWNT and USMNT. As far as results go, will the continued power of the pay-to-play model and the spread of top level women's soccer globally affects the results of the USWNT?

When war arrived again in Lebanon, Mona Khalil refused to abandon her beloved beachfront home or the endangered sea turtles she had dedicated her life to protecting. She died on Friday from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on her home earlier this month. She was 76. Read more:

Woman killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon remembered as defender of endangered sea turtles | CBC Radio

Mona Khalil, who turned her beachfront home in southern Lebanon into a conservation hub for endangered sea turtles, succumbed to her wounds from an Israeli strike on her home.

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Why is direct sale of motor vehicles mostly prohibited in the United States?

Politicians in the US are deathly afraid that Americans might ever see a Chinese EV.

Michigan politicians want to ban Chinese-badged cars from even visiting the US

The latest bill would ban day trips from Canada or Mexico in Chinese cars.

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Terrible news about my former colleague Gordon Wood.

Jack Rakove@jrakove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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The same bad actors that have opposed climate action for decades have now sought to weaponize the modest progress toward decarbonization we've made in spite of them. My co-author @doctorvive.bsky.social & I recently weighed in on this in the @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2026/05/sorr...

Sorry, climate change is still dangerous, no matter what nonsense Trump emits

As important as it is to acknowledge progress, it is equally important to counter the disinformation that says we no longer need to worry about the climate future—whether that disinformation comes fro...

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Just emailed by Congressional Rep for all the good that will do. So no extra fees on massive SUVS, pick up trucks, RVs, etcs. and no fees on the damage I.C.E. vehicles cause to the environment and to public health.

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 3mo ago

US House GOP & Dems have compromised on 5-year transportation bill. Draft bill includes a $150 annual fee on electric vehicles ($35 for plugins). No fee on gas-powered cars. Though not huge, this is another disincentive to shift to EVs in a country where the EV market share is low & declining.

Israel's brutal destruction of Gaza, enabled by the Biden and Trump administrations, was a moral outrage. And now, as the @nytimes.com reports, Israel is applying the Gaza model in Lebanon -- and once again we Americans are enabling this new moral outrage. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza

Satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon.

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One of the Highlights of the World Cup XC ski finals at Lake Placid was when Rosie Brennan high-fived the fans during last lap of last race: www.usskiandsnowboard.org/news/my-time...

"My Time as a World Cup Athlete Has Come to an End": Rosie Brennan Announces Career Update

Article written & provided by Rosie Brennan -

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An administration run by zealots and oil-soaked sellouts, engaged in an epic act of national economic self-sabotage.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3mo ago

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

Embarrassing for a US General adopt terms like "warfighters: " Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, the head of U.S. European Command, said in a statement, “Our warfighters are proud of the support we’ve provided to USCENTCOM in support of President Trump’s historic operations against Iran.”

This was a resonant planetary wave event (more details to come on that--watch this space). Climate models struggle to capture the climate change linkage w/ these events. Some background: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 5mo ago

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

I was pretty confident this was the case. Nice to see confirmation.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.

The caption writes itself: Melania and the Robot www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Melania and the Robot

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I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Trump offers companies $1 billion to keep them from providing electricity www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms

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BREAKING: University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) files suit against NSF, OMB, NOAA and DOC to halt alleged "violations of the Constitution and Administrative Procedure Act" undertaken by agencies to dismantle Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Breaking News: UCAR files federal lawsuit to stop dismantling of National Center for Atmospheric Research

Lawsuit lists NSF, NOAA, DOC, OMB and their directors as defendents

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game plan revealed: "The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Hegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

Vanguard Settles Case Claiming It Tried to Kill the Coal Industry

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So soldiers and schoolgirls and others died because of an "excursion?"