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In Rogue-FP on Steam, EVERYTHING is made of letters. When you kill a monster and come back later, there will often be flies (capital 'F' letters) flying around the remains 😂
#Rogue #Steam #SteamDeck

The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be shuttered,
with the headquarters relocating from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City.
While the overhaul is billed as an effort to improve efficiency, conservationist…

Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to “Break the Forest Service,” Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake
The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be shuttered, with the headquarters relocating from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City. While the overhaul is billed as an effort to improve efficiency, conservationist Jim Pattiz says it wil…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pixies (62) Nacho Picasso (37) Degraved (36) Funebrarum (32) Cabinet (29). #myweekcounted 722 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Anticipation has built for the start of observations at the
"Vera C. Rubin Observatory"
in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the "Dark Matter Telescope",
Rubin is designed to study our constantly moving and changing universe in greater detail than ever before.
Once every few days for a decade, Rubin will take images of the entire night sky over the Southern Hemisphere,
creating the w…

Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive.

“People are tired of hearing what government can’t do.
They want to hear what government can do,”
Lewis George said in an interview before the DC city’s primary,
where she defeated her Democratic opponents and positioned herself to win the general election in November in a city dominated by Democrats.
Lewis George’s victory signals a break with a quarter-century of centrist governance in Washington,
and it puts her in the vanguard of democratic socialists who h…

Democratic socialists are winning major mayor's races
Janeese Lewis George is making waves in Washington, D.C., with her progressive agenda as she aims for the mayor's office. Her plans include subsidized childcare and increased homebuyer assistance. She also promises to challenge President Donald Trump's influence. Her Democratic primary victory was a shift from centrist governance in the nation's capital and aligns with a broader trend of democratic socialists gaining traction in urban politics. While some cities still favor moderate candidates,…

Embrace ai or get left behind

Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci
Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major

Ele Willoughby (@minouette.bsky.social)
Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major &

The man we know as Joey Ramone was born Jeffrey Ross Hyman on this day (May 19) in 1951.

With the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry.
Americans are paying the price
Defeating Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement requires taking on the largest industry financing it: #cryptocurrency.
We know most people’s eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “crypto.”
The industry’s lobbyists depend on that;
they win when the public …

Congress Must Stop Enabling Trump’s Crypto Corruption
With the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry. Americans will pay the price.

Throwing some bolts this evening
#metal

Mercenary

Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood,
according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings.
The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.
The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family se…

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.

Loved Backrooms. Found it cool as hell. One of the best flicks I've seen in a WHILE. Bizarre, all kinds of unexplained shit-- just everything I love about movies. Highly recommend.
#horror

Backrooms (2026)
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

U.S. health advisers are debating a new kind of flu vaccine Thursday,
the first made with the same mRNA technologythat was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderna is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval of its new shot, dubbed #mFlusiva,
as an option for people 50 and older.
The FDA advisory committee meeting is a step toward a final decision ahead of the winter flu se…

FDA panel considers a first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology
U.S. health advisers are debating a new kind of flu vaccine

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones, as Trump claims?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/17/cuba-iran-drones-trump-venezuela-us-military/

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island.

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Andy Burnham is the first prime minister of Catholic faith to take office in modern times.
Boris Johnson was baptised a Catholic but converted to the Church of England while a young teenager, while Tony Blair convert…

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Spanish authorities, operating on a US extradition request,
arrested the 41-year-old Chambers,
a US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects worldwide, last Friday in Ibiza.
He has…

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Critics say that taxpayer money is helping to create a
“deportation-industrial complex” that puts Geo Group,
which runs ICE detention facilities across 16 states, including Delaney Hall in New Jersey,
at …

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I don’t think LLMs will be with us for long,
at least not in their current form.
But I do think that we’re living through a period of generational damage, one that will take years to repair -- if not decades. …

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“The F-word in Pennsylvania is not fuck. It’s Fetterman,”
said Rabb, who described how he’s heard this worry from district voters
– of another elected progressive shifting after their victory
– so often t…

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Rep. Kevin Kiley of California quit the Republican Party in an attempt to show he is nobody’s puppet
-- and save himself from a losing his seat now that California redrew its map and put him in a tougher position.

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It may seem odd that a movement ostensibly dedicated to ending abortion would oppose the tools that are the most effective at ending abortion.
But the anti-abortion movement is not, in fact, a movement dedicated to …

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“Are people just supposed to walk away from their consoles,
and let these orbiters around other planets or rovers on other worlds
... just let them die?”
— Jim Bell, Planetary scientist, Arizona State Uni…

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There are now nine nuclear powers.
Even three is infinitely more complicated than two.
The agreements,
the norms between countries,
are all falling apart.
Weapons are getting crazier.

The #unemployment rate for “new entrants,” or those trying to break into the workforce, in the U.S., hit a nine-year high in 2025.
A whopping 13.4% of them can’t seem to find a job, the highest percentage in decades.
Aside from recession fears and the slowing pace of entry-level job postings, #artificial

"The current fascist administration thinks hyper-aggressive masculinity is the only thing needed for a successful military"
-- @…
#Hegseth #testosterone

Developers are turning to a large range of materials to store renewable electricity when it is available and use it to power everything from wearable technology to heating networks, factories and missiles.
Here are some of the energy storage innovations raising eyebrows.
🔸Liquid air
Late last year, on the site of a former coal plant in Trafford, the former mayor of Greater Manchester marked the start of construction on a long-awaited energy storage project that could usher …

Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy
From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge

Right-wing activist Gary Bauer
opened his daily email newsletter Tuesday afternoon with the headline,
“Democrats Hate Police.”
That inflammatory framing was followed by a lot of false information about the killing of a 26-year-old father by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday:
"Yesterday morning, federal immigration police attempted to enforce an existing deportation order for 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, an illegal alien in Biddeford, Maine. The Co…

Gary Bauer Pushes False Narrative re ICE Killing, Claims ‘Democrats Hate Police’
Gary Bauer is promoting pro-ICE propaganda that even ICE isn't backing up.

In one post, according to the US Attorney’s Office,
former women's track and field coach Steven Waithe wrote:
“Does anyone want to trade nudes?
I’m talking girls you actually know. Could be exes or whatever.
I have quite a few and [am] down to trade over snap[chat] or something.” 
Legal documents do not name the sites on which Waithe distributed these images,
but Bellingcat found a cached version of a November 2020 post with that exact wording on Leake…

The Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to a Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes
Two days after we reached out to crypto start-up founder Jitendra Maharaj about his apparent connections to LeakedBB, the site went offline.

Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat
and unseat Susan Collins once and for all.
He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash,
a lifelong labor champion,
and former Maine Senate President,
who's proven he can win
— by 20 points
— in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.
https://w…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

This type of hopeful news on a gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease would go against Trump’s policies,
as OMB director Russ Vought says.
Why? Because it is DEI.
Sickle Cell Disease disproportionally affects African Americans
due to an evolutionary trait that helps protect them from malaria.
https:…

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist (@princess-vimentin.bsky.social)
This type of hopeful news on a gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease would go against Trump’s policies, as OMB director Russ Vought says. Why? Because it is DEI. Sickle Cell Disease disproportionally affects African Americans due to an evolutionary trait that helps protect them from malaria.

Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents
— cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision.
If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents,
as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism o…

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Earth is the cradle of humanity but one cannot live in the cradle forevertaken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911

Every zipper is manufactured to a specification that balances precision against cost.
A zipper with teeth machined to tolerances of plus or minus 0.02 millimetres will last thousands of cycles without splitting.
A zipper with tolerances of plus or minus 0.08 millimetres will function adequately for hundreds of cycles before wear accumulates to the failure threshold.
The first costs more to produce.
The second costs more to replace.
The decision between them …

The Precise Mechanics Behind Why Zippers Fail and What That Reveals About Everyday Product Engineering
Most zipper failures are a worn slider — a £1 part. You throw away the jacket because nobody told you. The tolerance decision was made in a spreadsheet.

Could this mysterious disappearing organ hold the key to longevity?
Researchers are racing to regrow the thymus,
an ephemeral immune organ,
in the hope that it will slow ageing.
In 1996, cryobiologist Gregory Fahy walked into his physician’s office and talked his way into a month’s supply of growth hormone.
His hope,
bolstered by a single study in rats,
was that the injections would help him to regrow his thymus
— a peculiar immune organ that …

Could this mysterious disappearing organ hold the key to longevity?
Researchers are racing to regrow the thymus, an ephemeral immune organ, in the hope that it will slow ageing.

Claudia Sheinbaum is handling out medals at the World Cup final,
next to the fat pedophile
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claudia-sheinbaum-trump-carney-world-cup-final/

Mexican president to attend World Cup final at Trump's invitation amid trade tensions
It will be the first meeting between President Trump and Sheinbaum since December after months of verbal sparring. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is also expected to attend.

"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out."
-- Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

Andy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan,
Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham prioritises cost-of-living support over Starmer's controversial digital ID plan.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/andy-burnham-scr

Andy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan, Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Andy Burnham plans to scrap Starmer's digital ID plan upon becoming UK Prime Minister, redirecting resources to address cost-of-living issues and support local economies.

Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins believes humanity's long war on parasites may be doing more harm than good.
In his new book, he argues that stripping the body of these organisms entirely could weaken, rather than protect, human immunity,
challenging decades of public health messaging built around eliminating parasites at all costs.
Martins has built his career studying the creatures most people overlook or actively avoid.
He grew up in biodiversity-rich western K…

Wiping Out Parasites Entirely Could Harm Human Immunity, Warns Scientist Fighting Our 'Clean Living' Obsession
Dino Martins' new book argues that parasites may strengthen human immunity, challenging traditional public health views. He highlights the ecological role of parasites and their potential benefits.

Federal agents across the United States were told in recent days that the FBI will no longer investigate physical confrontations involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
The guidance was shared with FBI managers on Thursday, with some ICE agents notified by their FBI counterparts the same day.
The Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security issued a joint statement denying that any change had taken place.
They insisted the relationship between …

FBI Told to Stop Investigating ICE After Patel Halted Renee Good Probe, Now ICE Investigates Itself
The FBI will no longer investigate ICE confrontations, shifting responsibility to Homeland Security Investigations. This change raises concerns about accountability and scrutiny of ICE's use of force.

In the era of the RAMageddon, even a Raspberry Pi will cost you a couple hundred bucks.
But you know, you don't even need something that powerful for an ad- blocking DNS filter.
In fact, you can use a $5 microcontroller to build a fully functional ad-blocking filter with over 500,000 domains blocked and around 10ms latency.
We know that's possible because Egyptian full-stack developer ZedAxis (@M-Abozaid on GitHub) has already built one.
Using an ESP32-C3 &qu…

Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds
This project uses a clever hashing trick to fit over half a million blocked domains into just 4MB of flash memory.

The DoJ civil rights division has seen dramatic changes since Trump came back into office last year and installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead it.
Dhillon has fired employees in droves,
pushed out others through separation incentives tied to pressure campaigns,
reassigned staff
and rewritten the mission statements for each section in the division.
She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues
…

How Trump Transformed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Office
New, permanent hires include an attorney sanctioned for attempting to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss.

One difference between Hegseth Evangelicals & Leonard Leo Catholics.
Evangelicals shout from the rooftops.
Catholics in Leo's circle rarely say what they want outloud.
They just go about undermining democracy, quietly, in the dark. Like termites.
From 2018 - out loud.
-- Tom Carter
https://www.

In Defence of Catholic Integralism
States that do not recognize both natural law and the transformation of law and public reason brought about by the raising of religion to a supernatural good will become confessors of false belief opposed to Christianity, and their great power will turn from supporting Christianity to opposing or ev

International media conglomerate Axel Springer, which owns multiple major news outlets,
announced on Friday that it is awarding its 2026 Axel Springer Award to far right billionaire Peter Thiel,
recognizing the Palantir co-founder for his “societal impact” and entrepreneurial feats
as his company seeks to build out a mass surveillance network across the U.S.
The Axel Springer Award, the company says,
“pays tribute to a person who has created new markets, reshape…

Politico Owner Axel Springer Gives Prize to Far Right Billionaire Peter Thiel
The award ceremony is slated to include remarks from Bari Weiss.

The Trump administration has finalized immigration rules drastically shortening several forms of visas for foreign visitors and residents in the U.S.,
with particular emphasis on students and the press.
The rule changes, announced last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
end the “duration of status” system, which had allowed foreign visitors on certain visas to remain in the country, without the need for repeated application renewals, if they continued to mee…

Trump Administration Slashes Visa Lengths for Students, Journalists
The rule changes focus on the “duration of status” system, which has allowed qualifying visa holders to stay in the US.

Corporate-owned scumbag
Ted Cruz is taking to Twitter to attack me,
and we haven’t even officially kicked off the general election yet.
You know what that means:
Republicans are terrified of our campaign.
And they should be.
Susan Collins’s disastrous voting record over the past three decades has rightfully made her the most vulnerable GOP senator in the country.
She and Cruz and the rest of the clowns running the show in Washington know they’ve scr…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate in Maine
We can defeat Susan Collins.

“The U.S. is planning for a wider war,”
one U.S. official familiar with the matter told The Washington Post Monday.
The official warned that U.S. military operations would be kneecapped by dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long-range munitions,
as well as widespread damage to U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
“We do not have enough to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that,” the official added.
A report from th…

Trump Is Ready for All-Out War in Iran. There’s Just One Catch.
Someone’s weapons are depleted, but it’s not Iran.

U.K.-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware is responding to a cyberattack
in which hackers stole a “significant volume” of customer data from its systems, the company said on Monday.
The company said the hackers appear to have been expelled from its systems, but its investigation into the breach is ongoing, according to a statement filed with the London Stock Exchange.
Craneware’s flagship accounting and billing software is used by thousands of clinics, hospital…

Hackers stole 'significant' amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies | TechCrunch
Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data.

Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…

Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future
Harvard law and history professor and New Yorker writer Dr. Jill Lepore discusses her forthcoming book, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State’

Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) thinks there’s something queer about Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fixation on masculinity.
The congresswoman weighed in on the U.S. military’s plans to test male service members’ testosterone levels,
telling journalist Scott MacFarlane there’s something odd about being so obsessed with manliness while villainizing the LGBTQ community at the same time.
“I think it’s indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have s…

Congresswoman Says 'Homoerotic' Side Of GOP's Masculinity Mania Can't Be Ignored
Rep. Becca Balint had a list of reasons why Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fixation with making the military more manly looked like a full-on fetish.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys
designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies
—facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, gunshot detection systems, and more
—to build the cases against their clients in secret.
The toolkit, which the group describes as the first of its kind, is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judg…

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base.
There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.
The last people to live here moved away long ago.
Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.  
The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed.
It costs more than $340…

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I ask Laura Grego now, what is it that we should all know?
Well, she says, the average person’s experience of space is about to change.
If, so far, that has been “looking at the stars and being full of wonder, full of connection with the universe”,
perhaps noticing the occasional streaking object that was not a shooting star,
now “there are plans for tens of thousands more satellites, which would really change your relationship with what you see in the sky”.
Sp…

‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies
Elon Musk is trying to own it, competing powers are trying to fight in it and nobody seems to be regulating it. So who does space really belong to?

‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

‘The biggest threat is the president’: election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November, despite truce in bitter power struggle

The Cockroach Janta party (CJP)
might have started out as an online joke, but
– driven by millions of discontented young people in India
– it has swiftly grown into one of the most unexpected challenges to the powerful rightwing government of Narendra Modi.
The CJP was founded in May by Abhijeet Dipke, 30,
an Indian national who recently graduated from university in the US.
Enraged to hear comments made by the chief justice of India,
who compared the…

Who are India’s Cockroach Janta party and why are they staging protests?
Explosion of anger over education system and youth unemployment has led to movement’s rapid rise

Troy Jackson is the frontrunner for Maine Democrats
What happens next?
A reminder of the next steps of the frantic replacement process in the Maine Senate race now that Troy Jackson appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Over the weekend, all 16 counties elected 500 delegates who will vote in a special convention in Bangor on Saturday,
with the remaining delegates coming from the state Democratic party committee.
This will the formal process of selec…

Maine Democrats rally around Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner in crucial Senate race – US politics live
Former state legislator in strong position to become Democratic nominee after several candidates drop out over the weekend

David Lammy has announced he is also leaving government, having been the deputy prime minister for the past two years.
He too posted details of his departure on social media.
Writing on X, Lammy said:
It has been the greatest privilege of my life, coming from humble beginnings in Tottenham, to serve in government as @Keir_Starmer’s Foreign Secretary, Justice Secretary and Britain’s first Black Deputy Prime Minister.
I am immensely proud of what we achieved, in Opposition …

Reeves and Lammy exit cabinet as Andy Burnham reshuffles top team – UK politics live
Earlier the new PM said he wants to put ‘the right values and the right standards at the heart of government’

Video footage of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tackling a man at the airport in Las Vegas drew public outrage and criticism from elected officials.
One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying on the ground in Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday
when a man and a masked woman, both in plainclothes, tried to control, handcuff and detain him.
When the pair realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the ma…

Immigration arrest at Las Vegas airport drew outrage
Video footage of ICE agents tackling a man at Las Vegas Airport has sparked public outrage and criticism from officials. The video shows a man on the ground Monday as two plainclothes agents try to detain him. When they noticed they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving him partially handcuffed. Las Vegas police identified the pair as ICE agents and found no warrants for the man. ICE later arrested Phu Nguyen, an Australian citizen who overstayed his visa, at Los Angeles Airport. Nevada …

Under new European Union rules, businesses must prioritise keeping unsold clothing or shoes in use by selling them (including through discounts or alternative markets), donating them to charities or social enterprises, or preparing them for reuse (repairing, refurbishing or remanufacturing).
Destruction will be allowed only under specified circumstances and must be carried out in accordance with the waste treatment hierarchy, giving priority to recycling

Ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.

Trump threatened Canada with additional tariffs over wildfire smoke:
“This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence,
costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying.”
Trump’s rhetoric was presaged by Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introducing a bill to sanction Canadian officials found “responsible” for the fires,
revoke their visas and express a sense of Cong…

GOP Senator Calls For Stripping Visas From Canadian Officials Because Of Wildfires
“We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works.

We know from polling that voters want us to be talking about preserving their rights and freedoms (No Kings)
and not just “kitchen table issues”
and that there is nothing more intrinsically American than fighting for freedom and democracy.
We also know from polling, lots and lots of polling, that voters believe that our hearts are in right place
but question our toughness, and whether we are strong enough to be able to fight and deliver for them.
So we should se…

The Importance Of Character And Virtue In The 2026 Elections
Trump has reminded the American people why it is so important to have leaders of virtue and character.......

Created by Congress in 1996,
the Alien Terrorist Removal Court,
has five federal judges appointed by the Chief Justice,
“to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists.”
The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal.
According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding.
-- Until this week.
According to a court order posted on the newly-cr…

Alien Terrorist Removal Court Has Its First Case
Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has never reviewed an application. Until now

A concerning development surrounding an incredibly obscure process Congress set up to deport some people with connections to terrorism.
It comes as the Trump admin has reclassified many gangs as “terrorists,” and accused some innocent people of being gang members.
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledch…

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/18/trump-alien-terrorist-deportation-court-01004184

How Trump became the accidental green president
Donald Trump
— a man who has spent his career joking about windmills, ripping up climate agreements and waging war on anything containing the word “green”
— is presiding over an accelerating transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the United States.

In May, solar power overtook coal in electricity output for the first time.
Energy storage and solar made up 91 percent of new grid capacity in the first quarter …

How Trump became the accidental green president
The president might not like it, but his policies are promoting clean energy.

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

One of Donald Trump’s most grandiose vanity projects,
-- a multimillion-dollar makeover of Florida’s Palm Beach international airport
into a self-aggrandizing, gold-plated transportation hub,
-- is running into turbulence, barely a week after the first plane’s wheels touched the runway.
At first glance, the rebranding of the airport less than 5 miles from his opulent Mar-a-Lago resort appears to be complete.
Its website bears the name and oversized logo of the …

Trump’s rebranding of Palm Beach airport hasn’t taken off as he planned
Changes inside the Florida international airport are hardly evident as state and county hold back funds for full remodel

Federal investigators were working in early 2025 to wrap up a two-year inquiry into claims of pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination at a company that makes weapons, vehicles and cybersecurity tools for the Pentagon.
The investigators had found, among other things, that some male managers at a Norfolk, Va., Navy shipyard had demanded oral sex and other sexual contact from female employees in exchange for promotions and overtime pay,
and that Black women had been paid less…

Trump Gutted Civil Rights Agency, Stifling U.S. Scrutiny of Workplace Bias
A little-known federal office spent decades investigating potential discrimination by government contractors — until it was stopped by the Trump administration.

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

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Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021,
when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list.
The classics of the banned-book genre remained
— “Brave New World,” “Animal Farm,”“Beloved”
— but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make inf…

Why not just ban all the books?
Keyword searches for "justice" and "pride" drive what ideas are being kept from kids.

SpaceX can be defined in many ways.
SpaceX is a financial instrument for Musk.
Before the IPO, SpaceX acquired xAI, Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, which itself acquired X, the social-media site, back in 2025.
The maneuver allowed SpaceX to claim that it believed it had “the largest actionable total addressable market in human history”:
$28.5 trillion, to be precise.
$26.5 trillion of that, according to the filing, would come from AI infrastructure and a…

What Has SpaceX Become?
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.

The media is "abnormalizing" Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump
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Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
Even his policy proposals — free buses, freezing rents on rent-controlled apartments, five city-run grocery stores — weren't all that far outside the political mainstream. The media has conjured a radical antisemitic insurgent out of thin air.

The movement in Metro Detroit fighting ICE and Trump’s reactionary agenda has scored an important victory
The agency has given up on its plan to build a new detention center in Romulus.
Instead, ICE will be selling the property, one of 11 facilities purchased by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) earlier in the year in an effort to expand deportations.

ICE Halts Efforts to Open Several Immigration Jails
While the news is an important victory, the immigrant rights movement must continue to grow.

The debate between the spelling and pronunciation of Molokaʻi or Molokai
(with or without the glottal stop,
or ʻokina, between the “a” and “i”)
has been ongoing for decades.
Speakers, who were born and raised on Molokaʻi, all pronounced the name of their island as Molokaʻi with the ʻokina letter,” Kimura recently told ASD by email.
“Also, all the Native Hawaiian speakers not from Molokaʻi who interacted in conversation with them pronounced Molokaʻi with the ʻok…

Molokaʻi or Molokai, and why? ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi speakers, community share manaʻo
Aloha State Daily revisits the Molokaʻi or Molokai debate over the spelling and pronunciation of the place name — with or without an ʻokina — initially for our own house style guide used across the website. Here’s what we learned from community members statewide.

Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s reservations about his country’s interim peace deal with the United States
have emboldened the country’s hardline political grouping, which opposes any concessions with Washington.
Iran’s new supreme leader appears to have handed responsibility for the deal over to President Masoud Pezeshkian, a relative moderate,
who is now under fire from a more hardline camp that believes war with the US could restart soon.
Supporters of Khamen…

Where do Iran’s political factions stand on the US peace deal?
Iran’s rival political camps are locking horns over a memorandum of understanding with the US.

Tehran has announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz once again
in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon that have killed at least 83 people on Saturday.
Iran says the attacks are a violation of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding signed this week aimed at pausing the three month-conflict.

Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz as Israel tests MOU with Lebanon strikes
Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz as Israel tests MOU with Lebanon strikes.

In Iran, at least 3,468 people were killed over several weeks of U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Recovery for Iran is expected to be costly after the strikes hit critical infrastructure like bridges, manufacturing, and oil depots, as well as civilian infrastructure like hospitals and schools.
As part of the agreement signed this week, the U.S. has said it would work with regional partners create a $300 billion reconstruction fund.
Meanwhile, in the U.S.:
as Trump seeks nearly $1.…

Trump May Be Drawing Down Iran War, But He’s Demanding Billions More for Bombs
The GOP is souring on Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget as the president pushes for yet another reconciliation bill.

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper was elected Tuesday to run as the Democratic candidate for an open U.S. Senate seat for North Carolina this fall, the Associated Press projects.
The winner of the U.S. Senate race in November will replace Senator Thom Thillis, who was not running for reelection this year.
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The Iran deal comes with a familiar false promise
Vance’s defense of the Iran deal contradicts itself.
Asked whether Iran would gain access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund, he did not say no.
Instead, he laid out the points about Iran’s cooperation and its integration into the “world economy” and the United States inviting other countries to invest.
But, once the funds were invested, they would not evaporate because Iran violated the agreement.
If a c…

The Iran deal comes with a familiar false promise
Bad actors tend to betray agreements, without consequences.

They say they tracked ICE in Minneapolis.
Now they’re accused of an antifa plot.
Cameron Kennedy is one of 15 people charged this week with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
as part of what Justice Department officials called a "left-wing antifa plot" to harm federal agents during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation that began last winter.
Several face additional charges, including felony assault, solicitation to com…

They say they tracked ICE in Minneapolis. Now they’re accused of an antifa plot.
Defendants in the Minneapolis case say the Trump administration labeled them “antifa” to criminalize dissent.

The costs of the war to the United States, estimated at $132 billion overall, are still being tallied as a 60-day period for further negotiations begins. Here is what we know.
About 3,500 Iranians have been killed in the war, according to an Iranian government agency. Israel says 26 Israelis have been killed. Thousands of people in both countries have been injured.
The U.S. military says 13 of its members have been killed.
Israel renewed attacks on Lebanon on March 18 as pa…

The Costs of the Iran War: Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars
The human toll and economic costs mounted rapidly after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.

The Department of Justice claims that it’s released every document that’s required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
But the agency previously said it collected more than six million pages of material during its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein,
and it only released around three million.
So what’s in the rest of the Epstein files?
The DOJ claims that the other three million pages are either duplicates, unrelated to Epstein, or protected by legal privilege. …

DOJ Refusing to Release Old Epstein Emails That Could Expose Trump
The Justice Department is still sitting on millions of Epstein files. Some of them could reveal a lot about the president.

"Another Wasted Life.”
That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist
Rhiannon Giddens.
She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day.
The song was inspired by
Kalief Browder,
a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22
after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years,
after being falsely accused at the age of …

“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. He was held in solitary co…

The Justice Department on Friday refused to issue a signed declaration from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
The DOJ's refusal comes after a federal judge last week gave the administration seven days to verify in a declaration that it wouldn't create the controversial fund. 
"Such declarations are unnecessary and the compelled testimony of senior official…

DOJ refuses to issue signed declaration verifying 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' is dead
The DOJ has refused to issue a signed declaration from acting AG Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Trump’s "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine
and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory,
or Ukraine would take action itself.

'A week will be enough' — Zelensky issues ultimatum to Lukashenko over drone-guidance equipment
President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory, or Ukraine would take action itself.

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Kash Patel built a slush fund inside the FBI to hand out fat cash bonuses the men who do his
(and by extension, Todd Blanche’s and Donald Trump’s) dirty work.
This is what the rot consuming our Republic looks like up close.
There’s a particular tell in the way a regime decays,
and Kash Patel just gave us the textbook example.
When the people in charge of the law start paying cash -- out of view of oversight and largely off the books,
to the people who br…

Kash Patel's FBI Criminals
The Payback Squad Is A Stain On The Bureau

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
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Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

Semantic Sleight of Hand Behind Hormuz Fund's Framing
An Iranian official described the proposed mechanism to the New York Times as a 'reconstruction programme' that would be promised to Iran upon the signing of a final agreement.
Two diplomats briefed on the latest draft used different language,
calling it an international 'investment fund' that the United States would facilitate.
The divergence in terminology is deliberate.
The domestic c…

Trump Admin Renames Iran's $300 Billion Reparations Demand an 'Investment Fund' to Avoid a Political Firestorm at Home
A draft US-Iran agreement reportedly includes a £224 billion ($300 billion) investment fund for Iran's reconstruction, with officials avoiding the term 'reparations.' The deal has not yet been signed...

Raised in England by Nigerian parents, Balogun, 24, spent most of his youth international career in England’s system
and once seemed destined to suit up for England.
But a long-ago travel snafu, combined with his Nigerian ancestry, meant Balogun had not one but three national team uniforms to choose from come 2026
Folarin Balogun chose the U.S.
Now he’s leading it at the World Cup.
In the summer of 2001, Balogun’s Nigerian-born parents were living in London wh…

How the U.S. men’s soccer team finally found its missing piece
A long-ago travel snafu meant Folarin Balogun had not one but three national team uniforms to choose from come 2026.

One might see needy children getting less food assistance as a horrifying outcome.
But the Trump administration has sold all this as a success story.
Those losing benefits, we’re told, were all lazy grifters who were probably defrauding the government anyway.
Or, alternatively, maybe they really did once deserve their benefits, but they have since graduated out of their undignified need for federal assistance thanks to Trump’s economic boom.
“A lot of [the enrollmen…

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Hunger Crisis
His solution to the food affordability crisis is to cut programs that help people afford food.

The nation’s largest public four-year university may soon be barred from replacing faculty with generative AI
as a bill backed by a union of professors comes nearer to reaching the governor’s desk.
Few examples exist of the California State University’s attempting to replace faculty labor with generative AI tools,
but the faculty union wants to prevent such efforts from ever getting off the ground.
The bill so far has garnered no opposition from lawmakers and may clear…

Cal State faculty push to prevent AI tools from replacing them as schools and staff experiment
The union representing California State University professors is contesting the system's use of artificial intelligence tools and backing legislation that would protect their jobs from the technology.

The Frey Wille Hundertwasser Street Rivers collection testifies to his commitment to architecture
and is influenced, for example, by the famous Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna.
Hundertwasser was strongly committed to architecture and fought for a more natural and human-friendly construction.
He despised rational, sterile architecture and demanded more space for individual design.
In this context, he campaigned for a "tree obligation" and a "window right&…

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Prior to 1865, many Afro-Texans reclaimed their sovereignty and autonomy
-- well before the federal government acknowledged their basic humanity,
though there’s a dearth of centralized information about Black placemaking in Texas from this time.
This reclamation was called “marronage”
—a term borrowed from French for this act of antebellum self-emancipation.
The word most often refers specifically to runaway slaves, or “maroons,”
who broke free to set up…

From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and 'Marronage' in Texas
Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation. 

As a House committee debated Trump’s signature domestic policy bill last year,
Republican backers repeatedly emphasized that its changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
also known as food stamps,
wouldn’t affect vulnerable people.
SNAP reforms would “restore integrity” to the program
and ensure it works for the “most vulnerable among us, including children,”
said Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson,
a Pennsylvania Republican and chair of the H…

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

Plastics
“And these guys were very common,” [Gibson] went on, taking down a small plastic spaceman:
red, wearing an elaborately earmuffed helmet with an antenna on top.
“These spacemen were dime-store toys at a time
 — which I can actually remember! 
— when cheap plastics were still weirdly novel.
Like Gore-Tex or something.
You’d ask, ‘What is it made of?’ ”
He looked wistful, then thoughtful.
“I’ve decided that one of the most signif…

How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to the strange new world of the present, Joshua Rothman writes.

On Tuesday, hundreds marched through downtown Senatobia, Mississippi, in protest of the police murder of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley two days prior.
Police responded to the protest, which stopped in front of the local Walmart and continued to grow in size, by teargassing the protesters.
On Sunday afternoon, police officers shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen in a car outside of the Walmart.
Police claim that they were responding to a shoplifting call.
After trying to stop the…

Police Tear Gas Protesters After Killing 1-Year-Old in Mississippi
“We cannot accept a world where an alleged shoplifting call ends with a child dead,” said civil rights lawyer Ben Crump.