Tasmania is a very special place: "It is not the first time carrots have caused a traffic hazard in the area."

Astonishing that none of these articles use the word “illegally,” perhaps because journalists don’t understand that appropriations bills passed by Congress are, literally, laws. Trump as executive is supposed to execute the laws passed by Congress. A budget bill is a law.

ESA is on Bluesky too!

Worth watching: i) the overall strategy is actually fine, however, this is a total disaster because ii) he has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about, and iii) we can have no confidence the strategy was or will be followed (e.g., pre-board screening or CDC-coordinated daily symptom screening.

“As a girl in Afghanistan, she was denied a formal education and taught herself to read…Today, she has completed 64 college credits while in high school, works nights and weekends to support herself and her siblings, and was admitted to 11 nursing programs. She cannot afford to attend a single one.”

Hot take: much of the Deep South should actually be neither majority-white nor -Black districts, but independent Native tribal territory, per the 1790 Treaty of New York, which the U.S. signed and ratified but immediately reneged on.

All 50 state constitutions have ways to help the people overcome gerrymandering. Here's how in Virginia: retire the state Supreme Court. Virginia's Article VI gives the Assembly the power to set the retirement age of the Court. Dismiss them, and the voter-approved redistricting map can be law again.

i bet the person that discovered fire probably thought they were going to get in trouble at first

Happy Giant Phallus-Shaped Iceberg Floating in Conception Bay Surprises Residents of Dildo, Canada Day to all those who celebrate.

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

I wrote on Monday about Pete Hegseth and Gen. Francis Donovan ramping up lawless boat strikes, which amount to extrajudicial killing. This week there have been 3 more strikes! Truly out of control. Awful that the US military is doing this and the world barely notices. wapo.st/4tOygA5

VA's current judicial retirement age is 73—an entirely arbitrary number. Resetting it to 54 would require every justice to retire, allowing for an all-new court. Of note, VA public employees can collect partial pensions from the state's retirement system starting at age 55.

Always the last to know.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Construction crews working on President Trump's expanded border wall with Mexico have destroyed a portion of 1000-year-old Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert. Lorraine Marquez Eiler, an elder of the Hia Ched O'odham community, details what we know.

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.

Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens. www.wired.com/story/mexica...

“More than 180 facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico have, by Trump’s unilateral decision, been given a two-year reprieve from following the latest Clean Air Act rules. About 250,000 people live within a mile of these facilities.”

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Nothing to see here, just an average size Kingdom of Kent oak tree, and an average size citizen 🫡🌳

"Trump is now effectively blocking any new wind projects in the US, according to the main renewables trade group, using the federal government’s power over all things air and sky to grind a routine approval process to a screeching halt," reports @jael.bsky.social: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig... 🔌💡

Check out biased WashPost story: Rubio is described as “practicing Catholic” while Kerry is described as “raised Catholic” but had “disagreements with the church on abortion and some other issues.” But Rubio actually has many more disagreements: immigration, Iran, climate, USAID, the poor, etc.

I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

Government lawyers have an obligation not just to their client — the administration — but to the public and the Constitution. When they make false statements, defy court orders, or argue positions they know are frivolous, there's supposed to be accountability. Right now, there isn't. 2/

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The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

I know it's become uncool to look back on the Obama Years fondly, but I really, really liked having the most prominent person in America regularly exhibit goodness and decency and kindness. It means a lot more than we like to acknowledge.

Elon Musk is so relentlessly focused on achieving his goals that he is directly responsible for killing <at least> hundreds of thousands of people via his wildly illegal DOGE actions & their impact on foreign aid. This is grotesquely obscene nonsense from Ezra Klein.

"This shocking Good Law Project podcast looks at the way US tech company Palantir ended up at the heart of the NHS, specifically, the covert influencer marketing campaign that was run to 'smear' Good Law Project... A terrifying and important listen."

The one factoid that I use to make this argument: in Texas, you can vote with a concealed carry license, but not a student ID (even from a state school)

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

Nice work, @insidehighered.com This is a perfect headline & lede.

Bring back the ancient knowledge

mugger: *points gun* your money or your life me: sure thing *hands him my id* you got 2 kids and didn’t actually understand the matrix mugger: no i mean- me: *already running away* you’re late for steph’s recital

The layout and architecture of the nation’s capital was intentionally designed as a visual embrace of democracy and a rebuke to monarchy. Trump wants to turn it into Versailles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Louisiana not a state too bothered by democratic norms

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated an elected position days before an exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based clerk seat was set to take office.

Australia is aiming to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer.

My quote of the day Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I bet Bluesky could bully them into changing it though

Everyone should pay attention to this. Antivaxxers are trying to force you to get another preventable disease and they are better funded than ever. They already got one Lyme vaccine pulled from market with the same tactics of straight-up lying, & climate change keeps making Lyme a much wider problem

I hope whoever is living in the apartment I was renting 5 years ago is enjoying the copy of Pokopia I accidentally shipped to them.

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).