NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

NEWS --> Gov Josh Shapiro confirms to me that Pennsylvania won't join Trump 250 gala. “This president routinely makes patriotism partisan and personal—it shouldn’t be that way,” Shapiro tells me, noting that PA businesses didn't want to participate. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2123...

* APPLE RAISES PRICES OF IPADS, MACS IN RESPONSE TO INCREASES IN MEMORY CHIP COSTS * APPLE SAYS AI DATA CENTER BOOM HAS CAUSED UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND FOR MEMORY AND STORAGE, FORCING PRICE INCREASES - STATEMENT @reuters.com #$AAPL

Leaders around the world are banking on tech advances to solve climate change. One leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and then burying it underground forever. It sounds practical. Here’s why there's no conceivable way it can work: (THREAD)

Illinois expanded vote-by-mail because we believe voting should be easier, not harder. Now, Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General is threatening to withhold mail ballots unless states turn over voter rolls. That's not election security. It’s voter suppression.

🚨How Reaganomics Brought Back the Gilded Age: For half a century, America built the broadest middle class in history. Then came Reaganomics. Forty-five years later, the results are in. The only boat GOP economics raises are yachts. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

This piece was originally published for Democracy Docket members only. We’re sharing it more widely because it was too timely to keep behind the paywall. Become a member to get my exclusive notes first. bit.ly/4qmEiFz www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...

Very important updates from our #FAccT2027 Program Chairs. Our next reviewing cycle will run on a different schedule from previous years. ⚠️ Abstract Deadline: Oct 27, 2026 ⚠️ Paper Deadline: Nov 3, 2026 Please read this blog post from the PCs for more info: facct-blog.github.io/2026-06-24/s...

Congratulations, though not surprised, Sam CS HC'26 haverfordathletics.com/news/2026/6/...

Busy July at Haverford College discussing democracy. Talks are open to the public with registration, see the link on the page at the link below. www.haverford.edu/marketing-an...

Celebrating Edith Clarke--the first female electrical engineer in the US--on International Women in Engineering Day. She invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems, a precursor to modern smart grid technology. Patented, 1925. #WomenInSTEM #WomeninEngineering (1/2)

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.

NEW: Colorado prison officials and judges are largely violating the spirit of the state's restrictions on solitary confinement. A package of reforms passed over the last decade but the state is still subjecting people with severe mental illness to these torturous conditions. An important read:

ID: political cartoon with two prisons, on the left is one full of prisoners and reads "caught touching peeling paint in Reflecting Pool," and on the right is an empty prison with a sign, "caught beating Capitol police breaking into the capital smearing feces, ..."

Score one for the DOJ press corps. WHCA, u up?

The latest brain implant is designed to detect and treat glioblastoma and other brain tumors. My story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/three-...

Fascism in action. Requires a NYS/NYC regulatory response. bsky.app/profile/jose...

Since he's returned to office Trump has attacked the Smithsonian as "out of control" where everything discussed "is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was." Lonnie Bunch has been the person who has put himself between Trump and the Smithsonian. This is the story of his work to protect it.

A leading vaccine skeptic with millions of social media followers, Dr. Joseph Mercola repeatedly said that vitamin K shots were unnecessary for newborns. But in a break from his past warnings, Mercola says he no longer believes that.

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

PA Republican Rep Ryan Mackenzie campaigned on opposing war in Iran, but now he’s voted four times in favor of Trump’s war. Another spineless GOP coward. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4615190/ryan-mackenzie-kevin-dellicker-regime-change-bombing-iran-2024-house/

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

ID: political cartoon style of Family Circus, where the mom is yelling if the young young boy and girl in red hats and it reads, "Who ruined the Lincoln reflecting pool, trashed the Ellipse, left their toys on the south lawn, bulldozed the East Wing, lost the Iran war,.... "

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. (Published Dec. 2025)

🧵1/3 Forty million Americans with disabilities are eligible to vote in this country. On Monday, the Supreme Court looked at a ruling that strips away their right to bring a trusted helper into the voting booth and decided it wasn't even worth a hearing. No debate www.npr.org/2026/06/22/n...

They're saying the quiet part out loud now. Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly/Superhuman: “We’re doing a huge pedagogical upheaval in education,” she said, calling it a “burn it down moment. We’re just in the early stages.” Burn down higher ed without any plan to rebuilt. Gift link.

Something people still don’t grasp—in the US or the UK—is that getting an appropriate wheelchair is not as simple as a doc going “you need a wheelchair, here’s a scrip, go pick it out”. For one thing, ableism and the bogeyman of “deconditioning” means some doctors would rather you fall.

Krugman to @gregsargent.bsky.social : "We always knew there were people like Trump. The idea that the world’s basically oldest republic — the nation that invented republican values and democratic norms — puts up with it. That’s what really shocks me." Full episode: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

What happens when obsession, exploration, and empire collide? Join Historians At The Movies on Prime Video this Sunday June 21 At 8pm eastern as we watch THE LOST CITY OF Z and separate history from Hollywood. Adventure, mystery, and great conversation await. #HATM

Nobody is vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, and Trump knows it. This is a visible example of his corruption--a no-bid contract to some crony followed by sky-high cost overruns, and shoddy construction to boot. Classic Trump: I didn't fuck up, it was my enemies.

Well, this is a crime.

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

Thanks to @bsky.app, I met @solomonrdavid.bsky.social, visited his lab, read some journal articles, went out and did some fieldwork with him on a boat, and now have written this article. Takeaway: Ancient fish are cool. Science is cool. Public institutions should do cool ancient fish science. (gift)

I guarantee you that Trump cares more about the Reflecting Pool turning green than he cares about his illegal war killing 100+ Iranian schoolgirls.

Trump and Hegseth know they're responsible for blowing up an Iranian girls school, and they know why it happened. They simply want us all to forget about their atrocity.

ID: classic photo of Darth Vader ... #HappyFathersDay

Trump's other quagmire: One algae is replacing another. Gift link: Science Has a Name for What’s Plaguing the Reflecting Pool www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Cal Newport -- @author-calnewport.bsky.social -- is so right. Gift link. Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

Michelle and I had fun surprising the first group of visitors to the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth. Come check it out!

Bravo Curaçao!!! 🇨🇼 Their goalkeeper Eloy Room made 15 saves. “In the press box, one journalist from Curaçao is whooping with joy and punching the air: 💬 “We got a point! We got a point at the World Cup! No one in Curaçao will sleep for a week!”

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This is *NOT* the first time the Phillies had a player hit two home runs in the same inning against the Mets. Von Hayes did it on June 11th, 1985 in the first inning, including a Grand Slam. They were 15-for-28 with RISP

KYLE SCHWARBER'S SECOND HOMER OF THE INNING! THIS ONE GOES 457 FEET 😱

Could not agree more! Not only did Hillary beat the Orange Atrocity by 2.8 MILLION votes, but Al Gore got 543,895 MORE votes than Bush! The Electoral College allows candidates who received less votes to win the presidency. ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This cartoon is a beauty. Art: @danboriscreates.bsky.social (USA)

I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...