feels pretty timely to come across Mildred Thompson's "Magnetic Fields" while reading @chanda.blacksky.app's Edge of Space-Time

Been down a rabbit hole with Dr. Jackie Murray‘s scholarship this weekend. www.youtube.com/live/TmfYpfq...

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

this seems like it broke containment so please help save chaco canyon! Go comment on this!!!!

The retaliation against professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is disgusting. Please support her during these draconian sanctions imposed by the UCI Chancellor. chuffed.org/project/1562...

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

FTX’s collapse didn’t end with Sam Bankman-Fried. We investigate customer claims that its costly bankruptcy shortchanged them.

Way to fuck the kids over

Imagine fucking up a reflecting pool and thinking you are good at running a country

Yes same What Nolan did with Athena especially is a travesty

Don’t go to see The Odyssey to learn the story according to Homer because the film won’t give you that. This is very much an “inspired by” adaptation, not a “bringing the original to life” adaptation. It’s more Hobbit trilogy than Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

"Black women are particularly affected: in a 16 month period between 2024 and 2025, over twice the proportion of Black women received a maximum-security designation from SAFER, compared to white women."

This review completely aligns with my overall opinion of the film. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

"The Odyssey" premieres around the world today amid growing calls for a boycott, as human rights campaigners criticize director Christopher Nolan over his decision to film part of the film in Western Sahara, a vast territory that Morocco has occupied for the past half-century.

Ummmmm www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Emma Landis is the woman who was shot, and here is her gofundme. The gofundme contains a narrative about what happened: the woman was engaged in peaceful protest, spoke to an agent, and he shot her in the foot. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...

Just finished Lessons in Magic and Disaster and once again @charliejane.bsky.social has knocked it out of the park. Sometimes harrowing, often heartwarming, and always fascinating. An absolute page turner. Just read it.

I just lost someone to cancer so know email response times will operate accordingly

buy @chanda.blacksky.app's book! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Have you ever admired the earrings I’m wearing? A significant fraction of the time, they’re earrings made by Crystal Galindo. Today I’m here to ask you for a favor on her behalf: her husband is raising money to go to Harvard! I will mail signed book plates to anyone who gives $30 or more 🖖🏽

We...dont? Then why has Toronto smelled like smoke for days? Why have Indigenous communities lost everything in wildfires? *Looks at Canadian history and how it manifests in the present* Why all of that? Enjoy your salad in presumably the single utopia in the country!

Example? There was recently a safety stand down-a full work stoppage-across *all* wildfire response in the US b/c ground crews had received counterfeit, unrated fire shelters. Those shelters are a last resort to survive when a crew faces a burnover, which is when the fire overtakes the firefighters

Welcome to polycrisis. Add to what the article describes: Aging infrastructure (water main break+sinkhole=floods in West Hollywood that LA first responders have to address as new wildfires break out) Mismanagement of emergency response agencies (e.g. FEMA, new Wildland Fire Service) & contractors

I have very mixed feelings about the narrative choices that Nolan made with The Odyssey. The worst part was the ending. Hard pass on the line “civilization shall rise again” which sounds a lot like something else 🙄 Leguizamo, Page, & Morton were the acting highlights. I respect Page’s edit a lot.

Depressing but useful site simulating what the billionaires and military are doing to low-earth orbit with all their satellites 🧪🔭 cicasanueva.github.io/mas-satelite...

This keeps happening, the conflation of people disapproving of Dems being too weak and unprincipled with disapproving of Dems for being too leftwing. This is part of how a lot of Gen Z distrust for Dems gets recast into Gen Z being rightwing

I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵

… will probably have more to say about this later. Palestinians, Jews of color … all people of color deserve better than this shit jewishcurrents.org/curt-mills-a...

1. Fire all employees on week 1 of a Democratic administration. Everyone. No exceptions. 2. Start now to pull together state-based ICE People's Assemblies. Collect testimonies about impacts on your communities. Release reports by December 2028. 3. REPARATIONS for all ICE victims - $$ & citizenship

4. Televised hearings where all administrators must publicly testify. Any people who have professional licenses like lawyers etc... are stripped of their licenses. 5. Public memorials in every state that tell the story of what happened. Funding would come from the Federal government.

We're going to see a lot of reporting about the people ICE has hired over the next few years, but it's hard to imagine how it could get much worse than this.

John Leguizamo, Elliott Page, and Samantha Morton were phenomenal.

Have you ever admired the earrings I’m wearing? A significant fraction of the time, they’re earrings made by Crystal Galindo. Today I’m here to ask you for a favor on her behalf: her husband is raising money to go to Harvard! I will mail signed book plates to anyone who gives $30 or more 🖖🏽

review @chanda.blacksky.app's book! www.amazon.com/Edge-Space-T...

"For some of us, curiosity is enough." — @chanda.blacksky.app The Edge of Space-Time p.137, footnotes.

Women who grew up listening to KROQ have had Adam Corolla’s number since day 1

Trump claimed during the 2024 campaign that he wanted to leave abortion to the states. His pick for Attorney General, and his former personal lawyer, just said a nationwide abortion ban is on the table

The Emily Wilson translation of The Iliad was a good literary read. The Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey was so annoying that I switched translations. I am a fan of Mendelsohn’s Odyssey now. for anyone looking for recs 👍🏽

Another victory out of NH. We don't win everything, but pressuring a MAGA governor to do the right thing on any trans rights is a success.

That's about 2/3 the annual National Science Foundation budget.

Nothing in their training and education instilled in them that they should not do this and that is a structural issue that goes beyond these individuals

Are just collections of quarks and electrons??? My latest column for @newscientist subscribers and also for library users is a meditation on whether I should stop saying we are just collections of quarks and electrons. 👀 Enjoy!! 🧪⚛️ www.newscientist.com/article/2579...

Adam Carolla just admitted to rape. He's vile.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...