1/ 2 Love pours in for a dying octopus as she tends to eggs that will never hatch

“How to Fix America” 🎧➡️ @mattduss.bsky.social joined @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the @financialtimes.com Rachman Review to discuss the challenges defining America’s future. www.ft.com/content/4581...

1/4 I see Christian Davenport has just come out with a new book "Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race" focusing on Bezos and Musk

1/10 Here's how the winding path of inquiry goes. Wanted to check just how the Disney "Pocahontas" movie diverged from the reality, so I decided to read up just a bit on Jamestown. In the process, what caught my attention was the mindset that created the whole Jamestown venture from the beginning

“they” “they” “they” not even an attempt to make a factual assertion. just argument by fabrication

kirk was killed by a dropout engineering student afflicted by brainrot but to the free press that is no reason not to slander the nation’s institutions of higher education

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

First time I've ever seen public condolences offered by @jay.bsky.team in all my time on here

🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is a photo from a few minutes ago in Tulkarem in the West Bank. Today, Israel abducted over 1,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, the largest number since 2001.

THIS:

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and their homes in the West Bank, unchecked and with impunity. These acts of violence are thuggish and inhumane. The silence of the international community is a disgrace. Shame on this world.

📽️ Watch the documentary film by the AJ Fault Lines team: The Disappearance of Dr Abu Safiya www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BFh...

New from Drop Site: The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since. By Amel Guettatfi 🔗 Read: dropsitenews.com/p/the-disapp... Watch the AJ Fault Lines documentary at the link below.

"Trump’s remarkable threat somehow did not get much attention. It should have." Thus writes @sbg1.bsky.social. I feel validated! www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.

From me: It's maybe bad for the future of entertainment that nascent media mogul David Ellison, who plans to join Paramount & Warner Bros in a 5 to 4 merger of Hollywood studios, literally derives his fortune from AI. On top of his willingness to appease Trump by MAGAfying CBS (and maybe now CNN).

At an Iran conference in DC, reference was made to trying to assess the thinking of the supreme leader. It didn’t mean Ayatollah Khamenei.

It's a whole thing

Based on the description at the UT press conference just now ("an up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols."), the arrows interpreted as "transgender ideology" by ATF were likely a reference to a code in the video game Helldivers 2

So either the authorities mistook arrows possibly referencing a video game as “transgender ideology,” or someone deliberately tried to mislead the public and shape the narrative to incite *more* violence — and the media and right-wing figureheads eagerly went along with it

Senior Egyptian officials say that Cairo has uncovered Israeli plans to target Hamas leaders in Cairo and has warned Israel that any attack will be treated as a declaration of war.

In related news. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

could have been us...but...

They are going to be eating our lunch for decades but it’s a net positive for the planet

China arguably being the front runner in the fight against climate change was not on my bingo card ten years ago but I'm glad at least one superpower is taking it seriously. They're also doing it for soft power and everything of course, but I'll take that over performative half-measures any day!

Our Energy Sec just criticized the UK for relying too much on Chinese sustainable energy technology. Instead of developing our own green energy sector to compete (as Biden was trying to help do), we are telling the UK to frack and "drill, baby, drill." The US is trying to pull the world backwards.

there is something so disorienting about living in a world with miraculous progress in all kinds of stuff, including an Industrial Revolution-scale transformation of industry and energy, while US politics is *consumed* with the dumbest, most pointlessly awful shit imaginable bsky.app/profile/ryan...

at this point a moderately good-case future scenario would be a China-EU tacit alliance to sanction the US over refusing to cut emissions. we asked for it!

I thought Biden's China hawk stance would work as a way to cement a domestic climate constituency, but now, fuck it man. it's the biggest problem on Earth and they're the only ones making serious progress

"Foreign direct investment by China’s green-technology industry since 2022 has hit between $227 billion and $250 billion. That’s roughly the size, adjusted for inflation, of the post-World War II Marshall Plan that cemented the alliance between the US and Europe." h/t @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

@thomaszimmer.bsky.social's analysis of the danger of the Administration seizing on this as a Reichstag fire moment (plus the discussion of the assassination of a German diplomat in 1938 leading to Kristallnacht) is a very compelling frame. Highly recommended read. substack.com/home/post/p-...

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

NEW: Bryan Hooper Sr., another wrongfully convicted Black man in Minnesota, walked out of Stillwater prison last week after serving 9,999 days of a life sentence for a murder charge that was dismissed by a judge on Sept. 4, 2025 after the state's key trial witness confessed to the murder in July.

Big story. Very big story.

There aren't a lot of facts yet, but there's sure a lot of blame going around. And it's really, really dangerous.

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

Very insightful discussion into the current situation in the Middle East.

I apologize, Kitty, for falling for the propaganda and misgendering you later in this thread u are a hero and an icon and a sibling to us

This is important and also informs us of something important that previous German and Irish reporting did not which is that Kitty O'Brien's pronouns are they/them

Chicago's lakefront today

An important part of this story (which I am not expecting the NASA live stream to mention) is that the sample return mission that could potentially answer the question of life on Mars is being threatened by budget cuts from the Trump administration www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

I'll be there - appreciate required testing & supplemental air filtration & lots of fresh air open doors & windows+outdoor space, & a REAL commitment to virtual viewing that's not an afterthought. THANK YOU to @jfrejnyc.bsky.social as one of the ONLY left orgs with #COVID prevention policies.

This is Yeti and Ripley. They each have two different colored eyes. But together they have two sets of the same different colored eyes. 13/10 for both (IG: heterochromia_hooligans)

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

Chronic "non-communicable disease mortality declined in all high-income western countries, with Denmark experiencing the largest decline for both sexes and the USA experiencing the smallest decline." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... open-access @thelancet.com

von der Leyen is going to also propose a partial suspension of the trade agreement with Israel as well as the sanctioning of ministers of government, most likely Smotrich and Ben Gvir. These measures unfortunately do require EU member state approval, which Germany can effectively block.

NEW: The European Commission will immediately suspend €32 million ($37.5M) in bilateral funds to Israel, a Commission official told AP — part of Ursula von der Leyen’s plan to pressure Israel, the violent settlers and far-right officials. This does not require EU member state approval.