Life under a two-tier justice system. There is a real process for people to seek pardons. But its been set aside for cronies, crooks and donors

I’m not gonna say the human genome project didn’t provide any benefits or anything like that, but the shift in funding for it and other genomics research has very likely stalled medical research on a lot of things that we just assumed were primarily genetic

That they removed it means they wrote it. Sexually grooming children was discussed and decided upon as absolutely fine. The same people who erased that language are the ones who also think it's fine, and they still run the place. It's a network ripe for pedos, and it looks suspiciously on purpose.

Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories

Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗

The Colorado River is notoriously already in a water shortage crisis. This willful stupidity isn't helping. I'd rather the water were used to hydrate pets and people than creating AI images of Donald Trump with ripped biceps and a bulge in his crotch.

Saying a version of "I don't know" and then outlining the steps you would take *to* know is a nearly-universal requirement for passing your qualifying exams as a PhD student. It was also a requirement for getting hired as a Supplemental Instructor when/where I was an undergrad.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird facing off with a gray squirrel! I had to move the sugar water when our bald cypress tree lost some limbs in the last storm. The According to the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, too many squirrels are now showing an interest! 🪶 🌿

"If you don't comply and let us drag you to a filthy concentration camp in Central America, we get to murder you. Those are the rules. Freedom, law, and order, baby!"

counterpoint (as per George Carlin): think about how stupid the average person is, and then remember that half of them are stupider than that

Morning Kittens Look for the Helpers…

Hi all, @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social's kid desperately needs our help to keep her out of the prison pipeline. She deserves the break she would get automatically if it were not for the inherent misogynoir in our system.

Jon Ossoff: “We won’t just restore checks & balances for the next two years – we’ll rebuke him so decisively no president will dare try this kind of brazen corruption & abuse again” If “rebuke decisively” means holding people criminally accountable, count me in

Google is censoring reviews of ICE detention facilities that describe poor conditions, lack of translators, inability to reach prisoners, and other problems, because they are "off-topic" and "unhelpful." theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

In August many of the #MeanjinIn28 #Brisbanein28 will be at @laworldcon.bsky.social We will have a table in the dealer hall & will be throwing a party. There will be many chances to ask us questions about the bid. You can find all the key details in the bid document. #Vote #SiteSelection

Trump has killed proposed regulations for sewage sludge contaminated with Pfas and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers, destroyed their livelihoods, killed livestock, polluted water supplies, and poisoned meat and food products. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The 5th Circuit, sitting en banc, will decide whether §922(g)—the entire federal statute that prohibits violent offenders from possessing firearms—violates the Constitution's commerce clause. A vehicle to increase gun deaths while gutting congressional power. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Oh, so the suspect was a white guy then.

"but taxes would go up!" ok but premiums would go down even more

"So, just to be clear—the most powerful disruption from these fires is to small bands of people who have done nothing to cause them, and whose culture has been endlessly damaged by the larger western project of settlement and control." billmckibben.substack.com/p/smoke-gets...

"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski

Someone needs to lock Matt Damon in his fucking house. You know how much money we've spent bringing his ass back home???

This is a book about how much damage police forces do to society, using superheroes as a metaphor. It's *effective* at this. There's a sequel out now, btw, and it's actually better, but it goes on to show that just because someone is anti-cop, this doesn't mean they're *good people*.

Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico. ...

DID YOU KNOW: @reuters.com President Paul Bascobert won’t pay our Reuters Guild members a living wage but took home $10M in three years. Our members distributed flyers in his NYC neighborhood to let his neighbors know: Living wages and a fair contract NOW .....

Seconded -- I looked at this and it's quite good comms-wise! Brief, clear, unemotional, and plain-language. HOWEVER as others have pointed out: the header *means* 'If you want to stay in Canada, vote yes to the first question and no to the other nine questions." This is REALLY not clear --

🚨BREAKING: The GOP-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections approved new permanent rules Monday that will make it more difficult for voters to cast their ballots by mail and ensure that they are counted. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Banfield charges grieving pet parents a fee to cancel their deceased pet’s medication subscriptions—feel free to tell them what you think.

“Obama was opposed to gay marriage, give it time, don’t seek perfection on trans issues from Dems.” Yeah, but gay marriage was a new right LGBT people were seeking. Sports, bathrooms, and IDs are something trans people have had for decades. Going BACKWARDS Is the opposite of the Obama comparison.

I would expect that to go as well as telling derby women what to do.

y'll are getting good at writing public comments by now, right ? RIGHT?

HI HELLO. Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean got longer medical leaves (with literally zero transparency and fully funded healthcare) than I, and most women get after having a baby…including having a baby via major surgery 💁🏻‍♀️

Bollocks. The most hostile, racist and xenophobic Home Secretary for years, and that was a low benchmark, stays in post. So, Burnham still planning on his government promoting Reform then it seems, at least on immigration. That worked well for his predecessor.

This is why gender affirming care and abortion are part of the same fight for bodily autonomy. You ignore what's happening to trans people at your peril.

Officials specifically feared that Trump would rush Qatar’s Air Force One into service before it was equipped with missile defense systems. He did it anyway. A year later, as the jet is taken out of service, it’s obvious that the fears were right and he was wrong. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, was killed Friday in the attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.

Willamette Valley, anyone need a blessing from the Cat Distribution System?

This is abuser logic extended to summary execution.

"With no savings, she had to decide between paying her rent to keep her baby and her 5-year-old housed, or paying the application fee — $555 — plus nearly $800 in attorneys fees she usually pays to ensure the application is done correctly. She chose rent."

Earlier this year, USA Rugby banned trans women and intersex athletes from playing. Multiple women's rugby teams are fighting back and openly defying the ban by refusing to kick out their trans teammates. www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

BREAKING: A judge just BLOCKED the $110B Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros Discovery merger with a TRO — after 12 state AGs filed an emergency request The Ellisons wanted to rush this closed before a court could see the evidence, now the case gets decided on the merits #blockthemerger -TN

In addition to being morally abhorrent, this is both factually wrong as to the people who ICE has killed and legally wrong as to when lethal force can be used.

Duality 🌷🗡

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

Sister Rose Kuhn, who accompanies children forced to go to immigration court alone, “has seen 14-year-olds told they are mature enough to handle their case by themselves and file their own paperwork.” www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/mi...

Hero story: The people in Collins First Nation had minutes to escape the wildfire. 13-year-old Chance Paavola was piloting an emergency escape vessel when he saw an overcrowded boat on the verge of sinking. He turned back, helped save the passengers just before the flames closed in.

“CLEOPATRA WAS GREEK” only becomes a rallying cry when an actress of color is in the running. Cleopatra can be French and English, that’s perfectly okay.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley wants the DOJ to launch a criminal investigation into a pro-choice website, calling it a "dark money operation"

The story of a trans girl who tried to fight Idaho's anti-trans laws, and died to suicide earlier this year, is only now coming to light. Our hearts are broken, but we need to tell these stories and mourn our dead, because the media is barely bothering to look for the victims of trans genocide.

White ppl playing characters who aren't white has been so much the norm. POC playing white characters are the exception so it becomes that thing where when it happens the bigots get all twisted in knots claiming it "doesn't happen the other way around."