"In nearly every state, the official humanities nonprofits created by a congress to help make history and literature accessible to all Americans had to give up their 250th anniversary planning when DOGE pulled their federal funding..." www.notus.org/agencies/dog...

"birthright citizenship is destroying this nation and everyone who benefited from it should be denaturalized and deported except this one guy, temporarily, for sports reasons" about sums up this administration

Few know this but almost all the economic news coming out of China for the past half decade -- Domestic Growth Slowdown! EVs! Solar! Exports! China Shock 2.0 etc etc -- is about this dramatic policy driven gear-shift of the domestic economy out of the property sector.

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

The Guardian today published an infographic to demonstrate the dramatic drop in #uk bird species over the last 50 years. Shocking. #ornithology #birdwatching

Urbanization used 20thC Civil Engineering: Hard, grey, impervious infra to pave, pipe & pump water away. While 21stC extremes need soft, absorbent #GreenInfrastructure. More wetlands/mangroves to slow water & sink it down i.e the multiscale redesign of cities www.susdrain.org/files/resour...

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

House Republicans approved a budget to eliminate the federal government's only dedicated arts-education grant. Cutting this will hurt the artistic development of a lot of children. 🧵

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

And here is the CENTCOM report that lists 1,700 targets truck in first 72 hours, which also corroborates. If Grok was used for 2,000 in the first 96 hours, then it had to be the technology that was responsible for the strike on the school. Let's stop talking about algae, this is a scandal.

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

How dare I have imposter syndrome when this Kennedy dipshit exists. HOW DARE I.

Black lives matter. No human being is illegal. Abolish the police. Happy Pride.🧱

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

Wemby took this shot with the game on the line

Trump is blocking oil to Cuba and Chinese solar exports to Cuba rocketed from $3 million to $117 million in two years. Cuba just pulled off one of the fastest solar transitions ever. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

a big reason the research drain under Trump 2 is so bad is there just isn’t enough infrastructure in the world to pick up the slack here even if other countries want to nothing out there matches the sheer scale of the university system in the US and you can’t spin it up that fast what a disaster

A thing I thought about recently is we have expensive necessities and cheap treats Things need to be exactly backwards

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

What's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.

This is an incredible tweet.

Imagine how humiliated he’ll be when he’s toothmogged by someone’s 85 year old granddad

"Dozens of rubber penis' have been jammed into the metal gate .... Unclear what this will accomplish."

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording known. https://to.pbs.org/47yOAfc

226/ "This is *exactly* how the generals used to talk about Vietnam. "We hit this many targets, we killed this many hostiles, we 'liberated' this many villages..." It took several years before journalists started asking if this was in service of actual military objectives"[email protected]

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

everyone needs to chill, iranians are asking for a 1% fee of a ships cargo in their Hormuz tollboth. your local municipal sales tax is what ? 5%?

oh my god oh my god oh my god www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

>Canadian company builds solar panels in Malawi >is paid in Malawi's (volatile) currency >invests those payments in local farmers growing chili peppers >sells chili peppers to Nando's, in USD >builds sustainable business model on Cheeky Nando's This is my favourite news story of the year so far.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

WAITER: How’s the avocado toast? ME: Good, but I guess I’ll never buy a house now. WAITER: ??? ME: *tries to explain about the articles* WAITER: I gave up on that a long time ago. I know people with 780 credit scores and 50k down getting denied. ME: …y’know, maybe I WILL have that mimosa after all.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)

But here's the twist: switching the algorithm OFF did not reverse the effects. Users who went from algorithmic to chronological feeds showed no significant change in political attitudes. The effects of algorithm exposure are sticky.

now these are the trades i want

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

There we go. Frankly as a New Yorker it was embarrassing that California was doing this better. This is who we are.

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

Last two are on links between the MAGA movement and El Salvador's president, which go way beyond CECOT. First, Howard Lutnick's ties to stablecoin company Tether, which relocated to El Salvador this year www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For folks still struggling with the math: There are ~345 million US citizens. There are ~245 million white US citizens. This is what they mean by "Peaceful ethnic cleansing." Their plan ends with deporting all non-white people. Not "undocumented criminals." Not even "all undocumented people."

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

This tweet is several years old, but since all cats are witches, it explains his love for the song.

The integration of AI into education necessitates a fundamental rethinking of assessment. Traditional models, reliant on standardized testing, are increasingly obsolete in an environment where AI can generate sophisticated, human-like responses.