EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

NEW: AOC and her team are positioning her to run for president or the Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation.

Trump suggests that networks should lose their broadcast licenses if their on-air talent is critical of him.

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.

“It seems like incivility is winning.”

Only found out about this today (we use it for DOCLINE delivery): "The NNLM will end support for delivery.nnlm.gov on Friday, December 19th 2025. The document delivery site will no longer be available after that date, and it will not be replaced with a similar service." #MedLibs

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thousands of X users have posted about Ali Nasrati, a 30 yr old IT tech for Walmart, claiming he made insensitive comments abt Charlie Kirk. But Nasrati has never posted about Kirk. Now, he's been suspended from work and forced into hiding. I wrote about people being falsely targeted by the right

“HBCUs and TCCUs will receive an additional $495 million on top of the anticipated FY 2025 investment, an increase of 48.4% percent and 109.3% percent, respectively.” www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Remembering All Those That Perished on 9/11/2001 🫶🙏

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."

The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

Deadly light rail stabbing in Charlotte grows political under national spotlight www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Apparently somewhere out in the world, Librarian Gangs are a problem... 😆 📖 📚 #Books #Librarians #Library #Bookworms #Bibliophile #LibrarianLife #LiteraryGang #ReadersOfBluesky #LibrarianGoals

Senator Sanders: Do you believe that Trump and the medical community are right about COVID vaccines being good or do you still believe they were the “deadliest vaccine ever made”? RFK Jr.: Waffle obfuscate waffle

Come to Florida for the sun and sea, stay (in the hospital) because you caught measles and whooping cough.

"librarians have long fought to protect the privacy of their patrons"

When your "AI" clanker cannot distinguish between a serious order and an obvious prank or troll in 2025, it may not be wise to put it in charge of anything public-facing Also: lmao

Today’s Sounds Like A Cult episode Christian Pop Music with guests @joellekidd.bsky.social and Julianna Glasse youtu.be/4n7DmO9FZco?...

saying summer is over on august 25 is an indicator of a quitter’s mindset and indoctrination by big halloween

16-year-old Rio Ngumoha wins it in the 100th minute for Liverpool FC in a crazy game against Newcastle 🤯

Supreme Court clears way for nearly $800 million in cuts to NIH grants www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Finally looks like the AI bubble is reaching its limit. Most AI companies are not profitable, and according to a new MIT report, 95% of companies investing in generative AI are getting zero returns on all that money. www.ft.com/content/3391...

Aug 20 is National Radio Day!

After the Eaton Fire, the Aveson School of Leaders Built a Wonderland (Gift Article) (08/18/2025) f the nyt

“the library was a bigger treat for me than the movies or the mall”

Pirates Under Fire For Directly Marketing Team To Children theonion.com/pirates...

"One of whom was doing a wheelie" is now great lore. An instant classic.

What Trump’s solar crackdown could mean for Pennsylvania energy bills

NYT: Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem By Emily Steel. "Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the U.S. almost every 8 minutes on average between 2017 and 2022, sealed court records show." 400,181 trips. Uber says 75% were things like flirting comments. Gift link!

"As A.I. creates chaos and uncertainty in the market for entry-level jobs, more students may react by following their passion for the humanities; why begrudgingly major in tech or business if it doesn’t even lead to employment?"

AI is making your monthly power bill go up even if you don’t use it www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6ACJuqM/

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds: A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Waking up on International Owl Awareness day & realizing the paparazzi are already at your burrow.

Is this satire

HAPPY AUGUST BESTIES! 🩶🌲🧚✨

Classic Pirates. Up 9-0 after the first inning… and lose 17-16.

"Indeed, the airport hub, with its network of surrounding detention centers, is in many ways a template for what the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, has said the agency must become: a logistics juggernaut, like Amazon or FedEx, “but with human beings.”" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"there’s a chorus of researchers, public health workers, policy experts, epidemiologists and advisory panels arrayed behind them, aided by laboratories, databases, websites, early-detection systems and clinical guidelines. Our current government seems determined to wrench this away..."

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.

"The E.P.A. intends to argue that imposing climate regulations on automakers poses the real harm to human health because it would lead to higher prices and reduced consumer choice" We are so fucked. Congratulations, everyone. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.

Librarian. 📸 slyjamesthecat

#medlibs Fraudulent Research Falsely Attributed to Credible Researchers—An Emerging Challenge for Journals? - Godskesen - 2025 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Excited to become a post-apocalyptic influencer, posing in full hazmat gear amid blasted wreckage on empty streets…