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I contacted a doctor about possible cyclospora, and I was told to wait it out. Seems dreadful that we pay doctors so much in this country to be so unhelpful.

Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

#Cyclospora “The outbreak (cyclospora) comes as state and local health departments — which rely on C.D.C. funding to respond to food-borne illness outbreaks — face budget cuts and staff layoffs.” NYT

huh

Another Trump "accomplishment." Under Trump, the national debt now exceeds 100% of US GDP for the first time since WWII. Not only that, but the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office predicts it will soon hit 120% of GDP. That is not sustainable. The US is Trump's next bankruptcy.

How Politico’s Negligence and Ignorance Helped Float Another DHS Lie

This is the actual unclassified version of the intelligence community’s review of the 2020 election. It is accurate. Trump will try to convince you it is not. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...

Tonight Trump will re-litigate the 2020 election. Why? In support of his SAVE act, which is actually a Voter Suppression Act. This is a Hail Mary effort to keep his corrupt power grab from being swamped by a blue wave in November.

“The CDC has linked the Taylor Farms produce supplied to Taco Bell to the outbreak of the parasitic illness, according to two persons familiar with the investigation.” …I mean to be fair, Taco Bell doesn’t need a parasite to result in explosive diarrhea

Adam Serwer at LibCon 2026: the elites who benefited most from liberal democratic capitalism "have all conspired to help destroy it in pursuit of short-term profits." His takeaway—protect the capitalists from themselves. #LibCon2026

Francis Fukuyama at LibCon 2026 on the closed loop of oligarchic power: business empire buys media empire, media buys political power, and power protects the business. "Once you had political power, you could use that to protect your business empire." #LibCon2026

It’s a myth that authoritarians don’t want elections. They do. They just don’t want free and fair elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom compares Trump’s plan to the tactics used by Putin. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies

Trump is using conspiracy theories to sow doubt about the legitimacy of U.S. elections in order to create a pretext for invalidating midterm results he doesn’t like. That's essential context for coverage of tonight's speech.

Trump’s primetime speech tonight will reportedly contain yet another effort to discredit the 2020 election, so here’s a quick refresher on the greatest hits of his election-denial claims that immediately fell apart!

“US Ambassador to the Philippines Lee Lipton has hailed the Pax Silica project…as a source of 'endless jobs' for Filipinos,” but the “claim has drawn criticism on social media, with several commenters calling the initiative a form of 'modern colonialism'.” 7/17/26 … 1/

this guy is probably the typical ICE hire tbh

When federal agents interfere with people's First Amendment right to record ICE's brutality, they should be able to sue. Take action at aclu.org/right_to-record- urging Congress to pass this vital legislation and defend our right to hold our government accountable.

Survivor Lara Blume McGee issued the following statement after the meeting with Blanche:

Two Utah residents accused Kevin O’Leary and Fox News Network LLC of airing false claims that the groups the residents lead are acting at the direction of the Chinese government in an effort to impede the United States’ development of artificial intelligence.

This is from a draft press release that even DHS didn't have the stones to release and it did not include any evidence of actual voting by non-citizens. But you don't find this out until the third graf. I thoroughly hate it when people say "do better," but Christ Almighty Politico, do better.

"poor training" is the lie commonly agreed on, to avoid the obvious truth:

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

DOJ included an apparent AI hallucination in an immigration filing, referring to a case that never actually existed. I wish the idea of ICE death squads was only in the Trump regime's imagination, too.

Wow! Here's another example of those Republican family values. Yes, that's sarcasm.

As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $600 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's Big Money.

The hearing arrived at a tumultuous time for the Justice Department, with mass firings and resignations hollowing out the workforce and Democrats and other critics raising alarms that Todd Blanche is still functioning as the president's personal lawyer.

"The rioters were fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth. Because he was angry he'd lost an election. Former President Trump's actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty." Mitch McConnell Feb. 13, 2021

Has your doctor revisited this advice this week? 🤣

resident alpha here and i love looking at other guys and thinking about/guessing how much testosterone their bodies produce

Ossoff's framing is perfect: focus on how Trump's supplicants are humiliating themselves

My smol contributions include various newsletter essays (free; link to archive in bio; please consider subscribing!) and a chapter on Machines in Humans: A Monstrous History (@ucpress.bsky.social 2025) excerpted below: 5/5 lithub.com/were-already...

Placing AI-haters in the distinguished lineage of the Luddites, there's @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine: 4/ www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian...

More examples (and behind-the-scenes stories that show how awful tech CEOs are) are in @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI: 3/ www.penguin.co.uk/books/460331...

Opinion: A growing effort to eliminate federal employees' job protections overlooks the fact that they exist to ensure civil servants can perform their crucial work free of political interference.

We've already seen the damage that results when OMB has centralized review/veto authority over science-based regulations. Extending this same regime to science-based grantmaking would be incalculably worse.

Since Arkansas launched its LEARNS school vouchers, 120 new private schools have popped up to accept them. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

On the many, many types of people who face exploitative working conditions and other forms of harm from AI (genAI, predictive policing and other forms), read Madhumita Murgia, Code Dependent: 2/ www.panmacmillan.com/authors/madh...

if I wasn't broke as fuck, I'd have shorted that thing into orbit. very much unlike what starship does

Fund schools, universities, public infrastructure. Pay/fund experts: writers, artists, editors, educators. Don't let Silicon Valley diminish the category of the human: what most people can learn; what experts can do; what people enjoy. Don't enable the worst futures. My latest on this: 2/

While increasing taxes on the rest of us

I think this is what most of us want… So how do we make it happen… Vote Only Blue!! 🔵

GOSH. SEEMS LIKE THE EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA WAS PREVENTABLE THROUGH GOOD SCIENCE. How do we know? BECAUSE WE WERE DOING IT SUCCESSFULLY.

Schiff: The judge, in that decision on Monday, referred Blanche, basically, to the New York Bar Association because of his conduct. How is it possible that after being referred to the bar association for potential discipline on Monday, we’re contemplating this guy for attorney general on Wednesday?