I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

Retractions in science don't work well. In our *new paper* we find widely known findings are easier to retract, possibly bc the retraction is relevant to more people, allowing information about it to spread socially @jevinwest.bsky.social @shahanmemon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Walking in our farm's rainforest with the melting heat of these days, I am filled with such inexpressible anger at what is being done to our once stable climate. The richest 1% are actively, knowingly, and uncaringly sabotaging the future for all of us, and for the rest of the planet's life.

New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers.

Serial killers.

Can’t get diarrhea lettuce from a cinnamon bun. Follow me for more health tips!

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

Did you know that NEJM’s AI subsidiary posts sponsored industry content that look like normal papers? I didn’t! @unityofvirtue.bsky.social explains at our lunchtime panel at the IBC conference in Seoul

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

All 3 men inside of the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “‘reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van…They came in and started shooting from the sides.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

surely Lucy will not yank the football away THIS time

Green's magazine in March 2022 had marked 1 TW!

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

Ugh, remembering a conversation with a philosopher who was sure the 20% statistic for sexual assault was wrong, because he hadn't met very many women who had been assaulted

Six months ago today they killed Renee Good and said she was trying to run over an ICE officer. As this story notes, too equivocally and far too far down, this turned out to be contradicted by video evidence.

As I survey the daily news items about AI, data centers, and The Discourse ™️, I become more convinced everyone needs to read @cailinmeister.bsky.social and @jamesowenweatherall.com’s book, which explains some historical parallels in climate research

This morning I read an article about consciousness in LLMs, by a person who dropped out of college two years ago and now runs a nonprofit that looks for consciousness in LLMs, citing findings from an AI company that looks for consciousness in LLMs, in a publication funded by groups studying

“Climate change is here, we are living the consequences and it is only the start of July.”

"Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists" by Eric Roston for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.

“We expect doctors to disclose, we expect politicians to disclose, and of course scientists and researchers too. Why not philosophers?” Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Thank you @science.org for this great article about our open letter calling for better disclosure policies in philosophy (letter linked below, please sign and share) www.science.org/content/arti...

I have signed this letter, and I would encourage others to as well. As philosophy becomes more interdisciplinary (yay!) we are starting to confront problems that are new and unfamiliar. This is a step in tackling one of those problems.

Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)

Infinite growth on a finite planet is a physical impossibility.

Glad people are reading & sharing this paper. I always hope there will be more engagement with the modeling/theory work in it than specific narrative statements but we're used to the latter. We've received some solid feedback from statisticians tho. Either way I appreciate people engaging with it.

I'm fascinated by cases where social technology--like social media, chatbots & dating apps--backfires. Why are tools that promise freedom of participation, unlimited empathy & an plenty of relationship options making people so miserable? This paper explains why: ideas.repec.org/p/sad/wpaper...

Right now I'm in the epicentre of the heatwave, in southwest France, where the brutality of the heat has ground life to a halt. And I have to keep reminding myself: this is only the beginning.

Three children were found dead in vehicles in France this week, prosecutors said, as Europe’s record-breaking heat wave takes a growing toll among its most vulnerable.

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

People who run or profit from oil and natural gas companies have been pushing pro-fossil propaganda into K-12 school curricula for at least 80 years. The latest page in the playbook, exposed by @marinscotten.bsky.social at Heated: heated.world/p/an-educati... h/t @emorwee.bsky.social

Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!

The Trump administration has spent $2.5 BILLION dollars to pay companies to STOP their wind farms and invest it in fossil fuels instead.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

Today, 8 anti-ICE activists facing decades in prison go up for sentencing. Most are only loosely connected to the offense at the heart of their terrorism convictions. Many observers point to the Prairieland case as a template for Trump's crackdown on dissent. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Great guest post- philosophers are increasingly entering arrangements with industry, and we should be extremely careful. Historically such ties are often to industry benefit and public detriment- they outline one kind here dailynous.com/2026/06/16/w...

Murali, G., Karger, D.N. & Wiens, J.J. Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

The Trump regime has paid $2.5 billion of our money to ensure that fossil fuel companies continue to profit off the destruction of our planet.

Trump administration pays $765M to kill more offshore wind projects, including one off California

very normal and cool stuff happening over there

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.