JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid. Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Zelenskyy sounds alarm over unprecedented power outage at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

“Modern apartments have a fire death rate … six times lower than older apartments… (or) single-family homes…” Aka why new single stair flats would be among the safest buildings in your city. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-bu...

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

In my opinion, the 2nd most important election this November (after CA Redistricting) is the trio of Pennsylvania State Supreme Court retention elections. Many in PA are unaware, and we need to fix that. All 3 Justices MUST be retained. GIFT ARTICLE to read/share. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Fox News’ Andrew McCarthy on the Comey charges: “I don’t think this case even gets to trial.”

“across agencies—officials who questioned DOGE were pushed out, and DOGE-affiliated personnel were installed in key positions such as Chief Information Officer…The DOGE associates were then able to grant approval to other DOGE employees to work with sensitive data without restrictions.”

“I can say that my son died because of aid cuts. If doctors had support, my child would be alive.” A reminder that cuts to USAID have nothing to do with saving money. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Here’s the brief. Is Alan Greenspan, at 99 1/2, the oldest person ever to be on a Supreme Court amicus brief? www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Another day, another PBS affiliate lost. But this time it’s a whole state. NJ PBS will go dark in July, 2026 unless new funding can be found. The state-wide network of channels has served New Jersey for more than 50 years. whyy.org/articles/new... #PBS #NPR

“The White House budget office is instructing federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown”

Fed. judge holds that it violated the APA and the Spending Clause for Trump administration to condition federal grants to states on whether they were cooperating in immigration enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Farnoush is an AP UN correspondent. Dan is a former White House speechwriter. newrepublic.com/post/200833/...

If the motherboard doesn’t power on at all after you’ve built your computer, clear the CMOS to reset the BIOS. That is the lesson of the day.

Getting fired for following the evidence. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

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

A Comet Explosion May Have Killed Megafauna in North America 13,000 Years Ago www.discovermagazine.com/cracked-quar...

The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.

Forget Pi Day. Today is Pythagorean Triple Square Day. www.popsci.com/science/what...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Kansas City (and Jackson County) had its single democratic rep stolen by the republican party state dictatorship yesterday and it hardly made the news. To turn our district red, republicans redistricted KC residents to share a representative with people who live 3 hours away.

Of interest to those going to #IBC2025

“On August 27, less than a fortnight after President Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska, dozens of Russians were rounded up and deported. Among them was Artyom Vovchenko, 27, a deserter from the war in Ukraine. He is facing a prison sentence of up to decade or could be sent back to the front line.”

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

obsessed with this 21 savage/Amadeus edit

I’m just absolutely shocked by this finding, no way anyone could’ve seen this one coming www.apolloacademy.com/job-growth-n...

This is a snippet from a 2019 interview during which Trump says he had never called the FBI. Yesterday, Johnson blatantly lied again saying that Trump had been an FBI informant in the Epstein case. Make it make sense.

Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡

The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution.

Woman w no criminal history detained by ICE after a routine check-in discovered she was pregnant and had a miscarriage while in custody. Judge ordered her released yesterday, citing apparent due process violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The child said they hadn’t had the chance to brush their teeth or wash their face before they were put on a bus to the airport. Another child vomited out of fear”

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

AXIOS: “.. Massachusetts is the first state to mandate insurance coverage of vaccines even if the federal government stops requiring it.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/04/m...

All major industrial economies had roughly the same inflation path, despite different monetary and fiscal policies. This tells us the inflation was primarily about Covid, not policy. Anyone thinking the covid inflation was caused by QE and ZIRP wasn't paying attention 2008-2016

Before vs after NYC’s 1961 downzoning

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

Harvard secures a win in the fight with Trump over federal research funding. A federal judge said the Trump admin "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

I just received notice there’s going to be a military flyover of DC tomorrow at 11am, just in time to distract from the 10:30 press announcement about the Epstein victims. Surely the timing is coincidental.

#Manufacturing purchasing managers are severely depressed: ❗️"Tariffs wreak havoc" ❗️"Too much uncertainty" ❗️"Unstable" policy ❗️"Worse than Great Recession" ❗️"Layoffs" 15% ❗️"It's survival" ❗️"Made in USA more difficult due to #tariffs"

An informative discussion about how overtones of musical instruments drive dissonant and consonant note combinations youtu.be/tCsl6ZcY9ag?...

“A federal appeals court in Pasadena Friday blocked the Trump administration from canceling the temporary protected status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States” pasadenanow.com/main/pasaden...

5th Circuit posted this: "Due to a PACER issue, filers are unable to upload PDF’s. The deadline for any pleading due Thursday, August 28 is automatically extended to Friday, August 29. This does not apply to jurisdictional deadlines, which cannot be extended." www.ca5.uscourts.gov

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.