As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

'She should have come forward sooner' is always the first response like no she was waiting to see if maybe society would do better and she wouldn't have to join the ranks of women who ruined their lives in the hope that their assailants wouldn't gain even more power.

Constitutional rights only look like “loopholes” to fascists.

UPDATE: The USPS appealed an order blocking its proposed rule that forces states to share voter lists with the federal government before receiving mail ballots. If the rule is allowed to stand, it would be an alarming step in Trump's sweeping attack on mail voting.

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Public attention to federal funding research cuts has been on direct impacts, such as current cancer research. But as I wrote last year, the private sector won't train scientists, and universities need federal research $ to do that training. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

I decided to translate this and turn it into a needlepoint chart

“.. The Florida for-sale market is flashing warning signs: 45% of listings have taken a price cut (6.6 pts above the national rate) “.. 1 in 10 homes are selling for less than the original owner paid.” - Parcl Labs

Norway defeated England in a World Cup qualifier in Oslo on September 9, 1981. Which led to this—the greatest call in sports broadcasting history. Kick rocks, Maggie Thatcher.

10 Medications Linked to Heat-Related Health Risks share.google/zTN9l6hLiw0P...

Nor will anyone who has actually read the Declaration of Independence.

Rogue One (2016)

The Justice Department on Saturday argued that an offer from India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, to invest $10 billion in the U.S. played no role in the department’s decision to drop criminal charges against him. nyti.ms/4eWdpof

I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,

Our planet is getting hotter cause you wanna put your family photo into ai and see what yall look like as fruit.

Enjoy your day! Or don't. Its called liberty and freedom.

new metaphor just dropped

Anyway, Happy Union Victory Day to all who celebrate, as the military successes on July 3 and 4th would ultimately enable the liberation of 4 million enslaved people and the attempt to forge a new birth of freedom on the basis of equality

But why are we even trying to defend Lee when his mythology rests on the lie of honorable competence when he was really a selfish monster who abandoned his sworn oaths as soon as it challenged his spiritual, economic, and social investments in human trafficking.

Your federal government is using your tax money to rescind useful advice it has long advocated for, simply because a political opponent echoed that advice. The result could be a crashed electrical grid with more dead Americans.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

if you're hot, they're hot. LET THEM INSIDE

*sigh*

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

Hey Chicago! Chicago! CHICAGO! OVER HERE! Whatcha doing next Wednesday at noon? Wanna eat lunch while I talk on your computer about the ICE collaborator trying to buy your parking meters? AND what you can do about it? Because you can do something about it! Register: bit.ly/iceparkingmeters

Co-leading an organization that focuses on accessibility during Disability Pride Month with the federal government actively hostile to disabled folks and accessibility is a helluva ride. All I want for Disability Pride Month is funding for my org to survive… 1/

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

HYDRATION ADVICE from an archaeologist who works in intense heat: 1) Water isn't enough. You need electrolytes. Use liquid IV/ gatorade, premake a jug. 2) Set up phone reminders every 2-3 hours to drink 8oz, more if outside 3) Wake up and DRINK and have a glass before bed. You'll sleep better

There’s nothing I like better than a boring “grind the math” article and this one is great and oh sweet Lord this is going to be hell on earth.

every company: we've added AI to solve this problem me: ok but that problem is deterministic with easy to measure input parameters. you can just make regular software

The BBC offers phrases you might hear in the garden or in the bedroom. @wiswell.bsky.social , the last one might be for you youtube.com/shorts/PfDJM...

U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth. @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

"Thurston, a professor of medicine and population health at New York University... added that the worst-case scenario would exceed anything he has seen previously recorded from pyrotechnic displays."

Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI

Don't do any of this.

Your annual reminder: Residency begins on July 1st. That means when you blow your fingers off with your July 4th fireworks, the first doctor taking care of you has been a doctor for exactly four days. Plan accordingly.

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

ICYMI — from @protectourcare.org : “Over Eight Million Americans Have Now Lost Coverage In the Year Following Trump-GOP Largest Health Care Cuts In History” www.protectourcare.org/update-over-...

County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ [cough cough]

None of the AI products for text, image, or video generation have actual value. All can and should be replaced by competent people. Signed, a PhD physicist whose degree was on machine learning for medical imaging

The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.

These guys are giving credit to the Supreme Court, which only affirmed this by a 5-4 decision. They should be excoriating the justices who voted against this.

To this day, one of the most unbelievable facts we’ve ever published in @boltsmag.org: Over a 40-year period, *80* percent of death row convictions in Louisiana have ended up getting reversed.

White House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500m for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

Every Fox News live shot today from Trump's post-rapture-like fair on the National Mall has been hilarious. Here's a supercut: