I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

One of the best new devices in OB/GYN, the JADA — which saved my wife from a scary post-partum bleed this spring — was developed *as a senior thesis* in 2011 by two ugrads in biomedical engineering at Cal Poly That‘s how much underinvestment there’s been, a senior thesis could disrupt it that much

Amy Klobuchar’s eulogy for Lindsey Graham was 390 words long. This was 390 more words than she has said in support of trans people

One of my fondest memories of my entire 20s is driving through Colorado with a friend. At a gas station, we spread our map on the hood of the car. A guy came over, asked where we were trying to get, and said "if you're not in a hurry, take this route. 2 hours down that road, that's God's country."

Well Mitch McConnell finally sent a photo out with proof of life.

Beautiful conversation about "the insistence on truth, carried by love and lit by rage."

The reason he’s incredibly vague here (suing “an AI company”? Which?) is to make you think he might be suing Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI… any of the fuckers razing xx sq miles with hyperscale datacenters No. No he’s lead on suing Apple, the one that didn’t build any hyperscale data centers.

A thing we’re not talking about enough with AI/teaching is how many gains in creating accessible, universal design pedagogy are basically being lost to AI-enabled mass cheating. The only solution seems to be to go back to old and inaccessible methods (paper exams, etc) that punish disabled students.

It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.

This woman contracted polio as a child about two years before a vaccine became available and spent much of her life in and out of an iron lung to survive. I truly can't fathom anti-vaxxers who seem happy to resurrect these diseases. people.com/the-last-us-...

@esglaude.bsky.social joined us on @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social for an absolutely incredible conversation about how we should understand America and its history on our 250th birthday. This one really is a must listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

This week, Iranian American democracy advocate Nilu Jenks joins us for a deeply personal conversation about war, diaspora grief, authoritarianism, propaganda, and the false promise of liberation through violence, and what solidarity, accountability, and freedom demand at home and abroad.

"Our current leaders talk endlessly about American exceptionalism, while turning us into an unexceptional country presided over by thuggish apparatchiks. I dare say Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a better American than they are."

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

I never want to hear a word about how it’s weird and socially alienating to wear a mask that could save someone’s life when tech bros are pushing wearables like this.

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Sold as a war on fentanyl, the 2026 drug strategy is a blueprint for surveillance: prescriptions, wastewater, your medical chart, plate readers, all run through AI. No HIPAA. Fewer limits than terrorism gets. https://www.celinegounder.com/p/trump-drug-war-medical-data-surveillance

Meanwhile The Stranger just endorsed a guy who supported Judge Brett Kavanaugh instead of progressive fave @ronpdavis.bsky.social or just the incumbent Gerry Pollet. So weird. This really needs to be the last time The Stranger does endorsements. Tap out. Just do arts, culture, and entertainment.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

Transness is eternal. There will be happy, fulfilled trans people that exist long after each and every one of these fuckers has long since passed. We will fight like hell for each and every one of our living and we will proceed in spiteful joy because unlike them we are building the future.

🚨 Over 73,000 #TENNESSEE ACA enrollees were *completely* priced out of even being able to sign up for healthcare coverage this year. The ~570,000 who were able to do so are now have seen their net premiums *and* out of pocket costs NEARLY DOUBLE on average. acasignups.net/26/06/29/how...

i cannot stress enough how much this man should not be the democratic presidential nominee

Now on the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast, Susan Erikson talks about her new @mitpress.bsky.social book Investable! When #Pandemic #Risk Meets Speculative #Finance podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @emendenhall.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @thurka149.bsky.social @dadakim.bsky.social

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

The TL;DR, as always, is this: SCOTUS will allow Donald Trump to wreck separation of powers and the rule of law, but they draw the line at wrecking capitalism.

Someone submitted a paper and said in the acknowledgments: "AI made it possible to explore an unfamiliar academic discipline with a level of linguistic precision and scholarly orientation that would previously have required years of immersion." Fun for the writer, not so good for science.

You love to see it: @mayorofseattle.bsky.social Katie Wilson endorses @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social and @ronpdavis.bsky.social!

"Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations."

Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it

One old trick in politics is to oppose something possible while calling for something impossible. Example: Here's Gavin Newsom leading the charge for a "national billionaires tax" while he and his paid goons work to kill a state billionaire tax. This allows him to be on both sides for 2028.

This week we had the incredible honor of talking with @jayapal.house.gov about why progressives are winning right now, what we need to do to keep up momentum into the midterms, and how she stays committed and hopeful in dark times. This one is SO good! youtu.be/dpPu09Tkx7I

Where was the process for determining the values that the UW community holds in this context and integrating them into the system design ***or choice not to buy in***? Note that I'm sure UW's own Value Sensitive Design lab would have been happy to consult. vsdesign.org >>

Sometimes you take a look at how politics are talked about in this country and you start to consider that everything is framed in such a way as to undermine popular solidarity and alienate people from one another in order to stave off actual democratic movements

Heat is a feminist issue. Heat is a disability rights issue. Heat is definitely a class issue. Heat is also definitely experienced by racialized minorities in extreme ways. In India, heat is a caste issue. Extreme heat reveals the fissures in societies and who we are willing to ‘let die’

They're saying the quiet part out loud now. Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly/Superhuman: “We’re doing a huge pedagogical upheaval in education,” she said, calling it a “burn it down moment. We’re just in the early stages.” Burn down higher ed without any plan to rebuilt. Gift link.

You have to hand it to the Times. They're still innovating in the field of pushing insufferable capitalist propaganda and they'll surprise you sometimes. Didn't expect "Worrying about AI will cause a crash like the Great Depression, which happened because of bad vibes," but here we are.

Trump got the the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a big new revenue stream. The apparent White House plan is to pretend that “new required insurance coverage approved by Iran” and “maritime fees to Iran” are somehow not tolls to Iran, or blatantly lie that the US gets the tolls, and hope people buy it.

"All of this is a huge diversion of resources and deflection from the task at hand. As one of us likes to say, when you’re in a climate hole, stop digging … and burning fossil fuels. It really is, at some level, that simple."

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

What an honor to speak with Father Ray Riding, a 76y/o Jesuit priest serving migrants in Arizona--those in detention, in the courts, and in hiding. We talk about the sheer inhumanity he's witnessing, and what it takes to give migrants solidarity and love in this time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5v6...

the key to being a successful socialist politician is being mesmerically charming and having a beautiful, terrifying wife

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

BREAKING: I have a source inside the United Auto Workers Constitutional Convention in Detroit, who shares that “We just won divestment from Israeli bonds!!!”

Raskin is not someone prone to flights of fancy, I’d expect something was here