#giftarticle #jeffreyepstein Alleged in Emails That #trump Knew of His Conduct #house #democrats on Wednesday released emails in which #epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender […]

I've said it more than once, but I don't think that enough people appreciate it yet. Transitions are difficult. That was why I was begging for us to start decades ago before we'd added so much more greenhouse gases to our polluted atmosphere.

Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US. The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

In 2018, Meta decided “clean energy” and “climate change” were politically sensitive topics, and demanded that I - a climate scientist - register as a political org to post and boost posts on them. I refused, and my page has been shadow banned since then. For 7 years. Until this week, that is 😳

Helloooo auroras! (With a long exposure and a fancy camera, it just looks like a faint glow naked eye) Also helloooo Comet Lemon! (If you zoom way in on just the right spot) And fuck you, Starlinks, ruining the sky!

CATS YES, KINGS NO

The Vantor company (formerly Maxar) used one of their Worldview satellites to capture a picture of the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite in orbit. The large radar reflector (12 meters or 38 feet wide) has a mesh surface that appears gold and the solar panels on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association

Alaska Public Media: Here's how you can help survivors of the Western Alaska storm (photos of the devastation, yikes) via @BakerRL75 https://alaskapublic.org/news/environment/2025-10-14/heres-how-you-can-help-survivors-of-the-western-alaska-storm #akwx #climateemergency #disasters

You love to see it: Social media is shrinking. People spend less time with Meta products than they used to. 67% of the public has an unfavorable view of Zuckerberg. KEEP GOING https://www.honest-broker.com/p/social-media-is-now-shrinking

What Trump-Noem ICE is doing in # Chicago is morally and legally wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid 1/

The first NISAR (NASA-ISRO SAR) L-band radar images have now been released! These are early images acquired before NISAR reached the final science orbit with radar test modes so only a few locations were imaged. The mountains of Mount Desert Island in Maine, USA, are beautiful. I first visited […]

Excerpts from the statement of Bassem Tamimi, Palestinian activist from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, to an Israeli military judge in 2011: Your Honor, I hold this speech out of belief in peace, justice, freedom, the right to live in dignity, and out of respect for free thought in the […]

Please read Josh Marshall's take on the Trump regime's escalating attacks on freedom of speech -- Kimmel's removal only the latest but probably most extreme example. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-kimmelgeddon/sharetoken/9b9c2c6c-bc94-4280-a74f-6fc8e2158cf8 The most […]

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

From John Unsworth, just-retired dean of libraries at U of Virginia: https://www.arl.org/blog/john-unsworth-on-libraries-higher-education-and-anti-facism/ "21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance. It’s about AI in the service of fascism, as a […]

No comment needed: #science #democracy

Weiss is being specifically hired by a right wing billionaire nepobaby to turn CBS into another right-wing friendly propaganda mill. but you genuinely wouldn't know that from reading the U.S. media industry's coverage of itself:

de Adder. 🎯

#trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of #fraud. Records Show 3 of His #cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet […]

Fox silenced Greene when she broke MAGA ranks and pointed at Trump’s DOJ. The network erased victims to shield power, trading accountability for another cheap culture-war segment.

They thought they had silenced her. Knopf says the book contains “intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking new details about her time with Epstein, Maxwell and their many well-known friends.

CNN:Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas "...A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including a landmark […]

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so. The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it […]

WaPo - The Trump administration has placed more than a dozen FEMA employees on leave after they signed an open letter of dissent about the agency’s leadership. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/26/fema-employees-leave-trump-administration-letter/

This choice of price point undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic ($1 each) but that's still effectively zero. I am surprised that the obvious numerological pandering isn't pointed out in the article Google’s ‘Gemini for Government’ offers AI platform to federal agencies for 47 cents | FedScoop […]

@bsky.app And this is why real decentralization matters. There is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

@mmasnick.bsky.social Okay. Please help me understand: - Who owns bsky.app and the apps named "Bluesky" in the app stores? - Who owns the app view the above connect to? - Who owns the relay the above app view uses? - Where are the parties that own the above domiciled?

WIRED: Bluesky Blocks Mississippi over Age Verification Law People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

So, I've discovered Avi Loeb, and now I understand where all those weird, hyperbolic, and bizarre astronomy writeups have all been coming from. I think the discipline needs to do a better job of vaccinating society against such charlatans. #astronomy #science #scicomms […]

RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9

I absolutely adore such "infiinte dives" Before you scream: This is *not* fucking "ai". It's digital art by Daisuke Fujikawa.

NPR - Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

The final hardware deployment of the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite, the 12-meter radar antenna reflector was successfully completed today, August 15. Congratulations to all the people involved in reaching this important milestone in the mission, in the USA and India. #nasa #isro #sar […]

Oh my gods THIS GUY IS INSUFFERABLE THE LOEB SCALE?!!! https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09167 "You know, I'm just not getting enough attention as a tenured professor at Harvard who yells about aliens after every cool scientific discovery, I need to name a scale after myself"

Sarcastic comment: this situation with ICE detention in the USA is getting bad now. A white woman from New Zealand has been detained for several weeks with her six-year-old son. The article does not mention the other 60,000 people in ICE detention […]

Did you know that all 4-star female officers have been purged from the US military? I didn't until I read this article. https://journa.host/@atrupar/115015769548101144

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The latest Crew Dragon reentered in the Pacific instead of the Atlantic, specifically so that they could deorbit the cargo trunk quickly and have it reenter in the Pacific west of San Diego, and not in Saskatchewan where a super annoying astronomer made a big media disaster last year. It's […]

More reporting that top insurers say the #ClimateCrisis “could soon outpace industry solutions, effectively threatening to make entire regions around the world uninsurable.” Typically required for getting a mortgage. Tell me again how smart climate solutions “cost too much.” We’re bad at math.

www.wired.com/story/myster... White power and white supremacist groups have stolen tons (literal tons) of military weapons and equipment from US armories, posts, and bases. The Pentagon has known about these thefts since at least the early 1980s. (1)

More journalists should be asking why they put Steve Volz, the head of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service (NOAA/NESDIS), on indefinite administrative leave. https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/bio/stephen-volz

This video helps explain why so many people are talking about the enormous political potential of Texas state representative James Talarico: https://youtu.be/Blph_2RSBno?feature=shared

Timeline cleanser: Two goofballs square off in the Sandbox of Biteyface Dog Champions. (photo and videos: @lilianasegura.bsky.social)

The constant CAPTCHAs and other "I-am-not-a-robot" tests from websites are annoying enough, without considering the reality that they really don't present much of a challenge for bots anymore. Wait till they have to pass age verification... "Maybe they […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Australian government: We want to ban anyone under the age of 16 accessing social media. Google, Meta, etc: You can't do this to us... Errr... Our customers! This is big government interfering in the free market! We believe in freedom! Government does best when it does least! Australian […]

NASA press release on the successful NISAR launch. The satellite is in the planned orbit and in contact with the ground controllers at ISRO. Full deployment of all the satellite systems including the large reflector will take about 20 days, step by step. #nasa #isro #sar #satellite […]