Listening to St Vincent doing the Proms (one of the best parts of summer in London) on BBC Radio 3. Just sublime.

"This Week in Democracy – Week 30: DC Gets Troops While Putin Gets a Red Carpet" Follow Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in Donald Trump's second term. Read/share/subscribe:

Nature: Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility go.nature.com/3HDx4wD cc Jay Bhattacharya

It's a good thing that Trump isn't being blackmailed by Putin.

Nazi much?

Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

NYTimes editorial group therapy session continues. 😂 Keep snorting that copium! Have you tried box breathing?

"Sorry Islamophobes, I'm a Proud Muslim American and, Like Zohran Mamdani, I'm Not Going Anywhere" The insanely bigoted attacks on Mamdani are out of control and designed to intimidate a vulnerable minority – but they will fail. Please read/share my latest for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/sorry-isla...

SCOOP: The funding behind the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been murky. Now, top US officials are "forcing" USAID to approve up to $210 million to it. Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinians near GHF sites. Per docs, GHF anticipates $1 BILLION+ from other unnamed "Government Donors."

There is no such thing as "trans health care" or "gender affirming care". To a medical professional it is just *medicine*.

10 prompts replaced a $100/yr SaaS app. 🤯 suthakamal.substack.com/p/how-10-pro...

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Board Gaza Aid Flotilla and Detain 12 Crew Members Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg was on board the ship.

BREAKING: Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride just flipped the script and left MAGA Rep. Keith Self speechless after he intentionally misgendered her. This is amazing.

Future historians -- if there are any -- will be shaking their damn heads. Not least over the kid as human shield for President Musk.

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

Preach @caseynewton.bsky.social

The survival of American democracy depends on continued resistance, civic engagement, and an active opposition, despite the growing risks. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

What will happen to platforms and standards as means of interoperability, when LLMs replace open source glue & platform code, per customer?

🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Trump Administration has issued an Executive Order essentially BANNING Gender Affirming Care for people under the age of 19. I'm horrified. I feel sick. My hearts breaks for those affected.