Kids, old guy who's gonna croak way before you (if Mother Nature cuts you a break), here to say: 1. Never was I denied the privilege of going outside to play as a kid because the air was shit. 2. Most of our consumer crap is unnecessary, oversized, energy-greedy, colossally wasteful shit. 3 […]

“#Trump DOJ leaders plan to drop charges against the alleged mastermind of a #cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that prosecutors said defrauded investors of $722 million, reversing course on a 2019 indictment that was nearing trial. The deputy AG’s office in Washington DC recently ordered the New […]

Drone superpower Ukraine is now Europe’s first line of defense #Ukraine

RE: https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/116924627211380847 *whispers* they mean us

Orange forest fire haze, Southwest Ontario. (No filter or adjustments applied to photo of five min ago.) It smells like a campsite/factory outside. We should stop calling them 'wildfires,' btw. They're human-boosted by our waste heat drying their fuel, and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Bring to mind anywhere in the human habitat? 'Whatever the size of the historical population, it had plummeted, and Teleki exhaustively documented the forces behind this “extermination.” Most important, humans had destroyed chimp habitat through logging, mining, and farming, fragmenting their […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday announced what he characterized as a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court, the Hague-based tribunal tasked with investigating and charging individuals with war crimes and other violations […]

Hey USians, heres a quick call to action that will only take a few min. Have you heard about ht new proposed rule change for government funding that makes all grants managed by the Office of Management and Budget require approval from a political appointee? Yeah. A political toady is going to […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116914967841374800 “Drove his/her vehicle in the direction of an agent/officer” is the 21st C. version of “shot while attempting to escape.” That was a Nazi refrain in the lead-up to the dictatorship.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116912971042945604 This seems like a good reason to preemptively block UK ips from accessing Wikipedia. That should make everyone happy.

Friendliest #dog ever #dogsofmastodon #squirrel #backyardwildlife #adoptdontshop

The weather across much of Canada today, including at my house, is smoke. 1.7 million hectares burned so far this year. There's no point voting Liberal or Conservative. They will not change.

A natural sugar has been detected in an enormous cloud of dust and gas that lurks near the heart of the Milky Way. The discovery shows that compounds important for life can form in the frigid expanse between the stars. The simple sugar erythrulose appears to be produced through chemical […]

When will the CBC and Canada's (liberal-in-name-only) Tory Carney government stop pretending this is normal? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/heat-warnings-central-eastern-canada-9.7267980 #environment #climate #climatechange #cbc #media #journalism #markcarney #canada

Time to head to the Big Apple!

How come Friday-the-13th's unlucky, but Monday-the-13th gets a pass? #science

Stephen Miller,Trump’s deputy chief of staff, has been the chief proponent and enforcer of Trump’s worldview on immigration. Trump has repeatedly stated about immigrants that they are “poisoning the blood of our country”. Miller has elevated this principle of “blood” as the great replacement […]

This badass woman should be all over the news but sadly her accomplishment is under-reported.

This is extremely well done.

#EpsteinFiles Good that they're trying. Bad that it likely won't make a dent.

ICE is claiming the officers who killed Lorenzo Araujo in Houston didn't have bodycams bc of "two Dem shutdowns." Put aside that the GOP has the majorities. And that the OBBB gave ICE a huge shutdown-proof slush fund. Here's an article from 5 months ago abt TRUMP explicitly slow walking bodycams:

And here's the WaPo, with all its political biases, writing an article that makes disputing ICE's claim the HEADLINE. Even given that the claim is made by the other people ICE arrested in the incident and is now trying to deport, so not neutral witnesses. That seems big to me.

And here's PBS, whose first paragraph on the claim is traditional just-quoting-what-the-cops-tell-them ... but with a title above it, in much bigger font, warning that the claim has no support. This is a real shift in coverage from how shootings are usually handled.

Benjamin Netanyahu can no longer avoid a re-election campaign. Even if he can't win, he'll try to make sure nobody else can. David Green, former Ha'aretz editor, writes: "Peace is not on the ballot, & the stark division between what once characterized “right” & “left” [on peace] no longer exists."

White privilege is a helluva thing. Racist dude ran from his racist crime. Conspired with family to hide. Fought extradition. Never manned up. And we just let this shit slide by, don't we? Ashamed to be Canadian today. Sometimes I hate this fucked-up country […]

Y'all are familiar with Maceo Parker, right? Unrelated to Charlie, far as I know. You've doubtless heard his work with James Brown, Prince, or De La Soul, amongst others. Troy Andrews also featured on this track... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_0alsFnxwI&list=RD3_0alsFnxwI&start_radio=1 […]

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]

If Iran's not careful with the 'we want Trump's head on a pike' stuff, they could get banned from 'X'. Sure, a few swastikas and establishing bona fides in white supremacy would get them back on, buy why risk the climb-down? #trump #epstein #politics #iran

Two full days on and Canadian police are yet to identify this imbecile, even from lengthy, unobstructed full-face video publicized nationally? Try your far-right database, folks. Check your local garbage citizens list. Or is he a friendly of yours? […]

July 8. Trump admin turns to threats, coercion after courts reject president’s assault on voting https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-admin-turns-to-threats-coercion-after-courts-reject-presidents-assault-on-voting/ July 8. Explainer: DOJ says its election monitoring is just […]

Good short essay on the successes the Democratic Party has when it has engaged to the left. https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/punching-left/

What I read under this is everyone is tired of being fucked by corporate America. It's taken the dem public longer to get there, but they are starting to flip. Gaining support is great, but has another edge, as Dems are seeing. A deep dive on the demographics, beliefs, values and experiences […]

Gravel cycling. 100 km today, mostly blacktop. I didn't realize it was 31C 'til I passed a time/temp sign somewhere halfway. Tonight's supposed to cool a bit. Good because we still have no a/c - it's chooched atm. It’s like old-fashioned summer. Pix note […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Just heard this morning that a second major #hospital in #ottawa#hospitalis significantly cutting #nursing staff. This is in a city where we already regularly see 10 plus hour waits in ER (not to mention a ridiculous shortage of family doctors). All due to budget cuts by the Conservative provincial […]

It’s a really bad sign for capitalism when consumer society is like, f this, I want to buy things from 2015.

"The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item’s molecular profile to an AI model equipped with a pharmaceutical database. In seconds, the AI identifies the medication from its molecular profile—or reports that it’s phony." Tricorder alert! […]

Ron Lauder’s son-in-law is Kevin Warsh, the new chair of the Federal Reserve. (Lauder is also an ardent Zionist, and there’s an interesting clip of him threaded to the post below.) 2/2

I'd say Trump's finally got his presidency's defining legacy war secured in history. Will America be tied up in this latest sink of blood and money longer than in Vietnam? Anyone's guess... #USA #trump #epstein #iran #israel

STICK A FORK IN HIM HE'S DONE....Ex-girlfriend of Platner says he removed condoms without consent... Dems pull endorsements... Sanders Says 'Step Aside'... Pressure to End Campaign... WASHINGTON POST: The campaign for Graham Platner, the troubled Democratic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

When we talk about global average temperature, people tune out. 1.5C is meaningless to probably 98 percent of humanity. It’s questionable how many people even understand 'percent' anymore. But here's something: In the future, low seafront will be the cheap seats, the budget & council housing […]

When you're a member of Trump's Gestapo, you can get away with anything, just like your Groper-in-Chief. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/alex-pretti-renee-good-accountability/687792/ #uspol #trump #epstein

For anyone who's been wondering whatever happened to Renata Ford's suit against Rob's brothers. 'The law firm representing Renata later said (per National Post) she had not paid her legal fees on time in relation to the case, of which the outcome has not been made public.' Wound up at cosmo.uk […]

Dear friends, because of your unwavering support through every challenge, we have wonderful news. A kind friend from Europe has created a fundraiser to help us buy a small piece of land for the Young Environmental Conservation Initiative. This land will […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Israel’s military continues to attack the Gaza Strip in further violations of the U.S.-brokered October ceasefire. Today, two people were killed and 15 injured when Israel struck a tent housing displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, an area Israel previously declared a humanitarian “safe zone.”