ACTION ITEM. They're gonna just keep running surveys until they get some results they like, huh. you know what to do

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

told Liberty Utilities (the small California company that services the region) that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason is NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and Microsoft around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno.

Nearly 50,000 people on the California side of Lake Tahoe are about to lose the bulk of their electricity supply,not because of infrastructure failure or mismanagement, but because Big Tech wants the grid. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,

"The workers recently approved a decision to call for a boycott of the retailer’s anniversary sale, which will run from May 15 to May 25. They’re asking the public not to shop at REI over that time period." www.seattletimes.com/business/ret...

“Let me start with what worked…the part of the story most Americans do not know. The Nebraska biocontainment unit now holding our returning passengers is a Level 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center… the highest tier of a national network built specifically for moments like this.”

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

New update from the Humanitarian Archive Emergency Project! Check out their updated discovery form. www.datarescueproject.org/hae-census/

Best explanation of it I’ve read comes from Seb Franklin, in The Digitally Disposed. In the control society, to be human is to be friction, and thus noise to be eliminated.

One thousand percent. Having never actually read anything beyond new-atheism and airport psychology, they assume they’ve exhausted the supply of human ideas and possibility.

OED and @seattledot.bsky.social are making their decision this week on whether to allow The Ave For All - A Car-Free Pilot to go forward. Fill out this Action Network to let them know you want this to happen! actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...

Oh HELL no. With low snowpack, our hydro is becoming less reliable. Behind-the-meter power nearly always means gas. And for what? The suicide advice/porn-making/job-killing machine? Just: no. 🧵 1/5

Really appreciating the nuanced takes in this session on ethics, transparency and responsible (data) sharing. “What is ethical is what’s sustainable and scalable with available resources” #RDAP26

Listening to Data Rescue Project give the keynote at #RDAP26 and really enjoying it. Plus, this meme: Learn more about their work at www.datarescueproject.org

staff in my doctor's office: oh that's an interesting way to write dates, why do you do it that way? me: .....ok how much time do you have and what is your general familiarity with and/or interest in standards bodies

Per NBC, last month Kansas invalidated 1,700 driver licenses belonging to trans folks. Folks sued; yesterday the judge declined to block/pause the law while the case proceeds. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A good thread on craftivism and its place within the ecosystem of resistance tactics. #DHmakes

ICE must be held accountable for the existing laws they’re breaking. I don’t think they’re going to stop if Congress passes legislation making the same crimes SUPER DOUBLE ILLEGAL

"[S]everal international organizations had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives [possibly recouping taxpayer funds in the process]. Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000."

When I say Dems are voting to ban trans rights, I mean they are voting to ban ALL trans rights. Included in the military funding bill are these provisions impacting trans people in the military: - A bathroom ban - A ban on correct gender markers on forms - A healthcare ban - A sports ban

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

If you're out and about in #Chicago today (where the weather is beautiful!), consider visiting the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley (www.nps.gov/places/rober...) and Pullman monuments (www.nps.gov/pull/index.htm) to take some pics for #SaveOurSigns- and don't forget to upload at saveoursigns.org

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.

This is fantastic work! Thanks for providing this @envirodgi.bsky.social

If you are signed up with us and in Mattermost, please check in. We have an urgent rescue that could use some help in the next three weeks. It is for the HIFLD Open GIS repository. hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/search #DataRescue

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

"I think humanity can survive just about anything as long as it responds to chaos with creativity. But to hold on to our creativity will be a battle all on its own." irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/the-world-...

New DRP post: Our partner, RDAP, held a Data Rescue Hackathon, and it went really well. Read more about their work on NCES (Education) data and helping @icpsr.bsky.social with metadata clean-ups! www.datarescueproject.org/rdap-data-re...

The % who support Medicaid cuts in 2026 battleground districts: IA-01 (Miller Meeks): 9% AK-AL (Begich): 9% CO-08 (Evans): 8% PA-07 (Mackenzie): 8% PA-10 (Perry): 9% PA-08 (Bresnahan): 8% NE-02 (Bacon): 8% AZ-06 (Ciscomani): 9% WI-03 (Van Orden): 8% CA-41 (Calvert): 8%

AI is the ideal technology to accompany the decline of America. It caters to the entitled, to those who have no desire to learn and think they know everything, it destroys creativity and critical thinking, and lays the cultural foundation for fascism. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/artificial...

Very worried this is a sign of what’s to come more broadly. (It’s already here in some places.)

Read Santa Ono's declaration for why he is going to be President of Florida, and contrast it with the actual situation in Florida. (Thread below). He believes and endorses assault on campus speech and academic freedom, at least if it will get him $3M a year. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

We are out here to #ProtectMedicaid Everyone who has Medicaid NEEDS Medicaid. We will fight, and we will win!

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

The North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Tuesday morning imposing civil penalties on workers and protesters who conduct “mass pickets” that are deemed obstructive or violent by a court of law. ncnewsline.com/2025/04/29/n... @kingdollar.bsky.social #ncpol #ncga

I often think about this. There are *so many* sectors where the policy solutions are settled, agreed upon, entirely uncontroversial among experts, and completely ignored. It’s overwhelming.

"From the perspective of the most anti-science, anti-intellectual administration the country’s history, it makes a lot of sense. From that of the 40% or so of the entire population who will develop cancer in their lifetimes and the 100% who will know and care about them, it does not." 🧪 #handsoffNIH

Every so often I remember that Mitch McConnell, who saw Trump with clarity, could have chosen to end him as a political force, but decided it was someone else's problem. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Ongoing pattern that extends from foreign students, to Governors, to CEOs. Presenting any information that undermines the state narrative is "hostile" with the implication that it will be punished with retribution from the state. This is the strategy of a weak regime afraid of transparency.

House GOP reconciliation language kills the FTC's antitrust authority by transferring it to DOJ judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...