NYT wholly cowed by the most unpopular president ever. Embarrassing.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Trump got his COVID19 vaccine today. He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

This one is mine. I’m not as good as the neighborhood rose lady, but maybe next year … #bloomscrolling #flowers

It’s the middle of October #bloomscrolling #flowers

Asters having a moment #bloomscrolling #nature

This one lady in my neighborhood is just so good at roses. #bloomscrolling #flowers

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money. - @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

Farmer’s Market stroll. #bloomscrolling #nature

A blueskyism genre that is still safe from the likes of Michael Hobbes #bloomscrolling

Liberals to Canola industry (total export value: $7.7 billion): take $370 million, please! Liberals to Post-Secondary Education (total export value $11B from tuition, more if you count foreign student spending in Canada): drop dead. What kind of economy are we building, again?

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.

Demetre Daskalakis' resignation letter. One for the history books. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-resign...

Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.

I always tell my roses that I love all them equally, but I do actually have a favourite #bloomscrolling

To discourage ppl from taking ownership of their devices,the self-repairing route has a higher upfront cost than having the company do it. But at least they got to greenwash themselves in the process.

Members of a left-wing group say they wanted to make a statement about President Trump’s deportation campaign. It ended in a shooting outside an ICE detention facility, one of the most violent incidents in a wave of assaults and threats against immigration officers.

In this existential 'Elbows Up' moment for Canada's economy, public discourse has been overly influenced by loud demands from corporations & their political backers to implement their age-old agenda: deregulate (especially environmental rules), cut taxes, build more pipelines. /2

Federal Agent in D.C.: “Proud Boys? They’re great guys. They love the United States.” This is who Trump is sending into our cities to terrorize Black & Brown communities. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZldGb...

Sure, these guys hate socialism. Loathe it! www.wsj.com/tech/us-stak...

Crime panic never worries about statistics.

Corruption and extortion

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.

Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”

What's needed is for the rest of the world to boycott the Olympics. Will they? No, because the leaders are corrupt almost everywhere.

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

What this bee will do to get some mildly sweet juice….I get mad if I need to drive to two different grocery stores. #nature #bloomscrolling

Afghanistan and Pakistan are the world’s toughest holdouts for the polio virus, even as most countries have stopped its spread. An AP investigation reveals how mistrust, mismanagement and even some falsified vaccine records are hindering efforts to wipe out the virus.

Mathematicians making this list made me laugh so hard - this year I tried to generate a solution set to a bunch of financial world problems - all answers were wrong. LOL. And that’s not coming up with math methods of solving - it was plug these #’s into a formula.

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV go.nature.com/4ov7WZI

The dumbest losers have the most money in this timeline.

Major law firms are scaling back their free work for advocacy groups fighting the government in the wake of Donald Trump’s attacks. Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable reut.rs/4fjAIZ1

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Nova Scotia is so beautiful. You can’t turn your head there without looking at a postcard view. #nature #Canada

Lower paying , less secure jobs, more cost to the tax payer, but at least some friend of Doug Ford can buy one more cottage in Huntsville.

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Nova Scotia-ing #nature #bloomscrolling

Bruce Trail #nature

“Half of these ‘savings’ are cuts to somebody else," said @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social. “You’re pushing the problem onto somebody else [to make cuts], whether that’s veterans for disability supports...or First Nations governments" www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

incredible how many people are willing to say “for years I didn’t care about anybody but myself. then one day, I imagined what it would be like to be somebody else and it completely changed the way I saw everything”

The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.

"Unemployment is rising...in particular for young people — young graduates coming out of school, they're not finding their first job," said @kjscott.bsky.social, a senior researcher focused on gender equality and public policy at @policyalternatives. ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/07/16/s...

bell hooks warned about this 20 years ago : “Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation”

A super PAC group funded by crypto companies will enter the midterms with more than $140 million in the bank. The colossal war chest now looms large over a slate of House votes this week on industry-backed crypto bills. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...