❗️China confirmed its citizens were aboard a vessel hit by a Russian Shahed in the Black Sea near Odesa, saying its embassy contacted the Chinese sailors and no one was killed or wounded. Beijing repeated that dialogue and negotiations are the only path to resolving the war. #China

@propublica.org built a one-of-a-kind tool so you can check where your own generic medications come from! I’ve looked up a few of my own and let’s just say the results were…illuminating. Before ProPublica did this work, it was impossible to do that. projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/

Here’s the text-only version of the story if you’re on a low bandwidth connection text.propublica.org/article/alas...

NEW: Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bids for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers overlooked or rejected. With @inquirer.com

⚡️ Putin, Xi sign cooperation deals in Beijing, but key pipeline project still unresolved. Putin and Xi signed a joint statement on further strengthening the countries' "comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation."

We investigated a wave of posts in South Korea accusing Moderna of manufacturing the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The claims, many of which rehash Covid-era conspiracy theories, are baseless and misinterpret a research project at a local university u.afp.com/SREk

❗️Ukraine and the EU finalized talks on an €8.35B macro-financial assistance memorandum under the EU loan. European Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis signed it this morning, with Ukraine now expected to sign and ratify the document. #Ukraine

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

Your 'doom quote' for today: "It’s ironic that we can imagine the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves more readily than we can the collapse of the banking system..." new-savanna.blogspot.com/2012/07/tim-...

A decade ago, a rush of illicit gold mining brought hunger and disease to the Yanomami people of the Brazilian Amazon. New research finds a clear link between illegal mining and the spread of malaria.

Happy Agender Pride Day!

Debris flows after fires create risks for the public and can destroy infrastructure. The #USGS just improved its methods for assessing debris flow risk. eos.org/articles/a-n...

Union hotel housekeepers in New York City will soon make over $100,000 a year. A new contract the union and the owners of nearly 250 hotels would raise wages by more than 50%. If workers ratify the deal it'll mean life-changing money for 27,000 union members and their families.

@fitbit.bsky.social Can we can tell time by a chronological method that counts - down -, please?

We start losing daylight in 33 days.

New research suggests that when it comes to streamflow predictions and flood event detection, human involvement in modeling outperforms modeling with AI alone because human forecasters can recognize model errors and account for poor input data. 🧪 eos.org/research-spo...

Pardoning the criminals who tried to overturn an election to keep you in power and creating a $1.776 billion slush fund for them seems like exactly what you would do if you wanted them to do it again.

⚡️ Reuters: China secretly trained Russian soldiers who later fought in Ukraine. The Chinese military secretly trained about 200 Russian military personnel in China in late 2025, with some later returning to fight in Ukraine, Reuters reported on May 19.

H.R.7984 DHS Use of Force Transparency Act of 2026 SPONSOR: @congressmin.bsky.social № CO-SPONSORS: 4 STATUS: Introduced LATEST ACTION: House committee - 2026-03-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on ... #Democrats Details at congress.gov

“Society has always chosen to skip the chapter of collapse when writing its history books”

🌱 Provide financial support for farmers from the EU budget 🏭 Reinforce domestic production and cut import dependency ♻️ Scale up circular economy and bio-based alternatives 📈 Strengthen market transparency

Europe must produce more and depend less on others for the nutrients that sustain our agriculture. Dependency is a vulnerability. And we're working to change it. 🔗 Full Action Plan: link.europa.eu/vNkf6w

No fertilisers = no food. Higher prices are pushing farmers to their limits: less fertiliser, lower yields. With the next sowing season approaching, Europe cannot afford to wait. Today, we're acting with a new Action Plan to ↓↓

@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky

Young Americans and college graduates are facing an uphill battle looking for employment thanks to the rise of AI tech.

Sen. DURBIN: We ask all these nominees what happened on January 6th, and they say 'it was sunny and the wind was blowing.' No. There was a mob that attacked the Capitol. If you can’t acknowledge that, then what the hell good are you?

Now is the time of year we begin monitoring "tropical waves" that move off the west coast of Africa over the Atlantic Ocean. Tropical waves can develop into tropical cyclones if conditions are just right. Fortunately, we are not expecting tropical cyclone development over the Atlantic for the ne...

More grifting from this administration.

It's 100 degrees in May, time to moderate your views on the environment, Democrats

17 years ago, Sri Lanka’s civil war came to an end in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka. During the final clash between Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, tens of thousands of civilians were killed. 17 years on, there has been no accountability.

here's today's post: "the January 6 rioters are about to get millions, and We the People can go fuck ourselves" — why do we even have laws, if some shithead gets to ignore them? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

What's the difference between Vision Zero and traditional road safety? Where do you even start? Join us 5/21 at 1pm ET for our next Vision Zero 101 — a 30 min deep dive + a 30 min interactive Q&A. Space is limited. visionzeronetwork.org/upcoming-web...

H.R.8843 To amend title 18, United States, to include property damage ... SPONSOR: Rep. John McGuire (R), VA-5 № CO-SPONSORS: 2 STATUS: Introduced LATEST ACTION: House floor - 2026-05-15 Referred to the House Committee on the ... #Republicans Details at congress.gov

WIN: The Colorado Supreme Court ordered a lower court to issue a preliminary injunction directing Children’s Hospital Colorado to continue to provide trans youth with best-practice, medically necessary care. Politicians have no place in our doctors’ offices.

... the mass of the sun, four times the mass of the Milky Way. It also whirls round extremely quickly, rotating at speeds of up to 1.8 million kilometers per hour. Observations with Hubble are helping astronomers determine the mass of UGC 12591 and whether the galaxy formed and grew slowly...

#PPOD: This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the remarkable galaxy UGC 12591. UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral. It lies just under 400 million light-years away from us in the westernmost region of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster... 🧪 🔭

Asian & Pacific Islander communities cannot be left behind in our fight against HIV & AIDS. Our members are proud to fight alongside @capac.house.gov in defense of critical funding for HIV testing, prevention, and treatment programs that reach API communities where they are.

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At least 131 deaths and over 500 suspected cases have been reported in the latest #Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. "What we're worried about is controlling the situation," shares Trish Newport, our Emergency Coordinator: www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

The New York Post, Republicans, the bail industry, police unions, and right-wing prosecutors are going to bombard our society with lies. How the rest of the media establishment and people of good will respond will determine our fate.

And so we have a right-wing prosecutor, fraudulently sold to SF neoliberals as "progressive" by someone later promoted to Bureau Chief at the NYT, peddling the most ludicrous lies in service of one of the most authoritarian policies imaginable at a time of rising fascism.

THREAD. The San Francisco DA gave an "exclusive" interview to the New York Post yesterday that is full of egregious misinformation. But something deeper is going on that should worry everyone who cares about the possibility of a democratic society.

"You shouldn't punish me for entirely nonexistent citations because I haven't read the real ones either" is not the sparkling defence of your ethics that you think it is.

I'm not allowed anywhere near academia because frankly it would make a mockery of the whole thing, but it astounds even me that there are "researchers" out there who think that citations are merely decorations to be sprinkled liberally throughout the text and not, y'know, CITATIONS.

"The answer lies in one of the key reforms in Ukraine's justice system — the selection commission involving international experts. These experts are delegates from EU partners, tasked with conducting professional evaluations of candidates for open positions," writes Mykhailo Zhernakov in this op-ed.

We asked state energy policy leaders how they've updated their playbooks to meet the affordability crisis moment, and how they've stepped in as federal financing plummets. Here's what they said. fas.org/publication/...