Once more - no amount of AI wonder or unrelenting claims of productivity, abundance, and inevitability can overcome the hard realities of material supply chains. An AI dependent world is hugely more vulnerable, not less, because it makes almost no account of, nor has resiliance to, these realities.

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

My colleagues at @sfsu.bsky.social used 3 decades of data to show that students with low undergrad GPA have equal PhD completion rates compared to students with high GPA. @sfstatebio.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

why did the post scheduler behead mark in one skeet and keep his head in the other

This was a four-month long reporting project that took me out of reporting retirement and what I learned about physician training might help make sense of the experience so many women share about navigating perimenopause. #moleg #mogov #menopause #perimenopause #menoposse

It's a very Idaho day at ProPublica. First, here's my story about Trump finding the limit of what even a stronghold like Idaho will allow. I read through dozens of cards and letters Idahoans sent to Idaho's secretary of state, thanking him for his decision. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

Where you live it's likely not possible to just post soldiers up on the streets forever but residents of the District of Columbia don't have the same rights as people in other cities abcnews.com/Politics/pen...

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Thousands of low-income Americans with HIV are losing access to vital medications, as states grapple with a lack of federal dollars to support their state health budgets. The Real Housewives would like a word with Congress about it.

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The Justice Department is suspending a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to possess at least one year of experience practicing law

A growing number of apartment complex owners in Wake County and elsewhere in North Carolina are taking advantage of a state law that grants property tax exemptions to nonprofits that provide affordable housing to low-and moderate-income residents, Wake County officials say.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Most states have had so-called medical conscience laws that are mainly aimed at preventing providers or hospitals from having to participate in abortion. But conservative lawmakers in multiple states are pushing to expand such protections as cultural battles over health care have exploded.

See also @thalkowski.bsky.social !

A dispatch from the annals of Project 2025 authoritarianism: Universities are now being required to provide demographic data on all students who applied to their schools for the past 5 years so the feds can sniff out illegal affirmative action. Until last year, tho, keeping such data was not allowed

Please help me share the post below. I don’t have a huge following, but this nomination is a bit under the radar and deserves more attention. His committee vote is this Thursday.

Women in 28 of the state’s 100 counties will not find a hospital, doctor, or certified nurse midwife in their county to deliver their babies. ncnewsline.com/2026/03/10/n... Story by @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."

It's hard to lend much credence to Bowser's stated reason she withheld the report because it's outdated considering a. it was commissioned before Covid and b. the council offered *two years ago* to update it and Bowser declined. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/6623...

The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.

AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

Abortion bans appear to result in lower rents and higher vacancy rates, showing that people are choosing not to live in states w/ restrictive laws "Policies around abortion matter to some people — to enough people to move the needle significantly," one economist said 19thnews.org/2026/03/abor...

Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person. She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

What happened after the weird Sept 2025 White House press conference on autism? 📉 Tylenol use in the ED dropped >10% among pregnant patients 📈 leucovorin rx jumped 93% among kids 5-17 immediately afterwards new @thelancet.com today with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level. www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

Sure, we'll retract that paper we published that someone else faked your name on. Just pay us $500.

NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses. But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n Disclaimer: all views are my own.

Jean-François Gariépy, a Duke University postdoc neuroscience researcher, convinced Jeffrey Epstein to finance his YT channel. Gariépy later left Duke hosted white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer on his channel. via @theassemblync.bsky.social www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

this is an awful idea lol

Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:

Here's something I learned in researching this story: Since the death of George Floyd, 2/3rds of the private companies that provided liability insurance to law enforcement agencies pulled out, and those that remained have increased their rates and lowered caps. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/what-to-do...

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional.

NEW: The FDA just outlined the ways it could restrict the abortion drug mifepristone during its horseshit "safety" review. The first? RFK Jr. has the power to immediately suspend the approval of drugs that he deems “an imminent hazard to the public health” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Very interesting survey results re: a bill I've tracked for several years, the Promising Pathway Act. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @reshmagar.bsky.social @alsadvocacy.bsky.social

This list was created by journalist Char Adams, the author of Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore. bookriot.com/black-owned-... 💙📚 #booksky

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

North Carolina elections officials used to avoid participating in partisan campaigns. No more: Republicans who run the elections process are out stumping for party peers, including state auditor David Boliek, who now appoints elections board members. ncnewsline.com/2026/02/25/n...

Following the lies and hatred targeting trans folks during the State of the Union Address, numerous republican House representatives introduced a bill that would create A NATIONWIDE BOOK BAN. Here's what it is and what to do: bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

"When I was just starting out, I hadn’t done anything, my résumé was blank. And a casting person said, what do you want for your career in five, 10 years? And I said well, I want to be respected for my work...But that’s what I’ve got. Being respected for my work." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/m...

NEW on @indicator.media: I found an AI-generated podcast network that has published 350,000 episodes in the past month. That's 11,000 episodes a day, or about one year's worth of audio content. You'll be shocked to find out it's not generating original material.