Reposted by MMark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/09/2026Science world (and everyone who knows someone with cancer or dementia): Keep an eye on this! It looks like another try at the pocket rescission gambit. 4259102
Reposted by MTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine. 321130455
Reposted by MBryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires, are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner! We're through the looking glass here, people… 0131
Reposted by MBryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For a guy who voted to overturn Chevron, Alito sure is a big fan of deferring to agencies on matters of rulemaking authority. [For those of you non-law-nerds, that was a VICIOUS burn. A total Vince Carter windmill dunk. Please react accordingly] 3212
M @dirigoblu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comChris Pratt's Shocked ReactionALT: Chris Pratt's Shocked Reaction 010
M @dirigoblu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026But! And hear me out: at least this consistent dependence on fossil fuels from the Middle East isn’t woke like the Green New Deal would’ve been. 012
Reposted by MKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Will Johnson have the guts - and awareness of the threat AI poses - to do it? Toss up 6931425
Reposted by MAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToonature.comRewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal 192514846
M @dirigoblu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I feel like I should thank you for willing this improvement into existence 😄 000
Reposted by MBryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the legal process. When you win the case, there is no need to appeal. 1836
Reposted by MRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026that’s a way you lose a game in 1947 when the game clock is operated via hand crank 540939
M @dirigoblu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Still coming to terms with the fact that the most social media engagement I’ve ever had/will ever have is because I posted a video of a football player projectile vomiting. 000
Reposted by Mceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218924413
Reposted by MNPR @npr.org · 26/06/2026Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvtn.prEx-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by TrumpFormer NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. 391993780
Reposted by Mleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier 228140353950
Reposted by MAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I really can’t think of many things more dangerous for the future health and wellbeing of this country than putting Russ Vought in charge of our scientific output. 619666
Reposted by MMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep 1906720985
Reposted by MShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 23/04/2026Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.yousofazizi.comFree Yousof Azizi 191575850
Reposted by Mrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...openculture.comA Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning ClarityGreat swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla... 2241681304
Reposted by MBryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Every day I wake up, and I spend my day hoping to be teleported to a Waffle House. And I inevitably go to bed without having been teleported to a Waffle House. 181
M @dirigoblu.bsky.social · 10/04/2026If Michigan somehow manages to also win the Frozen Four, I will formally renounce sports. 000
Reposted by MThe Onion @theonion.com · 08/04/2026Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmo… 183690517
Reposted by MBryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Okay I was hoping we could have ONE DAY of basking in sporting victory and dunking on rivals. Just ONE. But nooooooooooo. Captain Sundowner had to go and crank up the crazy to Full Batshit, so we’ve gotta spend part of today wondering whether we have sufficient canned goods. 3474
Reposted by MSeth M. Fisher @mgoseth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I THOUGHT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD mgoblog.com/content/hist...mgoblog.com 1595
Reposted by MDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...donmoynihan.substack.comFederal employees are not okA new survey shows collapsing federal employee morale 472029837
Reposted by MBrian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026so if i have this right things they themselves said while under oath are causing them reputational damage. interesting! 323129
Reposted by MJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...404media.coI Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For ThemselvesThe hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE. 19158492119
Reposted by MBrian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026one thing you realize when you hear the doge bros talk is that they are very, very dumb. like need to be reminded to breathe. also most of them were working at spacex/tesla/twitter or in investment banking before this so, uh, what’s that say about all those places 320047
Reposted by MAlex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 22/02/2026The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...darksky.orgSatellite proposals threaten the night skyIn the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations… 12435742739
Reposted by MNick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 07/03/2026think my favorite part of today's College Football Idiot's White House Convention is the fact Nick Saban is STILL carrying himself as a symbol of ethics in a sport that had to name rules after him because he broke them on purpose so many times (not to mention ran a program that paid everyone) 412716
Reposted by MJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026folks we’re going to see some wild litigation between the world’s worst people 151935314
Reposted by MDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026USAID money that saved people’s lives now reallocated to create a paid entourage for the guy who promised to put federal employees in trauma 9750269
Reposted by MAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/01/2026The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...theatlantic.comPurge the Public ServantsThe destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too. 28853319
Reposted by MPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The issue isn't whether "Melania" is a good movie or a bad one. It's that one of the richest men in America, with business interests affected by public policy, gave the President's family $75 million to make it. Like that's somehow legal. 371687400
Reposted by MThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/01/2026In his first full year back in office, Donald Trump presided over the purging of roughly 300,000 federal workers. Franklin Foer spoke with dozens of former federal employees. He tells Hanna Rosin what he learned:bit.lyThe Federal Government That WasIn his first full year back in office, Donald Trump presided over the destruction of America’s civil service, purging roughly 300,000 workers. 410837
Reposted by MMatt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!” 47877284127
Reposted by MJeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 15353262
