Reposted by スコットMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4hThis is a profound violation not just of journalistic ethics, but basic human decency 112826
Reposted by スコットThe Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 4hA newly revealed account exposes the corruption, cruelty and casual indifference of a German administrator in occupied Polandthetimes.comSex, sleaze and schnapps: Nazi memoir reveals everyday business of terror 092
Reposted by スコットMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 815549
Reposted by スコットwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6hTish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Margaret Thatcher in NE England (© Ella Murtha) #WomensArt 8533103
Reposted by スコットKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 12hMike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...share.googleFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA facultyFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. 1202429808
Reposted by スコットMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11hThe late great JOHN CANDY killing it as Orson Welles on THE BILLY CRYSTAL COMEDY HOUR (1982) 12959160
Reposted by スコットJoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 16hEight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America. 11375219
スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 11hTrump trumpets a massive $54 billion energy investment promised by South Korea. South Korea: Eh, no. We committed to nothing. www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/b...cnn.comTrump announced a $54 billion energy investment from South Korea. South Korea said he jumped the gun | CNN BusinessA struggling project to export natural gas from Alaska has turned into another potential sticking point in the allies’ long-running negotiations over trade. 000
Reposted by スコットMingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And he didn't do it alone. 283126823513
Reposted by スコットDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 14hNEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 10625401515
Reposted by スコットMatthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 14hWhat is a funeral if not an opportunity to talk about how awesome the dictator of America is? 141
Reposted by スコットTom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sting gets a lot of stick but I’ll forgive him for most things because of this impromptu rendition of The Flintstones theme with Branford Marsalis, Omar Hakim & Kenny Kirkland youtu.be/9ImmEXJfi34?...youtu.beFlintstones (Sting, Branford Marsalis, Omar Hakim, Kenny Kirkland)YouTube video by ケースケ 45614
スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 14hAmerica preferred the madness, bigotry, and destruction of Trump and Vance over the measured sanity and empathy of Harris and Walz. “Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.” — Joseph de Maistre (1811) 000
スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 14hMenorca is soooo much nicer than Mallorca or Ibiza. A billion times better. 000
Reposted by スコットDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 18hI've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 239166684434
Reposted by スコットMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16hIn actual democracies, it doesn't matter "which party runs elections." You don't "need a plan to vote." There aren't never-ending pitched legal battles to maintain access to suffrage. The authoritarian nonsense isn't tolerated. We could be like other, more serious countries, & just have elections. 59631
Reposted by スコットRep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 16hThis corruption must be investigated. 735127925005
Reposted by スコットMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 17hScoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community. 24727423
Reposted by スコットThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15hA baby fur seal was spotted wandering through a busy road and alley in Wellington, New Zealand, before police moved it to a safer location. Baby seals often venture into unusual places between June and September, a period the Department of Conservation call “seal silly season.” 412530
Reposted by スコットFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16hTrump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit 2271100308
Reposted by スコットMaria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 15hHow do you know that you love, really love, somebody? A litmus test from philosopher Martha Nussbaum and Proust www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/16/m...themarginalian.orgHow Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust“The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart.” 092
Reposted by スコットLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15h‘Some memoirs of the Leningrad siege tell stories of heroism on the part of the embattled population, but not Olga Freidenberg’s. It was a Hobbesian world of every man for himself, in which nobody could be trusted.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on the Russian literary scholar. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukSheila Fitzpatrick · Double Barbarism: Stalin under the Blanket‘Siege’ became a key metaphor in Olga Freidenberg’s analysis of her own life and that of Soviet society; and she... 2276
Reposted by スコットAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 17hSome stores are unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h, and recommending rider ages younger than provincial regulations allow, a CBC Marketplace shows. www.cbc.ca/news/marketp... via @cbcnews.cacbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young... 3138
Reposted by スコットPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 17hHi Nobel Prize! Hope you are doing well. Does Canada need to proactively close our border just in case, or are we good? Wink twice if we need to close. 37111
Reposted by スコットCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18hOrder of Canada Investiture Ceremony - Michael J. Fox #Canada www.cpac.ca/public-recor...cpac.caOrder of Canada Investiture CeremonyIn a ceremony at Rideau Hall, Governor General Louise Arbour presides over a presentation of Canadian honours. Feed courtesy of Rogers tv 20589166
Reposted by スコットMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17hCalling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants. 271150704511
Reposted by スコットThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h‘Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technologytheguardian.com‘Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technologyPatrick McCabe’s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities system 110827
Reposted by スコット🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 19h"At least 50 health workers have died after contracting the virus." This shouldn't be happening. People shouldn't be dying when the go to work to help others. We should have better OHS procedures for HCWs in the Congo. Independent inquiry, now.statnews.comAn Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. 27936
Reposted by スコットOlga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 17hI read about the break-ins in Finland and immediately remembered a story John Sipher told me years ago when he was stationed in Moscow. I don’t know if Russia is behind this but it does have the hallmarks of an old KGB tacticolgalautman.substack.comSomeone Is Entering the Homes of Finnish MPs and Leaving Signs BehindToday, for a change, I am not writing about explosions, arson attacks, drone incursions, information operations, or critical infrastructure going up in flames somewhere in Europe. 1218790
Reposted by スコットPlanetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 17hCrater Fact Friday ☄️ DID YOU KNOW ☄️ that Meteor Crater in Arizona is one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth? During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA astronauts trained in the crater to prepare for the Apollo missions to the Moon, and ongoing field training for astronauts continues to this day. 1215
Reposted by スコットThe Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 17hChristopher Brain, who founded Nine O’Clock Service, ‘dominated and abused his position’ to sexually assault a ‘staggering number of women’thetimes.comFormer priest who ran rave-inspired ‘cult’ guilty of rape 066
Reposted by スコットRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19hAnnouncing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit 422131812694
Reposted by スコットKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 18hin fact IIRC 49.5% of the company is owned by the Chinese, Saudis, and Qatar FCC boss Brendan Carr rubber stamped it, despite spending five years whining about China's purported influence over TikTok 09424
Reposted by スコットKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 19hthe Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers 15624268
Reposted by スコットYukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 18h"The shared goal for the three projects is to establish colonies across Europe. These colonies will be connected by migrating birds, to form breeding pairs of different lineage and creating a robust gene pool to ensure survival" - @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRare northern bald ibises take flight in human-led European migration projectMicro aircraft used to help guide birds to Spanish stopover as part of efforts to create sustaining migratory population 011
Reposted by スコットJames McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 18hThis shit is so god damn annoying. Fix your country. Stop waging unprovoked economic war. Close the concentration camps. globalnews.ca/news/1208422...globalnews.caU.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.caSome American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border. 2834493
Reposted by スコットStewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 18hIf you want non-citizens to visit your country, a good first step is to stop imperilling non-citizens who come to the country! 37421
Reposted by スコットSave the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 18h🚨 CBC Marketplace visited 12 GTA stores. Ten sold e-bikes or e-scooters capable of exceeding Ontario speed limits; staff at six explained or demonstrated bypassing limiters. Child e-scooter fall hospitalizations rose from 54 to 150 in one year. Are current safety rules keeping up? 2136
Reposted by スコットYukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 18hIn the early 1990s, I volunteered as a trained rape crisis counsellor in a small city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Decades later, I still think about the some of the survivors, their stories, & how nothing has changed. So all this, everywhere 👇 141
Reposted by スコットPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 19hIs this front page news everywhere, the way it would have been if Biden was president? 0489
Reposted by スコットSarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...alternet.orgKennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianosPhotos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week. 1451660989
スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 19hBut of course. www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...cnn.comTrump administration shifts funds from human rights to supporting far-right causes | CNN PoliticsThe US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding “Western civiliza... 000
Reposted by スコットMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 19hTeenage boy just got on train at my stop in Berlin. Lonsdale jacket, belt covered in Nazi runes. So strange how Germany allowed this to become such a large part of the youth culture. 49423
Reposted by スコットPaul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 20hSkyDance refers to the nimble dancing they will have to do to avoid their creditors. 12412