Naunihal Singh

A pale, heart-faced owl with mottled tan and white plumage, perched under a wooden structure.

I found a sleepy Barn Owl this morning in...a barn.

#owls #birds #nature

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

Just want to talk about this for a bit. The Executive Branch's position (supported by DC Circuit Judge Neomi Rao here) is that no matter how bad the misconduct was, a judge simply can't force the Executive Branch to engage in diplomacy to undo it.

Sit on that for a minute.

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

Many job applicants are turning down offers to work for Veterans Affairs, worried that the positions are not stable and uneasy with the overall direction of the agency.

Records show nearly 40% of the ~2,000 doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down.

A blue and yellow box with a large image of Tony Soprano, with other characters from The Sopranos standing behind him. At the bottom of the box it reads "Tony's Macaroni" with the HBO logo flanked by stalks of wheat

Tony’s Macaroni (1999-2000): Little macaroni shaped like the "HBO" logo, in a box covered with images of the cast of "The Sopranos". It was released as a promotional item to the media and collectible outlets for the series premiere

Photo essay: Country & Eastern Kenyan interest in country music goes all the way back to the 1920s and 1930s, when locals first heard Jimmie Rodgers on early country and western records.

Photo Essay: Nashville or Nairobi? That’s a potato, potahto question when it comes to country music in East Africa. Kenyan interest in country music goes all the way back to the 1920s and 1930s, when locals first heard Jimmie Rodgers on early country and western records.

Sudan’s Civil War Shifts Toward Kordofan Since the Sudanese Army drove its paramilitary rival from the capital in March, the two sides are battling for territorial gains in the Kordofan region.

The center of Sudan’s brutal civil war has shifted west as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces intensifies. More civilians are being killed in what rights groups say is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Why do we separate students by athletic aptitude and ability easily but feel it is wrong to do so for learning? I don’t want to be with the native language speakers. I also don’t want to train with the varsity athletes. Let me learn in the right environment for me and let others go at their speed.

If you, regular person, did anything like this after a fatal car accident, you would be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, including insurance fraud.

If you then repeatedly lied to the courts about it, like Tesla did, you'd get prosecuted for that too, plus stiff monetary sanctions.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine:

"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

Burgum: "When the sun goes down, you have a catastrophic failure called sunset and there's no solar energy produced, and yet we're subsidizing these things that are intermittent, unreliable, and expensive. We've gotta get back to base load."

The Best Gear for Your Go Bag These items will meet your needs for water, nourishment, comfort, and more while you evacuate to a safe location.

Say what you will about NYT, but wirecutter is taking an appropriately dark turn:
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Ford Takes $800 Million Tariff Hit, Posts First Loss Since 2023 The levies on imported parts helped wipe out the company’s net profit in the second quarter.

Despite manufacturing most of its vehicles in the USA… The company said tariff-related costs will cut about $2 billion from its annual earnings, more than the $1.5 billion it predicted three months ago.”

www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

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.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Top Generals Nominated for New Positions Must Now Meet With Trump

All four-star general nominees must now interview with President Trump. The goal is to "ensure they are war fighters first — not bureaucrats,” says the WH.
Some fear it could politicize the general officer corps.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier.

The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events.

Let's take a closer look.

Osu "Castle," built by the Danes as a slave trading fort in 1660s, seat of colonial government (and beyond). Door of no return for human traffic to the Americas. The Atlantic that bore Africans off to bondage. My book, The Second Emancipation, out on August 26. www.publishersweekly.com/9781324092452

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Birth rates were already declining before this but I think the precipitous drop was in part because of the feeling of hopelessness settling in about the course of the country - the feeling that the social bargain was collapsing and the ladders were being pulled up.

I was working though boot.dev because I got a free month. The second or third project is to create a gen AI coding agent. The last thing it did was to fix a bug by replacing the entire program with a print statement that printed the expected answer to fix the bug and removed all other functionality

“Trading Places” (2025): An African-Gujarati Instagrammer and a Gujarati-African aspiring mayor switch lives for a month. The IG’er has to thread his way through the “Race / Ethnicity” section on the Columbia application while the future mayor cranks out funny reels

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

📊 Silent changes, serious risks: US gov datasets quietly altered

A new study found nearly half of 232 US health datasets were changed, mostly replacing 'gender' with 'sex', without logging or explanation.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm #Data 🧪

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

How on earth is burning nearly a million dollars' worth of nutritious biscuits meant for starving children even remotely sensible. It doesn't save money, and children will go hungry. The GOP wants these kids to suffer. That seems to be the message.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

For all Trump’s affinity for Putin’s strongman aura, the Donald’s intensely personal approach to policymaking has always meant that he might, in a sudden mood swing, escalate the U.S. military role in the Ukraine war in ways that Biden never did. www.ft.com/content/b66f...

Exclusive | U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants Five countries whose leaders held talks with Trump at the White House were sent a U.S. proposal to accept deportees, document shows.

This is vile. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...