Fight Fascism #RESIST

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn!

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/climate-journalist-alec-luhn-missing-norwegian-glacier/

If we emerge with a non-fascist society, each and every university administrator who Chamberlained or Vichied to any degree must be ruthlessly expelled from any position of responsibility or influence. Let their name be stricken from every tablet. They shouldn’t run a hot-dog stand.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

apnews.com/article/kenn...
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
This is evil. Lives will be lost because of this. Disgusting.

New non-profit law firm in DC aims to challenge Trump’s executive power | CNN Politics A group of well-known Washington lawyers is opening a law firm focused on challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders and agency actions as he strives to dramatically reshape the federal gov...

New non-profit firm,The Washington Litigation Group, formed by seasoned attorneys, judges & former govt employees who lost jobs when the felon took office,will represent FREE those pushing back on abuse of power. Group already represents a fired independent agency head.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

We Will Not Be Complicit In The Destruction Of Our Own Communities How Texas Democrats are putting their bodies between us and authoritarianism.

We Will Not Be Complicit In The Destruction Of Our Own Communities
#TXpol #gerrymandering

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/we-will-not-be-complicit-in-the-destruction

NPR: Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

"...Schlott has taken old pay phones, modified them to make free calls, and set them up in three different towns across the county. He buys the phones secondhand from sites like eBay and Craigslist and restores them in his home workshop […]

When fast food runs to red states - Salon.com Big food brands are quietly relocating to states like Texas and Tennessee. It’s not always just about the taxes

Fast food giants like In-N-Out and KFC are fleeing blue states, trading worker protections and public health standards for deregulated tax havens in red states. Pandemic backlash, anti-union laws, and GOP culture war pandering drive the exodus.

www.salon.com/2025/0...

Dementia, Depression, and the Nuclear Button: The Shocking Reality of Mental Decline in Command
https://scitechdaily.com/dementia-depression-and-the-nuclear-button-the-shocking-reality-of-mental-decline-in-command/

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

I volunteered to help refugees. I understand my mom better because of it. | Opinion Before my summer internship, I researched the refugee crisis and Afghanistan history. Once I arrived, it was about much more than research or history.

I volunteered to help refugees. I understand my mom better because of it. | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/03/afghanistan-refugees-ecdc-summer-internship/85432941007/

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250730-travel-culture-shock-rick-steves-katty-kay-interview
#Travel

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “Every Republican at every level of government should be challenged, even running for dog catcher… They should be challenged fighting for health care as a human right for every American… let them know there are consequences for taking away people’s health care…”

Racheal Kundananji to Penelope Hocking is pure perfection 🤌

Trump's masked agents aren't keeping us safe-they're just terrorizing immigrant communities. PROPORTION OF IMMIGRANTS TAKEN BY ICE, BY CRIMINAL RECORD [graphic of people representing the proportions below] 7% violent convictions 28% no violent convictions 65% no convictions ICE isn't going after criminals. It's breaking up families. Source: CATO Institute, "65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions" (2025). Photo: Getty Images.

Share this with anyone you see claiming ice is only going after criminals. They aren’t.

#USpol #ice #criminal #abduction #immigration #potus #Indivisible #50501 #50501movement

Not since the Red Scare, when researchers at the University of California had to sign loyalty oaths, and those at the University of Washington and MIT were disciplined or fired for being suspected Communists,
has American science been so beholden to political ideology.
At least during the […]

Just put myself on a $10 monthly donation to WGBH and got PBS Passport. Still cheaper than most of the streaming services I subscribe to.

lol...

MARTA TIES IT FOR BRAZIL TO SEND THE COPA AMÉRICA FEMENINA FINAL TO EXTRA TIMEEE 🇧🇷

People packed into the largest theater at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity on a Thursday evening last October
to watch the world premiere of
"For Winter", a feature-length documentary from the National Geographic Society’s acclaimed Impact Story Lab.

The film followed Dr. Alison […]

Cycle track through central Copenhagen

“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford bike-lanes in #Copenhagen?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it? 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure… bicycling.’” — @mortenkabell.bsky.social

👇🏽

Miami Herald - A Miami jury has found fault with Tesla's Autopilot system and awarded the survivors of a horrendous crash in the Florida Keys more than $242 million.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article311553847.html#storylink=cpy

'DOGE lied': Expert floored as blistering report finds Musk team blew billions The Department of Government Efficiency wasn't so efficient after all. In fact, was extraordinarily wasteful, according to a Thursday report by the U.S. Senate's investigations subcommittee.When Elon Musk spent the early part of this year ransacking the federal government, the billionaire promised t...

Confirmation that it was never about savings.

'DOGE lied': Expert floored as blistering report finds Musk team blew billions
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-2673797223/#

Wrong: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Switzerland." Right: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Americans who buy from Switzerland." Every time you see this mistake, correct it. Every. Time.

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.

During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”

adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out […]

I was researching a legal matter all day and am just now getting caught up with news. Among the items that seem important but lost among all the Trump regime craziness is this, reporting on a 9 day hunger strike by a detainee at the Florida Everglades ICE detention camp […]

I don’t agree with Eric Weinstein about many things, but I think his comments here are relevant, accurate, and worth listening to.

“We tripped over a thing…a structure…we named the structure Jeffrey Epstein.”

We know about Epstein, but there are other similar structures unknown to us.

Devin Duke
@sirDukeDevin

Jul 1
A Bible lesson for MAGA:

mike luckovich
@mluckovichajc

Jul 29
Place windmills in areas with steady air flow...