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Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

I’m as delighted as the next guy that the MAGA cult's tearing itself apart over an Epstein client list that probably doesn’t exist. But within the entire voting population, that's like 20%.

Now, some fresh research suggests this critical group of working-class voters is more liberal than you think.

Wow! And Bierstadt painted an "empty" west!

I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using

As Parks Get Shortchanged on City Budget, NYC Biodiversity Faces Risks, Report Says - City Limits A recent report by the NYC Biodiversity Task Force says the city needs more funds to protect its increasingly at-risk fauna and flora.

Read @marianasimoes.bsky.social : like most east coast cities NYC severely underfunds its Flora & Fauna, despite all that it's Flora & Fauna do for the voting population. In fact, NYC cut its park budget again, a death knell for its still kinda secret biodiversity!
citylimits.org/as-parks-get...

Mamdani's Primary Coalition Made Inroads With Voters at NYCHA - City Limits Among the usually moderate public housing voters who helped power Eric Adams to the mayoralty, Zohran Mamdani outperformed expectations.

Among the usually moderate public housing voters who helped power Eric Adams to the mayoralty, Zohran Mamdani outperformed expectations in last month’s Democratic primary.

See @patrickspauster.com's map of all NYCHA developments' first-round ballot results: bit.ly/4eWhvMI

A major new exposé from @nytimes.com reveals how UnitedHealth works to intimidate and silence critics of its often predatory and exploitative treatment of patients.

www.democracynow.org/2025/7/16/ny...

On the end of Oranginas and the perpetuation of auras! Spoiler alert: yes can be smarter than no!

From Camarillo to Carpinteria, firing tear gas and less lethals at children, congressman being denied entry by soldiers, and one lone man tries to stop a military convoy with his El Camino.

Raids are still happening over L.A. today, btw, and Santa Ana is being hit especially hard right now.

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

Good News About Beech Leaf Disease The city’s forests may be in trouble, but scientists have developed some ingenious ways to save them.

Incredible reporting by journalist @robtsullivan.bsky.social for @nymag.com on the threats to NYC's urban forests and how foresters and activists are working to save them. You can find NAC staff and our NYC Park colleagues featured in this comprehensive exploration: bit.ly/3SMZlTt

Reposting for no particular reason

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Watch as this LAPD cop takes deliberate aim at an Australian reporter, then shoots her at close range. I would fire the police chief over this. Inexcusable thuggery.

also the word 'purpose' always trips us up. (also see 'divine creator')

Congrats - great show!

He Went to Fight Megafires, and Ended Up Respecting Them

I wrote about WHEN IT ALL BURNS, and Jordan Thomas does a great job reminding us that the US govt's banning of the landscape practices that used fire went hand in hand with destroying indigenous cultures. Megafires feel like ecological payback. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...

Huge rec for Jordan Thomas’s excellent first-hand account of hotshot firefighting in the climate crisis, WHEN IT ALL BURNS - out today!

We’ll talk about it TONIGHT @ 7 at Park Slope Community Bookstore, presented by @thedrift-mag.bsky.social

Come! www.eventbrite.com/e/jordan-tho...

Great talk. I was there! It’s thrilling to see this vital organization in action despite adversity

It’s more important now than ever to support The Internet Archive

ICE arrests nearly 20 in Norristown as immigrant community calls on Montco commissioners to act As ICE moves aggressively in Norristown, Philly workers are warned of impending raids at the Italian Market. Immigrant advocates plan a Saturday protest.

Via @inquirer.com

YouTube video by Historic New Jersey Recordings Sam and Louise Sullivan - Africando 95 (Official Music Video)

I-95 in Philadelphia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqC...

Can't stop listening to these catchy tunes...

This is the NYC real estate investment playbook the president and his family are so familiar with: holding depressed assets until they are hot again. Only now he controls the timing of the depression, the level of pain, and the heat. Hope reporters will tune in...

Heartbroken for D.C. This senseless "cost-cutting" is a ruse to turn the entire city into a depressed asset, so that fired workers need to sell their houses at a low cost to "investors" - i.e. friends of the president. Once sold, gov't can be pumped back up to revalue the assets at a higher rate.

Sam & Louise Share New Single “Avalon” {meta_description}

My fav Philly band, naturally . . .
www.undertheradarmag.com/news/sam_lou...

Tom McAllister’s 'It All Felt Impossible' Explores Growing Up in Philadelphia in 42 Essays McAllister’s heartfelt and darkly funny new book navigates the ups and downs of being raised in Philly, and the adult who came out the other side.

Over at @phillymag.com we have an excerpt from @tmcallister.bsky.social's great new book, out this week:

Dave McCormick calls for an end to ‘vicious, personal attacks’ against John Fetterman’s well-being and wife, Gisele McCormick said he knows Fetterman to be “authentic, decent, principled, and a fighter."

Will Fetterman pull a Specter? In other words, is there a Specter spectre in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Republican House Reps Anna Paulina Luna, Andy Ogles, and Tony Gonzales are able to visit the prison in El Salvador but the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, gets arrested trying to inspect an ICE detention center in the city he governs?

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A curious place to be: many hoping that the autocratic ruler of a theocratic Christian state will slow the advance of a would-be authoritarian who draws support from Christian nationalists.

Avalon Sam and Louise Sullivan · Single · 2025 · 1 songs

It's the song of the summer, and it's just out now!
open.spotify.com/album/1N7qhz...