Redneck Lefty

This is right and also: given the nature of this defunding, we also need to think about the mechanism(s) for that funding. The CPB nuclear option that has unfolded is a sword of Damocles that has hung over public media for decades and impacted many decisions even before now. Need to rethink.

The cover up is happening in plain sight.

Where are those QAnon folks these days? We now actually have a government that is led by a sex trafficker’s pal, and trying to help convicted sex traffickers.

There was a LOOOOONG delay in issuing the supplemental briefing order, burying it on a Friday in August rather than at the end of the Supreme Court term when everyone was paying attention.

If you find yourself in Portland in a week or so and are in desperate need of a raven tote bag (who isn’t) head straight to Powell’s to snag one of these 🐦‍⬛💕

Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida

Today's quirky joy is a newfound awareness of competitive spreadsheeting www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Just for the record, Wiatrowski is a longtime BLS employee, a dedicated public servant, someone who has been acting commissioner before, and someone I would have total confidence in during a normal transfer of power. The scary part is who they replace *him* with.

AI shouldn’t be relied upon for fact checking.

X AI Grok suggested that this photo of a child from Gaza taken by AP photographer on July 26 is originally a Yazidi girl from 2014 near Iraq or Syria border. Despite sharing original links & EXIF data, Grok is again sharing false claims.

Three formative events for me as a young woman in the 1990s were all centered on Americans absolutely trashing different women for different circumstances: Anita Hill, Monica Lewinsky, and Chelsea Clinton.

Your semi-regular plug for Dr Nerdlove (www.doctornerdlove.com) who is *amazing* at offering compassionate, practical advice that is not shy about calling out toxic masculinity and implicit misogyny and working to decouple masculinity from both of them.

Ojisan Kaichou & @OjisanKaichou • 6h @grok medically speaking, how likely is this to be actual fentanyl exposure versus the officer having a panic attack due to thinking she'd been exposed? Grok v @grok Medically, it's far more likely a panic attack from perceived exposure than actual fentanyl toxicity. Experts (e.g., Dr. Ryan Marino, ACMT) confirm no verified overdoses from casual skin contact or inhalation-fentanyl doesn't absorb that way quickly. Symptoms like sudden collapse match anxiety, not opioid effects (drowsiness, slowed breathing). Narcan helps but isn't needed here.

Grok has fallen

"[D]uring droughts when California has enforced restrictions on delivery of surface water to its farmers ... the enormous agriculture enterprises that dominate the Central Valley have drilled deeper and pumped harder, depleting the aquifer — which the state regulates less precisely — even more."

Just sat in the gallery in the Alaska Capitol and watched the legislature override two of the Governors vetoes. Democracy in action.
Schools have funding!

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

she posts videos of them trying to get away from her on tiktok that are sped up yakety sax style and scored by norteno music, theyre hilarious

people got taken to cecot without due process, were tortured then sent home, both governments involved are now throwing their hands up saying "we didnt do it"

Interesting how anyone who opposes the authoritarian assault on Democracy is called a liberal. Call me a liberal when I’m advancing free public education through Masters degree. Call me liberal when every American is housed, fed, educated…not when I’m defending the U.S. Constitution.
Scraps.

Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools. Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-th...

If you want to see the consequences of low education funding, look no further than Alaska.

How Alaska’s Budget Crisis Has Kept the State From Fixing Crumbling Rural Schools @emilyschwing.bsky.social

If we are not educating our children, what are we even doing here?

Holy shit this is crazy. Just pure rentier tyranny

I can't emphasize enough how much your direct action, calling these processors every day, has forced these statements and the news coverage to happen. It's so important that we keep going. We have been shown they can bleed so be like sharks. Keep up the pressure and more things will start cracking.

The Epstein Saga Is Not a Game. It’s About Protecting Women. Donna Ladd reflects on her own story amid the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga of rape, retribution and the protection of sexual predators.

DEMOCRACY: "What kind of person wants to cover for these monsters who get their kicks from stalking and trapping prey?" Donna Ladd writes.

Transphobia is infuriating AND self-defeating. If you're AFAB, you're going to go through menopause...HRT has been a lifesaver for me. It may even stave off dementia!

If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?

A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.

Harris Camp Warns Supporters: Don’t Get Duped by ‘Scam PACs’ Democrats for years have grumbled about shady operatives within their ranks. It’s bursting out into public right as the campaign heats up.

just adding a note — looks like harris sent out a warning last year. imo this she could not have realistically taken this on, given the condensed campaign timeline.

but there's been ZERO action from any other democratic party leaders. as OP discusses, it's a corrupt, symbiotic relationship.

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

My most selfish reason for wanting everybody to use alt text is so it works when I take the time to mute the name of somebody I don’t want to see on the timeline but then I have to. Anyways

Grand Canyon blaze grows into a megafire and creates its own weather. It’s not done yet | CNN The Dragon Bravo Fire exploded in size along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim this week as heat and strong winds drove the growth.

It's almost like gutting the NPS and illegally firing thousands of rangers and wildland firefighters was a stupid idea.

Agustín Fuentes, bioanthropologist: ‘Saying that human beings are binary is a failure; it’s not biology, it’s philosophy’ The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and ...

Sex and gender ARE NOT BINARY. Seriously.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Loni Anderson, ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ Star, Dies at 79 She received two Emmy noms for being "the smartest person in the room" on the CBS sitcom and tons of tabloid attention for her 1988-94 marriage to Burt Reynolds.

Sorry to see this. Loni Anderson was the calm center of the chaotic world of WKRP IN CINCINNATI, one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. I’d read her book a few years ago — sorry I never got to ask her about it. Very sad news. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/l...

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that