Andrea Bryan

TX lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian Have you heard the news that Texas' senators want to chop up NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery in order to move it from the Smithsonian to Houston? The lawmakers in question have and are now cryi...

Shame on these Senators from Texas!

@slotkin.senate.gov Please help to save Discovery from being torn apart and moved to Texas!

keeptheshuttle.org

I read it. Good article!

A Trump Supporter Sat Next To My 12-Year-Old Black Son On A Plane. I Couldn’t Believe What She Told Him. "My son is growing up to face dangers made worse by the president this woman voted for."

"There's no more reliable marker of privilege than believing, or pretending to believe, that politics has no impact on real life."

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How Musk, Trump, and your boss learned to hate democracy Work is a dictatorship. Is the government next?

When you consider that businesses are run by dictators—that a firm is not a democracy—it makes sense why a series of rich guys at the top of the capitalist world think government can be run without following any laws.

Oh snap!

Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”

Trump's 'massive' deal with Japan is giving US automakers heartburn The preliminary agreement suggests there is a path forward to lowering the auto duties on other major trading partners, as well.

Doesn't sound like "America First" for American automakers.

America is turning into a nation of return fraudsters Whether it's sending back broken items or claiming a package never arrived, Americans are committing return fraud at Amazon and other retailers.

Yikes!

Maine Lobstah Roll & Whoopie Pie

Wtf

Google AI Overviews Says It's Still 2024 When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.”

This is an important reminder about the continued mistakes present in any kind of AI-generated output. A consistent skepticism is still required.

And these kinds of AI errors aren’t going away anytime soon, @thiccreese.bsky.social writes.

‘One of the most heartbreaking tragedies’: Gaza doctor’s last goodbye before nine children killed in airstrike Dr Alaa al-Najjar was at work when Israeli strike destroyed her home, leaving one son and her husband as survivors In the early hours of Friday, as she did every day, Dr Alaa al-Najjar said goodbye to her 10 children before leaving the house. The youngest, Sayden, six months old, was still sleeping. And like every day, with war raging in Gaza and Israeli strikes landing just metres from her neighbourhood in Khan Younis, Najjar worried about leaving them at home without her. But Najjar, 35, had little choice. One of Gaza’s dwindling number of medics, a respected paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, she had to go to work to care for injured babies who had barely survived Israeli attacks. She could never have imagined that that farewell to her family would be her last. Continue reading...

‘One of the most heartbreaking tragedies’: Gaza doctor’s last goodbye before nine children killed in airstrike

State Superintendent Ryan Walters says Bibles will be in Oklahoma classrooms this fall Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters says public school classrooms will receive Bibles in fall 2026 through donations, despite lawmakers rejecting his $3 million funding request.

SMH

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

U.S.-citizen family 'traumatized' after ICE raided their Oklahoma home in search of someone else A mother and her daughters had their phones, laptops and cash life savings confiscated as part of a search warrant issued for other people.

Scary

I Should Have Seen This Coming When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...

"To begin its recovery from Trumpism, America needs its next Whig moment."

What a great article!

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