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I just realized my new students are about to see my name on their schedule as their science teacher and I find that so precious. We’re about to meet!!! I wish we had a million more months of summer but I’m also already grateful for them. And they better not be little gremlins.

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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

(Published April)

Scorching cells How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... - this is torture

White House freezes $108m in funds to Duke University over affirmative action Trump administration says North Carolina school violated Civil Rights Act by using racial preferences in hiring

Whose next? US higher education is in free fall.

https:www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/white-house-duke-university-racial-discrimination

A legal permanent resident researching cures for Lyme disease has been detained by immigration officials for over a week.

He has reportedly been denied access to an attorney and his family has not been given a reason for his detention.

We cannot become immune to this cruelty.

if life becomes even a tiny little bit harder I will let the wasps take me

This was really wild because writing this article (which explained how female lions are in charge of the pride) really revealed to me how common it is for men to make male lions their entire personality and definition of manhood.

I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.

so what happens when internet censorship and privacy is on the cusp of happening and no one at any level of power in any country seems to want to do anything about it

If he's so wowed by this, he should check out how much faster people learn these skills by taking arts & humanities classes.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Imagine if a reporter just told him "we have just obtained video" without clarifying a video of what. Imagine what that would do to his blood pressure

三 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 218 hostages held by Hamas, irerusalem, January zz, 2024. (PMO Spokesperson) What was the atmosphere like? "We left the meeting very disappointed because Netanyahu talked about dismantling Hamas as the goal of the war. He didn't promise anything regarding the demand to return the hostages. He merely said a military operation in Gaza was needed to serve as leverage for the hostages' release. HIGHLIGHTED SECTION: "We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer."

Next time someone says “but the hostages” or “ but Hamas” —they deserve a throat punch.

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

the enshittification of education is underway

restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

It only makes sense if you have a eugenicist mindset that it somehow counts less when a disabled person dies.

It makes no sense to frame this as some sort of correction — adequate nutrition is more important for kids with health conditions, not less.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

It’s been 2 months since it came out that a bunch of NYPD cops, including one of Adams’ bodyguards, helped torture that Italian guy for his crypto wallet.

A tweet from NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) reads: "We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below." Below the tweet is an image with text on a dark blue background. The text states: “Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.” — A spokesperson for The New York Times.

Genocide from starvation apparently doesn't count if there was a preexisting condition according to the New York Times.

anyone else ever call bluesky skitter?

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire

It’s really weird that Congress decided not to treat this as a constitutional crisis. The chief executive is constitutionally obligated to execute the laws that Congress passes.

Trump has just decided he doesn’t have to do that—and Congress hasn’t done anything. Now, we’re post-constitutional.

Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.

Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

I maintain that we’re still underestimating how many deaths RFK Jr will be directly responsible for, and how extremely difficult it is going to be, years from now, to stand up everything he’s razing for fun.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

US citizen hospitalized after ICE encounter at the supermarket Angela Lima is in the hospital after being beaten by ICE agents outside an Ontario, California Stater Brothers market.

Passive Language alert.

Here's a more informative sentence from the article's body:

"he was given a concussion by the agents as they placed him under arrest."