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This is our satellite. Bought and paid for with taxpayer dollars, appropriated for this specific mission by the elected Congress. Those who would destroy it on purpose are our enemies.

Work to become the ancestor that you respect today. Don't be an embarrassment or disappointment to those who come after you.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

10/10, no notes @vinnythomas.bsky.social

America under GOP rule.

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Tesla hit with $243 million in damages after jury finds its Autopilot feature contributed to fatal crash The verdict follows a three-week trial that threw a spotlight on how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have marketed their driver-assistance software.

A hugely important verdict.

The victims were pedestrians, so Tesla can't argue they knew/accepted Autopilot's risks.

People walking, biking, and inside other cars didn't consent to be Elon Musk's guinea pigs.

They’re trying to speed run Orbanization because they realize how screwed they are if America ever has another relatively free and fair election. I’m not sure what options exist other than having blue states fight fire with fire.

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

Suggested for you Follow ... More than a dozen slavery displays in Philly, including at Washington's former home, have been flagged for a Trump admin review. Thirteen items at the President's House Site, which illustrates the paradox between freedom in the new nation and the ongoing horrors of slavery, were among those flagged for review.

I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”

Citizens United: if govt can’t restrict speech, it can’t restrict spending to disseminate speech. I get disliking the impact, but the constitutional logic is coherent.

Shelby County: the Justices don’t like the Civil Rights Act, and say it’s done enough, so Congress reauthorizing it doesn’t count.

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

Aerial photo of the destruction of Gaza City by Heidi Levine

This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.

Israel has killed most journalists who had drones in Gaza and it's claimed the reason is to avoid scenes from the air showing the destruction.

While Israeli journalists and media publish drone imagery but Israeli military censors get to decide what they publish.

From Reuters:

"Hyper-gentrification is internationally recognized as an act of genocide" is one of those sentences that appears grammatically correct without having any sort of sense content.

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

folks, the Abundance faction are still insisting that solar and wind are not getting built thanks to NIMBY environmentalists 🙃

Everything about this story is horrific:

1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved

WATCH: Maxwell was ineligible to be transferred to a minimum security prison because she is a convicted sex offender. The Bureau of Prisons had to reach in and waive the rule specifically for Maxwell to allow a sex trafficker—a sexual abuser of girls—to be moved to her current facility.

“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer praised President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after the Friday release of the July jobs report.”

thehill.com/business/543...

Dr. Khalidi is planning to offer a public lecture series instead, similar what @karenattiah.bsky.social is doing.

Columbia could have listened to students, faculty, & staff asking them to address complicity in genocide. Instead they betrayed them, maintained complicity, & capitulated to fascism.

I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

Small businesses helped build Musk’s empire. Their unpaid bills add up to millions | CNN Small businesses have filed liens for more than $110 million against Tesla alone in the last five years, with more than $24 million still allegedly owed to dozens of businesses, a CNN analysis found.

Tesla has had $110 million in liens filed against it in Texas alone over the last 5 years. At least two of its vendors have gone bankrupt. This behavior has been going on for a solid decade now, Tesla is simply a terrible business partner.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/u...

Utterly incredible.

My dad worked on weaponizing the immune system against cancer before pivoting to epidemiology, but I vividly remember him telling me that someday we’d be able to fight disease using the body’s own tools and a bit of help.

Just a bit. Absolutely amazing stuff.

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*?

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*which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected