Recently retired community college instructor - I taught micro to future healthcare people especially nurses. Also curious about astronomy, geology, museums, art, funny things.
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds sayImmigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.www.charlotteobserver.com
You can see why Ross Douthat would want to leave the New York Times to go work for a network that bases stories on lies printed in the New York Post that they then have to retract.
Raw StoryCBS News ran a claim that "thousands of 9/11 victims' families" want Mamdani banned. The petition organizer told a journalist she has no actual list and the 300 figure was just an estimate. CBS News has since corrected its coverage
The Trump administration announced today that it intended to end a Biden-era program that for the past two years has helped tamp down the cost of monthly premiums for drug coverage for people on Medicare. #Inners #LastWord www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums (Gift Article)Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.www.nytimes.com
This too. Good lord. bsky.app/profile/raws...
Raw StoryCBS News ran a claim that "thousands of 9/11 victims' families" want Mamdani banned. The petition organizer told a journalist she has no actual list and the 300 figure was just an estimate. CBS News has since corrected its coverage
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YouGov AmericaNEW Economist/YouGov Jul 25-27 72% of Independents strongly or somewhat disapprove of Trump's job performance, and only 19% approve — a net approval of -53, his lowest ever At this point in Trump's first term, his net approval among Independents was -5 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
happy election day to those who celebrate! two things to watch today to close July: ➡ a congressional special election in Georgia (should be an easy Dem hold) ➡ a primary runoff that will effectively decide the next governor of South Dakota details in my July guide! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
AAUP and UCLA *unions* protected us. The university did little to nothing.
Greg Sargent"Universities like Columbia are not better off for having capitulated last year. They compromised their independence and suffered reputational damage, yet are still subject to [Trump's] arbitrary behavior." Read @ryanenos.bsky.social on need to resist Trump: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...
A clip of Dr. Oz's wife is going around: She says she delayed vaccines required for school. And Trump is pressing HHS to cut the # of recommended vaccines. Both say they're not antivax. But delays are putting kids in the hospital. Read what doctors say: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
The federal government is taking swipes at funding for teen pregnancy prevention, causing concerns in Ohio and elsewhere as advocates attempt to keep helping teens. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/28/a...
As federal teen pregnancy prevention grants get cut, efforts in Ohio try to keep helping • Ohio Capital JournalThe federal government is taking swipes at funding for teen pregnancy prevention, causing concerns in Ohio and elsewhere, but also bringing about discussion when it comes to teens who are already…ohiocapitaljournal.com
Tallinn's Nevsky Cathedral may be sold, demolished or made into a museum news.err.ee/1610088106/t...
Tallinn's Nevsky Cathedral may be sold, demolished or made into a museumInterior Minister Igor Taro's call to end the Moscow‑affiliated church's lease for the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral has revived debate over the landmark's future, with proposals ranging from relocating…news.err.ee
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in ThereA trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.futurism.com
Tell me you don’t understand the global economy without telling me…oh, never mind.
Aaron RuparKILMEADE: So the USMCA, are you looking to update that? TRUMP: I don't care. I don't really want to. I'd rather be independent. Here's the thing -- Mexico and Canada need us. We don't need them.
A thread series of paleographic challenges for anyone bored enough and/or in need of procrastination! Essentially I have some good best guesses, and have decided to crowdsource haha. No alt-text, but all annotations on a bible i'm working on! TYSM in advance as always! #earlymodern 🗃️ 1/?
