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More and more carbon sinks (especially on land) are turning into sources. Of both CO₂ and CH₄ ('C' is for carbon..) bsky.app/profile/leon...

“ALEC is a pay-to-play operation that brings together state legislators…lobbyists, and right-wing operatives…to write model legislation to advance a…right-wing, pro-corporate, and pro-Republican agenda on everything from gerrymandering and purported election fraud to crushing unions” and more.

A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

If you like Philly soul at all, you'll probably like this. Patti LaBelle sings backup.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints state AG Ashley Moody to the US Senate. She turns around and approves $10 million to Hope Florida, FRAUDULENTLY diverting money from Medicaid to a non-profit for his wife, Casey DeSantis, to spend on 2024 elections. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

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Dahl's short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" is prescient. 1953, IIRC The full text is online here (.pdf) gwern.net/doc/fiction/...

Trump administration demanding hospitals hand over full personally-identifiable data (ie patient names, full medical histories, etc) from ALL emergency room visits to... the Consumer Product Safety Commission?!? www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/h...

Seems bad. “…since President Trump returned to office, the Federal Transit Administration has not signed a single new agreement under the program, known as Capital Investment Grants. Large projects ready to enter the final phase of the program’s years long pipeline have stalled there.”

"When a government describes citizens as a cancer, it has written the first line of a treatment plan. On Thursday, the plan was read aloud, from a state department podium, in six verbs."

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

A federal judge just handed the White House a line straight off an eighth-grade civics quiz: "The President plays no role" in elections. Judge Indira Talwani refused to throw out the case against Trump's mail-ballot order — and called it unconstitutional. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-...

Imagine being a kid and learning that both your parents have been arrested by ICE. You’ll need to survive on your own. This is the reality the Perez kids are living. This week, we shadow the four siblings as they face an impossible choice: Go to Guatemala or stay in Florida as a family torn apart.

Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...

As the piece admits, the second MAHA took power it started gutting basic science, promoting quack treatments and loosening health regulations. *This* is what the movement is. Yet it's up to critics not to conclude or predict anything from these actions and bend over backward to find common cause.

that's the thing; if you want to be a centrist, fine, who cares? you can be a centrist who wants to put corrupt individuals in jail, values and respects the law, and defends institutions, but you have to be willing to take an actual stance on those things, and that's where centrists fail.

yeah the path for the centrists here is Rule of Law but you have to mean it, not just say the words! you have to actually be serious about rule of law and its consequences and throwing the elites in actual for real jail, because people are sick and tired of the slaps on the wrist

Learning that Duck Duck Go let's you block specific sites from search results is a game changer for when you are looking for things and you don't want the first 10 results to be Amazon.

New York and Illinois have recently passed laws allowing people to file civil lawsuits against federal agents. These statutes are meant to fill a gap caused by Supreme Court rulings that have restricted the criteria for these lawsuits based on federal law.