Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
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“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Shame
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD!!! MEN ARE DANCING IN DIRECT CONTRAVENTION OF FOOTLOOSE TOWN RULES!!!
Trump’s speed with getting the Covid vaccine to the public is regarded by many Americans as one of the only positive accomplishments of his first term. Now to undo it
Pure extortion.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
BREAKING NEWS: The FBI has descended upon the house of John Bolton, former national security advisor to Donald Trump who broke with Trump and has openly criticized him. www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...
Time to get tough. When they try to cheat we have to fight.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
The Trump plan to increase veteran homelessness. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...
“FDA’s New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies” Meanwhile, RFK Jr’s commission issued a report that was “later found to be filled w/ citations for fake studies … We still don’t know if the commission used Elsa [the FDA’s AI tool] to generate that report.” 7/23/25…1/ h/t @awkword.bsky.social
Motivation is Everything 🤡
NEW: More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
Three Republican presidents were male cheerleaders in college: George W. Bush at Yale, Ronald Reagan at Eureka, and Dwight D. Eisenhower at West Point. I'll wait for the GOP to comment on that, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
The DOJ halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law.
Forcing vaccines off the market is the whole idea, as RFK Jr. has been rabidly antivax for two decades. Forcing shots off the market has *always* been the whole idea. We warned you. You didn't listen. www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/h...
Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
NEWS: The Fifth Circuit today reversed Judge Matt Kacsmaryk's ruling allowing West Texas A&M's president to ban a charity drag show on campus. Today, Judge Leslie Southwick, a GWB appointee, wrote the opinion reversing Kacsmaryk. Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/university...
You get arrested at 2:30, missing the 3:15 pick up time at your kid's school. You bail yourself at 6pm but by then, the school has called child services. You miss work trying to find your kid and lose your job. You're $50 late on rent w/o that shift. Your whole life gone bc of a couple hours in jail
This is actually an excellent summary of recent events.
I live above my store which is currently hosting a comedy show. I’m laying on my bed listening to live comedy right now
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It seems like a backwards sort of justice that ICE can beat the shit out of targets but residents can’t aggressively serve sandwiches to ICE
#Putin getting the welcome he deserves in #Anchorage #Alaska this afternoon.
BREAKING: DC leadership rejects Bondi order and asserts she has no authority to rescind DC police orders or to replace the police chief. Will a lawsuit follow?
Amazing how many of our current villains have similar origin stories: Someone criticized them or failed to give them the respect / status to which they felt entitled. Naturally, this left them with no choice but to destroy the offending institution/s, possibly the whole country.
Opinion | I’m a free market conservative who believes government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub. Here’s why I support Trump’s takeover of America’s microchip industry.
That honestly seems to be Battacharya's problem. He thought COVID would be like other coronaviruses (despite it being novel, with zero immunity in the population 🤷♂️), was wrong, and is causing increasingly immense harm to justify the fantasy world in his head.
A prescient warning from retired military officials as SCOTUS weighed presidential immunity in Trump v. United States: “Absent the availability of criminal prosecution for a President's violation of the PCA, this important check on military power would be weakened if not eliminated.”
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
A 4-year-old boy’s ongoing care for stage 4 kidney cancer was interrupted when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers illegally deported him, his sister and mother “without even a semblance of due process.”
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
NEW: Sen Whitehouse is asking for the following info on the sex offender status waiver and subsequent transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell. I got some of these answers in my reporting. If you work at BOP & have the answers, my signal is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
With Air Quality Index standards under threat, crowdsourced air quality maps are more important than ever. www.wired.com/story/why-yo...
Well, well, well. With Emil Bove safely through his sham Senate confirmation proceedings, the two Trump judges just lifted the three-months-long administrative stay that had kept any evidence of Bove’s contempt of court bottled up. 🧵
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
@prisonculture.bsky.social Can you share? Many young 5th graders start the year thinking they’re terrible at math and will always be terrible at math. I always tell them they’re have skills, they’re just not confident in themselves yet! Math games help build skills and confidence through fun!
With deep job cuts at the FDA, inspectors say the ongoing strain could compromise policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries. “Things will be missed, we are going to have a lot less safe drugs,” a former inspector said.
The short version: No paywall: brookeharrington.com/wp-content/u... www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.
[on the phone again] Ma'am, tried the tarantulas, but I think we made it worse.
Rivervance there that's the Scandal name everyone memorize it and say it 15 times on television tomorrow.
I’m sure the other inmates just looooove her now
Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say. “If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.” By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
NEW: If you’re one of 1.6 million people living in public housing nationally, you have special protections meant to prevent low-income tenants from being evicted when they fall behind on rent. We created a guide to the process. With @bangordailynews.bsky.social
Well this doesn't look great
Alec Luhn is an old friend. I know some ppl in Norway read me. Please share. The search for him is ongoing: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
There is simply not enough to say about how bad this is. Not only will we miss out on cures for infections & things like pancreatic cancer, the US will fall behind in science, tech, economy, and while other countries will take this over it will still be slowed/delayed. It’s a national security risk!
"Not since the Red Scare... has American science been so beholden to political ideology. At least during the McCarthy era, scientists could console themselves that despite this interference, federal spending on science was surging. Today, it’s drying up."
The bird flu virus that has beset dairy farms since early last year may be spreading through the air in so-called milking parlors and through contaminated wastewater (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/h...
This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says: - We are headed for a recession -The BLS data is totally reliable- for now -The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs -Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy 1/
new @teenvogue.com: Florida officials claimed they wouldn't hold minors in mosquito- and sewage-ridden Alligator Alcatraz, but a bombshell report in July found a 15-year-old was detained there in July. young people in Florida are afraid. said one, "If it happens once, it’s going to happen again.”
"He can either give us a license... or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.” That's not just any ICE officer saying that. His name is Matthew Elliston and he now oversees ICE field operations on the East Coast.
every billionaire friend group has that one blowup where the sex trafficking friend steals a 16 year old masseuse from the pedophile friend
We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of fire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. Living in the Pyrocene means a new reality: knowing what the latest wildfire smoke forecasts are, in order to plan your outdoor activities. I review the best tools to do so:
It turns out "the Mar-a-Lago" confessed to what was going on 18 years ago. [Fixed alt-text] pagesix.com/2007/10/15/s...
![Meanwhile, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last night confirmed a Web site report that Epstein has been banned there. “He would use the spa to try to procure girls. But one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things,” a source told us. “Her father found out about it and went absolutely ape-[bleep]. Epstein’s not allowed back.” Epstein denies he is banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event there](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreih6l4mb2xzanlzrzisxpondu3nji4yswb6ftabvbqybdzo7wugj6q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
It's pretty cool how farming in the U.S. is a perfect hybrid of communism and crony capitalism. Market forces are largely irrelevant, the difference between massive profit and catastrophic loss is whether you have favor with the ruling party.
Killing us, destroying America many different ways, seems to b the sole underlying organizing principle of the Trump Administration.
‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’ Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
NEW: Two women fell ill after attending a Las Vegas festival where they received peptide injections, a treatment that has grown in popularity thanks in part to RFK Jr.’s promotion of the amino acid chains as a way to fight aging and chronic disease. By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social
I have VERY IMPORTANT news about the Supreme Court of Oklahoma: Those green curtains aren’t merely decorative. Each justice does, in fact, emerge from the curtain behind their chair before oral arguments.
President Trump has left the door open to pardoning a woman who sexually abused and trafficked underage girls for more than a decade.
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.
Oklahoma gets back $1.90 for every $1 it sends to D.C. California gets $0.74 for every $1. So yeah, Newsom’s not kidding. Stitt’s “zero income tax” plan is built on California’s taxes. Freedom for some, subsidies from others.👇
when im feeling uninspired i remember some guy invented ciabatta in 1982 because he decided italians should have their own baguette
2 points here: 1) There's no statute of limitations in New York for Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes (maybe also options in New Mexico and Florida). A pardon can't stop state prosecutions. 2) We just got another reason to release the Epstein files: so the public can test Maxwell's truthfulness.
Many of you have been saying that the media should republish older Trump-Epstein stories that didn’t get enough attention at the time. The Charlotte Observer was listening. From 2018 (sent as a banner notification to me yesterday): apple.news/AMbP8SgmOQ7O...
I can't let the mention of Dante pass without showing a mapping I did of Trump's old criminal and civil court cases to the various levels of hell. Trump should hope there's no hell.😈
Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. With @texastribune.org
You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.
Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying it’s because CBP agents are just “arresting first and asking questions later.”
A new study finds that living through the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely aged our brains by an average of 5.5 months — even among people who were never infected.
I have been an NIH funded scientist since 2002 and that ends for me on August 8 as the grant that currently funds me runs out and the lab downsizes. Never did I think that this could happen to the NIH. I have skimped over antibodies when funding was tight but my god. They are destroying it.
It’s SO GOOD. You want to read this one.
Desiree Grace says she’s ready to follow the court’s order and begin to serve in accordance with the law. This is going to get really messy. conceivably it could even serve up the question of whom the Marshals will follow in the event of conflicting demands by judges and the White House.
NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens Medical staff say they are struggling to function well enough to care for injured and malnourished civilians in overwhelmed hospitals www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Gift link. This "deal" gets portrayed as a win for Trump, but what do most Americans get from it? Just a 15% tax on cars / electronics / etc from Japan? There's gifts in there for Boeing, rice exporters, and LNG producers, but so what? All I get is a tax. I bet that's true for >99% of Americans.
“If the president can use the military as a domestic police force entirely under his control, it can be used as a tool of tyranny and oppression. We’ve seen it all around the world and throughout history" @lizagoitein.bsky.social of @brennancenter.org told @theintercept.com
🧊⚠️🚨 HEADS UP PHILADELPHIA‼️ 📍Spotted at Italian Market
Not to be dramatic, but these are some of the best photos I’ve seen all year
the community theater’s production of ben-hur is gonna be 🔥
“Less than a year into his second term, it’s clear that the goals of Trump’s 2024 run for the presidency were, in order of importance, to keep Trump out of prison, to exact revenge on Trump’s enemies, and to allow Trump and his allies to enrich themselves by every possible means.”
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"Republicans just passed something to create this partisan political police force that reports to the president. It's unprecedented. This is going to be an area of enormous conflict." On the pod, @simonwdc.bsky.social is great on the turmoil that's about to hit us: newrepublic.com/article/1976...
NEW: With deep job cuts at the FDA, inspectors say the ongoing strain could compromise policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries. “Things will be missed, we are going to have a lot less safe drugs,” a former inspector said.
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
