The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights.
Trump Administration Proposes Defunding Suicide Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth Beginning October 2025
Literal erasure in action.
Color additives banned? Not exactly.
Marion Nestle (who has been a nutrition researcher and writer for decades) looks at what RFK Jr’s “ban” of artificial dyes will actually do. (Spoiler alert: nothing.) Also incidentally calls out some of the lies from his press conference.
Exclusive: Most Americans see Trump as “dangerous dictator,” poll says
The other 48% are in denial.
(And yes, I’m cherry-picking the poll that most sings to me. Deal with it.)
White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: ‘Hostile and political act’
How’s that sucking up going for you, Mr. Bezos?
US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment, email says
Because the Trump/Musk administration wants everything to burn down literally as well as figuratively.
Michigan Democrat files articles of impeachment against Trump
Good for you, Mr. Thanedar. At this point, I don’t care how quixotic this is. I’d like to see new articles filed every day by every Democratic member of the House.
Put an Old-School BBS on Meshtastic Radio
Tempting. Many many years ago I ran a dialup BBS on a Heathkit H-89 computer using Tom Jennings’s Puppy BBS software - the source code for which amazingly can still be found online. Perhaps I’ll go back in my dotage.
A nearby dark molecular cloud in the Local Bubble revealed via H2 fluorescence
Gotta love astronomers: “nearby” in this case means about 300 light years away. Or if you’re a bit rusty on astronomical math, 1,800,000,000,000,000 miles or thereabouts.
“Howl”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens @ f/10, 1/25s, ISO 2500. Birds Nest Fungi along the Sweet Creek Falls trail.
