- Good news: Bill to ban trans athletes from team sports failed to advance in the Senate – via @erininthemorning.com
- Want to send a message to your representatives urging them to protect Social Security? AARP has a quick and simple form for that. Go!
- High-intensity exercise can significantly improve long-term memory, learning ability, and decision-making.
- Rolling Stone published a list of twenty “essential” Gene Hackman films but didn’t include The Birdcage?! Blasphemy. – via kottke
- My top five, in no particular order: The Birdcage, Superman: The Movie, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Firm, and Unforgiven
- The fastest and easiest way to cut methane emissions (as well as reduce water use and protect biodiversity) is simply to eat less beef. In the United States, half of all the beef is consumed by just 12% of the population, mostly men.
- See also: Climate Kids!
- Things That Suck:
- The Senate confirmed former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education as POTUS pushes to shut it down
- “In North Carolina, there has been a multi-year, hyper focused effort among political actors in the state to gain and keep control over the state supreme court.”
- FAA Officials Ordered Staff to “Find Funding” for Starlink – via @samhalpert.bsky.social
Posts tagged “Starlink”
- I will jump on the Last Week Tonight bandwagon and spread the word about how to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta. (And, yes, that’s the correct link.)
- The surprisingly hopeful What Felt Impossible Became Possible is an excellent essay about the downfall of the Ku Klux Klan and how it relates to our current American crisis. The key takeaway — as many others have noted — is that fascism always fails. “It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails.”
- A “super pod” of thousands of dolphins was spotted off the California coast.
- Disney’s Star Wars Succession Problem: Who Will Replace Kathleen Kennedy? – via The Dailies
- What happens when you pull a wildly valuable Jayden Daniels rookie card? For “Dr. Moist Muffins”, it literally changed his life.
- Scientists have found that eating more fiber could help reduce microplastic absorption and minimize its harmful effects on your body.
- Neither vaccines nor the virus prompted an increase in the number of cardiac arrests in athletes, contrary to misinformation that continues to circulate repeatedly.
- Annoying News:
- Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns. – via @joshtpm.bsky.social
- The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., declined to sign an arrest warrant sent to them by local police for Republican congressman Cory Mills who happens to be an ally of the President.
- Trump Administration Litigation Tracker
- An analysis by ProPublica showed that dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion. And while the national maternal mortality rate dropped, it rose in Texas by 33%. – via @joncooper-us.bsky.social
- Here’s a handy list of sixteen Democrats who simply aren’t doing enough. If your rep is on that list, get on the phone.