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I know it's wild to ask a physics pedagogy question at a time like this but here I go: Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

House and Senate leaders should demand resignations from both Major General Pat Work, the 82nd Airborne Division commander, and Colonel Chad Mixon, the Fort Bragg garrison commander. This was possibly the most partisan speech ever delivered by a commander-in-chief to U.S. troops.

submitted 9 hours ago • 61 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 6 hours ago • 925 comments

✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

This headline would have had fit in just the same space: Calls for Restraint in L.A. After Police Shootings Injure Journalists

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

Just deleted #uber after watching their ceo praise that idiots expensive and horrible bill. Did you know #Uber will hold onto your information for 7 years after you delete your account?

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‘Protests do not make LA dangerous. What makes LA dangerous is the Trump-ordered invasion of our city. We're talking about abducting people, not dismembering a few electric scooters’ www.torched.la/tactical-ale...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom: "Congress is nowhere to be found." "Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don."

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Southlander cofounder and journalist @bencamach0.bsky.social was shot twice — in the knee and elbow — with crowd-control munitions while covering protests in the LA suburbs of Compton and Paramount June 7: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 7 hours ago • 382 comments

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

submitted 12 hours ago • 61 comments

Congratulations to Esmy Jimenez and Sydney Brownstone of The Seattle Times and KUOW Public Radio, our 2025 Livingston Award winners for National Reporting for the podcast “Lost Patients.” ℹ️ Read more https://loom.ly/PR5m2q4 #LivingstonAwards #nationalreporting

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Ugh. This is terrible and, it goes without saying, so patently unnecessary as to be an obvious provocation by the governor.

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I know I’m naive but I’m just constantly shocked by how much they hate the country they’re running

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Welcome to the archives.

submitted 23 hours ago • 65 comments

With the L.A. protests, I've been thinking a lot about the summer of 2020. History is often cyclical and we'll see in the coming days what the news industry took from that moment. Threading some June 2020 @niemanlab.org stories about protests and journalism that are definitely worth revisiting now:

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I feel like “Current Republican Speaker of the House threatens political opponent with third degree burns and torture” should get more media attention than it will

submitted 16 hours ago • 51 comments

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

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We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org @cazadoresdefakenews.info, Alianza Rebelde Investiga

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Thrilled that our investigation into the huge chemical fire at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Cancer Alley has won @ewscrippsco.bsky.social Award for environmental reporting W/ ace colleagues @sarasneath.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social & @forensicarchi.bsky.social scripps.com/fund/news/sc...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Such an important project tracking a toxic disaster at a sprawling petroleum refinery. Accidents like this often go unscrutinized but this series showed the importance of digging in. 👏👏👏 @oliverlaughland.bsky.social @sarasneath.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

My latest at Flaming Hydra, the glorious cooperative newsletter. I reflect on what is and isn't sayable in Boulder in the wake of the terrorist attack, and why it matters.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This happens like once a week, and I can't ever exactly reproduce it

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

This book will infuriate you. It focuses attention on very important and underplayed aspects of our homelessness crisis. For example, I did not realize how much the extended-stay hotels function as a kind of payday loan for housing. Just horrific stuff.

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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

submitted 16 hours ago • 458 comments

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

Flickr users are getting a free value add from flickr.org They've carefully crafted lifeboats that fit not only your photos, but the community generated social metadata associated with the images as well!

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This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

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Wild pics in this @bcmerchant.bsky.social story on Waymo as an L.A. protest target & symbol of big tech surveillance. There may be no “smoking gun link” bw ICE & Waymo, but they’re symbols of LAPD surveillance tactics, tech overreach, & easy targets. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weapon...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...

submitted 18 hours ago • 70 comments

this is what quality, meaningful, and consequential investigative journalism looks like

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in Los Angeles will cost $134 million.

submitted 15 hours ago • 143 comments

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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Trump shoulda been arrested 1/21/2021

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

Made some friends in Boyle Heights and DTLA yesterday. #DefendLA #WhatBetterPlaceThanHereWhatBetterTimeThanNow

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