CaityC
@caityc.bsky.social
Cycling. Nature. Animals. Econ. Politics. Tech Fan/Critic/OG. Multilingual. #cyclingbluesky #procycling
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The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful.
Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
July 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful.
Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.
July 14, 2026 at 4:37 AM
California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.
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Hungary’s new government also passed this constitutional amendment to “remove Constitutional Court judges who are over the age of 70.”
July 15, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Hungary’s new government also passed this constitutional amendment to “remove Constitutional Court judges who are over the age of 70.”
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ICE plays no vital role in public safety. DOJ handled INS which oversaw the border patrol. Treasury oversaw Customs. The Coast Guard thrives no matter who oversees them. The consolidation & creation of enforcement agencies have been abused since DHS inception. All cost. No benefit.
Senator Susan Collins:
"There's no doubt that ICE needs to improve its performance, but those who are calling for ICE to be abolished are ignoring absolutely vital safety work that ICE does."
"There's no doubt that ICE needs to improve its performance, but those who are calling for ICE to be abolished are ignoring absolutely vital safety work that ICE does."
July 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
ICE plays no vital role in public safety. DOJ handled INS which oversaw the border patrol. Treasury oversaw Customs. The Coast Guard thrives no matter who oversees them. The consolidation & creation of enforcement agencies have been abused since DHS inception. All cost. No benefit.
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A reminder that the MAGA regime ordered the newly destroyed CDC to cut the tracking of the parasite causing explosive diarrhea all around the country not long before the outbreak.
These fascists want us all poor, sick and dead.
These fascists want us all poor, sick and dead.
July 14, 2026 at 11:52 PM
A reminder that the MAGA regime ordered the newly destroyed CDC to cut the tracking of the parasite causing explosive diarrhea all around the country not long before the outbreak.
These fascists want us all poor, sick and dead.
These fascists want us all poor, sick and dead.
I am visualizing all of the 🌍 ‘s wildlife descending on DJT & co, just as happened in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer.
Why? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
(Most excellent production, now at Bard College, will be elsewhere for sure.)
Why? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
(Most excellent production, now at Bard College, will be elsewhere for sure.)
Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I am visualizing all of the 🌍 ‘s wildlife descending on DJT & co, just as happened in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer.
Why? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
(Most excellent production, now at Bard College, will be elsewhere for sure.)
Why? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
(Most excellent production, now at Bard College, will be elsewhere for sure.)
Really enjoying the daily #StanleyStreetSocial podcast — it’s been getting better the past few years! 🌟
July 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Really enjoying the daily #StanleyStreetSocial podcast — it’s been getting better the past few years! 🌟
Things that I liked (non political) today:
— that the 4 breakaway riders were able to dispute for the S9 TDF 🏆 — MVDP & TP are 2 of my 💕 riders: MVDP & the amazing TP fixing his stuck ⚙️ & gunning it back to be in the group
— keeping hope alive for a TP top 10 & stage win 🙏
— that the 4 breakaway riders were able to dispute for the S9 TDF 🏆 — MVDP & TP are 2 of my 💕 riders: MVDP & the amazing TP fixing his stuck ⚙️ & gunning it back to be in the group
— keeping hope alive for a TP top 10 & stage win 🙏
July 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Things that I liked (non political) today:
— that the 4 breakaway riders were able to dispute for the S9 TDF 🏆 — MVDP & TP are 2 of my 💕 riders: MVDP & the amazing TP fixing his stuck ⚙️ & gunning it back to be in the group
— keeping hope alive for a TP top 10 & stage win 🙏
— that the 4 breakaway riders were able to dispute for the S9 TDF 🏆 — MVDP & TP are 2 of my 💕 riders: MVDP & the amazing TP fixing his stuck ⚙️ & gunning it back to be in the group
— keeping hope alive for a TP top 10 & stage win 🙏
Celebrated 🎉 and was pleased that I outlived one of my truly awful abusive cheating former “work” colleagues when he drowned.
Schiff is such a disappointment. As a CA Senator, he doesn’t have any reason to spout this obvi platitudinous BS. Disrespecting his constituents.
Schiff is such a disappointment. As a CA Senator, he doesn’t have any reason to spout this obvi platitudinous BS. Disrespecting his constituents.
What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.
July 12, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Celebrated 🎉 and was pleased that I outlived one of my truly awful abusive cheating former “work” colleagues when he drowned.
Schiff is such a disappointment. As a CA Senator, he doesn’t have any reason to spout this obvi platitudinous BS. Disrespecting his constituents.
Schiff is such a disappointment. As a CA Senator, he doesn’t have any reason to spout this obvi platitudinous BS. Disrespecting his constituents.
I have a decades long track record of celebrating 🎉 the death of work & volunteer project “colleagues” who did me and/or others grave harm out of intentional acts.
Sticking with that.
I recommend it ✅
Sticking with that.
I recommend it ✅
July 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I have a decades long track record of celebrating 🎉 the death of work & volunteer project “colleagues” who did me and/or others grave harm out of intentional acts.
Sticking with that.
I recommend it ✅
Sticking with that.
I recommend it ✅
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I had the privilege of working with Senator Dracula on my bill offering tax cuts to family-owned mortuaries. While we disagreed on much and his horrible embrace has left me unable to endure sunlight, I'll always remember his amusing little jokes about exsanguinating my staff.
July 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I had the privilege of working with Senator Dracula on my bill offering tax cuts to family-owned mortuaries. While we disagreed on much and his horrible embrace has left me unable to endure sunlight, I'll always remember his amusing little jokes about exsanguinating my staff.
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I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.
July 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.
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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
July 12, 2026 at 11:56 AM
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The eastern halves of the United States and Canada are experiencing a sea change in the public health threat posed by ticks,” Jonathan Mingle writes in a guest essay. “Humans are in retreat from this bloodthirsty enemy.”
“The eastern halves of the United States and Canada are experiencing a sea change in the public health threat posed by ticks,” Jonathan Mingle writes in a guest essay. “Humans are in retreat from this bloodthirsty enemy.”
Opinion | We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War.
With ticks, we’ve barely begun to fight back. The longer we wait, the more territory they will claim across both our geographic and psychic maps.
nyti.ms
July 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The eastern halves of the United States and Canada are experiencing a sea change in the public health threat posed by ticks,” Jonathan Mingle writes in a guest essay. “Humans are in retreat from this bloodthirsty enemy.”
“The eastern halves of the United States and Canada are experiencing a sea change in the public health threat posed by ticks,” Jonathan Mingle writes in a guest essay. “Humans are in retreat from this bloodthirsty enemy.”
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For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible.
Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.
Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.
Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).
There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities"
Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
July 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible.
Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.
Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.
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Kentucky Voter on Mitch McConnell: Your retirement is long overdue. Give it up. We don't want you. You're not representing us well, so don't represent us at all.
July 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Kentucky Voter on Mitch McConnell: Your retirement is long overdue. Give it up. We don't want you. You're not representing us well, so don't represent us at all.
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Do you think Trump wonders if they will hide his death for political expediency or until his kids bug out to a non extradition country.
July 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Do you think Trump wonders if they will hide his death for political expediency or until his kids bug out to a non extradition country.
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a different lens is that everyone is labor or capital. doctors, lawyers, tech, these are all labor and have more in common with housekeepers and factory workers than they do with capital. the other distinctions are a distraction. we should all be united against capital.
July 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM
a different lens is that everyone is labor or capital. doctors, lawyers, tech, these are all labor and have more in common with housekeepers and factory workers than they do with capital. the other distinctions are a distraction. we should all be united against capital.
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
July 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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Maybe nobody won the Cold War, maybe Soviet communism and American capitalism both gave way to ethnonationalist oligarchic police states under the aegis of a personalist autocrat
July 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Maybe nobody won the Cold War, maybe Soviet communism and American capitalism both gave way to ethnonationalist oligarchic police states under the aegis of a personalist autocrat
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It's been fun watching I Love New York guys Adams and Cuomo scamper the fuck away to be full-time pieces of shit, proving everything everyone ever said about them 100% completely correct and making everyone who ever supported them look like the unprincipled jackasses they are
The former governor’s new job is to help OKX and the owner of the New York Stock Exchange tokenize traditional financial instruments—which may raise serious ethics concerns if it seeks approval from New York state regulators.
Andrew Cuomo Is Spreading the Blockchain Gospel for a Massive Crypto Exchange
The former governor’s new job is to help OKX and the owner of the New York Stock Exchange tokenize traditional financial instruments—which may raise serious ethics concerns if it seeks approval from New York state regulators.
hellgatenyc.com
July 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
It's been fun watching I Love New York guys Adams and Cuomo scamper the fuck away to be full-time pieces of shit, proving everything everyone ever said about them 100% completely correct and making everyone who ever supported them look like the unprincipled jackasses they are
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-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.
July 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM
-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.
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just thinking about how the end of Númenor and its mad king is foretold by massive storms and overall bad weather
July 5, 2026 at 12:36 AM
just thinking about how the end of Númenor and its mad king is foretold by massive storms and overall bad weather
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Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
July 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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"American data centers alone consumed nearly 313 terawatt-hours last year, per the report — more than Australia, Italy, Spain, or the United Kingdom generated to power their entire economies."
Data centers use more power in the US than in any other country
Last year, nearly 40% of all power demand from global data centers came from facilities based in America, per a new report.
www.canarymedia.com
July 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
"American data centers alone consumed nearly 313 terawatt-hours last year, per the report — more than Australia, Italy, Spain, or the United Kingdom generated to power their entire economies."