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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · 4d

“No one will speak to your reporter!”

Reuters tracked one of the tankers in a "dark fleet" smuggling diesel into Mexico, following a paper trail that led through U.S. businesses and one of the world's deadliest drug cartels.

This is a heck of a story.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Ryan McNeill @mcneill.bsky.social · 5d

And this isn't meant to be an ad. I think there's sometimes a tendency, at least among journalists working with satellite imagery, to immediately go for the highest resolution possible. But there's an awful lot of stories inside those daily 3.5m multispectral collects.

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · 19d

USDA-VS has not publicly updated its genotyping tool yet, so it's not clear if D1.5/6 is are promoted minor strains or newly detected. USDA-VS defines D-types as reassortants of the "A3" Eurasian lineage with North American viruses
github.com/USDA-VS/Geno...

spreadsheet of the named lineages of HA EA3 used to genotype HPAI viruses

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · 19d

New #H5N1 genotypes reported!

Minnesota's recent turkey cases were reported as a mix of D-type reassortants, including the D1.1 strain that was prevalent in wild birds last year, along with two newly named strains, D1.5 and D1.6.
#H5N1

Spreadsheet showing highly pathogenic avian influenza cases in Minnesota over September.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21d

VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate. Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss and toenail fungus.

Read the full investigation here:

How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls

The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some deserving cases wait.

wapo.st

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Aug 22

** taps the sign **

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Aug 22

Woof

A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO₂-Global
Warming Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence Contradicts
IPCC Models and Solar Forcing Assumptions
Grok 3 beta1*
, Jonathan Cohler2
, David Legates3
, Franklin Soon4
, Willie Soon

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Speech by Chair Powell on the economic outlook and framework review

slide 1 Over the course of this year, the U.S. economy has shown resilience in a context of sweeping changes in economic policy. In terms of the Fed's dua

www.federalreserve.gov

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 22

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Aug 18

please just read Laura Reiley's words here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Life news: Thrilled to be joining @propublica.org as deputy news applications editor! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

www.propublica.org

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · Aug 12

We took our lunch outside today to demand:

✅ Just Cause that covers everyone
✅ A fair, transparent discipline process
✅ No loopholes for @propublica.org management

We’re united for a contract that protects us all.

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · Aug 11

AI video is almost there: no amount of post-hoc squinting can tell fake from real.

Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Aug 1

I mean, these are exactly the winemakers I'd be buying if I had money to throw around in Sonoma County, so,
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/d...

Facing Difficulties, 6 Small California Wine Businesses Band Together

www.nytimes.com

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · Jul 28

Working on a project and made this image of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption.

Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Jul 21

We did ask NYT if they knew about the hacker's X account, or that their bylined freelancer followed the hacker. We did not get a response aside from getting linked to Healy's old thread about the sourcing of the article.

This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times’ Mamdani scoop

They say Columbia is just one of five universities they’ve penetrated.

www.theverge.com

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · Jul 21

After discovering a "very sophisticated" Iranian hack of his office's website, Arizona's secretary of state notified federal and state authorities — but not CISA, in which he said he's lost faith. archive.is/B47dV (h/t @derekbjohnson.bsky.social)

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Jul 21

more images on their VRBO listing but ... 🤷‍♂️
www.vrbo.com/343422

VRBO listing photo of the front entry of "Hacienda Aguajito"

Image from vrbo listing of buddha statue at Hacienda Aguajito

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Jul 18

Unreasonably psyched about ARS posting this sample. 🪰 🐄 🥛
#h5n1

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PV92...

Influenza A virus (A/House fly/Fresno County/Dairy_A/2024(H5N1)) segme - Nucleotide - NCBI

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Lisa Gartner @lisagartner.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our I-team partnered with several desks across the @washingtonpost.com newsroom to tell this important story www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert. They evacuated an hour later.

More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jul 14

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).

It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.

It has written majority opinions in only 3.

Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jul 14

Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:

www.supremecourt.gov

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · Jul 14

consulting dozens of counselors, emergency officials, parents and experts, we recreated what made these floodwaters so deadly.

gift link: wapo.st/40fITPL 📊

Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert. They evacuated an hour later.

More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

wapo.st

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sunport is the absolute GOAT airport and importantly the only US airport where you can buy red & green Bueno chile.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · Jun 26

The top ten airports in the U.S., according to data analyzed by @andrewvandam.bsky.social

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Nat Lash @natlash.bsky.social · Jun 5

❤️❤️❤️
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/m...

Even Billy Strings, no college man, absorbs music theory like secondhand smoke from Berklee-trained bandmates. “I’m always asking Alex Hargreaves” — who plays fiddle in his band — “some theory question,” he told me. “I was asking him yesterday, ‘What the hell is this sound?’ He says, ‘It’s Lydian dominant.’ I’m like, ‘Oh.’”

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