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[ The below is a cross-post of an article that I published on my blog at Software Freedom Conservancy. ]

Our member project representatives and others who collaborate with SFC on projects know that I've been on part-time medical leave this year. As I recently announced publicly on the Fediverse, I was diagnosed in March 2025 with early-stage Type 2 Diabetes. I had no idea that that the diagnosis would become a software freedom and users' rights endeavor.

After the diagnosis, my doctor suggested immediately that I see the diabetes nurse-practitioner specialist in their practice. It took some time get an appointment with him, so I saw him first in mid-April 2025.

It was potentially the last chance for Paul, Tim Kaine, and Adam Schiff to block U.S. military action in Venezuela with a war powers resolution.

The post Rand Paul Warns of “Warmongers,” but MAGA Rejects Venezuela War Powers Bill appeared first on The Intercept.

The simple shape belies some complex chemistry that could be the key to advances in biomaterials

The post The Secret of the Triangle Weaver’s Springy Web appeared first on Nautilus.

After fighting the democratic socialist’s candidacy tooth and nail, the city’s ruling class is lining up to shake his hand.

The post New York’s Billionaires Are Bending the Knee to Zohran Mamdani appeared first on The Intercept.

The Trump administration’s fast-tracked rules grant the Federal Protective Service sweeping powers to make arrests off federal property.

The post Trump’s Federal Cops Just Gave Themselves Expansive Anti-Protest Powers Targeting Masks appeared first on The Intercept.

“New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of the rich.”
—The Telegraph

Well, looks like the unthinkable has happened—Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City. As the founder of a bro culture clickbait site who has been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct, I hate to see this city going in such an obviously bad direction. If New York City is no longer going to be an unaffordable police state run by crooks, I’m taking my hard-earned sex-pest dollars elsewhere.

With a War Powers vote looming in the Senate, advocates are pointing to Trump’s past opposition to regime change wars.

The post Last-Ditch Effort to Block Trump’s Venezuela War Appeals to MAGA Republicans appeared first on The Intercept.

As we all know, the worst part about eating pizza is how the cheese gets stuck to the insides of your pockets. I can’t tell you how many good pairs of slacks I’ve ruined just because I love pizza and I lead an on-the-go lifestyle.

Like most people, I eat pizza every single day. I’m way too busy to sit down and eat it as a meal, so into my pockets it goes, even if that means my car keys are always covered in tomato sauce, my wallet is filled with pepperoni, and my iPhone’s charging port is clogged with soggy chunks of mozzarella.

But what can I do? Not put hot slices of pizza into my pockets? Just hold it in my hands? I’m a busy guy. How am I supposed to complete all of my daily errands if I have to hold hot slices of pizza all day long?

England is a constructed space — and the English countryside in particular is an ideologically constructed space. Right-wing concepts of the English countryside, informed by historical, cultural, ethnic, and class-based accounts, offer exclusionary representations of England. This is nothing new. The sense of a ‘timeless and forever England’ has often been invoked and weaponised by […]

Citizens of Myanmar describe what daily life is like in their isolated, war-torn nation

- by Aeon Video

Watch on Aeon

“I shouldn’t have lost my fingers,” one detainee said of ICE guards’ failure to get him the care a doctor prescribed.

The post New York’s Largest ICE Prison Dogged by Allegations of Shoddy Medical Care appeared first on The Intercept.

As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?

- by Ville Lähde

Read on Aeon

As a hospital chaplain, I watched lives end, faiths fracture and certainties crumble. My job was holding hands in the dark

- by Nettie Reynolds

Read on Psyche