@drewcostley.northsky.social
black, trans, disabled. asst. managing editor for @veritenews.org. journalist covering new orleans. signal is drewcostley.12 AP, OneZero/Future Human, SFGate, East Bay Express, UCBSOJ, UDC and Howard alum. views are my own/reposts ≠ endorsements
@pbsnews.orgReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.socialIn a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, a new study found. https://to.pbs.org/3VYbSIx
@drewcostley.northsky.socialwait...the fire challenge...in which children...set themselves on fire????!!!!
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@joolia.bsky.socialReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.socialExtraordinary investigation by @oliverlaughland.bsky.social and @wcraft.bsky.social, looking at the arcane justice of the peace system in Louisiana, where justices earn a fee for every eviction they process. One justice processed 86 evictions in 36 minutes. All but one resulted in eviction
@drewcostley.northsky.socialL.B. Landry High School, one of only three high schools in Algiers, faces potential closure by the end of the 2026-2027 school year, which a recent analysis says the West Bank can't afford. More @veritenews.org.
@aaronhm.bsky.socialReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.social“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest
@nightsciencepod.bsky.socialReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.social🔥New episode just dropped! Have you heard about the MBL summer courses at Woods Hole? In this episode we visit the mythical Microbial Diversity course there and talk with the students & instructors. Check out how they learn to ask new questions and think about approaching them!
@ashtonpittman.bsky.socialReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.socialJUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
@drewcostley.northsky.socialcisgender allies and accomplices: just because someone came out recently as trans or gender nonconforming doesn't mean that they haven't experienced gender dynamics that are different from what they were socialized as in a way that was formative to their understanding of their gender. fyi.
@drewcostley.northsky.socialplayed a little bit of cassette beasts after hearing about this week and it's so cute!
@drewcostley.northsky.socialthis series is finna be an all-timer! like the liberty-lynx a couple of years ago. i'm hype. #wnba #wnbafinals
@propublica.orgReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.socialThose who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable. (Published August 2024)
@drewcostley.northsky.socialevery single fucking game of this series should be aired on primetime. it's shame that that's not the case.
@nature.comReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.socialObituary: Margaret Hamilton (1936-2026) computer scientist who pioneered software engineering and helped us get to the Moon
@commondreams.orgReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.social"This intentional sabotage only threatens to create true financial chaos in people’s lives."
@drewcostley.northsky.socialyuuuuuup! but i got those reps in.
@drewcostley.northsky.sociallike I don't owe you binary presentation and I am who I say I am
@drewcostley.northsky.socialresistance training the day after shot day is RUFFFFF
@drewcostley.northsky.sociali wish that more people who call themselves allies + accomplices of transgender + gender nonconforming ppl had the ability and willingness to deconstruct gender so that ppl didn't have to try to perform a binary gender expression in order to have their transness/gender expression respected + seen
@drewcostley.northsky.sociali saw when i googled i would love to have something like that in my closet
@404media.coReposted by @drewcostley.northsky.socialMen find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it:
Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi...
