Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

Does anyone remember when we were going to make an energy transition so we didn't all doom our children to a climate apocalypse, before we just forgot about climate change and just burnt our carbon budget on AI slop? Seems so long ago.

brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

They hate Minnesota because we are a people who believe that "we all do better when we all do better." Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity. Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.

Another reminder that it’s not about sex or “loneliness,” it’s about power and control.

A woman on IG has been making videos of immigrant lines at the U.S. Mexico borders…full of Americans standing in line to get affordable dental care in Mexico. It’s sublime counter programming.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking

Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter. – Physics-based color repulsion – Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias – Adaptive spacing to hit target count – OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform) Early Access: please break it! chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

1984 is over-cited, but nothing fits the government and its supporters blatantly lying about ICE’s murder of Renee Good when video from multiple angles show she posed no threat than “the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Yiayia and friends (2017), Alexandros Nikou https://a-g-i.org/design/yiayia-and-friends

The careers teacher said I'd amount to nothing. But I've done well for the last decade as an extra. I specialise in what my agent calls "middle aged fat bloke"

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Europeans seeing Americans doing the Trolley Problem:

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

The outgoing mayor mocked his opponent because her parents helped her pay for childcare. Katie Wilson made universal childcare a core plank of her platform. Weirdly the strategy of mocking Wilson didn't resonate with parents and young voters. Anyway, Katie Wilson is our mayor now.

Consider also that prosecutors use AI to summarize AI-written police reports. We’re trying to discern the truth through a machine- driven game of telephone.

cc @governor.ny.gov

The chart title made me laugh...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The nuance here is that the IRT Company went bankrupt, and its subway lines survived because the city took them over under the leadership of the socialist Fiorello LaGuardia.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

US airstrikes slaughtering people at sea for transporting....marijuana. A substance that is legal in many states & Trump himself just days ago moved to reclassify. "First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

FIN

Reminder that if you still have FSA funds to spend this year, you can spend them at FSA store: fsastore.com - you can purchase menstrual products for example to donate to your local pantries and homeless shelters. I have $130 left and that's what I did yesterday.

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

War is a reproductive justice issue.

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

Did you know that our "modern Santa" was created as a Pro-Union antislavery character? Much like Thanksgiving, our modern Christmas celebration is birthed from antislavery sentiment. Thomas Nast created the modern Santa as an anti-confederate icon supporting the Union cause

Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business