"The purveyors of modern fascism are so scared of other people, and so full of hatred for humanity, that they’re even outsourcing the thing they like best—literally doing fascism—to computers." - read @andreagrimes.com 's latest below!

I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

HAPPY MONDAY!! Time to take advantage of the #Grammys algorithm! First up, @nicolefroio.bsky.social's review of THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS: www.theflytrapmedia.com/deb-tirar-m-...

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Resharing my @theflytrapmedia.com reporting about evil ghoul Kristie Noem, just for funsies.

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

Tom Cox consistently elevates alt-text to art

We do not accept payment for whistles, and will ship anywhere between 100 and 1000. If you know someone with an org that needs even more than that, they can reach out and we can work with them! Do not be afraid to ask for 100 whistles if you just want to radicalize your PTA group. WE WANT THAT! 💓

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

When I wrote about microplastics in November 2024, the scientists I spoke to were clear that research is at a frustratingly early stage - but also that microplastics are likely to be bad, so we should reduce our exposure www.ft.com/content/2433...

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That heaviness you feel after events like yesterday is real. We've all accumulated a lot of mental and emotional weight in the first year of Trump's disastrous presidency. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...

January 6 in History Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.” And here we are.

The latest @theflytrapmedia.com post from @sesmith.lol is an absolutely gem of insights and wisdom - they put the ubiquitous use of algospeak terms into historical context as well as rightly noting the more sinister implications of it being everywhere: www.theflytrapmedia.com/algospeak-wi...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

We’re joining 5 other Climate News Task Force newsrooms to offer a shared place to sign up for all our newsletters. It’s a new way to make climate coverage easier to find — and to support the reporting that holds powerful industries accountable.

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!

Recently, Instagram viewers got a glimpse of Embassy Chef Eilif #behindthescenes, #cooking up some delicious treats! We are excited to introduce him to our BlueSky audience! Check out his first video of a classic #grilledcheese with Norwegian #Jarlsberg (@JarlsbergUSA).

UPDATE: We went to court to get the antitrust complaint against Pepsi, implicating Walmart, unsealed. (The Trump FTC dropped the case just before it was to be made public.) The judge just ruled in our favor. Pending a potential appeal, we should get a look at the details of the scheme next week.

“Fantastic.” “Original.” “Best thing in my inbox.” People are loving the California Sun. www.californiasun.co

friends! @coyotemedia.org is dropping our paywall for December so you can see what we’ve been up to even if you have none dollars. All of our posts are currently free to read. Come check us out & spread the word? www.coyotemedia.org

Flagging this very damning retraction of a 24-year-old study on glyphosate's toxicity: US Right To Know has an article: usrtk.org/pesticides/l...

Your support helps Civil Eats deliver award-winning journalism. Today, on #GivingTuesday, you can double the impact of your donation through #NewsMatch. civileats.com/2025/12/02/o...

I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next? No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity newrepublic.com/article/2027...

For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025! And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #podcasts #booksky #documentary

Our Latin America bureau @mongabaylatam.bsky.social won the Global Shining Light award last night 🏆 💯 One of the highest honors in investigative journalism, it's given at the annual @gijn.org conference Their winning project moved Peruvian officials to protect land defenders in the Amazon:

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Nearly 350 gleaning operations throughout the U.S. are reducing waste and increasing food security at the community level, supported by the National Gleaning Project, which provides policy and legal support to local efforts.

Several provisions included in the agriculture funding bill passed Wednesday could make it harder for the USDA to implement plans to reorganize the agency, move employees out of Washington, D.C., cut staff, and close field offices.

Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.

This is an instant pre-order - @sesmith.lol is an amazing writer and thinker. Mostly I'm just mad I have to wait until the end of July 2026 to read this!

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I am BEGGING YOU, we are so close, and our 15% off new subscriptions sale ends TODAY so if you've been thinking about it, today is the day to make the plunge.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

🚨BREAKING: 2 fed courts have issued orders blocking Trump’s attempt to defund SNAP. Congrats to @democracyforward.org, its co counsel and clients, and Dem State AGs.

The weaponization of the justice system is escalating - with the DoJ now acting openly and aggressively as the regime’s instrument to go after the political opposition. It’s not a consolidated autocracy yet. But this most definitely isn’t rule of law either.

This is terrifying:

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

An excellent thread on Greg Bovino's court hearing in Chicago today:

If you’re a journalist or newsroom leader concerned about safety, join @PENAmerica and @TheCAOV's free webinar, Leading the Way: Building Safer Newsrooms, on Nov. 13th at 12pm ET. pen.org/event/buildi...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

SF, Oakland, Alameda: Alameda reports that DHS is starting to arrive in Alameda tomorrow. Join the planning tonight: prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/T... @indivisibleeb.bsky.social #nokings

Fascinating proposal from @rewiringamerica.bsky.social: cost- effectively meeting the energy needs for data centers by replacing inefficient electric resistance heaters with heat pumps. 1/ www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic. We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”