Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Derek Thompson, co-author of the abundance agenda, is doing a big Google AI-washing event By my calculations, Google's greenhouse gas emissions have ballooned 1.6x since 2019, thanks to an abundance of fossil fuels powering their data centre expansion www.climateweeknyc.org/events/where...

26-year-old @katmabu.bsky.social made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress. “I just couldn’t watch it anymore. I thought, fuck it, I’m going to run.” From our politics issue:

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Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

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UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

This is the key point. There is no legally definable organization. But that won’t matter when they’re black bagging random protesters and renditioning them to Gitmo. They’re gonna use PATRIOT ACT tactics to deny rights and pack on elevated charges on simple 1A actions.

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Joe Manchin says Democrats need to "move to the center" to win. I've watched corporate Democrats like him peddle this baloney for 50 years. Instead of caving to Big Money, Democrats should fight back against Trump and the oligarchs rigging the system.

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I’ve been combating medical misinformation for over two decades, and this feels not just quantitatively different, but qualitatively different.

“It is, of course, a very bad idea to structure foreign policy around the Rapture.” — THEY KNEW (2022)

Trump again just implied that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

RFK Jr just said research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed by the scientific community. This is a lie. Here is a PubMed search I just did for “vaccines and autism,” yielding over 1,200 results. The first one is a meta-analysis!

We are now at the point where health agencies will try and restrict life-saving drugs and vaccines on a whim, with no regard for evidence or due process. These are such dangerous times.

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Our job is, in part, to make illiberalism unprofitable.

Pricier beef might actually increase greenhouse gas emissions from beef production, which are already quite substantial.

Oh look, hunger in the United States no longer exists! /s KPBS: USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2025/09/22/usda-cancels-survey-tracking-how-many-americans-struggle-to-get-enough-food #hunger #usda

The Republican party apparently thinks that making fun of people’s deaths is absolutely abhorrent, unless the people dying are your perceived political enemies.

The latest from the indispensable @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "[T]here is no longer 'news' in the US: only speculation, propaganda in oligarch-run newspapers, dark money posts disguised as articles, the occasional well-researched but paywalled piece, and independent reporting blocked by algorithms."

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

And they need a way to "blame" women who follow their BS suggestions about not getting vaccines when their children still develop autism (I put "blame" in quotes bc there is nothing wrong with being autistic, but ableist right-wingers are building policy and rhetoric around the idea that there is).

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

As the US withdraws from green tech industries & pressures its allies to follow suit,Chinese firms are stepping in to power the whole world’s green transition I interview Mathias Larsen, lead author of our new Hopkins report. A BRI 2.0 www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Yes. In "Hitler's American Model," James Q. Whitman wrote about Nazis seeing USA as a blueprint for implementing a legal system of Nordic supremacy. It is quite telling that the Nazi officials also dismissed NYC as "not Real America."

IN THE USA… Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

Smart oped in the NYT on the social media, entertainment, news & cloud empire that Larry Ellison & son David are trying to assemble. If all the pieces come together, a combined Paramount-Skydance-Warner Bros Discovery-Tiktok-Oracle would have unprecedented power... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o... 1/

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

As promised by Trump during the 2024 campaign, his administration is adopting the oil and gas industry’s policy agenda. bit.ly/47LftO4

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

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EVIDENCE-BASED GOOD NEWS FOR YA A new report shows that a bunch of renewable energy companies have massively improved their human rights record. This is good! And important! @reneweconomy.com.au @business-humanrights.org reneweconomy.com.au/renewable-co...

One of the worst things Democrats voted to enable.

Reporting here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

China's progress on renewable energy is breathtaking. In the first half of this year they installed more than twice as much solar as the rest of the world *combined*. This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

BREAKING: Trump's head of Social Security says raising the retirement age "will be considered." That's a betrayal of Trump's campaign promise to protect Social Security.

At the same time that it becomes common to see the toxic effects of forming a relationship with these technologies, the companies are becoming more dedicated to finding ways to perpetually drip poison into your ear.

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food.

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.