I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value. This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025. Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment. Be warned.

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization. We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation: How Regular Practice Enhances Brain Health

Mister President, a second frog has air-humped the troops.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Just in case someone missed this detail: Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

Just heard someone say that if you aren't willing to get arrested or die at a protest you aren't serious about the cause and that's a) not true and b) not helpful You don't need to have a death wish to fight for a better world, and anyone who says you do is throwing up a massive red flag

there is no need to take tactical social movement advice from former fbi agents posting on social media

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

Hello FBI I'd like to report a major threat to national security. They've breached 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. They call themselves Republicans.

7 Oct 2025 - CA Gov Newsom, still moving right on trans issues, vetoes a measure attacked by Reps as "gender ideology" that would have allowed teaching that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person’s gender @rikiwilchins.bsky.social.

Texas national guard arriving in Chicago. these dudes don't even know how to hold their weapons. dude in the middle could easily shoot the dude to his left while improperly carrying his rifle. this is amateur hour. ppl are going to die.

I have no physical office and no staff, because being a pay-what-you-can lawyer isn't terribly lucrative. It *is* a lot of driving in my little Scion iQ. If you've heard of me, it might be because I sued the state so trans people could practice law in this state, and we won. 6/

My friend the optimist insists that at core most people are basically good. My friend the pessimist insists that at core most people are basically bad. I worry, my friends, that at core most people are basically unwilling to be inconvenienced.

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations. The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel). "The party of small government,” folks.

There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

“We were told by pastors and Focus on the Family that we had to fix him. Instead, we taught him to hate himself. And when a child is dead, you don’t ever get to repair that,” Linda Robertson, whose son died by suicide after conversion therapy, told me at the court. www.advocate.com/news/scotus-...

How did I miss this? Trump thinks Portland is on fire and is justified in sending in the troops because he watched a five-year-old clip on Fox? Are you kidding me? We are so in 25th Amendment territory. Biden never did anything close to this:

Every court Trump is before must take notice of the fact that the litigant has declared that if any court holds up his agenda, he'll declare martial law. That is a threat against these courts and an attempted coercion of federal officials. Just so, media and pols' jobs *require* civil-war protocols.

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds. Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

BBC: Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po #climateemergency #Climate

This.

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

⚕️MedSky⚕️ Researchers found 22 connections between viral infections and neurodegenerative conditions in the study of around 450,000 people.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

Psychopathy + neurocognitive deterioration. Then, w/ Obergruppenführer Stephen Miller barking in his ear all the time, it's as if he's also beset by intrusive paranoid delusions, sensory hallucinations, rage & hate. Fox & toadies amplify & reify them. No wonder every day is a nightmare of news.

A disturbed man and his fanatical advisors are making potentially life-threatening decisions on the basis of what he sees on television. We should all be very concerned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-gets-and-processes-information

Reminder that everything you post can be seen by law enforcement. Be smart, especially now, and don't snitch on yourself. Posting specifics about actions or promoting violence on social media is just a bad idea. There's a reason organizers and activists use Signal. You can't resist from a cage.

Obama bailed out the banks after my family was foreclosed on then started droning kids. Hillary did all obama’s killing and couped Gaddafi. Biden has been a racist old man since he was young and capped off his life with a genocide. Grow the fuck up.

One of my favourite pictures.

Another must read: 🔥 “[Masses] are being harmed, more slowly, in more subtle ways... [Disabled people & people with Long COVID] have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Pritzker: “We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.”

Liberal South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's home is burning to the ground after an explosion. SLED is investigation as arson and refer attack as Judge Goodstein had been receiving multiple threats.

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

I want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois.

I said what I said.

making up a reichstag in my head to get really mad about

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

Peter Thiel has called Greta Thunberg the Antichrist. I think there's a bit of projecting going on. What do you think?

Good essay... "Stenner tells us that people with an authoritarian predisposition favor oneness and sameness over freedom and diversity. People with this disposition prefer sameness and uniformity. They want to minimize differences. This can include racial, religious, and political differences […]

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.