Thank you for this thread. Those are powerful and insightful words by Belafonte. It helps make the case that “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” … and for generations the NYT leadership preserves the status quo and undermines those doing the bending.

In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

“US elites – those running major businesses, universities, law firms, media companies and other mainstream institutions, often hailing from the nation’s most exclusive academic institutions – have continued on their course of compliance and complacency.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It comes as the Palestinian Red Crescent says the evacuation of patients and wounded Palestinians via the southern Rafah crossing has been canceled for today. Israel has been tightly controlling the Rafah crossing since it partially reopened on Monday, after two years of total closure.

As President Trump’s immigration crackdown continues in Minnesota, many immigrants who are detained in the Twin Cities are ending up in a desolate detention camp in the desert of West Texas, only to be released later in El Paso with no money and no obvious way to get home. trib.al/jyi6Rca

Because of course 🤮🤮

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Ways to help Minnesota fight ICE: www.standwithminnesota.com, with links to action & aid groups. And a form to send a “a brief message of hope, inspiration or gratitude to folks working their butts off on the ground”: www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-...

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Very happy with this lovely collaboration and its outcome @christopherali.bsky.social @jonkropko.bsky.social

Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (Emma Roth/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there's no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

This!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Turning Latin America into a theater of war will not weaken transnational crime; it will entrench it,” write Matias Spektor and Oto Montagner.

If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.

After Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there. Revisit our full archive, five years later:

In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country. n.pr/4saai1J

One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️

This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...

Canada is also falling for AI industry hype, which is threatening to escalate the environmental crisis and derail democracy. "policymakers have a duty to serve the citizens and not cater to the whims of tech CEOs." @mark-carney.bsky.social

‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Hell yeah!

Yep! Super happy with this publication, even more happy with the collaboration!

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

"All our staff got out safely. But that group probably lost more than 50 family members. Every single one of them had their house destroyed and some would appear to have been targeted strikes" AFP's Phil Chetwynd on AFP's staff journalists in Gaza reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/starved...

AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest…. except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:

I realize that even just reposting this interesting piece adds to the environmental pressures created by AI :(

It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

The story of Andrew Carnegie’s libraries, originally created to spur the "diffusion of knowledge," has resonance in our present digital age, where information is both readily abundant and increasingly scarce or inaccessible, Stefaan Verhulst writes.

Top Republicans and US tech leaders are ramping up a pressure campaign against the EU’s platform regulations, calling it foreign “censorship.” Tech Policy Press unpacks how Washington and Silicon Valley are working to sway Brussels on softening enforcement.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

The sad outcome of utterly stupid short-sightedness deadline.com/2025/08/corp...

lol

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

He was the last SS guard, about to be tried when he died at 100. Let this warn the ICE agents who think they are only guards, following orders. Your masked crimes against humans and humanity will mark you to the end of your days. The Last SS Guard @zeit.de www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

His communication skls are next level - as cool as his political agenda! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #nycmayoralrace

If you are a taxpayer in the United States of America, as I am, you are paying for this.

Bye! #vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #nycmayorelections

Consider supporting, especially local stations under threat of closing down #npr #pbs #publicmedia