Congressional funding package for the nation’s roads, bridges, and public infrastructure includes an industry-friendly carveout that would give ride-hailing apps like #Uber and #Lyft legal immunity from car crashes and injuries. www.levernews.com/congress-jus...

Important to stress that: a) Pelley isn't some resistance hero, he's a reactionary centrist; b) Even this wasn't enough for Bari

Not only is Bari Weiss blindly certain that she is correct in the face of evidence showing she’s wrong — a fundamentally disqualifying trait for news reporting — she seems to truly believe the *most convincing* evidence that something is true is if it’s the opposite of the normie consensus

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

I used to believe that #books made people better. Then I worked in an office with a woman who read about 1 book per week. She was a MAGA and cared about no one but herself and her family. Reading does NOT improve people's character, sadly. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/human-by-t...

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

Trump administration’s proposal that millions of federal employees sign a blanket NDA is not just absurd, it’s unnecessary and dangerously secretive. This policy would kneecap whistleblower protections, undermine the First Amendment, and wrongly inhibit the public’s right to know.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."

I just bought Killer Althusser after reading this post by @nberlat.bsky.social . He recommends the best #books open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

There are a couple of ways one can react to the #Pulitzer winners: 1) Indifference 2) whining that no one you know on TT ever read one of these books 3) curiosity about the ones you haven’t read yet I choose 3, and I’m thankful to be introduced to new #books www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

"when men murder intimate partners, they are committing a political act… Femicide, in this framework, is an act of terrorism" www.everythingishorrible.net/p/femicide-i...

#ICE Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown www.wired.com/story/border...

#Environment The water usage by data centers is one of the most critical problems facing the world, and almost no one is talking about it. www.wired.com/story/senato...

This week, @maddow.bsky.social highlighted how Delta Airlines is aiding #ICE in kidnapping children and families: youtu.be/36uvETie3zQ?...

Can we stop pretending that conservatives care about waste? They keep talking about immigrants taking up resources and then support this. The below doesn’t even include the costs of deporetiom flights. We’ve always known it was about racism. #ICE www.npr.org/2026/03/24/n...

Which #ICE concentration camps are in your area? Which companies are they contracting with? All this info plus more now available on austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

Article about the Cassandras, the people (mostly women) who predicted how destructive Trump would be, but were dismissed by centrist / liberal pundits as "hysterical." newrepublic.com/article/2042...

And Epstein was an explicit eugenicist! Even in the (unlikely) scenario that the academics writing him chummy emails didn't know about the pedophilia charges, they were seeking funding because they thought their work aligned with his interests, which were monstrous.

#Education: Reporters like this idiot at Politico are always SHOCKED when self-described "anti-woke free speech" proponents harbor right-wing views and seek to stifle left-leaning speech. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

92% of #ICE Detention Growth Comes from People with No Criminal Convictions open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

#Project2025 was just a set of political opinions. It was an action plan with specific policy goals and actionable routes to achieve them. Now the Heritage Foundation has unveiled a new plan to control women and families: mockingbirdlearning.substack.com

#books: Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America www.democracynow.org/2026/1/23/ho...

Follow the money: when they ban physical #books, they can charge for tablets and e-book rentals. They even charge for public domain books. #Arkansas Puts Complete Ban on Incoming Books, Magazines, Other Materials for Incarcerated Individuals. bookriot.com/arkansas-pri...

The Great #Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You should be skeptical when you hear panicked claims about social media's effects on #teens: open.substack.com/pub/taylorlo...

How the Trump administration is targeting the press. open.substack.com/pub/chills/p...

Women continue to die after being denied an #abortion link.propublica.net/view/5f0a090...

Two of my #cats died from FIP (feline coronavirus). They could have been saved with this drug, but it’s not available in the US: revealnews.org/podcast/cat-...

The no-angeling is already in full swing.

#Books: How people in the US read in 2025: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/most-ameri...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

#ReproductiveFreedom Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Due to Homicide, Suicide, and Drug Overdose jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...

While #food prices soar and #SNAP benefits are cut, there is ever more food wasted by companies. City Harvest NYC rescues this food and gets it to needy families: sentientmedia.org/new-york-cit...

Human Rights Watch's ICE Flight Monitor documented 10,672 total flights during the Trump admin. October alone saw a record 1,014 domestic shuffle flights—the highest on record—plus 199 deportation flights, which is above historic levels. austinkocher.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

#NY An Officer Bungled a Teen Rape Case. The Victim Was Abused Again. The investigator, who did not believe the teen, faced little punishment, illustrating the different ways that officers in New York State are disciplined for misconduct. nysfocus.com/2025/11/17/n...

Stories of women who died because they weren't able to access #abortion: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

#history There's something about this nation, and about the way Ken Burns sees it, that makes me want to weep. He makes me fall in love with it all over again. This weekend, I recommend The American Revolution #documentary on PBS: www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

New #podcast alert. Check out animal activist @flatbushcats podcast Underfoot, about the systemic issues affecting strays #cats #pets podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

While our government remains #shutdown - and republicans claim they want to eliminate waste - Trump's buddies in #Argentina may get $20 to $40 million from US taxpayers popular.info/p/update-tax...

influencers who are not disclosing that they are right-wing hacks are dissuading women from using hormonal #birthcontrol. www.khou.com/video/news/h...

#NewYork ’s Biggest #ICE Detention Center Bans #Books Deliveries nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

More information on the cops who used 83k cameras to track an #abortion patient on her abuser's tip, and how the cops tried to cover their tracks. jessica.substack.com/p/texas-abor...

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your #HealthInsurance to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. www.propublica.org/article/heal...

#Environment The political killings you don’t hear about: Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable. heated.world/p/the-politi...

Remember when Trump & MAGAs supposedly cared about government waste? “A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for #Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary” popular.info/p/trumps-arg...

What does the data tell us about #terrorism? csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...