“.. they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," Heller said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes." “This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared." @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The US is withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the treaty that has governed international climate diplomacy since 1992, per the AP: heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi... George H.W. Bush first signed the pact, and the Senate unanimously ratified. US has been a member since then.

Well, this is incredible. My story “King of Olympus,” about a forgotten New Orleans AIDS activist whose name is framed in pink triangles on the AIDS Quilt, is a GLAAD Media Award nominee!

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.

Minnesota law enforcement have video from multiple angles of an unjustified deadly shooting in Minneapolis. Therefore, they should arrest and prosecute the shooter for murder. The fact that the killer is a federal agent should not alter that basic logic. If anything, charging is even more important.

Marimar Martinez, shot in her car multiple times by a Border Patrol agent—thankfully wasn't killed—then accused of a crime for it. Charges dismissed with prejudice. Reportedly, the ICE shooter in Minneapolis killed a woman. They're trying the same excuse. Based on the record, assume it's a lie.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Just finished work on an article that returns to this period, so quite enjoyed this reflection on the survival of Social Text after the Sokal hoax and the clear-eyed defense of student protestors

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Updating list of protest actions for the Venezuela attack www.answercoalition.org/venezuela

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

The US is at war with Venezuela. No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity. US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.

My top for the year: Best new fiction: On the Calculation of Volume Best nonfiction: America, América Best movie: The Mastermind Best video game: Blue Prince Best album: Weft Best local album: Taloa Haklo Best concert: Castle Rat

If you love Christmas music and that sort of vibe but are tired of listening to the same boring stuff, allow me to invite you to tune into @wxpnfm.bsky.social in Philadelphia where the great @djrobertdrake.bsky.social is starting his annual 24-hour marathon of appointment radio.

Why aren't more big cities rushing to implement congestion pricing, now that it's beyond clear that it has worked exceptionally well?

This segment has to be watched. The depravity is astounding

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

Absolute apotheosis of sports gambling culture in this offer the Pelicans sent: gamble on sports for a gamble to gamble more

Please allow me to rant for a minute. It's absurd that so many things—alarm clocks, fitness wearables, car features—require a separate subscription these days. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Colossal named its first "de-extinct" dire wolves for the fratricidal founder of a now fallen empire and the twin he did in. These names... they've been gnawing at me! So, I wrote about lupine Romulus and Remus and snow-white mythmaking for @g-ehr.bsky.social. g-ehr.com/essay/cry-wo... #Paleosky

Some of the longest-lived organisms on Earth aren’t whales, trees or corals, but microbes buried deep in the earth. This eye-opening essay examines the slowest lives on Earth, asking what such lives mean for how we define life itself @karenlloyd.bsky.social

I’ve been genuinely surprised to find many of the most enthusiastic AI users in my life are boomers. Something about loneliness, aging, being used to having assistants of one kind or another, etc

I’m extremely jazzed to be officially working on this book. Although it’s history first and foremost, I’d love to hear from more folks in fungal biology about their exciting new findings, so please reach out!

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

One day to go before applications close!

This is what I want everywhere, every state, every level of school. Great faculty across all disciplines, dedicated to teaching.

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize: erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

i wonder if certain prominent figures should perhaps consider what 'it's morally and legally defensible to preemptively kill people reasonably believed to be engaged in terroristic violence (capaciously understood)' would look like if it was applied in full generality

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

In newly-constructed buildings, all-electric is cheaper overall, according to DOE studies. (Think heat pumps, not more gas.) There's also the climate crisis, and emissions from buildings are the largest source in New York State. The House GOP is rolling back electrification measures. New from us:

Spotify pays artists significantly worse than basically any other platform, I really don’t get the argument for staying on it compared to others

Recently heard this song on local radio and want everyone to enjoy it as much as I do www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6I...

It’s critical to make “climate‑aware, nationally consistent mapping information public. Our flood mapping program should be treated as critical national infrastructure, as important as the core weather forecasting that the National Weather Service provides.” Cost: $3-$12 billion.

In my book, I talk about the “dog-too” drug pipeline which wrings profit from human drugs by remarketing them (often needlessly) to companion animals and I could literally not imagine a clearer example than this

Issue Sixteen of The Drift is now online for your reading pleasure! www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

why bother with dystopian fiction when the united states is already doing worse in real life

After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man. "I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."