Here's my list of the essential truths about our current crisis that are routinely missing from New York Times coverage: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-...

NEW from Heads Up News: Federal agents get an ice-cold reception in Minneapolis www.headsupnews.org/p/federal-ag...

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

I feel like this got missed? Time Magazine (!!) is partnering with a gambling company to integrate instant betting on news events, such as the genocide in Gaza (!!!!!!) The rate of collapse of media is absolutely blistering. Support your independent media outlets folks..... archive.ph/wip/kgyIz

Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...

I mean

I made this handy Venn diagram depicting two groups: people who need 3 dementia tests in 6 months and people who should be President.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

@zeblarson.bsky.social wrote a great piece for us on what this admin is doing now and some historical context

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury. That means the grand jury refused to indict.

Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first. This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!

Jefferies always sounds like he's giving a talk to a think tank.

i’ve had more productive conference meetings with a toddler. with a dog. with a hat rack that bore a passing resemblance to an elegantly dressed gentleman

hey cool consensus

Trump is cutting student loan debt relief at the federal level — making it harder for young people to get ahead. In Maine, I helped create one of the most generous relief programs in the country — and in the Senate, I’ll fight to bring that same relief to every American.

Do you have a whistle? Are you whistle trained? Is everyone in your house (above age idk 10?) trained ? (my dogs don’t like it!) Form a crowd stay loud. Tell targeted neighbors to stay inside when they hear whistles & don’t open the door.

Troubling times for Venture these days. Might explain why an exec sold 1,000,000 share yesterday despite the stock being at an all time low. www.tipranks.com/news/insider...

"Readers are not asking the Times to print propaganda or stump for Democrats. In my view, they simply want the Times to be more clear-eyed and honest about the depth of the crisis this country currently faces." — @froomkin.bsky.social Sad but accurate, Dan. presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-...

I think we’ve learned that they have value when there is a community understanding of government overreach

🔴 2 Palestinians, including a child, were killed by Israeli fire west of the yellow line — areas outside Israeli military control — in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reports. Journalist Momin Abu Owda said the child was shot and then run over by a tank, which ultimately killed him...

21-y.o. Abdul Rahman al-Sabateen, arrested by Israeli soldiers in late June, has been confirmed to have died in Israeli custody last night, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said. The young man from the town of Husan, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, was transferred to a hospital in...

Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding. The skill being taught is thinking

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

great photo of emily koski and elliott payne as brian o'hara talks to city council by renée jones schneider www.startribune.com/amid-critici...

It's fitting that Mubashir was held at Ft Snelling, where Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved, where 1658 Dakota were held in a concentration camp, and where scores of Nisei were interned to teach Japanese during WWII. Remember this when SCOTUS rules on birthright citizenship next year.

🚨NEW: Fresh off paying fines in a kickback prosecution, dialysis giant Davita - previously nailed in a huge Medicare fraud case - just used Citizens United to dump a $50,000 corporate donation into Colorado's gubernatorial race. Now, there's a state push to ban that kind of spending.

Page One in Houston: @houstonchronicle.com #midterms

More seriously, Benz is going to attempt to "Twitter Files" USAID. We can assume he is coordinating with his white supremacist colleague and armpit stain in human form, Darren Beattie, overseeing the effort at State. Be forewarned: wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-extrem...

South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year as it seeks to curb a surge of deceptive promotions featuring fabricated experts or deep-faked celebrities endorsing food or pharmaceutical products on social media.

The Post analyzed TikTok watch histories provided to it by 1,100 users. The data illustrates "the platform’s power to show you what you might want, and also reveals vast oceans of content you may never see —and perhaps don’t know exist." One finding: gender plays a big role in what videos are shown.

I've been overwhelmed this year by education news. I've hidden from some of it by focusing on one of the newer biggest threats to public ed: AI in K-12. But a whole lot of ish happened. I went month by month to look at key stories from the year and it ain't pretty. We've got work to do in 2026.

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...

@ketanjoshi.co has an excellent new piece in Net Zero Investor on the risky economics of the US LNG export business model. "He [Mikulka] paints a grim picture of an industry leaning heavily on investors, speculating on a future that’s unlikely to play out anywhere close to what’s expected..."

History—from the American Revolution to the civil rights movement—has shown that chipping away at vital institutions can erode political power and force positive change.

People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.

14/ slight correction here: he didn't even intentionally overstay the visa, he was seeking a reasonable extension, which DHS denied. This left him immediately out of status. "Doing it the right way" all the way down bsky.app/profile/matt...

1/ One thing that I think is getting understandably overlooked in the coverage of immigration overenforcement is just how wasteful and inefficient ICE is being even when they aren't kidnapping and caging people who should be with their families. Here's a quick example from my casefiles today:

ICE’s cruelty is only mitigated by their incompetence

JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago." @financialtimes.com $DE www.ft.com/content/523a...

Pete Hegseth wanted to send two survivors of a boat strike to a notorious prison in El Salvador, but the State Department said no, so they sent them home How can you say that survivors of a boat strike had to be shot and killed in the water when survivors of another boat strike got to go home?

Absolutely astounding to see a politician label an abject failure as a success. Incredible. The EU dooms its young people to a life of total misery and destruction by waiting ANOTHER 15 years before not even cutting fossil fuel use to zero! Total failure, Ursula. You should be ashamed of yourself

still thinking about the people who claimed in February that opposition to Trump had all but disappeared

Or he’ll try to tag you with sedition and other crimes, I guess

Oh but he can

most anti free speech administration in memory and it isn’t even close