Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

Reporters have a constitutional right to publish classified leaks. But Seth Harp "merely published information that was publicly available about someone at the center of the world’s biggest news story," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told @scottnover.bsky.social.

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

“We had whistles. They had guns.”

The message is grim but the sign language interpreter is giving me joy

In case AI data centers seem inevitable, @lelanargi.bsky.social looked at the farmers and farm communities all over the country that are pushing back — and succeeding: ambrook.com/offrange/lan...

Literally F this

With government fraud in the news, reposting this @delaneyrules.bsky.social piece. Fraud is rampant in farm and ethanol programs.

Here's our attempt to break down what the Trump administration's changes to the childhood vaccine schedule mean for access. The American Academy of Pediatrics still recommends all the vaccines that the CDC cut from the routine schedule. Gift link, from me, Dani Blum and @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social:

There are farmers selling their land for hyperscale data centers. And there are farmers fighting them, terrified of potential effects on their water, their animals, and their livelihoods. “Are we going to be the generation that loses the farm?” My latest for Offrange ambrook.com/offrange/lan...

Lot of things to get whiplash about in 2026 but the sheer number of people who seem to now take the fossil fuel industry at their word is something to behold

(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops .. @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture www.wired.com/story/disinf...

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

It's already on. 20 officials from U.S. finance, energy and defense sectors, tentative plan: travel to VZ in March, meet with new government including new president, finance minister, energy minister, economy minister, head of central bank and Caracas stock exchange." www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Chevron CEO last month on Bloomberg TV: "The Venezuelan oil is sought after by US refiners...we're in discussions with the administration to ensure that we stay in compliance, that they understand the value that our presence [in Venezuela] brings to America" www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Block Communications, which owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has shut down the Pittsburgh City Paper, an alt-weekly that's been around for 34 years. City Paper staffers should look at @racketmn.com, started by folks who were laid off when the Minnesota Star Tribune shut down City Pages.

day one in mamdani’s new york

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It is irresponsible and dangerous for the CMS Administrator (a physician who knows better) to downplay the importance of getting the flu vaccine. Reminder: The US had ~38,000 flu deaths in the 2024-25 season.

"Dilley is no place for children." "[C]hildren are weak, faint, pale, and often crying because they are so hungry." "1 hour of education here per day during the weekdays. They just draw." #NewYork #Texas #USA #Healthcare #Food #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

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This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇

"Each dot here represents the movement of someone arrested or deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year." • 67,000 transfers per month • 23,000 removals per month www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just one month into the government’s 43-day shutdown, SNAP funding ran out with no promise of replenishing the program from the Trump administration. In our latest, @lelanargi.bsky.social explores how hungry Americans coped: foodprint.org/blog/how-sna...

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

well worth reading newrepublic.com/article/2047...

~42 million people spent the govt shutdown without SNAP benefits, stretching, scrimping, searching for new ways to access cheap groceries. Many families will redeploy these desperate strategies when the OBBB kicks in, maybe for the long haul. My latest for FoodPrint foodprint.org/blog/how-sna...

#BREAKING: Instacart says it will halt a practice that used AI to adjust the cost of groceries for different shoppers after a study found some customers were paying as much as 23% more for the same items.

Tanya Simon, the E.P. of "60 Minutes" told the show's staff she stood by the shelved segment but could not allay the concerns of the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss. "She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply." Updated w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social:

American food safety could be headed for a breakdown. Story by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

Caveats apply, as this data is only through November, but so far, this year, 92% of the new power plants built in the U.S. have been solar/batteries/wind. 92%! In the year Trump tried to destroy clean energy! More in this week's chart for @canarymedia.com: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Scientists: I’m looking for sources who think that some (or all?) of the changes to scientific funding, agency research agendas, or STEM training over the last year had merit or were needed reforms. If this is you, I’d like to interview you.

Big day in court. Today, the U.S. District Court of Appeals granted Climate United’s petition for rehearing en banc, to reconsider a previous ruling in favor of the EPA's $20 billion climate funding freeze. I reported on the case for @rollingstone.com in April. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

For 13 years dairy farmers have fought to get whole milk back into school meals, to put more $ in farmers’ pockets and as a corrective to a "poor nutritional decision that's had adverse effects on children’s health." They're about to get their wish. My latest for Offrange ambrook.com/offrange/leg...

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

NEW: A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor. Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help. But few farms have signed on.

Real reporting: “ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”

Me in the @startribune.com today: "The main problem with this program is that it’s like all of the other farm subsidy programs. It’s sending money to the largest farms, and it’s not going to help people who are really struggling with this economic uncertainty.” www.startribune.com/what-to-know...

You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...

Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.

The new farm bailout is clearly being paid for with taxpayer money through the Commodity Credit Corporation. Trump saying that the money is coming from tariffs is not true. As taxpayers, we're paying more $ for goods due to tariffs, and more $ for this bailout. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

In case you're wondering what Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is up to this flu season... they're policing the cookie intake of federal workers. From @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...

“The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It’s Too Late. @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2025/12/8/th...

Extremely difficult to understand the end game in risking the lives of infants

It's hard to predict what the new #ACIP will do, but it looks like it will recommend that the universal birth dose for #hepatitisB be jettisoned. Experts warn even a delay of 2 months before the first dose will lead to chronically infected kids & deaths. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/c...