Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

This last example a little too on the nose 🫠

Doing some historical research for a project and while it's an obvious point that we all "know" in some sense, it's bracing and shocking to be reminded of just how violent a place America has been throughout its history.

This screenshot is probably what you should send your congress person in reply to the next fundraising text or email.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

All adults can have a little Benadryl, as a treat

Elizabeth Warren: "If fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare and avoid a coming catastrophe is not worth fighting for, then I don't know what is."

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Exactly. Your tofu is not driving deforestation in the Amazon. If anything, eating more soy products directly (and eating fewer animals that eat soy as feed) would *reduce* overall demand for soybeans and pressure on tropical forests.

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

79. American citizen.

Coates: "All I can go to is my role as a writer, and my role as a writer is to state things as clearly as I possibly can, to make them in such a way that they haunt, to state truths and to reinforce the animating notion of my politics—which is that all humanity is equal and is worthy of that."

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

22 million people could see their health insurance premiums spike if Congress doesn’t extend the ACA’s tax credits. Workers are already struggling to make ends meet, and can’t afford this health care crisis. Tell Congress: stop health care price spikes! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

For anyone wishing to leave the US military, or who wants to know what their rights will be if they join, legal guidance and support can be found here: girightshotline.org

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

I dunno who made this but I applaud whoever did. Perfection.

✊ New Yorkers will not stand idly by as ICE operates in the heart of our city, kidnapping New Yorkers and separating them from their loved ones and community. #ICEOutOfNY

Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee say six pages of records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that the late financier was friends with some of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world. https://to.pbs.org/3IsJYy1

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

*soul leaves body*

Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil fuel industry influence

youtu.be/s-41UF02vrU?... This guy turned a window A/C into a ground-source cooling unit and tripled its efficiency. Just dug a hole and threw some tubing in.

Seems somehow too on the nose for Climate Week to be hot and so, so humid hashtag wet bulb temperature

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Felt out of place at a climate week thing today but @dave.bzky.team talked to me in person which was EXCITING! 🤩

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges and universities. https://cnn.it/3IzW9Jf

My feeling about Sinclair balking is that we should still cheer the Disney reversal. Celebrate every single goddamn thing that slows or ends any of this nonsense. There will always be more battles to fight. So go ahead and write Sinclair's advertisers. But spooking Disney is still a great result.

WOW this is so fucked-up. Bluestockings Cooperative just announced that they are closing today - and, according to comments made by multiple worker-stewards, this decision was made by a small number of white people without the consent of the BIPOC workers, who wanted to keep Bstox open.

there are like three big divisions in climate people: -radical normies: save the status quo by any means necessary -electrobros: climate tech will bring the anarchocapitalist future tech bros dream of -remakers: we need to reboot this whole planet because this shit is working for like 150 people

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Farmworkers already face harsh conditions. Now they may have to deal with a pay cut. grist.org/labor/farmwo...

Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

Oh hey! Need a bit of GOOD news this Friday? Well, we've got that. @sfgate.com launched a SoCal Bureau last year and hired 5 journalists to cover LA. It's been so successful under the steady hand of @farleyelliott.bsky.social that it now has its own newsletter: www.sfgate.com/la/article/s...

I wrote an essay for Anti Records introducing the next Mavis Staples album, out in November. "Grim days call for fierce love. And Mavis Staples, one of the most enduring figures in American music, is laying it down. Sad And Beautiful World is the latest solo album from a national treasure."

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Friday morning reminder that there is lots of back-of-house stuff--coordinated & not, though coordinated is more efficient usually--that you can do to keep the warriors alive & well, make their work smoother, hold up people they'd usually support but can't right now, etc.

Just double checking if this news is getting enough eyeballs with so much happening

Federal Plaza protest leads to arrest of at least 11 elected officials, including Brad Lander and Jumaane Williams https://www.europesays.com/us/238628/ ByEyewitness News Friday, September 19, 2025 9:12AM Demonstrators say …#ny #nyc #newyork #nynews #nycnews #newyorknews #us #news #usnews

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.