Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

ICYMI yesterday, the author of Searchlight's "Don't say abolish ICE" memo is a senior advisor to Tony Blinken's WestExec, a corporate shadow lobbyist. He works for companies that are immigration contractors. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

This NPR story also contains the most Minnesota lady shit I've ever seen in my life. The feels like tomorrow is -30F (not a typo) and JB does. not. care. about that "little chill air." www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, Big Tech is lobbying to roll back digital regulations across the globe. 🌍 Our new map tracks 200+ policies in 60+ jurisdictions that Big Tech lobbyists have asked Trump to attack. See it for yourself ⬇️

People get surprised when they hear Amazon, Meta, Google, Tesla, and other global giants get huge discounts on energy AND also pass off their infrastructure costs to the rest of us AND pay no taxes.

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

@hshierholz.bsky.social nails it: "Today’s affordability debate, however, focuses almost entirely on prices...(but) The roots of today’s affordability crisis actually lie not in recent price spikes, but in the long-term suppression of workers’ pay." www.ms.now/opinion/infl...

Data centers like Project Blue and the #StargateProject are some of the most dangerous #AI projects to date — and it’s coming to the SW. Join us on 12/10 as we expose the projects' harms and outline how you can join the fight against #tech corporate greed & their #DataCenters. bit.ly/TheSWResists

Our work on data centers in the @nytimes.com. The facilities are heavy water/energy users, and often the big companies behind them get huge taxpayer subsidies. In many states, transparency is so bad the public can't see just how much $ they're giving companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Good Jobs First Founder Greg LeRoy is stepping down as executive director. Help us find a great candidate to lead this incredible organization! Details on the job and how to apply: www.idealist.org/en/job/ad148...

"The idea that these companies that have their profit wrapped up in the continued sale and use of fossil fuels is outright contrary to the very goals of the Paris Agreement..." I learned a lot from this conversation between @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social and @dharna.bsky.social

Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts. Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges. buff.ly/8PdXnTT

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The videos of often-violent ICE arrests circulating on social media are “brutal and terrifying,” Sarah Wildman writes. “What should give Americans equal pause is the inhumanity happening beyond the cameras, away from the view of judges and lawyers and the media.”

5/ As lead author @balancecraft.bsky.social says, “You can think of Wall Street as the ultimate NIMBY.” “It’s impossible to solve America’s housing crisis without understanding the deep structural perversions in how homebuilding is financed.”

And we give Amazon billions of dollars that would otherwise go to after-school programs, expanding universal pre-K, roads, parks, child care and all the things that our lives security and joy.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

'Trump’s actions are not dangerously illegal, per Times journalists. Rather they “raise questions” and “stretch bounds”. Trump is not an authoritarian, he is a “maximalist.” Blisteringly obvious conclusions about his seizure of dictatorial powers are kept....' presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-...

"At a time when wealth disparities in the United States have reached historic levels, the report exposes how the Abundance platform sidesteps the root causes of inequality and enables the further consolidation of corporate power..." www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Seems like a pure public good, well worth the $350 million provided by taxpayers.

It would be cool if the journalists doing these kinds of stories would take 5 minutes and look up one of the many studies on the benefits of bike infrastructure and then include that in the story. But no, we get vibes and a one-sided story.

2. Today, ILSR is publishing a package of products that show how state enforcers and lawmakers can turn back the tide of outsized corporate power and support strong, equitable economies within their borders. ilsr.org/independent-...

I can't get over how poorly this is written, and how reasonable the writer makes it sound to have whites-only developments and why yes, maybe the great replacement theory has merits. NYT sucks so bad so often. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/realestate/arkansas-white-housing-return-to-land.html

We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship! lbpost.com/news/educati...

how many journalists were pulled off of more important work to chase down musk's latest bullshit vaporware for some soulless SEO chasing brunchlord editor

6. Americans warped perceptions of crime “warp public opinion in ways that set back policy changes shown to improve public safety.” We are spending billions of dollars constructing detention centers to house immigrants to combat a non-existent crime wave.

can attest

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

We're well over the 50 incidents documented in our investigation now. Here's one from this week from @opb.org, reporting that a young girl was also in the the van of Mam-speaking farmworkers from Guatemala when immigration agents broke the driver window. www.opb.org/article/2025...

My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."

First time since I've worked here where I read a headline and immediately thought "Oh this one's about me 100%."

"He wants the world to know what happened to him in the Salvadoran prison — daily beatings, humiliation, psychological abuse. 'There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.'" A haunting dispatch from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/vene...

The analysis was enabled by our new database, Violation Tracker Global, the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world. 🌍 violationtrackerglobal.goodjobsfirst.org

In Camden, N.J., companies receiving public subsidies hire city residents at just one-tenth the rate of non-residents—and pay them less. Our new analysis highlights a troubling and persistent pattern: cities invest in businesses, but the jobs go elsewhere. goodjobsfirst.org/billions-in-...

Was very excited when Last Week Tonight asked @404media.co to help out with research/fact checking for an AI Slop segment that ran last night. I thought it turned out very good! Here's a few mentions of our reporting, and the full segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg...

SCOOP: Trump’s tax bill includes a little-noticed line that spends $200 billion on a tax break that rewards private equity firms for taking over small businesses and then loading them up with debt, slashing employee pay, mass firing workers, and driving them into bankruptcy.

You too can have a wedding like Jeff Bezos. All you have to do is exploit workers everywhere, pillage the planet, and fail to pay the taxes everyone else pays. www.wsj.com/style/super-...

“IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX.”

every episode of behind the bastards robert to his guests after detailing the most horrific acts of brutality and evil: so that's the story! got anything to plug? guest: *frozen in momentary despair* uhhhh i have a podcast

62% of Democrats want the party to get rid of its leadership compared to just 30% of Republicans.

Violations by Microsoft: Penalty total since 2000: $1,590,084,462 Violations by Apple: Penalty total since 2000: $1,453,223,818 c/o @goodjobsfirst.org Have we ever considered that *still* somehow these companies have no fucks to give besides Pretending To Care?

Today's guest on PTFO is the most feared person in Silicon Valley; the most hated woman on Wall Street; and "one of the more important political figures in this country," according to, yes, Steve Bannon: @linamkhan.bsky.social (!) Whose bipartisan vision is worth hearing ⤵️ youtu.be/ljndYjLpok4?...

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

New from me: Cambodia has descended deeper into authoritarian rule. Journalists jailed; critics killed; media outlets shuttered. The world's biggest athletic apparel co said it was concerned. But its factory employment increased there anyway. Today, it's Nike's third largest source of clothing.

And for anyone who wants to dig into just how flawed this AI tool was in concept and execution, @bxroberts.org and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social talked to a bunch of experts to drill down on the code itself:

NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

In a historic first for this Trump administration: Trump and Public Citizen finally agree on something!

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...