More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

71% of Americans have fallen for a scam. That's something I focus on when I'm trying to have sympathy and remember that we need numbers and anything that signals we have massive numbers behind us.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Here’s what I see: A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform. B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors. C) Those two encampments are miles apart.

From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks. That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years. Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees. And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down?

Remember when getting caught doing something immoral or illegal would end a politician’s career? That was awesome.

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

I suggested to my wife that it seemed pointless to continually fill the bird feeder, as the squirrels always empty it in hours. Behind me, my son said, “It’s in your interest for the squirrels to be on your side when the Great War begins,” and ate another spoonful of Froot Loops.

Chicago, the city with the most lead service lines in the country, doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.

Half a million blue sharks killed as bycatch in Pacific Ocean in 2023. 🦈 New analysis of fisheries data by Greenpeace Australia reveals that almost half a million blue sharks were caught by industrial longliners as bycatch in the Pacific Ocean in 2023. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/half-a-...

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

Cook County’s property tax appeal process shifted $1.91 billion in taxes from businesses onto homeowners over the last three years, exacerbating inequities in the city and suburbs, a new report found.

On May 2nd, in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. 1/ #WeFeedYou

Trump's EO calls for military and national security "assets" to be deployed on American streets to assist with law enforcement, and for the prosecution of local officials who talk about "DEI stuff" like the history of racist police violence. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Reflecting on how economists are bad at recognizing our humanity as scientists and the humanity of those we study Went to a talk by non economists last week that put this in stark relief Will make a point to ask people how it makes them feel to do the research they do, especially on hard subjects

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

Two coal-fired power plants in Arkansas are exempt from revised air pollution rules under a Trump administration rollback of environmental standards adopted last year, leaving some former EPA officials and environment groups concerned about prolonged exposure to unhealthy emissions.

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

Palemon works in Oxnard CAs blueberries. My job requires a lot of experience to be able to work rapidly -being careful to only pick the ripe berries - and harvest enough berries to earn a living wage. We work piece rate & earn $3.10 per flat (12 boxes of berries). #WeFeedYou

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Per @wsj.com: Trump admin to boost payments for Medicare Advantage insurers, generating more than $25 billion in new revenue for the very same companies that routine fuck over the sickest Americans on the taxpayer's dime. Dr. Ed Weisbart of @pnhp.bsky.social explains the landscape in this interview.

Creating and sharing deceptive media made with artificial intelligence is now a crime in New Jersey.

I'm rereading the transcripts of our interviews with people talking about their life satisfaction. I am again struck by how pathetic our little 0-10 scales are at capturing what they're saying. Here's a retired lady telling my assistant what it's like having a son with paranoid schizophrenia.

Keep in mind that for every instance of a lawyer's obtaining due process for one of these unlawful deportations, there are absurdly many deportees who aren't represented, who couldn't contact counsel, and whose families and friends don't know where they are.

What competition? There is no competition. Which African countries trade more with the U.S. vs China?

If you or someone you know got laid off by Trump & Elon today, consider running for local office and bringing your expertise into leadership. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions, more than aviation and shipping combined. 👇read👇

>80 hours of minimum wage are needed to rent a 1-bedroom in many counties. nlihc.org/sites/defaul... #Econsky

@deanbaker13.bsky.social Here's why you can have great aggregate econ data & yet low, middle income ppl don't believe them.

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Deforestation for palm oil continues to quickly wipe out tropical primary forests around the globe, in this case Borneo -- "14,000 hectares of forest cleared between January and August last year or 40 times size of New York’s Central Park." 🌏 news.mongabay.com/2023/10/defo...

Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration. The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.

“Detention has become a business in fascist America, but this isn’t new” tsakraklides.com/2025/03/22/t...

Asheville city hall announced its first major post-Helene rebuilding project. It's rebuilding the golf course. A council member also just released where they'll be directing $225 million in federal funds. Rental aid is not on the list. Bailing out the tourism industry is. #avlnews #avlgov

I live in town next to Port Washington WI where this is proposed. As plans are made clear, opposition is mounting. Port sits on Lake Michigan & has its own electric plant.. for a 'city' of about 13,000.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Lots more on where students actually go to college here. edreformnow.org/2023/09/20/w...

Maria's been working in the strawberries in Salinas CA for 14 years. "Right now, we're removing the flowers so the plant grow stronger. It's rainy and cold and there is a lot of water in the rows we have to walk through. We have to be very careful not to fall." #WeFeedYou

America, 2025