How Elon Musk's DOGE became a fiasco of deception and accounting gimmicks -- failing in its mission to slash government waste Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it. Now it is their turn to show courage.

Rick Steves is a national treasure

Jesus, this story... Refugees starved to death on 420 calories or less after Trump cut aid overnight, leaving no time to find alternative support.

NEW: Trump's mysterious commutation of David Gentile has upset & confused his victims. Several of the businesses in which their life savings were invested had Scientology links. Gentile is a Scientologist himself, but the church says it had nothing to do with the commutation.

After years of supporting EVs with incentive payments for drivers, Uber is the latest big company to retreat on clean energy: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Uber has recently dialed back its climate efforts (including slashing EV incentives for drivers), even as its profits soar...and its green goals look increasingly out of reach. Paywall-free link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gov. Wes Moore's team enlisted an employee of the American Gas Association, the trade group that lobbies on behalf of monopoly gas utilities, to help select Maryland's utility regulators energyandpolicy.org/wes-moore-pu...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Silicon Valley has come to understand that authoritarianism is the best way to ensure that their market dominance is preserved

The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away. bsky.app/profile/just...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

This is such important reporting. How Fox News warped reality to create a false narrative of violent protests in Portland.

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together. -Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places. -Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."

There are no words for how evil this is

Air monitoring works -- and it isn't expensive. Folks living in towns like Clairton, Penn, got a boost when EPA required industrial plants to measure pollution. Trump nixed it, leaving many of his voters breathing fumes. Great piece by @lisalsong.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

This is nowhere close to being true. Two @ij.org clients are citizens who were arrested & @propublica.org found 168 more. Plus, we have witness statements from others who--like most of the citizens caught up by Noem's tactics--didn't have their arrests recorded so they didn't make the news.

A must-read on the silent censorship taking place in the US press. So much of this is going on in American newsrooms right now, and not just to kowtow to Trump. Example: Consider how little is being written about the extreme radicalization of Silicon Valley. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Outside court, ICE agents lay in wait. Inside, these lawyers are immigrants’ last hope. A powerful read by SF Standard: sfstandard.com/2025/10/20/c...

Yep, says the story ran on pg 25 of the print edition. After what appears to have been the biggest day of protest in the country in 55 years

To put it plainly: The US successfully kills international effort that was one step towards leaving a hospitable planet for future generations. A jarring read (and good reporting) from @akshatrathi.bsky.social and @daniellebochove.bsky.social Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg: Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits. 🎁 Gift link below.

New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Dozens of Democrats running for U.S. House seats across the country told Axios they either wouldn't vote for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as party leader or declined to commit to doing so.

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement. At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Correct. This headline and others, similar, entirely miss the meaning of the event.

Nestle stuck it out less than 2 years with the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, and never actually reported its dairy methane emissions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Two years ago, many of the world's biggest dairy and food companies formed a coalition to cut the methane emissions from their suppliers' herds. Nestlé has quietly exited the effort, @benelgin.bsky.social reports [gift link]

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

My neighborhood today.

"Burning to the ground," I tell ya...

Meanwhile, four decades ago.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS...

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

The ICE officer who was recorded shoving a woman outside an immigration court in NYC was suspended on Friday. And he was returned to duty already today, one business day later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

I don’t understand why the student who recorded the video gets to stay anonymous? If her conviction is that strong, put your name to it.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

We will all mourn eventually. Even the long list of those who murdered our foundational freedom.

WSJ editorial: "Using Charlie's murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it." www.wsj.com/opinion/they...