"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...

The @nytimes.com responds to Trump's #lawfare defamation lawsuit.

In the Energy Institute blog, Meredith Fowlie is out today with an important analysis of California's legislative accomplishments on electricity affordability as the session wrapped up last week. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/r... 💡🔌

What happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco Gut-wrenching tale by Griffin Gaffney: sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

@willbunch.bsky.social is the number one reason why I am an Inky subscriber and why I can gift you this essay. Read it. He is right. share.inquirer.com/W5nl5e

The fascism is here. "What would you do if fascism came to America?" You're doing it.

Devastating piece. What does it say about us that so many privately agree with this, yet so few speak up?

Scathing take by ex-Meta executive: "In Silicon Valley, far from thinking they’re lucky, they think they’re hard done by, they’re victims. I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity."

Wonder how we got into this mess? It’s stories like these that normalize authoritarianism with “fun” takes on Trump taking on “dream” roles. Major media fail. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Props to Politico for getting this right

Yeah, here is Trump just openly admitting that he is ordering the FBI to target his opponents. Impeachable offense number infinity

Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from @eddiekimx.bsky.social here: sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-f...

The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet | grist.org/politics/the...

I’m authoring legislation to shut this ski mask shit down.

If the sandwich guy had wielded bear spray or a baseball bat as part of the crowd that injured 140 police officers on Jan. 6 he would've been pardoned already www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

"A worker at the morgue carefully removed her Mickey Mouse-printed shirt, pulling it over her sunken, open eyes."

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill. They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget. Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.

The director of the EPA parroting climate change denialists' dumbest talking point

"Former self-identified defenders of our democracy (back when it cost nothing to support democratic principles), including some who served in Democratic administrations, remain partners at captured institutions, earning millions while skirting their moral and civic responsibility to take a stand."

Republicans long said government should stay out of the energy market. They slammed Dem & Biden policies favoring clean energy. But the GOP under Trump has learned to stop worrying and love picking winners and losers -- and they're picking fossil fuels. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

While British Airways' parent IAG and Alaska Air lead in cleaner jet fuel, climate gains are being wiped out by growth in air travel. Some industry insiders are now calling for a more candid conversation about aviation emissions. Gift link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

Scoop: Two days after floods hit Texas, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

So, is South Memphis breathing fumes so Grok can experiment with Nazism? www.selc.org/news/resista...

As part of the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, Starbucks, Kraft Heinz and Nestlé, among others, pledged to reduce the powerful gas in their dairy supply chains. The results have been lackluster. @benelgin.bsky.social, Olivia Raimonde and Illena Peng report for @bloomberg.com: buff.ly/ecJ2bXW

Grabbing street-food vendors. The panicked look on the woman's face is hard to stomach.

POLITICS IS NOT A SPORT. YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO COVER POLITICS LIKE IT'S ALL A BIG GAME.

This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.

Idaho Attorney General: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools because they are “part of an ideological/social movement.” www.idahoednews.org/top-news/att...

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

REPEAT Project just completed our rapid analysis of the impacts of the Senate-passed version of the One Big "Beautiful" Bill (OBBB), which the House is considering now, on the US energy sector and emissions. Still working up full report, but here is a sneak peak... 🔌💡 🧵

“For a country supposedly locked in an existential competition with China, it is bizarre to eviscerate the fastest growing source of energy supposedly to save money while simultaneously providing tax breaks to, of all things, metallurgical coal miners.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

"This is not a 'negotiation.'...It’s like negotiating the terms of a mugging." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

WSJ ed board warning Paramount not to pay Trump’s bribe! “The better alternative for Paramount: Win the legal case, vindicate its CBS journalists and 1st Amend & trust FCC has enough integrity to operate as something more than the President’s personal protection racket.” www.wsj.com/opinion/para...

Watched Valkyries' close loss to NY from a regular seat--not press row--partly because I wanted to get a total feel for the experience. Conclusion: Same as I thought before. GSV has a built-in fan base and is playing so hard that it can't help but expand in multiples. Great game vs. NY superstars.

Just a reminder going forward... (cartoon from 2003)

Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained. “They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”

A must read. Truly insane what is happening here.

What jumped out at me: There's a lot of "former" and "retired" business execs on this letter...and still mostly deafening silence from current corporate leaders

The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

Tehran is 380 square miles. It has a population of 10 million people. If you cannot imagine that then imagine evacuating New York population just 8.5 million. Imagine the logistics, the roads— pregnant women? Children? Elderly? This is just an announcement of a mass execution of innocents.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below