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...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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...

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.