This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes. Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

"With a little bit of luck, I'll die before that takes root. I'm much more interested in talking about anything you want except that." Guillermo...same.

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

Tragedy of the commons, a term typically used to describe the lack of incentive to care for a shared natural resource, applies equally to the unwillingness to tend to our threatened democracy.

"contradicts" isn't doing justice to how blatantly and dangerously the officer drove into this guy. Add this to yesterday's story about the cop who wrongly and lazily blamed the cyclist as reminders to be careful who you trust

Batteries can already cover a quarter of California peak load, and it's all just getting started: "The combination of solar and batteries means clean power costs in sunbelt regions could be 50 per cent lower than today’s fossil-based systems.”

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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“i’m still required to laugh at my own humiliation”

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

Despite all the net zero pledges, all the marketing, researchers found only 2% of companies had aligned their capital investment with their net zero goal As they say, money talks and it’s speaking volumes

Once again, marginal tax rates are too low & pose an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy

17-year-old Ahmed Ali Al-Batniji told the CBC what it's like to starve to death shortly before he died. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

"True to his word, Douglas appropriated certain lands, including the village at Tl’uqtinus, as future Indian reserves. Only it never happened. The Cowichan’s lands were later sold to settlers, without the Cowichan’s consent or even knowledge"

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, & more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025. Via @modacitylife.com

As kids know, filling up a pool seems to take forever when it's just getting going, but that doesn't mean it isn't getting there. It definitely doesn't mean giving up and filling it with tar instead.

Palestinian activist and participant in the Oscar-winning film, No Other Land, Odeh Hadalin was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli settler in the Occupied West Bank. The shooter, Yinon Levi, has been under sanctions by both the EU and the US.

"The effect on GDP from physical risks such as higher temperatures and rainfall had quadrupled compared with work carried out the previous year." The clearest thing about the financial risks of climate change seems to be that we're underestimating them.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today. Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous. Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity The future is panels everywhere"[email protected] Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Damn.

That there’s a police state.

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

They're giddy.

Think about how insane this is. I know we normalize every abnormal thing Trump does, & he floods the zone & numbs us, but a leading media organizing rolling over & agreeing to pay $16m to the president because he didn’t like how they edited an interview?? What country is this?

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Lot of respect for any politician who can walk the walk.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

I tend to not buy into most of the “this is straight-up Nazi shit memes” — but handcuffing a top federal legislator because he nonviolently challenged a bureaucrat is some straight-up Nazi shit.

A new data analysis finds the National Post quietly modified nearly 200 newswire articles since Oct. 7 to push a pro-Israel narrative. Jason Toney from @cjpme.org breaks down how the paper edited stories to erase Israeli occupation and frame Palestinians as terrorists.

It’s actually all of Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Norway announcing sanctions and travel bans today against extremist Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich…

The pipeline discourse may eventually drive me insane. Not because I think it should be verboten, but because of its weird disconnect with reality.

Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

"Our previous five-year deal provided a total of a three per cent general wage increase. We've fallen significantly behind, as inflation was almost seven times higher." Time for a fair deal from The Canadian Press. #cdnpoli #onpoli #canmedia

The @theglobeandmail.com is among 136 media organizations to sign this open letter calling on Israel to allow "immediate, independent, and unrestricted international media access to Gaza and for full protection of journalists who continue to report under siege." rsf.org/sites/defaul...

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