Mamdani "inherits a world-leading experiment in retrofitting buildings to slash emissions, open questions about how to transition to cleaner power sources, and a patchwork of adaptation efforts," writes @alexckaufman.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... 🔌💡

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administrations says the U.S. is in a state of "armed conflict" with 24 cartel groups The groups don't even know it. The list is secret -- even from members of Congress For more on Trump's secret fantasy wars, see my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

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The data center industry says "people would be more supportive if they simply knew more about companies’ ongoing sustainability efforts." So, concerns about pollution and water consumption are apparently solvable with ... "education."

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Zohran Mamdani ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for mayor — one that barely touched on climate change. Once he's in office, how will the one-time self-described "ecosocialist" govern? Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with the backstory: heatmap.news/politics/zoh...

Why are so many people being pushed into homelessness? ☑️ Nearly half of all U.S. workers now earn less than the hourly wage needed to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment. ☑️ In CA, workers must earn nearly $50 an hour to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment.

This statistic will be used by groups like the ADL to say "an overwhelming majority of NYC Jews rejected Zohran Mamdani." Which is true! But it's also true that a higher percentage of NYC Jews voted Mamdani than Jews nationwide who voted Trump in 2024, and Trump Jews are not marginalized by the ADL.

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thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story 🥲 Rainesford knocked it out of the park

Despite Threats, the Boeing Strike Continues Inkstick's @hurwitz.bsky.social reports: inkstick.substack.com/p/despite-th...

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Alli Maloney, @leximcmenamin.com + @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social were forces of nature who made the politics section what it was Conde mostly saw us as a thorn in their side + underinvested in TV overall, repeatedly slashing budgets, not backfilling roles + now folding TV into Vogue. It's a damn shame

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Nvidia is helping facilitate ICE investigations, federal procurement records show theintercept.com/2025/11/01/i...

Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers. The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."

Why are ebikes which have to share the road with cars given a speed limit lower than cars? This is also just going to push even more delivery people into (polluting) scooters.

Trump keeps turning to the right-wing Capital Research Center for nonprofits to attack. These are the environmental organizations in its crosshairs. Their alleged violation? Supporting civil disobedience. 1/ alleenbrown.ghost.io/a-trump-targ... for my newsletter Eco Files. Subscribe!

Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email [email protected] & I'll share info.

Suggested reading in this week's Critical State: - @donalgill.bsky.social on US-Canada ties @thedialmag.bsky.social - @nickturse.bsky.social on Trump's deadly Yemen strikes @theintercept.com - @hrw.org on excessive force in Chicago - @hurwitz.bsky.social on the Boeing strike - And more:

"If everyone has to cobble together their own constellation of individual creators $5 at a time? That’s not a media ecosystem. It’s a privatized patchwork of tip jars. Counting on people who pay you directly isn’t the same as not having a boss. You have 100 and can’t afford to piss off any of them."

a dispatch from fighterland, USA

Television Jamaica is streaming hurricane coverage live on YouTube:

ICE is tear gassing schools

Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021. buff.ly/aTKUTCa

Federal agencies paid $1.5 million to a local nonlethal weapons manufacturer in Chicago for air-powered guns and pepper balls. It also paid $7.3 million to a downtown real estate company to relocate ICE agents leading up to Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/c...

About time New York had a Review.

Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts. on.ft.com/3WYgkUI

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

a dispatch from fighterland, USA

Thousands of Boeing union members have been on strike since Aug. 4, and many have had to second jobs and food pantries to get by. By: @hurwitz.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/the-boeing-s...

An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters. "Sometimes a one-page pamphlet translated into two languages isn’t the best way for people to receive information, but a song about go-bags played on the synth is." grist.org/culture/an-a... #NY #NewYork #Art #Artist #Climate

Why one of the world’s greenest countries is betting its future on oil. The rainforest nation of Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism — or wishful thinking? grist.org/internationa... #Suriname #SouthAmerica #Caribbean #Oil #Climate

"Building inspectors, yes. And safety inspectors. Is the water in the ICE office clean? Cut it off, to test it. Fire drills. Tickets on their parked cars. Brake light violations. Health inspections. Sidewalk construction. Street closures. More fire drills. More fire drills!"

‘Gaza is covered with an estimated 61 million tons of rubble, much of which contains asbestos, unexploded munitions, and unburied human remains. “The environmental situation in Gaza before October 7 was a disaster,” said Tareq Abuhamed, who leads the Arava Institute and is Palestinian.‘

Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war’s horrific consequences.

At least 5 federal agencies were involved in a massive immigration raid on Canal Street on Tuesday @jumaane.bsky.social: "I think this simple-minded president is, at some point, going to flood our streets with federal agents and that should concern everybody.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

DHS confirmed *five federal law enforcement agencies* were involved in the Canal Street raid. They have not confirmed the number of people who were arrested and detained. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

This is the problem - renewables not replacing fossil fuels but complementing them We need emissions to at least halve within 50 months, but they continue to head upwards Our prospects are truly dismal www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Savanah was one of a dozen propagandists who participated in Trump’s anti-antifascist round table, where they called for antifascists to be labeled terrorists on par with ISIS. Here she is running away from a bunch of older protesters. In the replies, someone tells her to “stay safe.”

Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK @thecity.nyc

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

No Kings tomorrow in my East Texas city is cosponsored by SJP and the County Democrats

Everything is the St. Louis Gun Couple and American Shigalyovism, example 2418

BREAKING: The US and Saudi Arabia have succeeded getting a majority of countries to postpone the decision to adopt a carbon charge on pollution by one year.

in this thread of guides we have: - protest guides against government surveillance - what a faraday pouch does - best VPNs to protecting your privacy online - background on “no kings” organizers - what tools the trump administration is deploying to surveil protesters and his “enemies” - and more

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse. Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.