Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2

NEW: California case over trans students' privacy rights heads to appeals court. A Ninth Circuit administrative stay issued on Friday blocked a district court ruling that would upend state protections. More briefing was ordered due before the new year. Tonight at Law Dork:

nu-ludditism is the future of american politics and a perfect horseshoe

Pete Hegseth says the Defense Department “does not do climate change crap.” But a new report suggests that the Pentagon is engaging with the issue in one serious way: Stockpiling dozens of critical minerals, it is threatening the energy transition by hoarding valuable resources.

The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition

In like 2022 I wrote about how climate change would make landslides worse

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Things can feel hopeless but this year, people fought back. Here's how the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan is taking on the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away. www.404media.co/a-small-town...

Here's the transcript of the report on US overseas concentration camps, which US state media did not want you to see. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

We reached out to numerous trump advisers, senior administration officials, others close to trump and in the Republican elite to grade the trump doj’s handling of the Epstein saga from July to today. All but one said F or F minus Because that one said “F-minus-minus.”

AHEM ==>> bsky.app/profile/mari... I keep saying: subscribe to @zeteo.com if among other things you’ve like to stay ahead of the curve during this second trump era

my first @theguardian.com: I wrote about this year's "Drag Queen Christmas" tour stop in Pensacola, FL, which from the 1950s-70s hosted America's biggest LGBTQ event; the state AG tried to get the "demonic" show canceled. I talked to Florida drag queens and supporters that refuse to go underground:

What might be helpful is to effectively communicate to communities facing data center inundation what water theft under settler colonialism meant for Indigenous peoples in the Colorado River Basin or along the Missouri River in the early-to-mid 1900s.

why is the united states government coming for my underwear, man

yep, and Exxon is saying that's fine for the planet because it'll build "low carbon data centers" (massive gas-fired plants with carbon capture on them) www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...

The influential progressive third party announced Thursday that it was putting out a recruitment call for candidates specifically opposed to data centers. www.wired.com/story/oppose...

Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it

Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions. Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...

Judge delays decision on signatures for Missouri referendum on gerrymandered map #moleg #mogov

My latest months-long investigation: Inside the surge in ICE visits to NYC homeless shelters under the Trump administration. Several incidents raise questions about whether city staff and federal agents are following the laws. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

Are you a doctor, nurse or other frontline medical provider who has recently left your position at a VA hospital or clinic? We want to hear from you. Tell us your story:

And that workforce is pretty important - they’re supposed to build the F-47 fighter jet, the crown jewel of Boeing’s defense portfolio! inkstickmedia.com/will-st-loui...

It’s noteworthy that Boeing has funds to sponsor a media outlet but not for upping wages for its unionized St Louis workforce (despite the much bemoaned “skilled workforce shortages” reported in industry-funded outlets) inkstick.substack.com/p/during-st-... @hurwitz.bsky.social @inkstickmedia.com

Another day, another defense publication funded by the arms industry

NEW: Some of downstate New York’s most used hiking trails are badly eroding. President Trump’s cuts have slashed the crews working to save them. nysfocus.com/2025/12/11/t...

US forces have intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that marks a serious escalation of tensions between the two countries. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The studios no longer make movies primarily to attract and please moviegoers; they make movies in such a way as to get as much as possible from the prearranged and anticipated deals. (1980)

NEW: Here's my story on Arlington, Texas, becoming the first known city in the nation to kill a city-wide LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination policy in response to the Trump administration. With no statewide protections, it was one of the few things protecting LGBTQ+ Texans: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Calling the program a "Biden-era slush fund," the Trump administration is making massive cuts to a federal program that funds permanent housing for homeless people. Advocates and St. Louis City officials say cutting rental assistance payments could make hundreds of people homeless.

6/ You don’t want to move your husband to Emory or somewhere? The woman whispered. Shouldn’t you get him out of here? The question seemed inappropriate. “We’re good,” Mrs. Parker said firmly. “I appreciate your concern, but we’re good.”

the Forever Chemicals administration

1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

The White House just launched a "Media Bias" tracker to supposedly monitor fake news. It's really a hit list of reporters & outlets covering issues in ways Trump & the admin dislike. Flagrant attack on independent thought, freedom of the press & free speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Journalism folks, I've been trying to find a home for a story & keep running into outlets not having the bandwidth to fact-check something like this (which I get, and appreciate the transparency!). Do you know of places that are open to longer stories that take freelance pitches? Details below.

As fascism tightens its grip, history offers a blueprint for resistance. In the 1930s, broad “popular fronts” united workers, Black cultural movements, artists & organizers to beat back the far right. What would it look like today? inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Van Hollen according to the family of Mohammed Ibrahim was in constant contact and was consistently demanding that Israel release him.

absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...

NEW: Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/26/i...

Scoop: Provisions of the NDAA that would ensure military members’ right to repair their own equipment are set to be removed from the funding act, replaced by language that will require the military to pay subscription fees to defense contractors via “data-as-a-service.” www.wired.com/story/subscr...

ICYMI: I wrote about what it's like to have gotten my autism diagnosis, fallen in love and built a life during a time roughly concurrent with our evolving understanding of autism, and what it means to stand firm in that knowledge and self-determination in a time when the state seeks to tear it down

This holiday season, between the recent upending of SNAP benefits and increasing economic uncertainty, people are hungry. Queer groups are stepping in to make sure their communities get fed. Really proud of this piece from Priyanka Bansal. I hope you'll give it a read.

I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless. nymag.com/intelligence...