All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

The health risks of gas stoves are well-established, but the industry that produces them doesn't want you to know that.

I'm a producer on the US premiere of Naomi Wallace's brilliant play, Slaughter City. All Profits from ticket sales will be donated to the Trans Justice Funding Project & The Brooklyn Defenders. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/slaughter-... @bklyndefender.bsky.social @thebennatan.bsky.social

Appliance companies speaking out both sides of their mouths on the dangers of gas cooking stoves. What they once flagged for air pollution & health concerns is now 'magically' as safe as an electric stove. But maybe they should have checked their own websites first. grist.org/accountabili...

Gas stove makers quietly delete air pollution warnings as they fight mandatory health labels - Grist grist.org/accountabili...

Incredible detail from Deadline: Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which debuted in 2003, “was born out of the network’s cancellation of Bill Maher‘s Politically Incorrect in 2002 after the…host rebuked accusations that the 9/11 terrorists were ‘cowards.’” deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...

Gas stove manufacturers are quietly deleting statements about the “concerns over indoor air pollution” surrounding their products. grist.org/accountabili...

Gas stove makers quietly delete air pollution warnings as they fight mandatory health labels #Climate

🚨 from @grist.org: A new lawsuit has been filed by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers against the state of Colorado to stop it from requiring natural gas stoves to carry health labels warning about their pollution dangers. grist.org/accountabili...

Important info on gas stoves and sleezy goings on by manufacturers from @hurwitz.bsky.social @grist.org

What if I started really using social media again. Would you guys like that

Gonna be talking about data centers, billionaire rhetoric, and outer space on Here and Now at 1:52pm eastern time grist.org/climate-ener...

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Gas stove makers quietly delete air pollution warnings as they fight mandatory health labels. Manufacturers sued to stop a Colorado law requiring air quality warnings, arguing gas stoves are safe. Some of their websites once said the opposite. grist.org/accountabili... #Stove #Health #Gas #Policy

Gas stove manufacturers are quietly deleting statements about the “concerns over indoor air pollution” surrounding their products. grist.org/accountabili...

“I’m pretty sure that Chuck E. Cheese has more of an in-depth prior hiring process than UG Solutions.” How a little-known former Green Beret went from starting a company to prevent hangovers to the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza.

Incredible and dismal story by @hurwitz.bsky.social about a worker who needed to drive for Lyft and take shifts as a security guard to make ends meet when he started Boeing at $13/hour, despite having a college degree and being a military veteran.

I'm teaching a Workshop4Gaza in November about writing alongside the non-human! We're raising funds for The Sameer Project. Come! We'll be reading from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and more. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

The crazy thing about misinformation is at this point, fact checking isn’t super hard. It just really seems like people are completely lacking in the desire to do any research and I really hate that

NEW in @chron.com: Hundreds of LGBTQ+ books were found sitting in a surplus warehouse at Texas A&M University, and the university won't say why. As first reported by @joyurcaba.bsky.social, the books include a memoir by Matthew Shepard's mother and academic texts. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

A searing investigation from @maxblau.bsky.social: how the H-2A visa, billed as a ticket to opportunity, has instead become a pipeline to "modern-day slavery."

Polygon was a great website that deserved better

Is everybody else also getting a bunch of obviously AI-generated pitches now?

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

Peru rejected a plan to create a preserve to protect uncontacted tribes of Indigenous people in the Amazon.

SCOOP “I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers www.wired.com/story/right-...

Boeing unionists have been at loggerheads with the defense giant since early August. Now, they're slated to vote on a strike deal. By: @hurwitz.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/boeing-worke...

also on the subject of political violence

The friend who witnessed Michael Brown’s death was shot and killed Sunday morning less than a mile away from where a police officer killed Brown.

Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city’s homeless — plus it’s illegal, experts say. theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...

this is insane lol. we're out here punishing human rights organizations for respecting international law www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

westvirginiawatch.com/2025/09/02/e... feeling some kind of way about the WV county made famous for the West Virginia Mine Wars potentially becoming a data center region

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Tesla’s entire gross profit for 2024 was $17.45 billion. Musk’s pay package will be $1 trillion in stock and other compensation. The company’s valuation get even more divorced from reality.

American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway. grist.org/indigenous/a... #Islands #Climate #Politics #Policy #Mining #AmericanSamoa #Samoa #PagoPago

"I say “good night” to them as if we were sleeping together. In the morning, I talk to them as if they were still alive. They will remain alive in my heart and mind as long as I live. Their photo will bear witness to the childhoods that were assassinated."

This is the only headline we could think to slap on a piece on the past couple of days.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

Just learned about the owner of the New York Times manning a Gatling gun amid Draft Riots in 1863 archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

again, over half (55% according to health and human services) of the 6.2 million people who live Missouri live in Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis, which are gerrymandered to neutralize Democratic voters

please help us spread the word about this mentorship opportunity for writers of color & share it with anyone you think might be interested!

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

Defector gets it

Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in. “We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy. grist.org/housing/disa... #Homes #Housing #RealEstate #Climate #Disaster

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all. Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk. grist.org/accountabili... #Maps #Chicago #Toxic #Health #Lead #Pipes #Policy #Politics #Illinois

New in @nysfocus.bsky.social: The New York state prison system's crisis, ongoing since a guard strike earlier this year, has been trickling down to local jails. The backlog of "state ready" incarceratd people was up some 700 percent in July. nysfocus.com/2025/09/02/c...

literally all you need to know about this ghoul of a VC is contained in this one sentence "Next, Bi iMessaged a photo of Leon’s corpse to Smith’s 7-year-old son’s iPad."