The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

WE ARE IN THE HOMESTRETCH! Let's get out the vote for Aftyn! OUR GOAL IS 20+ CALLERS A SESSION. Current counts: Friday (7-9p et): 10 Saturday (12-2p et): 10 *CONGRESSMAN MCGOVERN* Sunday: (12-2p et) 27 🥳 Monday (7-9p et): 13 wkday: zoom.us/meeting/regi... wkdn: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act could soon upend political representation all over. Says a voting policy scholar, “it could be like a one-two punch to racial representation at the local level.”

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.

This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public." 📃✍️💥👀

Even when there are no obvious artifacts, the generated images often have a weird uncanny sheen to them that I personally find vaguely revolting. I can’t really turn that reaction off.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

This is @theflytrapmedia.com honoring @sfdirewolf.bsky.social! the-flytrap.ghost.io/honoring-ali...

This is what's up: weaintbuyingit.com

Left unchecked, company and government use of automated decision-making systems in areas such as housing, health care, law enforcement, and employment have already caused discriminatory outcomes based on protected statuses. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

If you were wondering why they went after CRT and why it’s always a bellweather for worse and a guilt in excuse

The Indian Health Service has placed new restrictions on how staff can speak publicly about vaccines, flagging words like “immunizations” and “vaccines,” according to internal emails reviewed by ProPublica. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social

Taiwan recognized the threat of disinformation from china around 2000-ish and engaged in a society-wide cognitive inoculation strategy that focuses on prebunking and media literacy education. www.foreignaffairsreview.com/home/beyond-...

Always ask whose crimes are seen as incriminating a whole population and whose aren't. "During 2018–2021, a total of 3,991 female victims of intimate partner homicide were reported to NVDRS...." www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Amazing story. There was a real blue wave all across NY State in November.

The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak in Large Language Models (LLMs),” comes from Icaro Lab, a collaboration of researchers at Sapienza University in Rome and the DexAI think tank. Read the full article: www.wired.com/story/poems-...

"When the men did not believe Miles’ tribal ID, she pointed to a phone number for the Umatilla Tribal enrollment office on the back of the card. “Call it,” she said. When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone,"

I hope that those of you who had to bravely walk away from toxic families of origin for your own wholeness and wellbeing are surrounded today and always with chosen families who see you in your best and truest light, the way we all deserve

This is wild if you know roswell

"We need to find the 'positive' articulation of our demands. I suspect we’ll land close to a message that’s like 'freedom for all.' We need to assure each other that we are not leaving each other behind — that it’s all of us, or none."

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."

Really appreciate Sarah Jaffe's work. The counter we really need. I know too many people still stuck here. I was for a long time.

I'm returning to Work Won't Love You Back territory for this conversation with @sarahmosseri.bsky.social -- online, December 9, free to all, timed for both US and Europe. darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A 2022 ProPublica investigation showed RealPage was helping landlords decide rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior. In case you missed it:

Reminder: Salmonella — even the most dangerous strains — perishes at 165 degrees Fahrenheit, and a meat thermometer is the only surefire way to tell if your turkey has reached that temperature. 🦃 Stay safe this Thanksgiving:

Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell. It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue. disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...

This guy championed the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank while also berating the government as useless.

Every day, Trump keeps escalating. He's showing us the power that he believes he has and how he'll wield it against all of us. It's on all of us to remind Trump that in America, we have no tyrants and no kings. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.

A few early-morning reactions, in no particular order. First: bsky.app/profile/emil...

Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.

Some great names on these committees.

Learn about about the transition team here. www.amny.com/new-york/man...

Right now the only way for the vast majority of writers and artists to make any kind of a modest living is to self-publish. All but the luckiest few are having to do this. This means the only income most of us have is from Crowdfunded projects. If you love what someone does & can afford it, pay them

just following orders, huh

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

"load growth from new data centers and other large industrial end users is driving higher winter electricity demand forecasts and contributing to continued risk of supply shortfalls" gizmodo.com/data-centers... www.nerc.com/globalassets...

Engage base to carry message, create clear moral quandary to convert the conflicted, and expose opposition for the true outliers they are. BRAVO to @ndlon.bsky.social for brilliant giving media something to talk about: www.latimes.com/california/s...

cc @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

Your friends with long Covid would really appreciate you running some errands for them. Just offer it. Or a bit of housekeeping support. Anything at all.

I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.