I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

This is what the weaponization of government looks like. Every accusation is a confession. (Also, imagine if Joe Biden's DOJ had done this to Rupert Murdoch or Miriam Adelson or Elon Musk??)

Mayor Barbara Lee announced a celebration in October for the city’s first title-winning pro team in seven years.

Kimmel's show put together a montage of Trump insisting dozens of times yesterday to "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL." Complete insanity.

ICE arrested someone inside an Alameda County courthouse on Sept. 15. This is the first time a courthouse arrest has happened in Oakland. Public Defender Brendon Woods blasted the federal agency and is calling on local leaders to prevent more incidents like this. oaklandside.org/2025/09/23/i...

Chotiner: You've written a lot about the band Weezer over the years. Me: That's right. Chotiner: And The Blue Album is their best work as you've said. Me: 100%. Always has been. Chotiner: In 1996 in a letter to your high school girlfriend you wrote... Me: Can we go off the record real quick?

Inspired by this + fossil giant Eni's fusion investments to update my 'greenwashing habitable zone' conceptualisation of what techs seem to lend themselves to being the most useful for bullshitty climate delay Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut Top right = The Altman Expanse

You’ll never believe how many more moons Saturn got after we started sending probes all around the solar system and started counting tiny rocks as moons

I cannot stress this enough. We are protesting Broadview because of the human rights violations happening within the ICE facility. If they are willing to assault me on camera, imagine what they are doing to detainees behind boarded-up windows.

Abolish ICE

The quake that struck at 2:56 a.m. Monday, was centered around Berkeley's Elmwood neighborhood, according to the USGS.

A really great piece by my favorite tech journalist:

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

seems fair

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Remember Winnie Greco? The cash-in-the-chip-bag lady? You may recall this longtime Eric Adams adviser is also at the center of fundraisers with the hallmarks of illegal, "straw" donations. These activities were under investigation. One of the big Adams-world mysteries is ... what happened to them?

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

When you lay it all out like that...

A lot smarter than the centrists vs leftists chatter: data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Greg is one of the worst offenders blurring the lines between state censorship and “cancel culture,” which has contributed substantially to what the state censors have achieved.

BREAKING: our activists unveiled a GIANT “Climate Polluters Bill” at a shocking 5,000,000,000,000 💰 The ~160' long bill reveals the projected damage caused by Big Oil's climate pollution (Research: tinyurl.com/45yw26z6) www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #MakeBillionairesPay #MakePollutersPay

The idea that "cancel culture" is not itself "speech" (and is therefore fair game to be censored or self-censored) strikes me as one of the sources of the present confusion gripping our media. Placing it in opposition to speech just confuses people, especially the pundits. /1

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

A story in three acts.

"The task of this moment, then, is to defend the old vision of a more perfect union — of a more democratic and egalitarian American republic — not hope that one can avoid the fight by having the right conversation."

i think every girl should be issued an obedient murder of crows upon reaching the age of 12

Wow, physics, which explains how the world works.

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“Targeting activists for deportation is not a rule of law, it's a rule of fear. This sets a dangerous precedent: using immigration enforcement to criminalize political dissent and silence protest.” Our full statement and how you can support Khalil’s appeal here: www.greenpeace.org/usa/we-must-...

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Remarkable judicial order in Trump NYT lawsuit - tl;dr, this is a lot of PR garbage, not a complaint, please re-file something serious. t.co/Ca48rtRLjp

is this bad?

he's just saying it, straight up. an open and shut case for any Supreme Court with a single ounce of integrity (so, not this one) www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

Things are strange and bad and perilous when you find Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson on your side.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

The unstated rest of this sentence is “because we don’t know who the hell we are blowing up.”

A thread: The US National Academy of Science just released its review of Trump's proposal to eliminate the 2009 EPA greenhouse gas endangerment finding that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare. The NAS concludes that finding "has stood the test of time...