A Prism investigation led by @nicolefroio.bsky.social reveals the State Department’s social media campaign of fear in Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico, laying bare the anti-immigrant messaging behind the new face of American diplomacy prismreports.org/2025/12/02/u...

Hiii I'm back to work tomorrow, for any editors looking for writers and/or journalists.

Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.

Before Trump bombed Venezuela and kidnapped Maduro illegally, I wrote about how US embassies are exporting Trump's worldview through social media, manufacturing consent for US military intervention across Latin America: prismreports.org/2025/12/02/u...

Long but worthwhile reading. Looks like Mexico is next on the menu for invasion via law enforcement operation, but several Latin American countries are also being targeted by US embassies to discourage moving north.

It also seems like a good time to re-up this @prismreports.org story from the brilliant @nicolefroio.bsky.social, who for months tracked the social media feeds of U.S. consulates in Latin America, with the rhetoric from the U.S. consulate in Venezuela signaling a major shift in diplomatic relations:

Last month for @prismreports.org, Liliana Frankel and Cecilia Rangel López reported on Venezuelan migrants waylaid in Mexico being forced to return to conditions worse than those they originally fled—and SO MUCH has worsened since we published this on Dec.18:

@nicolefroio.bsky.social "I’m fighting to keep my children safe after losing everything in the war 💔. Even a small donation or a share can make a difference 🙏. Link in bio."

Marty Supreme’s title card is a stream of sperm swimming up a vaginal canal. They fertilize an egg, which becomes a white Marty Supreme ping-pong ball and soars down toward a primordial green table. Ball is life, indeed! defector.com/marty-suprem...

It's almost the end of the year and it looks like I won't hit my subscriber goal for the year, but from now until the ball drop, you can get 40% off your first month/year off a monthly or annual membership to my Patreon by using code WB2026 at checkout. patreon.com/katelynburns

Curioso como sempre o trabalhador tem que abrir mão de seus direitos e de sua vida pra realizar o sonho do patrão de brincar de empresário.

i really thought by 35 it would be easier to be fully Me in family contexts. turns out the repression for not being what your parents wanted you to be can continue well into adulthood. if i ever have a child, they will never ever experience this feeling.

These countries are without exaggeration the lowest of scum on the planet, expressing "concern" and then doing nothing about it is the same as loading the gun and then leaving it on the table for a murderer to pick up.

é um dos motivos para eu não entender como é que os líderes da América Latina estão quietos deixando isso acontecer

Today with our last post of the year: @freeblackgirl.bsky.social on the fragility of body positivity, and what happens when a radical movement gets co-opted.

this is going to sound soo random but i havent been able to find much online... does anybody have recommendations on reads about how music-making is divine in different cultures? I'm thinking of Sinners & how music can be used for good & bad enchantments. recs?

For @conversationalist.org, I wrote about how eugenics never left us, and the role it's playing in political conversations right now. My unsurprising conclusion is that to dismantle eugenics, we need to dismantle empire.

Starting off strong with the one thing I worked on this year that you can't actually read yet: My book on grief, mourning, and how both are deeply broken in the US. Pre-order All My Dead Cats as a present for July 28, 2026 you!

It was wonderful to watch @theflytrapmedia.com grow this year thanks to the incredible and hard work of my fellow worker-owners: @andreagrimes.com @katelynburns.com @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social @nicolefroio.bsky.social @tinavasquez.bsky.social @freeblackgirl.bsky.social and rommy torrico.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

and yet, she makes more money i'll ever aspire to. you just gotta be a morally corrupt journalist to get to those heights, I guess

can someone just thread the highlights so we don't have to read 8 billion words by a scorned man who definitely does not resent being scorned.........????

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

If you told me that this is how Marco Rubio spends all of his time not on camera, I would believe you without hesitation.

seriously. debate has become a tool to air out unspeakably bigoted, cruel views.

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

"Hey that's awesome! Congrats on being mortgage free!" as a response to a Morgan Freeman impersonation is wild.

The one time it wouldn't just tell him what it wanted to hear www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8y2gJwW/

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

the difference between a hero and a karen is context

when someone told me off for calling women "bestie" because it's misogynistic 😭 y'all, sometimes things are just a little light hearted joke

Citing a deeply flawed process, workers, supporters, advocates, & former employees of Planned Parenthood Southeast are rejecting the findings of an independent review that the organization says cleared its leadership of alleged wrongdoing. @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports:

hello

This is very short notice but are there any lawyers online who know about what legal impact Trump's anti-DEI executive orders could have? It's for a story going live tomorrow. #journorequest

im thinking about the parental estrangement forums and shit and it feels like such a natural thing to come from a culture that doesn't see children as full human beings with agency, to extend the status of problem child past the age of majority and allow publishing and media to be complicit in abuse

"The one thing Nuzzi could offer to a reader is the one thing she refuses to provide." defector.com/american-can...

Anistia é o c******!!!! Esse verme y sua corja tem de apodrecer na cadeia por crimes contra a saúde pública!!!

In Myanmar’s political landscape, studying abroad is not just a luxury for youth; it’s a lifeline. Trump’s visa ban is crushing young people in Myanmar, Victor Maung reports. For Noo Khin, the ban didn’t just close a border—it slammed shut a door she spent years trying to open.

I didn't get into it in my latest @theflytrapmedia.com piece but it's telling that most of this supposed estrangement crisis stuff deals exclusively with the behaviors of mothers, daughters, and daughters-in-law. Estranged fathers and sons are not, apparently, in the same "crisis." Wonder why.

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

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truly frying me

From Los Angeles to cities across the country, faith leaders are bearing witness to cruelty, and refusing to look away. Rabbi Susan Goldberg: “[federal immigration agents are] literally just grabbing people off the street... it is just cruel.”

this mf is ALWAYS TALKING

President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.