More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Autumn is coming in and the leaves are starting to change color and fall. I asked an ecologist to share her thoughts on leaves, and I think what she had to say is pretty interesting. I mean, chemical warfare and poop? Tell me more! 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2025/09/the-...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. The first cup of coffee. 2. A hot shower w/ good water pressure. 3. Kenny Burrell’s guitar tone. 4. Good fried chicken. 5. The transition the world makes during morning twilight (astro -> nautical -> civil).

As I understand history, the way FDR campaigned and governed was pretty consistently hammering the shit out of the opposition party. He didn’t build his coalition with olive branches to the money trusts. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...

I'm not sure what the case is where you are, but the acorns have started falling at a furious pace where I live. That makes this piece particularly timely. Interesting read. 🧪🐻🍂🍁 news.ncsu.edu/2025/09/the-...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

Feel like people undersold the new Naked Gun. Couple of the bigger gags are misses, but plenty of them are hits. Expected that. But joke for joke, it's just much sharper than I expected it to be. Legitimately some of the funniest straight jokes I've heard on movies or TV in a while.

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of numbers on how many doctors in rural hospitals are on H1B visas?

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

Interesting, though not terribly surprising.

Well, this is terrifying.

I mean, I’m a practicing economist, and at this point I’m telling people that we’ve never really had any economy anywhere subject to these current conditions. We genuinely have never seen this before and don’t know for sure what will happen. But I don’t think it’s gonna be good. Question is degree.

@robertmays.bsky.social @qbklass.bsky.social We’re only in week 3, and it looks like 5 teams have already lost their starting QBs to injury (at least for the week). When was the last time this many teams lost a QB starter to injury this early (if ever)?

In case anyone was wondering what Betteridge's law of headlines is, here you go -- it argues that "any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

@aatishb.bsky.social Great to see you here, Aatish!

In 2024, a team of science writers at AAAS ran a long-term experiment to see if ChatGPT could cut it writing news items about scientific research. Here's what they learned. Worth a look. 🧪 #scicomm www.science.org/content/blog...

Inside you there are two wolves.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

In 2024, a team of science writers at AAAS ran a long-term experiment to see if ChatGPT could cut it writing news items about scientific research. Here's what they learned. Worth a look. 🧪 #scicomm www.science.org/content/blog...

For people 65 or older considering getting a new covid shot, this week might be the best opportunity to get vaccinated without complications before a federal vaccine advisory committee’s scheduled Friday vote to issue recommendations. #FuckTrump #Resist Gift article. wapo.st/46kfEyR

I would argue it’s actually happening pretty quickly.

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

This is a very good thread.

Make that 20,000 words bsky.app/profile/eric...

There is a great 10,000-word story to be written about this FUBAR Georgia raid, starting w/ the negotiations that went into building the plant, then the hiring, the visa confusion, the behind-the-scenes at DHS, the arrests, the humiliation, the fallout, the anger. Can't wait to read it.

The term "Orwellian" gets overused a lot. But the disconnect between the rhetoric of the regime about supporting free speech and their demonstrable actual actions to limit any speech that criticizes them goes beyond mere hypocrisy

I see a lot of "history won't be on your side" takes lately, and while that's true of Republicans, it's also true that history will look upon this group of Democrats as the weakest, most unserious caucus in modern history People like strength. And they're begging you to show some

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

The New York Times: Hegseth Pushes Fresh Troop Readiness Agenda Military Dot Com: The Fuckin Army Wants to Kick Out Black Men

You know what’s a fun word? Hubbub. As in a din or commotion. “What’s all this hubbub about?” It’s just a fun one.

If you've never seen a Robert Redford movie and would like to, but have no idea where to start, I'd go with either The Sting or Sneakers. Both are excellent and (for the most part) are very fun. I prefer The Sting, but YMMV. Now, if you prefer movies that will make you cry...

It's jarring to me how many people don't actually understand why CBS, ABC et al settled these suits with Trump. A big diversified corporation had a limitless number of regulatory touch points with the federal government. They need a President who is at least not actively trying to hurt them.

We should not be cowed into silence about Kirk’s views and reprehensible comments because we fear MAGA provocateurs’ retribution or mischaracterization. Our democracy requires we defend all speakers, not ignore the difference between admirable and malignant messages open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

One thing I wish all Democrats knew is that we don't expect you to be fearless. We expect you to be brave. Bravery is not the absence of fear. It is being afraid and moving ahead anyway. If you find that you are neither, then it is time to step aside. There are people who can do this job ably.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

The media's infatuation with horse race politics — the "will this help or hurt at the polls? — over "is this authoritarian nonsense" has got to be one of the worst aspects of modern media.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Do The Right Thing Army of Darkness Bubba Ho Tep

One wonders how much of this money will actually help to keep rural healthcare providers in business, and how much will get siphoned off by random interests that find a way to grab a piece of the pie.

I will always say Moxie. But I also celebrate the fact that Moxie is the ideal soda for New England. It’s a treat that doesn’t taste good, allowing New Englanders to indulge without actually enjoying themselves. It’s perfect.

ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

This Giants-Cowboys game is pretty darn eventful. As an Eagles fan, I’m only sad both teams can’t lose.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...