NEW: After a tense standoff with armed agents, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison were blocked from entering the ICE HQ in Minnesota. This is explicitly against a court ruling that officials must follow the law and let lawmakers conduct such oversight visits.

Noem saying Ross acted "according to his training" is a blinking red light. Any investigative effort from those with subpoena power needs to press on ICE permitting early resort to lethal force. @lilahassan.bsky.social's reporting is crucial & acknowledges it may be out of date:

NOBODY PANIC

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

jfc: "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper" newsguild.org/pittsburgh-p...

NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Our latest:

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

A great many humanistic majors have this affordance of making the world legible to you, but at the cost of feeling like you're the sane one in the asylum

Béla Tarr visiting a store in Peru selling pirated DVDs and posing with the owner and bootlegs of his own work, one of the realest ones, RIP

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt. This is cruel and unnecessary. If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

Use our action center to tell lawmakers to stop the Trump administration from deporting Heng Guan, who helped journalists expose the horrors of Uyghur prison camps in Xinjiang, China. His life could be at risk.

Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.

We murdered an old lady for no reason

Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture

A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal." It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.

What in the world? We sent in a dozen (ish?) helicopters, which promptly left. Maduro's VP is giving press conferences. In no way is the US "running" Venuezuela. So is a serious invasion coming or are we just going to make-believe the whole thing?

Trump in 2017: “we will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands, or try to rebuild other countries in our own image. Those days are now over.” trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

This zine was created on a quiet, meditative afternoon in November in Seattle, at a workshop led by @dairinstitute.bsky.social 's Dylan Baker -- a lovely experience and a beautiful result! zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...

🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

I know Bluesky has serious issues but its not infected with a chatbot that creates CSAM on demand so, I dunno

I was told electing a progressive prosecutor would inevitably lead to a rise in crime. share.inquirer.com/gjgwFN

Contrast this with how this same administration has revoked visas for researchers studying how information ecosystems are manipulated (including by foreign actors like Russia). Seems strange that they welcome back the manipulators and attack those working to identify and call them out.

Snowstorm drop rig on the porch attracting visitors

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

My 2025 in a screenshot — I track what I'm working on in my Notes app. Here's my list for this year w a few redactions for things that haven't been announced yet. The numbers refer to the month. It was a pretty busy year, we'll see what '26 holds.

New uses of AI 🤖, genealogy research 🧬, cinematic sound design 🎞️ and media literacy training 👩‍🏫 were among the ways these 10 journalism projects made an impact across Latin America 🌎 in 2025.

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 that will be free to use, share and remake starting on Jan. 1. n.pr/4scrT9d

Aya Sinclair talked to John Doran about giving up drink & drugs; reckoning with her emo, metal & IDM past and found time to pass on some tips for those wanting to fill their mouths with live earthworms Quietus Best of 2025: An Interview with Aya buff.ly/5Xb0Mkr

Every performance should be treated as an open rehearsal and every rehearsal should be a demo recording session to capture improvised materials. Every gig is a scrimmage in preparation for the next gig.

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

It was an incredible year for our little accidental podcast. If you're new, check out this top 10 to see what other folks have listened to this year!

for your holiday reading pleasure: i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co

for instant all-is-calmness/all-is-brightness, try natural information society/bitchin bajas. bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/totality

this is what some of you look like in your chore coats

Did you know that Pee Wee's Christmas special is available to watch on YouTube any time you want?? youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE?...

thermal label printer is best purchase of my life and it's not particularly close

Take 25 minutes to watch the "turn and burn" tactics used in U.S. raids targeting migrants and citizens alike -- meticulously reconstructed by @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social @devonlum.bsky.social @ajcardia.bsky.social & more. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Queen Elizabeth stopped by police. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shoplifting. 'Leaked conversations’ from elections. A wave of deceptive media circulating during conflicts. 2025 saw AI-generated media cross a threshold, write Zuzanna Wojciak and shirin anlen from WITNESS. What lessons can we learn?

I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus. The entire movie.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.