No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Justice sure took a long while… apnews.com/article/henr...

Suffice to say, the mood inside CNN is not good tonight. “We are doomed," one staffer texted me. “The panic at CNN right now is off the charts,” an insider added. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

A lot of the NYPD/Mamdani takes on here are pretending that Mamdani didn't learn from what happened under de Blasio when you take on NYPD directly which is they kidnapped and doxxed his daughter

Thinking about how I don't know of a single open Black disabled person who holds a full-time disability reporting role, and how desperately we're losing out because of that.

A Cambodian man -- old enough to have survived Pol Pot genocide but too young to die -- is the 7th person to die in ICE custody this year. A Cuban man died of asphyxia in Jan, with witnesses saying guards killed him. A Palestinian woman was shackled after a seizure. www.reuters.com/world/us/cam...

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Finally back from the #AAASmtg, and I had such a wonderful and energizing time meeting other scientists and science advocates across so many disciplines. I also had a great time talking about @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social with @michalruprecht.com @peterha2l.bsky.social @livmonahan.bsky.social

What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.

Uprooter and Advisory Board member @smallthoughts.bsky.social will be speaking along with other AAAS Mass Media Fellows at the AAAS Annual Meeting on February 14th!

This is painful to read.

I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

🌵 Join us on February 14 at @aaas.org Annual Meeting to hear from our fellows! @michalruprecht.com, @smallthoughts.bsky.social and @peterha2l.bsky.social will be sharing their experiences as #MassMediaFellows, bringing their scientific expertise to newsrooms across the country.

Spot the difference

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

Don't forget who cut FEMA budget & staff. edition.cnn.com/weather/live...

Journalists—especially those with resources from major networks who are able to parachute and report on the ground in Minnesota—need to be asking tougher questions. We need to not just report what we’re seeing, we need to hold people in power accountable. This is not right.

I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

I wonder whether rare disease organizations will start speaking up. Some disability orgs definitely have. www.wfaa.com/article/news...

Your regular reminder that when folks say "its cold outside where I live, what happened to global warming?" that the world is big, and weather still exists.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

been tryin to get this point across slate.com/technology/2...

The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.

It's that time of year again! This time the Flagship conference is in France. Highly recommend graduate students far and wide to apply!

When the racist meme becomes national policy

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

health care lawyer here: CBS 'news' reports that: "Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident..." Here's the thing, that can mean 'a bruise' — it just sounds much more dramatic to call it "internal bleeding to the torso"

Even as climate change worsens suffering for people with chronic pain, "getting funding from Washington for research at the intersection of global warming and pain is virtually impossible." Uprooter @smallthoughts.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0401202...

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Today at the @sound-transit.bsky.social System Expansion Committee, Board Vice Chair Claudia Balducci announced the Crosslake Connection — the 2 Line across Lake Washington and the I‑90 floating bridge — has entered pre‑revenue operations. Test trains are running daily. 1/6

In my 20 years of incarceration, I’ve been strip-searched at least 500 times. Each was an act of humiliation and sexual violence. Story via @prismreports.org.

Sports media is failing fans. Two months ago, the NBA and MLB had players and coaches indicted by the federal government for placing bets on games. In previous eras, this would be a crisis. Now? Crickets.

New research finds that kids experiencing food insecurity etc are more likely to have Long Covid jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy to share the final and longest piece I worked on during my @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social fellowship last summer. And a big thanks to everyone at @insideclimatenews.org for helping with the reporting and editing process for this story (as well my sources).1/x insideclimatenews.org/news/0401202...

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

The U.S. unsealed an indictment against Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, that charges him with narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine. But experts have said that Venezuela is a minor cocaine transit country, with most of the cocaine flowing through it heading to Europe, not the U.S.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

The Homeless Remembrance Project has been holding monthly and yearly vigils for more than two decades. They will be meeting at Victor Steinbrueck Park near Pike Place Market. Note that the numbers in the flyer aren't updated with November data.

TONIGHT: Coinciding with the winter solstice at 4:21PM, volunteers with SHARE/WHEEL will hold a vigil for the 245 homeless people who died in the Seattle area this year. Since 2022, the group has honored more than 1,100 people who passed away while unhoused or in public due to violence.

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