The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

I can only hope Jake Tapper, who bravely broke the news that Joe Biden is old, was watching the Trump speech today.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Last week, the Trump Administration filed its 24th emergency application (in 32 weeks, for a rate of 1 application every 1.33 weeks) with the Supreme Court. That astounding statistic demonstrates that the Administration is counting on the Supreme Court to alter the law, blessing Trump's power grabs.

1/Great conversation between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social talking weaponized interdependence, hegemonic enshittification, and tech bro science fiction fever dreams. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

academics (Neil Postman, etc.) have been screaming about this for the better part of several generations and the U.S. response was to make the wrong choice at absolutely every turn and here we are

Outstanding reporting from the @texasobserver.org — protect us from our “protectors”

Renewables have cut our energy costs. Trump is hurting renewables and will make us pay more for power. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

Chief Justice Roberts, my friends are bitterly divided about you. Half of them, I hate to say, say you're a partisan hack who churned out rulings that will benefit the GOP but destroy the lives of so many regular Americans. The other half, however, just thinks you're a sociopath. Who's right?

This has always been the guiding principle of white supremacy. Better to set shit on fire than allow Black and brown people to have it. Applies to land, food, housing, education...

“We are not witnessing a reimagining of federal disaster response — we are watching its demolition. With each policy rollback and staffing cut, the federal disaster management function is being hollowed out, leaving states and survivors to face storms, fires and floods with less.”

of course a reactionary billionaire wants to rip the foundation out from under Wired, Teen Vogue, &c see this May Wired story on the gutting of the National Geodetic Survey we need accurate spatial measurements to do most anything & boy howdy would a billionaire love to charge you for that service

A holocaust before our eyes and screens electronicintifada.net/content/pale...

Camarillo, CA, or Fallujah, who can say www.youtube.com/live/cZ0YStV...

This is a strokes song

Very good work. Read it and act. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...

"Incremental reforms won’t deliver a health care system that prioritizes health over profits." At this point, incremental reforms won't deliver much of anything anywhere. It's go big or go home time.

To subject yourselves to a king is one thing. But to subject yourselves to DONALD TRUMP?? There is no bigger humiliation for a country and a people.

Woke up to this piece of crap in my email. Came from a so-called SSA subscription service. First time I've rec'd one of those. I've yet to pay Fed Taxes on my SS benefits and I've been collecting them for 10+ years. It is so easy to propel the propaganda when you control all the levers. Grrrrrr

These are the hands of a tomato picker. The harvest season in CA's Central Valley lasts around 5 months. Her hands are this color throughout. She washes her hands all the time, but they stay green during the season. It eventually fades off wants to season ends. #WeFeedYou L

A rogue institution incompatible with a functioning democracy

I've often said the signals SCOTUS sends lower courts and potential litigants by its bottom-line actions are at least as important as its legal doctrine. W/the Court doing so many of the highest-stakes cases on the shadow docket, where it's all bottom-line, no reasoning, that's even more true.

I'll say it again: a good portion of the US elite spent the last 10 years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech because ... and I am not making this up ... sometimes conservative students feel like they have to "self-censor."

Welcome to tall corn country www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Big tech is here to derail and destroy education GenAI is a problem and not a solution to anything

Because after all, blaming others for problems is so much easier (and cheaper) than solving them.

Not like we need this for aviation safety at all. Nope. Just like weather forecasting and alerts. Doesn't affect safety at all. @gettheflick.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social

"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...

Sickening

“Optum, the health data and care provider division of UnitedHealth Group, is developing a way to calculate how sick Medicare patients are through artificial intelligence, instead of relying solely on diagnosis codes submitted by physicians.”

People claiming to be from the FBI visited at least six climate activists in the Boston area in March, reports @moranwriter.bsky.social They didn't say what they wanted, but the implications are chilling when free speech and protest activity are being criminalized. #energysky #climatesky

I am not a Catholic but I can attest to this as an outside observer. The homophobes *hate* Jim Martin S.J.

Very smart analysis of what's motivating various of the Trump folks to destroy the scientific research enterprise. The Continuing Crisis, Part XIV: The Trumpist Worldview | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

Great to see this letter, led by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social and signed by almost 70 scientific societies, advocating for continued funding of the U.S. Geological Survey's Ecosystems Mission Area.

That last sentence is why we have DEI, and why anti-DEI is more properly resegregation, implemented by insecure white men who couldn't get in without nepotism and favoritism, and start out two steps ahead on professional recognition.

Smart, important post on the cascading effects of Trump's cuts to HHS programs. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Quick takes: Louisiana pertussis rise, yellow fever in Ecuador, polio cases in 2 countries Part of a national rise in cases, Louisiana has reported two infant deaths from pertussis this year. www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

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David Horowitz died. David and me? Yeah, we have history. First, before reading on, watch this thrilling video, "What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad": web.archive.org/web/20070220...

I have now confirmed this further with several members of the advisory board

The government of Israel is withholding food aid to 2.1 million people. www.bbc.com/news/article...

the key to covering Musk well is through context: instead of zooming in on what he is doing you have to put what he is doing into the context of how those things are normally done, and why

Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social writes, "Because of the visual language we use, cartoonists will always be first in the line of fire when controversial subjects are being debated & free speech is threatened." Succinct & well-written piece!

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If the @washingtonpost.com wanted to set its credibility on fire, this is what it would do. ChatGPT cannibalized an actual reporter’s good work, turned it into a steaming pile of misinformation and then had the fucking nerve to slap the reporter’s name back on its bullshit.

Binghamtonians! Bada Bing! I'm rolling out your way next week for a lecture from my book-in-progress. bengaged.binghamton.edu/history/rsvp...

#resist #fucktrump #voteblue

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."