“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

🚨NEW: Big Tech’s AI data centers are driving a nationwide affordability crisis. Wholesale electricity costs near data centers have surged up to 267% in the past five years — costs passed straight to families and small businesses.

California’s Governor should sign the “No Robo Bosses Act,” a common-sense bill to end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuse at work. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"The Trump administration will launch a program to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients... "It will affect patients in AZ, OH, OK, NJ, TX, and WA starting January 1..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database. Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away. The cruelty is the point.

Meta is investing 'tens of millions' into a new pro-AI super PAC called the American Technology Excellence Project to fight state-level tech policy that would regulate AI.

Well that one woke me up! #earthquake #SF

Me here---> “What you’re hearing from Trump, JD Vance, Stephen Miller and Pam Bondi is an unambiguous intention to use this tragedy as a pretext to crack down on dissent and criticism. “This is almost a classic move from the authoritarian playbook" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just stop your payments and don’t bother to cancel then.

ICE has spent over $5 million on social media and dark web monitoring software that critics say enables warrantless surveillance.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

The country is not right, and the calls are coming from inside the house.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

This is so so bad

They sound like frightened and scared children lashing out in pain.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

America is now the kind of country where you send workers to build a factory and the government kidnaps them requiring negotiations to ensure their safe return. Good luck bringing manufacturing back in addition to also tanking tourism.

I'm in it. Are they paying per book?

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

Fun Game: North Korea or The USA? A supercut of tech CEO’s utterly humiliating themselves

#ICYMI OpenAI’s lawyers are alleging groups opposed to its conversion to a for-profit may be funded by Musk or working with Zuck. “They’re in this kind of paranoid 🫧... seeing conspiracies and echoes of their enemies in places where [they aren’t].” sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/o... via @sfstandard.com

Reducing the human component of capital leads to reduced profit. Who knew? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.

If you are interested in what is happening in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant these days ‪@maustermuhle.bsky.social‬ ‬ at @51st.news has written the best article I've seen.

Talking over a woman as a debate strategy never gets old apparently.

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏

I know not many people are aware of this but without a COVID booster every year, you aren't as protected from severe COVID infection. We really need more public outrage about COVID vaccine access.

NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

A protester arrested outside the SF immigration court on Wednesday has been charged with two federal misdemeanors. Bay Area attorneys say this is the first time they can remember such charges filed against a citizen arrested by ICE in SF. via @abineely.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/08/ice-...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

I can’t believe this is where we are as a country. Defending slavery. What a disaster.

It appears the White House has gotten key facts wrong as it attempts to harness public sympathy for its efforts to swiftly remove thousands of immigrants from the country.

BREAKING: ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...

Oh my god

This has received zero news coverage www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

"Agents stormed our restaurants in a show of force that went beyond anything reasonable or humane. They raided the heart of our business, tore through our spaces, and left behind a trail of fear, confusion, destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken."

One study shows four in ten data brokers are leaving consumers exercising their privacy rights on read—in violation of California law. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

NEWS from me: Tennessee has subpoenaed hospitals for records of abortions dating back to 2022. “The message being sent here is that every single decision, even ones that would have been legal, then would be second-guessed,” @maryrziegler.bsky.social told me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!! “Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

I thought this was an Onion headline at first glance

Every time I wonder why some young kid who’s not a great actor was cast in something, they’re invariably the offspring of someone famous. Every time.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation