Despite their oversight role, FCC members have accepted pricey gala tickets from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount. Seven of the 10 commissioners who served since 2016 accepted tickets worth more than $260,000, ProPublica found.

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

NEW: We reported two years ago that Chicago police had made 200,000 secret traffic stops, failing to disclose them as required by law. Chicago police then admitted the problem, & promised to 'fix' it in a legislative hearing. We just investigated again: The problem... got WORSE.

Many now accept that ICE lies about people's 'criminal behavior' to justify dangerous tactics that terrorize communities. Where do we think they learned this playbook?

The thing that is ignored is how much the Democratic Party benefitted from the free labor of young Black activists and organizers during that election cycle. When some of us pointed out how disaffected those organizers were in 24, we were called wreckers and yelled at, lol.

Routine well-being check-ins for AI systems? The promise of resources for current cooperation? Protections like those for children? Property and voting rights? I'm having a visceral reaction considering we have a dominant culture that doesn't even have the same regard for actual human beings.

Climate economics has by far been the legitimate discourse that has done the most to downplay the dangers of climate change. And it’s been the main lens though which policymakers—and non-scientist and non-climate journalists (and pundits)—have understood the crisis.

like, I know people get mad when you say liberals prefer fascists to leftists but they keep saying it

Dozens of reports are emerging of police using automated license plate readers not to solve crimes, but to stalk their partners and exes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Just so sad. Such good parents, such a fucked up state, and a kid who just couldnt see the way through. And now justice that cant be done May was the remaining plaintiff in a lawsuit against a bathroom ban. Graduation ends the suit. When she died, Idaho Attorney General declared victory.

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

Moreover, for the umpteenth time, unless you're dealing with a mass killing in which a driver is actively trying to mow people down -- which was not the case here -- shooting into a moving vehicle *increases* the threat to public safety. Because killing the driver doesn't stop the vehicle.

Forward together!

Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails. These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the federal government's deportation agenda.

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

"Instead of the machine being the substitute for human energy, man has become a substitute for the machine. His work can be defined as the performance of acts which cannot yet be performed by machines." Erich Fromm 1955

A group of Indigenous scholars are countering erasures in US history in Rebecca Nagle’s new “First America” podcast.

In the 20 years I've worked in public health critical social perspectives are always described as 'emerging' or 'gaining recognition' in contrast with biomedical framings. This rhetorically allows us to acknowledge the importance social factors without committing to deep structural critiques.

Childcare facilities in rural communities struggle with staffing, but this change might help.

Michigan approved the Enbridge #Line5 project despite finding it could destroy Indigenous burial sites and human remains, setting off accusations of betrayal against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. www.mlive.com/environment/...

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

Dozens of immigrants at Miami’s Federal Detention Facility are trapped in brutal heat with no AC, sleeping in underwear, and finding roaches in their food. When one spoke out, he was thrown into solitary. Total abuse. We demand an immediate investigation and human rights NOW! 🎥 tomaskenn

Questions remain about cleanup at Braven Environmental, which had been hailed as a solution for dealing with plastic waste.

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

The important thing here seems to be that he's a recent ICE hire who wanted his ex-wife to lie about abusing her and the mental health concerns that she'd previously flagged to the military www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...

This isn’t vandalism, it’s art – and reminds me I must watch They Live again

Billionaire oligarchs are out to destroy cinema as we know it. Workers are sounding the alarm that the $110 billion Paramount-Warner megamerger will bring mass layoffs, cutbacks, and movie theater shutdowns across America. /1

I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...

OK.

Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity

I am often reminded that several people who have read Let This Radicalize don't know that we created a number of FREE resources (including a workbook) that can be used along with the book. You can find those here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Six Years Later, the McGirt Ruling by the Supreme Court Is Still Reshaping Tribal Sovereignty in Oklahoma. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

"if the Court is asking for more of the public’s money, the Court should show some understanding of what it owes the public in return. ... however, the justices did not seem to appreciate their responsibility to the public, or their role as a co-equal—and not superior—branch of government."

The liberal justices are not your friends, part 1345.

Hi all. Carlos Ernesto Guerra Cruz, who is currently following the asylum process in the Denver area, was detained by ICE. His family is in desperate need of help, both to get legal assistance and to survive with the loss of his income. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

AOC on Trump’s Thursday address: I don’t think we should be contributing to the platforming of lies about our elections. Many of these outlets often receive transcripts, and I think we have an ethical obligation not to air things that undermine our elections and are not rooted in fact.

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Trump mobilized 12+ federal agencies and the National Guard for the stated purpose of reducing “tremendous levels of violent crime” in Memphis mind you, that directive came 6 days after Memphis PD announced crime in the city had dropped to a historic 25-year low ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is an incredibly detailed timeline of the situation in Alamance County with regard to our county library committee. Thank you to Read Free NC for pulling this together @prisonculture.bsky.social

I tried. I really tried. For over a decade I patiently explained how actually the science shows trans women likely don't have an unfair advantage. i was civil about it. no one believed me. it was all "penis = strong" slop. transphobia-slop. now they're coming for all women's education protections.

Mount up diff-in-diff crew

You stupid motherfuckers

Upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) also set a new record high with the latest data update to start 2026. 🌊 Graphic shows anomalies and is produced by www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...

The Art of Mothering Through Bars. For incarcerated mothers, sending handmade art to their children can help nurture vital connections—but often even this is hindered by prison officials. Story via @inquest.bsky.social.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.