By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

I really don't like systems that force libraries to pay-per-use and I wish libraries themselves were more upfront with users about how much every movie you take out from Hoopla or Kanopy is costing the library.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Right now, things aren't looking great for the Trump DOJ in the Abrego Garcia criminal case: - A ruling that they mislead the court will be made public next week - Blanche and his deputies may be forced to testify. - They're facing a motion for sanctions for Gregory Bovino violating the gag order

"It is going to get so much worse." For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US. A quick 🧪🧵

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...

Oh this is cool as fuck

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Yes, ICE, like every single police agency in the USA, produces propaganda. The same propaganda was being produced by sheriffs across the country and various dark money groups before Trump II, but few people wanted to write about it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

The existence of this letter has been reported before. Just not the content. Holy crap. It might be real! From the Guardian in June 2023: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Jesus fucking christ

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.

Ah cool, in the name of safety they have a hyper-insecure Flock camera monitoring every car that enters the school

In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.

God this is such a banger m.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoA...

Same playbook used on the genocide in Gaza--throw up a smokescreen of conflicting claims and hairsplitting so the audience is comforted by their own ambivalence to other people's suffering. Every item in this is pointless if you know that torture and rape are wrong, period.

“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.” @samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

Add another one to the list.

Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.

I wonder what questions Kubrick was asking that gave him that impression

there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

This reminds me of the Old Crow Bourbon Cookbook that I literally found lying on the street—it included a recipe for a salad dressing that included blue cheese, onions, and bourbon

"Israel's strategy since the ceasefire has not been to rebuild Gaza, but to manage its collapse." "By controlling what enters and leaves, Israel dictates the pace of Gaza's decay." "It is a deliberate and cynical policy to keep Gaza broken." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Aid #Healthcare #Genocide

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

I remain fascinated by the extremely good collar on this jumpsuit

Bold gambit to mass bankrupt the peasantry. Then next, the debtors prisons. Really great plan.

My favorite part of the shirime story is that the entire folktale is just “a samurai saw this thing and it was fucked up”

These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.

by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

This is infuriating. Thanks to Adam for a wonderfully comprehensive account of how the Roberts court is attacking the Civil War amendments to the constitution 1/

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Multiple social media users noticed on Monday that the 60 Minutes episode was available via the Global TV app. To view the episode, viewers need to connect to the app from a Canadian IP address. People then uploaded copies of the episode to a variety of file sharing sites and services.

It's a terrorism campaign. That's all it is. It works too.

welp

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

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Black Americans experience schizophrenia and related disorders at twice the rate of white Americans. It’s a disparity that has parallels in other cultures. archive.ph/2024.12.03-1...

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.

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

I also urge community members to give immigration officers what they deserve. *looks directly at camera*

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.