“You might as well do commercials for Lockheed Martin or Zyklon B.” 😳

Past shutdowns have resulted in $36 million/day of damage to park infrastructure alone. This one could be worse: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

Tonight’s screening.

“What led Niemöller to embrace the Nazis? He said himself that a big part of the attraction was the fact that the Nazis hated the people he hated. That included Communists, and it included Jews.”

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Portlanders — show off your corner of war-ravaged Portland below.

Elon Musk’s X is the “go-to platform for antisemitic posters,” according to a new year-long study shared exclusively with CNN: https://cnn.it/3Wbsj0W

Man if this ain’t the truth

Fun true fact: the yield of chardonnay grapes goes up 60% when grown in a field with solar panels. Chardonnay--helping solar, hurting coal. It's working hard, man!

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

My answer to the @muckrack.com Daily trivia question: the first Super Bowl halftime show, in 1967, included the University of Arizona and Grambling State marching bands, trumpeter Al Hirt, and the Bell Rocket Air Men. #jetpacks

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

"The solution to pedestrian deaths isn't "defensive walking," as NPR says, but investment in public transit. Don't give us advice on how best to play Frogger on roads full of texting drivers, give us buses that give those drivers a safer place to text." Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

I'm old enough to remember how last week, Wright celebrated that natural gas was the answer to our prayers, and how it has cut CO₂ since 2005. Turns out gas is ~⅓ of that decrease, efficiency and renewables are the other ~⅓ each gwagner.com/renewables-f... Either way, coal isn't it.

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

I'm probably going to watch this, even though it'll make me sad. I loved the Expos.

Trump: "I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States."

This is one of three terrorist assaults carried out by MAGA assailants against members of the LGBTQ community in the last week. Each was supposedly a retaliation for the death of Charlie Kirk. These assaults are being reported by media in the UK, but not in the US.

watch this.

1. If you don’t like someone’s thread it’s beyond easy to hide it 2. If you don’t like someone’s content no one is forcing you to follow them 3. When someone is posting content for free they aren’t obligated to take requests 4. No one is required to take unsolicited feedback This has been a PSA

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Good news! Environmental engineers are making progress in a new method to clean up PCBs, a dangerous ‘forever chemical’ that lingers in the water, using bacteria attached to biochar made from corn kernels. buff.ly/gjIf2rH

“Out of the three mass shootings TODAY” is one of the most tragic uniquely-American sentences out there. Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.

Post something random or have an awful October

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

Yeah, about that...

Timeline cleanse. Thumbnail and title give most of it away, but watch anyway. #FindTheGood

We need more books celebrating the art of fieldwork nowadays. This book is a tonic: eye opening history and well crafted storytelling. When you finish this, go straight onto “White Waters and Black”.

🚨 ACTION ALERT: Secretary Duffy’s DOT says bike lanes are “not in the public interest” – and is canceling hundreds of millions in grants for biking, walking, and trail projects nationwide. Take action: bikeleague.org/action-center

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

Someone asked me recently what we do about #science stories that are lost or destroyed or buried. I was lucky to have diaries to reconstruct this story; what if we don't? I said art - fiction, plays, poems - have a lot of power to take fragments and show how things might have been, or could be.

Thank you, @melissasevigny.bsky.social, for introducing me to Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter. As you noted, their story matters, for so many reasons. My wife and I both devoured BRAVE THE WILD RIVER, and have recommended it to our daughter, an environmental science major.

As the President flouts the Posse Comitatus Act by sending troops to Portland, I can’t help but be struck by the irony that Portland was the birthplace of the Christian Nationalist and white supremacist, right wing domestic terror group called the Posse Comitatus.

DOGE’s effects are even worse than we initially realized. Months after Elon Musk departed, Social Security is suffering extensive damage, with the cuts hitting local field offices the hardest. trib.al/6qZ5Zx0

My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.

The U.S. government is days from a possible shutdown on Oct. 1. And even short government shutdowns do lasting damage, research shows. They sap morale, drive federal workers to quit, raise costs and weaken agencies for years.

I didn’t bother posting in advance on my CNN hit at 7:15 a.m. today. But here’s the appearance, where I talk Kimmel, Trump and how the issue exposed both the dangers of media consolidation AND the need for execs at big media companies to defend their employees. WATCH: loom.ly/4Cb4nAk

NEW: Days before a decades-long contract between CPB and NPR is due to expire (and would normally be renewed), CPB announced Friday that it is giving nearly $60 million over five years to a newly formed coalition entity. cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams threatening fish, ecosystems, and communities that depend on them—with no way to stop the process once it starts. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

An excellent summation of the horrific massacre at Wounded Knee, and the political machinations and bungling that led up to and followed it. The more leaders try to rewrite history to suit their own ends, the more essential @hcrichardson.bsky.social and other dependable, accessible historians are.

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Famous American citizen Wernher von Braun.

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

"The Savant" was supposed to debut today on Apple TV+. The streamer "postponed" the release of the series, so you can't watch it... but you can, and should, read the article that inspired it.

Stars Hollow comes to Hollywood! Lauren Graham will be honored on Friday, October 3 with the 2,823rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the television category. Guest speaker: "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. 11:30am PT, 6284 Hollywood Blvd, in front of the W Hollywood Hotel.

Nexstar joins Sinclair in backing down and resuming broadcast of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"