A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

"The complaint, initially brought by the Department of Justice and the dozens of state attorneys general in 2024, claimed that Live Nation monopolized the industry by controlling ticketing, concert booking, venues, and promotions."

ICYMI: I made an interactive map for yall to explore all the cherry blossom, magnolia and crabapple hotspots across NYC! 🌸 with @lillysabs.bsky.social! bonus: there's also a tool in here to search how your neighborhood ranks in terms of flowering tree density www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)

Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

Less than a year after Lockheed's Precision Strike Missile entered low-rate production, CENTCOM used the weapon to hit a rec center and school, killing 21 civilians including young girls playing volleyball. Story w/ my friend and colleague @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Ryan Coogler reached out to Karlos Hill (Regents' Professor of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American History at OU) to learn more about the history of music in the Mississippi Delta. Parts of their conversations showed up in the film. www.oklahoman.com/story/lifest...

This was a fun one to work on www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...

We came to the bargaining table yesterday ready to make serious progress. Management instead continued to ignore our priorities, including funding healthcare, A.I. protections, and hybrid work. ......

“Last month, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Revenue told The Star that the agency had processed 159 gender changes on IDs since a district court injunction was lifted in October. Officials say they expect around 1,800 people to have their identity documents revoked.“

There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"

Willie Colón, a trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and producer who became a luminary of salsa music in a career that spanned nearly six decades, died on Saturday. He was 75. nyti.ms/3MCFkzC

This really is a great picture:

‘A love letter to all the good men I know’: Shahrbanoo Sadat on making Afghanistan’s first romcom

Saturday's Weather Rating: 1/10 The arctic has arrived - again. We have an Extreme Cold Warning and a Wind Advisory in effect starting at 10:00am. Wind chills fall to nearly 20 below zero tonight. I've got nothing. The vibes have frozen over.

imagine having one of the best tech reporters of all time on your staff and then choosing to lay them off

US farm income set to fall in 2026 despite surge in government payments reut.rs/3ZmIHNP

We stand with you, @postguild.bsky.social

If I was old enough to catch the bus by myself (and had more than $5 ever), I would have loved to go to Rick James first tour, Fire It Up. It had little known Teena Marie whose album he was producing for Motown and Prince as his opening act. We need "All about Eve" type biopic about that tour.🎶🎸

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

From Minneapolis to Gaza, how does the press responsibly report killings when officials act in obvious bad faith? By looking out the window. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism: “I lost touch with reality”

Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

THE TIMES IS UNION-MADE: Today we began bargaining our new contract, and in our first session, we not only told management we were united, we showed them. Our bargaining committee presented a pledge signed by 80% of our union, supporting five core priorities…..

“ ‘The Pitt’ did what good art often does: it allowed me to see my reality more clearly.” Dhruv Khullar, a physician, writes about binge-watching the show during an especially busy stretch in his hospital—and what he learned about being a doctor from it. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AhiRHH

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Teenage me who decided to become an oil reporter in '03 because of the Iraq war 🤝 this moment Here's NPR's explainer about Venezuela's oil industry🇻🇪 🛢️ (and Guyana's too 🇬🇾 🛢️) Featuring @paashamahdavi.com @fmonaldi.bsky.social and more

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

How to land a job in 2026 www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-h...

"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief

Gaza City's landscape was once packed with concrete residential blocks. In the weeks before a ceasefire in October, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, Reuters found reut.rs/49fw0cd

“It’s only ever been about class, about America deciding who gets to have what and how much.” www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Without health care, private-sector job growth would be near zero.

Over 90% of Series Streaming in 2024 Were From White Creators, UCLA Diversity Study Finds www.thewrap.com/streaming-se...

RELEASE: NewsGuild journalists are sounding the alarm – media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in the newsroom. Today, we launch #NewsNotSlop, a national campaign kicking off a Week of Action on AI, December 1–5. newsguild.org/release-stan...

Nearly 4,000 immigrants from Myanmar will lose Temporary Protected Status in January, the Department of Homeland Security said today.

KC and the Sunshine Band’s hits #1 with “That’s the Way (I Like It)” — 50 years ago today. “People always thought [the track] was some kind of crazy accident, like we just stumbled onto a hook,” said Harry Wayne Casey. “But we worked that groove over and over until it felt like a living thing.”

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Nearly a 1,000 people have signed the @condeunion.bsky.social and @newyorkerunion.bsky.social petition to reinstate the Fired Four and reverse the suspensions. JOIN US in standing up for workers' rights and tell Conde Nast that union-busting is DISGUSTING actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

In New York City, two million voters have now cast ballots in the mayor’s race, the most voters since 1969, according to the city’s Board of Elections.

ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw

Halloween voting is the best voting

Tip-or-treat 🎃 This Halloween, a reminder that a great way to scare those abusing their power is to reach out to us on Signal: 917-512-0201. *You, too, can shine a light on injustice by making your own ProPublica pumpkin: https://propub.li/43AXneD

Time for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play. (Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)