this is genuinely wild

"China has offset the decline from America with breathtaking speed. Shipments to other parts of the world have surged this year, demonstrating that China’s manufacturing dominance will not be easily slowed." Can a dataviz make you laugh? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bad news for science today. Rachel Riley moved from HHS, where she gutted NIH and the largest part of US biomedical research, to the office of Naval Research, where she presumably will gut the science funded by ONR. How to stop this? Impeach her boss, the Project 2025 co-head Russell Vought. 🧪

I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.

My latest on Mamdani's proposal for a Department of Community Safety in @cityandstateny.bsky.social. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

New piece in The New Republic. Catch it in the current print mag or read it here. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Thanks, Chris! Could not have done it without talking to you at length several times, or access to your archive of work.

NPR giving "Hillbilly Elegy" tons of friendly coverage, only for Vance to sign the de-funding of NPR, was one of the most ironic things I've lived through.

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Bari's CBS News will be like Fox News, but: instead of takes designed to indulge the presumptions of your aggrieved geriatric right-wing uncle, it will be deliver takes tailored to flatter aggrieved right-wing tech oligarchs: Ellison, Musk, Andreessen, David Sacks.

Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

This man is a buffoonish shill for the fossil fuels industry. The stupidity here is staggering.

In a statement ICE claimed Arias-Mendoza had a number of previous arrests and entered the country illegally at some point. This journalist is not in the business of taking ICE at their word.

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Worth noting that Khalil (and others) who have everything to lose, have shown more bravery and commitment to free speech than elites across academia, corporate America, culture and politics bsky.app/profile/josh...

Committee to Elect John Fetterman President

This is a great video. If you want to learn more about "agrivoltaics" read this piece by *another* @motherjones.com long-time contributor @tomphilpott.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/environment/...

What Epstein records have not been made public?

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Today marks *1 year* since Israeli forces killed 26-year-old American Ayşenur Eygi. Her family has heard nothing from Biden & Trump admins, and Israel. State Dept. told us it has “no higher priority” than US citizens — but then referred us to Israel for info on Israel’s killing of the US citizen.

Variety describes Bari Weiss as “a well-regarded opinion writer who has tilted at extreme views, particularly those who are emblematic of the progressive “woke” movement.” Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

On Wednesday, as firefighters worked to contain a 9,000-acre blaze in western Washington's forests, federal officials escorted 44 of those firefighters off the premises, arresting two of them on charges of illegally entering the country.

The IRA was surprisingly effective at spurring investment in green energy. Where it failed was making it *politically* sustainable by delivering immediate tangible benefits to the public. In that sense, the Green New Deal was, in retrospect, the more prudent and realistic approach. on.ft.com/4n4Ayra

What a horrifically sinister Black Mirror episode.

Farm work is dangerous in ways that most of us will probably never understand or appreciate. #colorado #medsky @tomphilpott.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did. We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.

Trump family-backed golf resort in Vietnam are grabbing over 900 hectares of land that currently currently supports fruit farms. Farmers are offered rice and fistful of dollars as compensation www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

what

The American berserk. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Tourists from Ohio, and joggers: stop your incessant drug dealing right now. Or learn the hard way.

Could the Cuomo brothers be bigger clowns? I’m having a hard time imagining it. But I’m sure they will give me occasion to very soon. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They are basically industry spokespeople at this point

People like Huckabee like to erase the fact that the our edifice of international law comes from the years after World War II when countries wanted to ensure that *such a war never happened again*.

This guy's head's in the Crusades.

Pro tip: If you see someone wearing a cape, they're probably not a hero. They could even be a proto-fascist.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.

6. Americans warped perceptions of crime “warp public opinion in ways that set back policy changes shown to improve public safety.” We are spending billions of dollars constructing detention centers to house immigrants to combat a non-existent crime wave.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

The AI economy is clearly a vast and jiggly bubble. The Hard Fork podcast hosts—‪@caseynewton.bsky.social‬ and @kevinroose.com‬—desperately need to read this. And then read up on the telecom crash and the housing crash. Y'all are doing it again (crypto, web3).

New post, begging tech journalists to read up on the telecom crash and the housing crash. Capital expenditures on AI now represent more economic activity than consumer spending. And there is a minefield of financial gimmickry just under the surface. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

NBC: "A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using AI to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump admin." Researcher Darren Linvill says the bots exist to "massage perceptions." Great illustration for this story too:

sobbing into my laptop looking at this and wondering what we did for god to curse us and give us car-oriented slop instead

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.