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People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.

Sorry to be *that person* but I have a real issue with the framing/context for this: -- The web title for this is "The Opioid Crisis Never Ended." No, really?

An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk's xAI, Anthropic, Google , OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems.

I think ppl dunking on Weiss for ham-fisted spiking of this story... assume that she doesn't want it known that she did this. I assume the opposite; I assume that ppl invested in journalism are not her audience, and never have been.

There’s an Arabic version of “every cloud has a silver lining” that translates to “no cows, no feeding them at dawn.” A Scots version is “today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky.” And a Romanian phrase for looking on the bright side is un șut în fund, un pas înainte, or “a kick in the ass, a step forward”

“The magazine was swift to reestablish itself: It rented an office at 8 Eliot St. — $6,500 a month for one story of a house near the Harvard Kennedy School — and raised more than half a million dollars in donations, including more than $300,000 in the last fiscal year alone.”

I’m seeing some suggestions that the administration that is lawlessly killing people at sea also failed to comply with statutory document release requirements. Say it ain’t so.

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

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Oh my god I was right

Lol when Libby hold estimate abandons all hope & simply says "several months"

1) Denmark has universal health care & can carry disease burden better 2) Even among developed countries with universal health care, Denmark is a weirdo outlier on some vaccines. share.google/1MPnNyM6Tv3R...

this is excellent: “it’s not just public goods that don’t matter: it’s the public. The leaders Trump socializes with most often do not have to answer to a public, and that seems like a pretty good gig to the president - and (more importantly) his circle.”

The CDC just announced a new study on hepatitis B vaccination on newborns in Guinea-Bissau – a move that researchers call “highly unethical” and “extremely risky”. Happy to team up with @katlay.bsky.social on this story: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is the kind of news I’d like to see more of in 2026

Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.

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We dropped at an AI poll yesterday at Searchlight! A lot of AI polling has been either very industry driven, or detached from the politics of it all, and I feel our work filled a real gap. The tl;dr is: people want this regulated. Now. www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/ame...

Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime

SCOOP Harvey Risch is a Yale epidemiologist who has speculated about links between "turbo cancer" and COVID vaccines, while working for a company whose customers use ivermectin as a cancer treatment Trump just appointed him to oversee the US national cancer program www.wired.com/story/risch-...

Let's be clear: the US National Science Foundation's decision to reduce the role of expert panelists and outside reviewers does not limit the burden on NSF workers; it empowers them to make funding decisions without scientific oversight. www.science.org/content/arti...

The power combo for every right-wing populist party is “we’ll kick out the immigrants, and spend the money we save on YOU.” Republicans are too anti-welfare state to go there. So their version is “your house will be cheaper when the migrants are gone, also here’s a massive healthcare bill.”

2) On X, FBI published an edited video that is 5 min., 4 secs. long. Bluesky allows only 3 minutes. So, I can't upload it intact. If you can, I suggest going to X to access it. In the meanwhile, I will try to find a different source for today's variation from them. Link: x.com/FBIBoston/st...

I'm seeing the same footage presented slightly different in different places. That may matter for locals, for people who know the area well, or who were in the area at the time of these events. Here are 2 other variations. 1) Video published by NYT today. I believe there's no paywall. But lmk!

POTUS announces a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers in an apparent attempt to extort Venezuela. Real gunboat diplomacy.

“Earlier Tuesday, President Trump criticized Paramount, saying on social media that he’s been treated “far worse” by the company’s CBS division since the Ellison family took control earlier this year. The Ellisons have touted their friendly ties to the president.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's been a second since I read a story on this, and I hadn't seen the video images on offer here. Here is a non-paywalled link that doesn't overwhelm you with ads. Please click through to watch, especially if you are in New England. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

New thinking is welcome. The foreign policy "establishment" led the US down some dark and destructive paths. But there's no way to run foreign policy without people who know and care about the world and respect the norms and practice of diplomacy. 7/

Some context missing from this story: Trump’s unwinding of EV incentives. That’s not the only reason for Ford’s woes but it is a big part of the reason

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

"I write 10 hours a day, mostly in my mind" Is quite a thing to say. (It was said by M.F.K. Fisher)

The submerged state emerges h/t @smettler.bsky.social

New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.

Hanukkah is a modest holiday. But I value it I tell my kids light offers hope amid discouragement and illuminates possible paths when the way seems obscured All the more important after a heartbreaking weekend the lights offer the possibility of light in days ahead

Heartbreaking reading www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

🧵Here's a research-backed answer: No. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"medetomidine, a powerful veterinary sedative that causes almost instantaneous blackouts and, if not used every few hours, brings on life-threatening withdrawal symptoms."

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

Something I know to be true but don't understand is that Trump's foul & indecent language will upset a politician in, let's say, Indiana More so than jeopardizing the health & healthcare of millions of Americans Or severing financial aid when millions of lives depend upon it.

Under Trump, the SEC has eased up on more than 60% of the crypto cases that were ongoing when he took office in January. Many of the firms that benefited from the leniency had financial ties to the Trump family. The SEC is no longer pursuing any cases against crypto firms with Trump ties.

The Anti-Federalist’s insistence on a Bill of Rights: looking good.

People are losing faith in democracy’s ability to deliver social progress. But are democracies better than autocracies at promoting economic growth, alleviating poverty, and creating healthier, more educated, and more peaceful societies? On all counts, the answer is yes.

ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

Some top-notch Rhode Island reporters to follow: @tednesi.bsky.social @iandonnis.bsky.social @amandamilkovits.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @waveelection.bsky.social @antoniafarzan.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University says no one is in custody, correcting earlier statement, as police respond to active shooter on campus.

Caught up on several issues & this is the article I'd most recommend: "The estimated over-all death toll since the First Congo War broke out is between four and six million."