A chart didn't make it into the piece — ICE has arrested >1,000 toddlers since 2023

First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people. Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat. As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.

UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

People should look at things like this and Musk and Zuck and realize that, when informed people suggest you should give some business models, tech and entrepreneurs a closer look, and perhaps hold them to some standard, it's not doomerism. Saying this for my and many other's late 2000s selves.

Top-shelf interview of the always-amazing @madelineashby.bsky.social by Friend of Refuturing @paulgrahamraven.com. So much to consider on the importance of good writing (and considering your audience) when constructing narrative scenarios. www.worldbuilding.agency/interviews/a...

I want everyone to know what DARVO is. I explain DARVO to people multiple times a week. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Created by scholar Jennifer Freyd to describe the pattern of gaslighting abuse victims face, it applies to so much happening in politics, too

I confess to total impatience with the handwringing over the future of the Democratic Party. It's obviously irrelevant: what is happening in the United States now means we need an entirely new politics. Neither justice nor democracy will be possible until the decks have been cleared.

Like watching an end-of-career boxer stumble through those last punishing fights, each crash to the canvas extracting more of a toll each time…

Whatever happens, somebody needs to establish an independent, non-partisan civil service school in the US to transfer useful institutional knowledge for the post-Trump reconstruction.

Happiness, health and prosperity this Year of the Snake. May the months ahead bring better times for all who are scared and vulnerable.

We’re going to see any expression of virtue in the face of vice depicted by legacy media as a vicious attack on an innocent victim

This reporting is so utterly damning. www.propublica.org/article/bide...

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

Look: The thing you need to understand about genAI is that every Next Big SV Thing of the last 15 years—NFTs, Web3, Metaverse, VR—has been utterly rejected by the market and the tech grifters know this is their last chance, no more. That’s why there is an apocalyptic level of capital invested in it.

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We lost our home and the majority of everything I cared about six years ago (because of a roofer who was an idiot, who’s been ducking legal efforts for recovery since years.) Doesn’t make me an expert on the subject, but I have some thoughts if they are helpful to anyone who just experienced this.

Thank you for posting this, Dave! This is why I report them and this is why you must mute them then block them then click to report them to bluesky. Bluesky is moderating and suspending these accounts, but it’s clearly getting overwhelming for them because there must be thousands of these every week

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

What an absolutely delightful thread to start 2025. The replies here are full of regenerative visions of possible futures. Thanks for inviting these micro stories, @bethsawin.bsky.social. And thanks for pointing to it @jdcruz.bsky.social. 🦋

At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."

“It was in those years that we learned that hope had a shape, and learned, slowly, to fold our world to match it.”

"Biden’s legacy will be more than a year of virtually unchecked Israeli carnage as the so-called “rules-based international order” he championed dissolved into nothing." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Human H5N1 bird flu cases by year and country, according to the CDC. After eight years of almost no cases, 2024 is set to be one of the years with the most reported cases. The US stands for the vast majority of cases.

miss her

Leaders, don’t model being the first one in and the last one out; model leaving at a reasonable hour to exercise, spend time with family, relax, think. Model not working at weekends. Model not checking emails on leave. Model rest. Model healthy relationships with work

“Australia is facing a deforestation crisis, with an area equivalent to MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) being destroyed every 86 seconds… Australia is the only developed country on the global list of deforestation hotspots.” www.wilderness.org.au/protecting-n...

On echo chambers/preaching to the choir, cont'd: @charliejane.bsky.social: "But another huge reason I love community is because it helps us build a consensus reality, something that is sometimes dismissed as "filter bubbles" but is actually a powerful form of organizing and rallying."

This is very much worth the five minutes it will take you to read it.

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it

For those with time this Sunday, a repost of the 1-hour conversation I had on Election Day +1 with @christopherbrown.bsky.social @older.bsky.social and @dunagan23.bsky.social about the roads ahead for the US. Put it on in the background while you knit/garden/cook. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTb...

Announcing a new show at ArtScience Museum, Altered States: Experiments in Moving Image. It features 5 large-scale moving image installations and documentation on major figures in direct filmmaking including Len Lye and Stan Brakhage. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

We’re going to see these next four years show up in demographic data quite clearly. Probably also in the fossil record.

Goodbye Twitter. medium.com/@linasrivast...

One of the Twitter Files clowns asked me in an interview what the biggest problem with social media is. My answer was very simple: unaccountable private power. He chose not to print the interview. It is not a public square. That metaphor deceives the public into thinking it controls the space.

Favourite reading today: A great piece on new post-social media spaces for online gathering. “A Moving Castle—as popularised by Studio Ghibli’s cult movie “Howl’s Moving Castle”—is a nomadic patchwork of different spaces of mutating and incoherent scale.” https://trust.support/feed/moving-castles

So, what did I miss?