Thanks for all your messages and emails about an economic boycott. Now it’s time to head to resistandunsubscribe.com to learn more about @profgalloway.com's plan.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. You no longer have to ask yourself what you would do if you were in Nazi Germany. You just have to ask if you’re doing enough in Trump’s America now while there’s still time.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code maggieappleton.com/gastown

ICE and Border Patrol agents must be reined in. Here is one thing we can do right now. Please read and share. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-gestapo

We need Democrats in Congress to grasp this moment. Trump’s thugs are shooting, abusing and killing people in our streets with impunity — and we need leaders to stop this lawlessness now. Wake up: This five-alarm fire will get worse without loud and focused opposition.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

Facing a new year, I found this @dansinker.com post from February — about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails — to be a welcome read. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

I got the @allthingsopen.bsky.social newsletter and read "DOScember" as "DDOScember" and thought "cool, an article about how open source is handling the AI bots destroying normally low-traffic sites". There is no such article, but maybe in January? #opensource #AI

And here it is.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

The bluegrass virtuoso brings back the spirit of Tiny Desk's early days: fewer microphones to capture "the way these instruments are meant to sound." n.pr/3KD1SiI

As newsrooms shutter and paywalls rise elsewhere, public media delivers critical, unbiased reporting without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy. Click here to support the network of voices that keeps our public conversation honest and informed: n.pr/4pCcFIx

Mackenzie Scott's blog post on her $7.2 billion in annual giving is worth reading in full. Her observations are even more stark when you consider her ex, who doesn't seem to have the same appetite to give or even fund the newsroom he owns: yieldgiving.com/essays/we-ar...

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

This is what oligarchy looks like: If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break. If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry. Obscene.

ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler. "He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!" Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child. Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.

We’ve released Request Tracker 6.0.2 and 5.0.9! RT 6.0.2 adds ticket history filtering, a new calendar view, and server-side memory improvements. RT 5.0.9 delivers key maintenance updates. Both releases include security fixes, so we recommend upgrading soon.  buff.ly/Vm547fT

What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

It’s Public Radio Music Day. It’s a celebration of art over algorithms. It’s a celebration of discovery, diversity, and deep listening. Keep the music playing in stations across the nation. Stand up for the NPR Network’s commitment to free, public-access music at the link here: n.pr/47jpe4d

The NPR Network is your trusted source for reliable, accessible and fact-checked information. And now you can make sure we show up in your Google results.

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

“The demonstrations were very small.”

People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today. n.pr/3Jd0PoI

No Kings in Williamsville NY! #nokings

Organizers say they expect millions of Americans will march this weekend against the policies of the Trump administration. The protests come amid National Guard deployments in several cities. n.pr/4ojrHSY

I'll be at “NO KINGS Williamsville” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

There are hard questions we need to ask ourselves right now. But no matter what this administration is planning, we know who we are—we love democracy & plan to fight (peacefully) for it. In a moment where knowledge is power, here is what you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I wrote up my "How I'm using coding agents in October 2025" post. blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/s...

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s. n.pr/474wJvJ

October 18. Who’s in? 👀 Millions turned out for No Kings—one of the largest protest days in U.S. history. Together we showed the world that Americans won’t bow to a wannabe dictator. This October, we’ll be even louder, stronger, and we won’t stop here. Be part of the movement: moveon.org/nokings

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

Whether you like or dislike what’s said, free speech is at the heart of our democracy. Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation. If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Disclaimer, as an open source dev myself: we're under no obligation to take your code, either as-is or at all. Even just reviewing a PR takes time and energy, which for complex PRs can be more than if we implemented the change ourselves. If it's more than a few hours of work, open an issue first 🙂

The eternally-great thing about open source: if something doesn't exist, and the devs don't have time to work on it themselves, you can just implement it for them! If they decide not to take it as-is, you've still helped explore the design space. And if they don't accept it, but you need it, fork!

NPR CEO Katherine Maher on the @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. youtu.be/ysvGRj79P9k?...

Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al Upshot: The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8% Avg Americans: 30.2% Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us. www.nber.org/papers/w34170

Had to stop by this sign outside the Moshannon Valley Detention Center. The GEO Group donated $1M+ to Trump’s campaign. Now they’re profiting off of locking up kids using our taxpayer dollars. The corruption is clear. Thank you to the local residents, clergy, & advocates for standing against this.

This has been a great year for my podcast so far. If you haven't already, go check it out! 👇

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government. (I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

RT 6.0.1 and RTIR 6.0.1 Now Available Request Tracker (RT) 6.0.1 and RT for Incident Response (RTIR) 6.0.1 have been released, so RTIR users can now upgrade and get all of the new features in RT 6. In addition to providing compatibility with RT 6, the new version of RTIR offers some new features…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity which funneled federal funds to public media outlets such as PBS and NPR, will wind down operations by Jan. 2026. Many in the general public have no idea how much programming will be hurt by this. https://loom.ly/zwzBIWI