NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

"I wondered if, in person, a SeaWorld performance might feel more like a farce, or even a tragedy. What I did not expect was that Ginuwine’s SeaWorld concert would turn out to be a masterclass in ageing gracefully." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Another hit by @loisbeckett.bsky.social

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

"He also called the diner “a shiny beacon of hope in an otherwise sort-of bleak urban landscape”. (It is located on Santa Monica Boulevard, in a neighborhood full of high-end art galleries.)" Honestly...

“The generic-brand cola tasted cheap and was served with a woke bamboo straw.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Retro-futurism”, in this case, seemed to mean gorgeous, Tesla-inspired, mid-century modern architecture coupled with wait times that would shutter an ordinary McDonald’s. I visited Elon Musk's new Hollywood diner: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“A waffle, branded with the Tesla lightning bolt, was cold. The heap of kale was only partially dressed. The generic-brand cola tasted cheap. But the food came in elaborate Cybertruck boxes – and they were, to be honest, delightful. @loisbeckett.bsky.social visits the Tesla diner

"Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent." Terrifying @propublica interactive by @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

"The majority of the earth’s population lives in the 101 countries that the study identified as losing fresh water... This suggests the middle band of Earth is becoming less habitable." @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social on the latest data: www.propublica.org/article/wate...

"The majority of the earth’s population lives in the 101 countries that the study identified as losing fresh water... This suggests the middle band of Earth is becoming less habitable." @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social on the latest data: www.propublica.org/article/wate...

"Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent." Terrifying @propublica interactive by @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Disneyland at 70: artists on the park’s five best rides – and why they still captivate

Intressant i Guardian om en trend jag missat men helt ställer mig bakom: It’s sexy! It’s Swedish! It’s everywhere! How princess cake conquered America www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...

You cannot imagine how fast I clicked on this @loisbeckett.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...

"Princess Cake is more subversive than its smooth marzipan surface might suggest... Its green coating might conjure up a buxom extraterrestrial, but that doesn’t really change the fundamental impression: this cake is very, very sexy." www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...

"LACMA's Michael Govan noted that the sleek leather benches in the sunlit galleries were only there as temporary place-holders: architect Peter Zumthor had requested red-brown leather benches stuffed with duck feathers, which had yet to be installed." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“In this moment, while we’re seeing the worst of our federal administration, we are seeing the best here in the city of Los Angeles." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Also if I owe you an email now you know why I'm behind! Support @coyotemedia.org now please and thank you! givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Can confirm. For reporters covering this, it's in PACER or give me your email and I can forward a copy.

“It is difficult to describe. It is a terrible fear,” he said. “It feels like a sandbag falling on your body. Your vision starts to darken – because the American dream is escaping you at that moment.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tolokonnikova was in Los Angeles to display a new performance piece called Police State, which includes a replica Russian prison cell like the ones in which she was incarcerated for nearly two years, including in the notorious penal colony IK-14 in Mordovia.

This is heartbreaking and also I feel it too.

This article is incredible, and if you're an artist you should read it.

“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”

Irony, by now long dead, somehow continues to be brutally murdered

Wormhole indeed. An incredible read. "I was thinking of dehumanization and scapegoating as a universal mechanism – applied with heartbreaking ruthlessness both back home and here,”

“What does violence prevention work look like without the federal government? These cuts are forcing us to come to terms with that." @abene-writes.bsky.social reports on Trump's elimination of funding for many gun violence prevention programs: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Over at the Guardian… I saw these signs on Sunday and shook my head, recognizing just how WILD it is that this is where we’re at. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

14 of the country’s 20 largest detention centres are clustered in the American south, in a region that's known as “Detention Alley.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social reports on the centers where Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, & others are being sent: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The remote court system of "Detention Alley" isn't new. “It is this warehousing of immigrants in rural, isolated, ‘out of sight, of mind’ locations...it’s a lot easier on government to present their case. They can just bulldoze people through the process.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

14 of the country’s 20 largest detention centres are clustered in the American south, in a region that's known as “Detention Alley.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social reports on the centers where Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, & others are being sent: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nice piece about a new book from @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social on how Oakland is divergent boundary at the center of modern world. I can’t wait to read it, I always loved the Madrigal angle: sharp stories, tons of archives and always keeping humans at the center www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nice interview w/ Oakland's own (though we're fine sharing with others!) @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social in support of his new book, PACIFIC CIRCUIT (out now!). Esp. struck by this final bit.

" on-demand ordering threatens to replace the city itself as a way of organizing commerce." #urbanism This looks like a super interesting book, examining the Black history of Oakland and the tech sector's ongoing effort to erase that history. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A deep look at the lives of the children of the Black Panthers. Resonant & timely: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Great conversation between Beckett and @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social on Madrigal's just out The Pacific Circuit. Had the book on my to read list, but this discussion, particularly the conceit that the book tells Oakland's history as a shadow history of Silicon Valley, moved it to the top of my stack.

“Oakland has long been the canary in Silicon Valley’s coalmine of disruption, the book suggests. But its residents don’t suffer passively: they organize and learn how to fight back.”

"THE PACIFIC CIRCUIT argues that Oakland should be viewed as one of the centers of global change in the past century, serving both as a key node in the new global economy built around trans-Pacific trade, and as one of the “sacrifice zones” this economy requires." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Kulikowski argues that one reason the western Roman empire fell in 476, while the Byzantine, or eastern Roman empire, survived, was because the '1%' of the western Roman empire grew so powerful that they did not need a state to function."

Five years after the pandemic, there are deep, ongoing shifts in the restaurant industry: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My work here is done:

learned a surprising amount about the fall of rome from this expensive strawberry article

Everything is truly so bad and embarrassing but at least we have @loisbeckett.bsky.social reviewing the Overpriced Luxury Strawberry www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

Ha! Great story about the rise and fall of strawberry perfection and corrupted empires, by @loisbeckett.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

"My job as a journalist in this moment was clear: I needed to taste the berry myself, and I needed to ask more scholars if the $20 strawberry was a sign of the approaching fall of the American empire." www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...