Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

There are a bunch of fake pictures of protests among my friend networks on other sites. They are really, obviously AI, but I understand how in all the pressures at the moment you can see it, have a feeling, and hit share. Instead: go to local news. Here’s my outlet I write for. There are others.

Data from ICE shows that none of its agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s more than two-decade history.

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

Tara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.

So we’re dropping any pretense of striving for a more perfect union and just gonna be an illegal state of pirates, thieves and murderers

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Let's not forget that Trump just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández - ex-Honduras president who backed a coup, committed election fraud, violently repressed activists, lawyers, Indigenous people, youth etc - and was entenced to 35 years by an American jury for trafficking drugs and weapons into the US

hey! just putting this out there: propublica.org/tips

ICE's next stop is Phoenix, per @thebulwark.com report. www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-ice-...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

2026 is the year of the what? (🐎)

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

I saw 94 new birds this year 😊

Please read this story by @maxinejoselow.bsky.social. My pleasure to work with her and take the photos and video for this important reporting.

it's been a weekend

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Everything is Romantic by Tom Waits

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

You can see the spray from a different angle as well as the use of tear gas and pepper balls in this video I shot and my colleague Ashley edited. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrmrcN4V/

Read @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com's story about use of force by HSI agents at Taco Giro today. He got sprayed and managed to file a story that describes the use-of-force and provides some details about the federal operation throughout Southern Arizona today. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead

ICE raid today in Tucson. Newly seated Rep Adelita Grijalva and protesters who turned out to protect their neighbors got flash-banged, pepper sprayed, pushed. At least two were arrested.

I'm selling prints of some Arizona, Sinaloa and California landscapes, and flora and fauna! Check out the online print store here: caitlinohara.darkroom.com

Chicago day care worker detained by immigration agents at drop-off time for children. It was unusual even under “Operation Midway Blitz,” which has resulted in more than 3,000 immigration arrests in the Chicago area since early September. capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-...

The investments Marc Andreessen has made into buying @gallego.senate.gov have paid off. Gallego's new "energy plan" is a disgusting payoff to the fracking-powered universal-paperclip climate-denial AI slop machine. He's the new Joe Manchin. www.gallego.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

I have had so many people ask me things about this for weeks and I’ve been like “talk to Yael, she knows eeeeeeverything” and I can’t wait for what Yael knows to be stuff everybody knows

newsletterrrr dropppppp

When Kyrsten Sinema spoke in favor of an AI data center at an Oct. 16 Chandler City Council meeting, she failed to mention she was there as a paid lobbyist. Now, Sinema may have created an opposition she hoped to avoid. By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:

Pima County supervisors voted against a public health review of Project Blue — even as residents threaten a lawsuit over transparency and environmental impacts

We just extended the application deadline to Dec. 8. Get your applications in this week!

I could do with a Silk Sonic Christmas album. Not enough albums about putting mack on the folks at Santa’s Workshop.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

happy unsubscribe me from this list week to all who celebrate

Yeah, this is a real reminder that your opsec is only as good as your humans.

White House has picked very pro-Trump pool reporters for Trump's Oval Office meeting with Mamdani on Friday: TV is Fox and Newsmax; Print is Washington Times and The Telegraph; New Media is Megyn Kelly. Exception is Radio: AURN (whose Black, female correspondent Trump called obnoxious in September)

From @samtlevin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research. @amnesty.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Honestly don’t know how fantastic this life in plastic.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

I've never published anything so close to my heart. Hope ya love it.

It's open faced sandwich season.