It is Good, Actually, to be both accurate and precise in specialist reporting! Not everything has to be pre-chewed for mass persuasion, a health information ecosystem has range.

Real question bc there’s clearly a media culture thing here that I am not getting: Why are we not seeing citations to Sarah Kendzior, who has been on this exact beat for years? What is it about her and/or her work that has made it acceptable to ignore her?

I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Researchers used archaeological & historical records,topographic maps & satellite imagery to create Itiner-e,a new high-resolution digital dataset & map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 AD. It charts 185,896 miles (299,171 km) of roads across almost 1,544,409 square miles (4,000,000 square km)

While I am talking about movies instead of fascism and networks, Mouse Hunt was a huge success in our house after Clue went over so well with the 12yo.

It pains me to say it but German Protestant Dracula is a much better movie than the Netflix Frankenstein

Note: Calling the new Nosferatu Martin Luther's Dracula is my favorite joke all year and since very few people approve I will be making it at every opportunity through the end of December and no one can stop me

I took another run at Robert Eggers’ Martin Luther’s Dracula and the color grading still looks like The Witcher (derogatory) but I finished it

Frankenstein Night Observed

BREAKING: First Circuit denies DOJ's request for an administrative stay of the SNAP benefits TRO out of Rhode Island. DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.

Will his favorite things from the Strategist tide you over until they hear your plea? nymag.com/strategist/a...

[Not a dunk] I spent my whole childhood in rural parts of red states and it‘s actually been this way the whole time, but people don’t know this bc of election maps and stereotyped press coverage and party priorities. @nickbowlin.bsky.social is v good on this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...

Cowlitz County WA (where Longview is) went for Trump by 20 points and is pretty aggressively MAGA. Longview also a river-port and timber-mill town that’s been hit hard by tariffs.

sorry I know we’re supposed to be moving on to the infighting but holy hell they lost in Longview??! www.opb.org/article/2025...

This is a great thread!

Wild amount of petty friendly fire on here this week

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

"And what do you have for the talent portion of the competition, Ms. Fernandez?"

The original headline in that NYT interview, blaming just "women" for ruining the workplace, is a much better reflection of its contexts, which include a riff on how men are "warriors" and women are "worriers." It's that infantile.

This week's @unbreaking.org update on immigration is *also* an update on data security because the administration is using immigration enforcement as a way to trial and operationalize a full-on surveillance state.

We have a new timeline up today on our Medical Research Funding page, documenting the onslaught of political, legal, and bureaucratic attacks on medical research since January: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Authoritarian retaliatory everything everywhere all the time. We need these journalists so badly.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Super fast work from @jmetr22b.bsky.social at the Trib: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

Here it is, Judge Ellis's preliminary injunction in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem:

There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way But this is not the only one… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Everyone kind of knew that Musk was deliberately using X to amplify extreme right wing accounts, but seeing actual data confirming it is still shocking news.sky.com/story/the-x-effe...

Google is a mess but like…signed out, private window: 1. Wikipedia 2. AFL-CIO 3. Britannica 4. PBS 5. Debs Foundation 6. Marxists Internet Archive 7. the US Department of Labor

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.

Okay I read it (ty @lshultz82.bsky.social) and it is hair-raising at every level from the *cranked out researchers pretending to be UFO prophets* to the obvious interpretative malpractice, just breathtaking.

I get homesick.

Ohhhh a lot of the Newsom people on social were also the (incredibly unhinged) Cuomo in 2020 people, weren’t they

A whole new generation is going to be reading about Eugene Debs this morning. Read him from Haymarket in his own words. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...

One of the least remarked parts of Mamdani's speech yesterday was its strong implication that he wants his army of 100k volunteers to stick around and do stuff.

Listening to WYNC all morning and it is fucking wild what just happened to the Overton Window. Basic unabashed democratic socialism in the normiest mouths.

screaming

me, trying to explain 12yo why I‘m psyched about a socialist mayor: so that’s why— 12yo, wearing deeply earnest facial expression: you know what it means? communism was a red herring

Stand clear of the closing doors, please

I am celebrating so this is a thought for tomorrow but: I woke up at Too Early this morning thinking about how much the ~left is willing to ascribe to right-wingers cooking themselves online and how little analysis of why centrist Dems are so weird takes X into consideration

ok but someone post the concession speech please

incidentally, the populations of NYC and the state of Virginia are real close to the same size

I would have thought that, given how much news I read, the act of just putting little summaries of immigration and data/surveillance next to each other in a chrono list (with many other people) would not make me break out in a cold sweat, but yeah, no.

It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️

turns out I have the inner resources required to stay furious about Teen Vogue for days, even now

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

2 things I accidentally taught autocorrect today but will never change: 1.) hollering > hollewrong, 2. cringe > crunge

oh god let me make dopey little posts that do not go to discover let me have this LET ME HAVE IT