My own recs I haven't seen here yet btw are spy shows The Sandbaggers and Kleo (S1, haven't seen 2). One is huge fun and the other is just about the most feel-bad TV ever made and I love them in equal measure.

chat please suggest some well-written, smart (respectful of audience, not performance of cleverness), and absorbing shows, I need to canary-cover my brain for a minute

I guess we gotta repeat it for the folks in the back: I've never seen a project like Blacksky over years of watching social platforms. It's remarkable in many ways. That Blacksky is out in front on both community and technical leadership is something the Atmosphere is incredibly fortunate to have.

What I‘d have said last night if I hadn‘t been so tired is that I think women and femmes (and maybe people who care about us) who aren’t even following this are taking more damage than we realize from pervasive contact with this stuff, which is real Lynchian void shit.

Anyway, I got to introduce a whole table of people to bog bodies tonight. Gonna throttle the internet and news for a bit and read Bog PDFs instead.

I am working on entirely other things but I do have to be online to do it and the sheer volume of coverage of all these powerful men reiterating in a million ways that women and girls are meaningless toys is getting to even me.

i've seen enough, rewrite the constitution and ship this dude directly to the oval office

Every person named in this thread has likely had other organizations trying to poach them ever since joining WaPo. They're the kinds of people data/graphics teams elsewhere base entire roles on: "Someone like <name> at WaPo" An absolute shame. Give them a shot, you won't regret it.

what I take from this is that they had to ask chatgpt to write their madposts and I think that is genuinely funny

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

After a few days of using it I would like to note that the #1 feature of Lockdown Mode is that every time I open a news article on any news site, Mobile Safari reloads the page three times and then crashes

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

There's so much to be furious about with the Post layoffs but the closure of their absolute treasure of a Books section hits like a kick in the face. It was the only major outlet that consistently treated the books I like to read with respect and the Bezos/Amazon connection is so fucked up.

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

I look forward to every single blog post the @unbreaking.org team writes. And folks, I thought this latest one was something else.

The nice thing about volunteering at @unbreaking.org is that we have each other when one timeline entry describes an event that is so convoluted and unhinged and stupid-sounding that it takes several of us to rewrite it into something that might make sense to a person who isn't marinated in news.

to be clear, I would take a punch for any of our teachers or staff, this depravity is our fault for not smashing all the software when we had the chance

email from the school district sending me to the parentvue login to get redirected to the public website where there is a link to the pdf of the monthly newsletter

I've had the pleasure of working with Unbreaking for almost six (!) months now as part of their comms team. In light of...everything...I wrote this essay to unpack how it feels to ID as a "lowercase-j" journalist while Journalism courts fascism.

@sydmt.blacksky.app became a journalist to be part of the solution. Journalism had other plans. She's given us an essay on what it means to choose empathy and ethics as both are under attack, and to tell the truth outside the media institutions that are failing us. unbreaking.org/blog/Unbreak...

You can tell the algos are still incompetent bc I literally saw this promoted none times and my history on all the reading and book buying sites is Extremely Bog

Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

it seems really early in the week for such a targeted attack on me and my bookshelf of neolithic anatolian site reports and books about bog bodies

If I do the child's hair, the dog sticks his whole butt between us so I have to brush his tail. If I scritch the dog, the child threads her entire stringbean self between us. If one of them climbs on my lap… They are each about 70lbs of affection times spite and there is no winning for me.

A thing about this project is that we intentionally work *behind* the news cycle, like gleaners. We wait until we can describe something clearly and then we add that brick to the wall. It’s an unnatural fit for social media, which is kind of the point.

Also, by popular demand we have flipped *all* our timelines from chronological to reverse-chron, which means the newest events are at the top, across the site. We don’t actually remember why we did it the other way when we started last spring, but now it’s better. 🫠

Our weekly briefing is coming tomorrow, but we just released a BIG update with 30+ new timeline entries from our Immigration team, a dozen from Data Security, and several from the Medical Research Funding and Federal Workforce crews. You can see them all at unbreaking.org

The furry Oregon house spider in the kitchen sink this morning had a wingspan wider than the sink drain. I would like to speak to the Head (Spider) Girl.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Hey sincere post for a sec, I'm involved in union organizing around AI and my media employer is planning layoffs. If you know people especially in nonprofit newsrooms who have dealt with this kind of thing @ me or DM me

Those in power have tried to convince us that resistance would be too tiring. But let Minnesotans teach you that it’s actually energizing to be a part of a movement to change society for the better. If you’re tired, get involved. You’ll be surprised by how quickly you start to feel better.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Take the fucking wins! Take the wins and consolidate power.

The nearly empty night bus from the coast to Portland with low lighting and quiet jazz is a jewel I‘d underestimated, this is absolutely the way to do it, at least when the passes are clear.

"Verify" is imprecise here, but the point is that you need to have people on the ground to sort out what the features in remote sensing output actually are. Elinor Ostrom and Harini Nagendra's uses in commons protection analysis shaped the way I think about it. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our weekly briefing is up! And we just published a new timeline on what the administration is doing to our Archives & History, which represents months of slogging from that team to produce a clean chronology of events.

direct action and mutual aid are constants, and are not at all new tactics—they are just rarely documented like this and at a scale people can’t ignore

it’s both/and this time around and calling it all activism misses a lot: big mobilizations on a single day, AND sustained community organizing and community defense, involving direct action, documentation of violence, and ongoing mutual aid for people who have been abducted and their communities

Some wonderful pedagogy here.

I will never forget who was still platforming Nancy Mace well after this all started and you shouldn't either, tech folks.

I feel like I am losing my mind when I see clever politics people discussing polling on eg how Americans think the administration is "handling immigration" and none of the polls ask what their respondents actually *believe the administration is doing on immigration*.

I'm still 99% offline still—we lost someone in our family this week and have another very sick one and there's just a lot. Doing the immigration update at @unbreaking.org this week felt impossible, but people stepped up and also worked around me being in at only weird times. Enormous gratitude.

Here's our briefing for this week. We're going deeper with a different team each week, and this week obviously had to be focused on Immigration. (We added 25+ events to our timeline this round, and that's a tiny fraction of everything we saw.)

Sundays too scary

Flew PDX to Denver this week with a bunch of extremely sweet kids shipping out to basic training and I’ve been feeling poleaxed since. The kid in my row had never been on a plane and was so delighted about the view I made him switch into my window seat so he could take pictures for his family.

the ratty polyester fur situation on the Airport Cowboy men is getting pretty gnarly out here

reading up on the Horrors in two-min bursts from inside a house where dementia >> unpredictable around-the-clock wildness. there are three (3) semi-busted cuckoo clocks here. they all go off at different times. if this came across my edit desk I would send it back for being too on the nose.

icymi, I posted this just before Christmas: www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...

It’s so real! I flipped mine a couple weeks before break and the phone immediately felt inanimate. Little bit embarrassing tbh.