Because Israel had achieved its objectives and Putin has not, duh

Percentage of new electricity capacity installed in 2022 that was renewable: 83 in 2023: 86% in 2024: 92.5% column by @christianstoecker.de www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

If so many people hated Biden's policies so much, how come they never managed to draw 7 million people to a protest? #nokings List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size - Wikipedia share.google/gcZm8Kh8nIXV...

4. "Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza," @moranb.bsky.social @tullis.bsky.social @motherjones.com "Barkai and Tullis introduce Ronen Argov as a rare voice of dissent against the Israeli media’s dominant narrative of the war." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

When the media blinks first and a government goes unchecked, you can expect the worst. The piece I wrote, together with @tullis.bsky.social for @motherjones.com about how this disaster looks in Israel and the consequences for Gaza. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As Israel pulls back from Gaza, many are asking: What took so long? One explanation is that Israeli citizens didn't see the war the rest of the world saw My latest, in @MotherJones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Chickens now grow 400% faster than before, causing a lof of suffering. Just two companies – Aviagen & Cobb-Vantress - control the genetics of 95% of chickens worldwide. They downplay or ignore the benefits of slower-growing breeds. Read more: t.ly/hE7fQ #AnimalWelfare #earthinvestigations

Genetic selection for chickens' fast growth-3x faster than 75 years ago-led to painful lameness, disease & deformity. EU scientists say slower=better & NGOs are pushing for abandoning fast-growth breeds, but industry resists. My latest for @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Great day training training scientists @maxplanck.de Institute for Animal Behaviour with thought leadership writing trainer Rhea Wessel. As I once heard Branford Marsalis say when he was opening for Sonny Rollins @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, I love it and I get a gig and a lesson on the same day

The best assignment I ever had was 10 days following #JaneGoodall around Gombe, Burundi, and her 80th birthday party in San Francisco. She was a one of a kind scientist, teacher, leader, and activist. RIP www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/m...

So it seems the path to riches as a journalist is to get fired for plagiarism, write an article with a bunch of made-up bullshit in it, then sue the magazine when they issue a correction www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...

Are you a science journalist who'd like to get the hell out of the US for 3-6 months and get paid €18000-36000 not to publish a single story? The journalist in residence program might be for you. www.h-its.org/media/journa...

It's been said before but bears repeating that the purpose of DEI is to ensure that people _are_ selected based on merit and not steamrolled by white males (who are so often also doing the selecting). But this is a typical Orwellian reversal by him

Which is exactly the point of pulling their funding. The less local news they're getting the more reliant they are on Fox News and Twitter.

Apparently it's made reading pointless, because that is not the gist of the article

My 2016 article "offers both a thrilling glimpse into the future of microbiome research and an invitation to reflect on the vast complexities and ethical dimensions of studying life at its most fundamental levels," according to an LLM. Why do I not feel flattered? www.nature.com/articles/534...

I was saying this - publishing this - literally 20 years ago. And still, nothing

When I was working downstairs from @WIRED 's original offices in 1995, this the kind of thing we imagined when we thought about the future of the internet. Somehow nobody could conceive of deepfakes, decapitation videos, or Elon Musk www.instagram.com/creek_crawle...

Til the Trump-Musk cuts, US foreign aid was about $69 per citizen, according to Oxfam. I'm donating $280 for my family of four to these programs - vetted by USAID staff - to do our part to make up for the dumb, cruel cuts, which are literally killing innocent people proimpact.tools/rapid-response

Recycling old clothes is hard-- especially separating different types of fibers. So much of what we send for recycling ends up as trash in poor countries. But this Amsterdam company thinks it's cracked the nut of making new textiles from old. My latest, for Bloomberg News lnkd.in/eWyiEJsZ

The precautionary principle would say, rather, ban AI for 10 years until we can figure out how it can be appropriately regulated www.404media.co/republicans-...

Great to see @us.theguardian.com making money & hiring rather than axing journalists! Last I checked though they were paying freelancers $0.50/word--which is what LA Weekly was paying in 1993. Maybe time to up the rates over there? www.axios.com/2025/05/06/t...

America: Poverty. Fentanyl crisis. Homelessness. Healthcare bankruptcies. Netherlands: Yeah we don't have any of that, let's invent a doorbell for fish visdeurbel.nl/en/

Thread on pre-reporting: For me, this takes up around 10% of the time spent on a feature from pitch to publish. Before starting on a pitch I estimate the fee I'll get & derive how many hours I can spend on it from that... www.theopennotebook.com/2025/04/29/w...

Other than following the defeat of an aggressor, has a country ever been allowed to determine which alliances another country does or does not join? Not a rhetorical question - I really want to know. (Unless the answer is no. Then it's rhetorical.) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/w...

The United States is a country where you can march carrying a sign with a swastika on it, with other people carrying signs with swastikas, but you can't say "fuck" on the radio. This is objectively weird.

Dutch preschool teachers figured something useful to do with a Segway

The head of Homeland Security can't even keep track of her own purse www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Subaru designs its cars this way to get out of the EPA gas mileage requirements for passenger vehicles. Make it 2" taller and it's a truck, and exempt. Yet the brand has all this cred among liberals in Boulder and Vermont -- WHY?

Wow, even when death isn't /imminent/. Progress!

When are insurers and policymakers going to realise that the brain is a part of the body?

After years of agitating against nitrogen regulation from farms, the Dutch party BBB has come to realize what scientists and policy makers knew all along: there is no legal way out of reducing emissions www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/14974...

With years of experience writing longform investigative & enterprise features for major news orgs, I'm eager to connect with fellow writers, editors, & other media pros at #IJF25 to discuss possible collaborations 📩 DM's open #Journalism #FreelanceWriter #MediaNetworking #InvestigativeReporting

You know if you're a successful freelance journalist nowadays if editors write back to reject your pitch, instead of just ignoring your email. And if you're really good, they do it quickly.

Same with "Zelenskyy is a dictator and we're tired of paying for his war" and "USAID is a leftist plot against America." When people have no knowledge of history, how government works, or international relations and live in a low-quality infospace, they become easily manipulated.

The Outrageous Plan to Solve Europe's Energy Woes with Liquified African Sun my latest, for @aventine_inst www.aventine.org/technology/n...

It's called anticipatory obedience, and it enabled both Hitler and Stalin timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

Or if you prefer: Putin is Hitler Ukraine is Czechoslovakia And Trump is Neville Chamberlain