The Ellison family has promised Trump that if they get to purchase Warner Bros then they will revamp CNN to make it more friendly to his administration. It remains to be seen if Netflix can match that offer.

California Air Resources Board: "To achieve climate goals, we need less driving" Transportation Researchers: "To reduce driving, we need fewer lane miles" Caltrans: "We need billions of dollars to keep widening highways." California Legislature: "You got it." usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The harm isn't just from the gross disinformation itself, but also resulting erosion of trust in federal science and guidance. Rebuilding the latter will take far longer than correcting the former.

The final language of the NDAA is officially out. As @wired.com reported a couple weeks ago, lawmakers removed the bipartisan and widely popular right to repair provisions that would have helped military members fix their own equipment www.wired.com/story/the-mi...

It costs the average taxpayer $34 a year to fund SNAP. It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp. Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing. Let that radicalize you.

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right. Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying. “That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”

EFF has long warned about police use of facial recognition technology. Now we're seeing exactly what we feared: Axon is testing this tech in body-worn cameras. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

For decades, sustainable & responsible cities haven’t just been possible — they’ve been common sense, logical, ridiculously obvious! And yet we’ve failed to act. A better future through better cities is STILL possible with real leadership at every level. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

For those keeping track, we are at the sitting member of congress being pepper sprayed by federal agents while trying to protect her constituents stage of fascism.

Seattle's proposed police union contract once again fails to deliver even the meager reforms and accountability promised eight years ago, opines Howard Gale. With the city council set to vote on the contract this month, here's a case for rejecting it. Op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Just updated my timeless piece on the math of Park-and-Ride. humantransit.org/basics-the-m...

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

Fun fact about ticketed events in Seattle! There is a tax on all* tickets and hotels sold in the city that goes to support arts and culture in the city, but there's one major carve out: MEN'S SPORTS 🙃

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

"FBI headquarters is pressuring the bureau’s domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members" DC Field Office career leaders pushed back citing "a lack of legal and factual basis to initiate a criminal case."

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

Ever mindful of the visuals, he gathers a giant group of old white people to surround him and support him while he spews his vile racist rants.

i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Social media is full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped results — while Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (and don’t deserve) free advertising on our social feeds.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:

ICE and DHS are separating young children from their parents and disappearing them. 6 year old Yuanxin was separated from his father after a routine immigration check in on Nov. 26th. Yuanxin's father was not told where his son was being sent. Yuanxin'swhereabouts are still unknown.

Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.

Wow. "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.” - Newsmax's Judge Napolitano

CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project has released a major evidence review: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion is unmistakable. There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose. Full report: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

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According to the US Coast Guard, the year prior to Trump changing our policy to summary execution, only 21% of the vessels interdicted by them off the coast of Venezuela suspected of trafficking drugs had drugs on board. The other 79% had nothing. But now we just kill them all.

Senate Republicans just handed David Bragdon a LIFETIME judicial appointment— a man who compared abortion to murder and said women "must face the consequences" for their "poor judgment." Republicans are stacking the courts with anti-choice extremists and hoping you don't notice.

I love how they position this shit as if it was cool when Obama did it. It wasn't. We didn't approve of it then either. This is no different than the Rs who say "well Bill Clinton is in the Epstein Files". Yeah! We know! Toss his ass in jail too.

Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors An Expert Backgrounder by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...

Meet two heroes of our times.

This is such an incredible story I at first wondered if it was fake. But it appears to be real. www.ag.ks.gov/Home/Compone...

Reminder that "firing on the shipwrecked" is literally THE example used in the DoD War Manual of "a clearly illegal order"

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

The results are clear. Painted lanes lead to more cyclists being killed or seriously injured. Cycle tracks (i.e. protected lanes) are much safer and lead to huge increases in cycling. This is data from Vancouver. Our politicians should stop ignoring it.

LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign

Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.

Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder. Either way, expect prosecutions in the future. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

A U.S. soldier was executed on the streets of the U.S. capital, yet the flags remain at full-staff. But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days. WTH? Tonight...

ICE is disguising its vehicles as Uber and Lyft cars. Pass the word