This is absurd in general but also ProPublica seems like the absolute last place where this makes any sense??

Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

This week, Ford announced it's ending production of its all-electric F-150 Lightning. The next gen truck will be an extended-range EV, which runs on gas & battery. I wrote about EREVs—what they are and why US carmakers want in—earlier this year www.fastcompany.com/91291203/chi...

Human activity is driving climate change; that’s a fact. But the EPA has quietly removed that information from a web page explaining climate change’s causes. I spoke with @weatherwest.bsky.social about the change & why it's particularly concerning www.fastcompany.com/91458319/epa...

"But what if the bubble is an inevitable part of developing & adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity & growth?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o... OK, but who benefits? Productivity has already been growing. So has the "economy." & they left the working class behind

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions. Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet. grist.org/health/lance... #Health #Climate #PublicHealth #Research #Science

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?

“That means the company’s estimates translate to 560,000 people exhibiting symptoms of psychosis or mania weekly, with 1.2 million demonstrating heightened emotional attachment and 1.2 million showing signs of suicidal planning or intent.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Private jets make up 1 in 6 flights handled by the FAA. As air travel faces cuts during the shutdown, @patrioticmillionaires.org has a suggestion it says would spare commercial airline passengers and still offer relief: Just cancel all private flights www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...

The Trump admin wants more drilling & mining on U.S. public lands. But besides holding resources, those lands also house hiking trails, camping sites, and so on, & outdoor recreation on federal public lands generates $128 billion in economic activity every year, www.fastcompany.com/91436738/out...

Absolutely devastated by this. Teen Vogue is full of amazing people who do truly great work. This is a huge loss for everyone

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

“I can guarantee that he’s not part of the Sinaloa Cartel,” Scott Alati said of his son, Tyler ... “He isn’t a high-ranking member of anything. He’s high-ranking dumb.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...

Just a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million has generated $5.7 billion in two years—money that has funded bridge repairs, literacy programs, and went toward the transportation system's budget deficit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were. The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

finally read this piece on the Barboncino union & the whole thing is great but oof this part: "What no one prepared us for, though, was that the logic that we followed—we want the business to succeed; we need our jobs to make money—didn’t apply to ownership." thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...

I love this Defector piece on learning in the age of AI. "An education concerned primarily with the acquisition of facts is one that prepares its students to be bored in a small, closed world." defector.com/learning-is-...

Refinery29's Money Diaries used to dominate online discourse. Many twitter threads! The New Yorker wrote about them in 2017! They spurred a whole subreddit! Now the past 2 (after 2 weeks with no posts) are Klarna ads ..thatno one is even paying enough attention to to write a homepage headline for

what was so clear to me from the mayoral debate last night is that Cuomo doesn't seem to stand for anything. all his answers were just explaining how Mamdani's positions wouldn't work, but not what he would actually do, and I think that's a larger issue in reactionary politics. stand for something!

Shot + chaser

“You say it once or twice, it’s a joke, but you say it 251 times, it’s no longer a joke,” said Art Jipson, a professor at the University of Dayton who specializes in white racial extremism. “The more we repeat certain ideas, the more real they become to us.” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Today at @fastcompany.com Innovation Festival, there was a panel with 3 experts from the @aclu.org. When asked "Are we in a constitutional crisis?" Ben Wizner said: "That requires an active answer, not a passive one. We're in a constitutional crisis if we allow it. We're not in one if we resist it"

A major study of more than 200 heatwaves this century has found that as many as one in four would not have been possible in a world without human-driven climate crisis. Just 14 companies were responsible for a third of additional heat. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

a lot of these tips say to use your laptop for things like social media instead of your phone, which sure, great idea—except for instagram in particular, the web version is so bad and so limited in terms of functionality. wonder if that's intentional.. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1 drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...

Trump doesn't care about crime in D.C. — which is at a 30-year low. He's creating another fake "emergency" in an attempt to show force. If he actually cared about keeping the city safe, he wouldn't have stoked insurrectionists to attack the Capitol on Jan 6. Hello?

Over seven days in July, a rotating crew of GM workers drove a Chevrolet Silverado EV Work Truck for 1,059.2 miles on a single charge. It's a feat for EV range, but it required some behaviors you might not want to replicate—like not using the AC at all www.fastcompany.com/91379667/che...

post a picture of black lung next

very apt day to get this fact from my @usafacts.org calendar...

“An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: 'Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.'"

This piece on what the Tesla diner gets wrong about EV charging is so good, and a reminder that we can have more innovative solutions instead of just slight updates to current systems www.fastcompany.com/91372486/tes...

“Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies—they are sabotaging them,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in a speech Tuesday “Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking in stranded assets." www.fastcompany.com/91372559/tru...

can't believe I've been missing out on quality ads like this by using an ad blocker

Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. “Water is an afterthought”...The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

there is something so...wild about seeing science come under attack broadly in this country, grants taken away from researchers who want to do actual research, while at the same time rich people cosplay making scientific discoveries via a glorified auto text generator

remembering a time when, as a young reporter, I was on a team tasked with publishing 5 stories every day before noon... they were, as you can imagine, not great, and the effort did not pay off!!

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

what the fuck???

Since Eric Adams has been mayor (since 2022), & before last night's vote, rents on rent-stabilized buildings had already increased a combined 9%! In de Blasio's 2 terms — 8 years! — he oversaw 3 rent freezes & a combined overall 6% increase in rents. www.curbed.com/article/nyc-...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This week @fastcompany.com put out its Queer Changemakers list, & I wrote about Rose Marcario. At a time when things feel bleak, it was inspiring & hopeful to speak to Rose & hear her belief that businesses can—and must—be “the greatest force for good." www.fastcompany.com/91344048/ros...

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

fun fact: this was the topic of the very first article I wrote for Fast Company ~6 years ago www.fastcompany.com/90429169/her... — and it's still true obvi! this video does a great job of explaining it

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.