you think about scrooge and he basically gave cratchit reasonably stable long term employment and paid him more or less enough to raise a family on a single income and he's still a fucking villain. today's billionaires are like 10x worse

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

In 2025, the Trump Administration turned life upside down in DC, but it will also go down as a year that the city fought back, organizing rallies, documenting ICE sightings, and scaling up mutual aid. A great @51st.news read by @samdelgado.bsky.social to close out the year 51st.news/how-dc-resid...

Scoop: After an underwhelming ratings performance for Bari Weiss’ town hall with Erika Kirk, the CBS News editor in chief quietly delayed a planned address to staffers about the network’s future, pushing it back to January instead www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

a wealth tax is a winning issue.

“Don't let your kids grow up to be Mark Zuckerberg.” Mehdi discusses the need for independent thought at a time when billionaires like Zuckerberg and Bezos are bending the knee for Trump. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social was part of a panel by @karenattiah.bsky.social's Resistance Studies Series.

My favorite quote in the piece might be from @maddiepoore.bsky.social of worker-owned media co-op @51st.news:

Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:

What's on the ballot next year in terms of reproductive rights? Not a ton, actually. The big fight is over access to abortion pills, and it will be decided in courtrooms & federal agencies, writes law scholar @rebouche.bsky.social in a story jointly produced with @us.theconversation.com.

JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury. That means the grand jury refused to indict.

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see y'all this Friday at @songbyrddc.bsky.social! Tix link below

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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...

What great company to be in! I can't think of a better way to celebrate the holidays than to support independent journalism. The Handbasket has put together this excellent list (if I do say) to get you started.

The Post identified cases of U.S. citizens being targeted by immigration enforcement agents that are documented in video and witness accounts. Lawyers and community leaders said there are many others involving people too frightened to come forward.

BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr

ICE detained an asylum seeker with no deportation order who had just had a C-section, has Type 1 diabetes, and whose newborn was in the NICU, without giving her any medical care, a breast pump, anything. What is the point of this

The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs. They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.

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i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

sleep's clearly got hands

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– Physician practices are paid ~10% less for encounters with Black or Hispanic patients overall, and ~15% less for visits with Black or Hispanic children. These comparisons exclude payment differences associated with differences in visit content (e.g. RVUs,) or geographic market... (4/7)

Maybe American journalists should reflect on the courage of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.

"The Underground Railroad was not so much aimed at 'helping' fugitives escape as it was a movement to learn from & amplify the work fugitives were already doing to free themselves." by Jesse Olsavsky in @hammerandhope.bsky.social For anyone teaching U.S. history ⬇️ hammerandhope.org/article/unde...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Glad this thread exists Also really fucking upset that we have to specify felch-free news outlets, yikes yikes yikes

another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!

Remarkably, this has nothing to do with who you think

“Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves. If Stephen Glass Jayson Blair & the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige & power that came with journalism in that moment then this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment.”

finally the usual starter pack to find outlets that may be nearer to you: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

New membership campaign for felch-free journalism just dropped

We want to find the people who loved DCist — but don’t yet know The 51st exists. They walk among us: Our neighbors, colleagues, and friends. Do you know any of them personally, and can you help reunite them with local journalism? If you do it, you could earn rewards via our new referral program.

When DCist was shut down, it had 70,000+ subscribers. The 51st is proud to carry forward the spirit with which DCist served our city. But we can’t stop thinking about how most of those subscribers — our neighbors and friends — are just no longer receiving the kind of local news they signed up for.

"Looking to the future." I see a vibrant network of better-resourced local newsrooms (us included) working together to make life easier and more just for all the amazing communities that make up DC. Let's start here. Can you help more people find @51st.news ? 51st.news/lost-51-000-...

“Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough arena for a scam.” Count me among the editors in Victoria Goldiee’s AI-generated wake, chronicled here in fascinating, and depressing, detail. thelocal.to/investigatin...

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.