Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Taliban cuts Afghanistan's internet and mobile networks in nationwide blackout

Today I learned there's an XML feed that just tells you if the US government is "Open" or "Closed" www.opm.gov/xml/operatin...

"My father’s vocation is journalism. He is a storyteller, a truth-seeker, a man who believed — and still believes — that people deserve to know what’s happening in their communities..." Mario Guevara has been detained away from his family for over 100 days. He could be deported at any moment.

NEW: By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, the Heritage Foundation is promoting a false link between transgender identity and violence in a push for the FBI to create a new category of terrorism. By me & @couts.bsky.social:

“AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job” @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons. snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

Rather ominous snipe from SecDef in response to a concerned observation by the former Commander General of the US Army Europe about the upcoming meeting of all the US military commanders ordered by SecDef:

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

Nine members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild from @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social will be laid off next month. Please support them by contributing to and sharing their fundraiser! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...

Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment

Tom Homan said he was recused from anything to do with government contracts. Turns out he wasn't. He played a role in the process to move immigration detention contracts through the Defense Department www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... With @racheladhe.bsky.social and @sooophie.bsky.social

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

On the closing of Bluestockings gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief Wednesday in a redistricting case, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should significantly weaken the power of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to block racial gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

if you're in the NYS capital region, stop into Honest Weight Co-Op and pick up a free deadtree edition of its gorgeous magazine, Coop Scoop, which features an interview with me about ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE conducted by @ellieirons.bsky.social & @phiffer.org

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A good ad on the DC Metro

A thread about formal autism diagnosis and social supports as it plays out in schools. Note the "graphic media" part is just an artifact of how Mastodon/Bluesky bridging handles content warnings.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv... cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you

As an art historian, I'm loving that your 8yo is interested in Frida Kahlo. Do they know this painting? It's one of my favorites: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico & the United States, 1932

"Four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship." Israel continues to kill US citizens with impunity, this time in southern Lebanon and in violation of a standing ceasefire agreement. What will the US Department of State do about it? apnews.com/article/leba...

Why is it almost all decent news organizations, even the nonprofits, are so anti-union and so resistant to fairness? @propublica.org, get it together. The organization isn't hurting for money. In 2023, you were sitting on $75 million in assets. #FairContractNow (I ❤️ Nonprofit Explorer, btw!)

a beautifully illustrated and deeply troubling piece that is well worth your time to read

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Toronto Sign Reimagination Unit at Gallery 1065 in Toronto.

Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this win Ig Nobel prize | Click on the image to read the full story

Help us break 1,000 signatures! If you already signed on, consider sharing it with folks who haven’t yet. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

🚨 New record low (due to its low winter ice) - As we are moving into the freeze season now, it's the end of another year on my accumulation graph of total sea ice extent anomalies (i.e. newly open water relative to the 1981-2010 average)... Follow along next 'season' at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Upset about the Jimmy Kimmel firing? Support job security for media workers? Sign onto our petition. I promise this isn’t abstract, we have a serious problem with discipline and our unit needs Just Cause and a fair and transparent discipline process. Support journalism by supporting journalists!

Gotta read all the way to the last paragraph to find this: “In some cases, the government appeared to rely on unverified tabloid reports about Khalil. In others, its claims were factually incorrect due to inconsistent timelines and mischaracterizations of his work history.”

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

I built a Mastodon bot that reports on Covid wastewater levels, which gives me weekly updates on how cautious to be depending on where I'm going. It turns out that @wvgg.co ported it to Bluesky and improved it, with twice weekly updates! Insta-follow for me. Recommended.

it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC

A big thanks to @wbur.org for chatting with me about @propublica.org's investigative series into harms happening within America's H-2A program. You can listen here: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Monday night our colleagues, along with supporters from unions at Business Insider, @newyorkerunion.bsky.social, NY Times and @law360union.bsky.social, gathered outside the @ire.org 50th anniversary gala to distribute flyers supporting our contract campaign. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/help...

The first words are: “Militant, nationalistic, violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

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This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Our members flyered the @ire.org gala to rally support for a fair contract with a transparent disciplinary process and protections against journalists being replaced by AI. You can show your support here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...