Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

Just watched the whole 60 Minutes CECOT episode. It's a pretty standard segment for 60 Minutes, taking something that's been reported on in other publications and formats and telling it to a wider audience with first person, on camera accounts. It's not earth shattering, but it is newsworthy.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

It seems important to watch and share the censored 60 Minuted episode on CECOT. If you know how to use yt-dlp, or if torrenting is your jam, put those skills to use!

The head of 60 Minutes: "I stand by our story." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

well, archivists gonna archive. torrents remain undefeated www.404media.co/archivists-p...

Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.

It's your birthday, Duane.

I really love this Hunter College music professor Stephen Spencer who writes songs based on his 3yo daughter’s lyrics. This one in particular is a low-key classic Xmas jam www.instagram.com/reel/DSdVPTG...

Last month, Anthropic asked if I wanted to test its Claude-powered vending machine in our offices. One month later: The vending machine business is bankrupt, but morale is higher than ever, we have a free PlayStation—and a new pet fish!

We've reached a critical point in our contract fight. Take a look and support us if you can by following, sharing, liking and/or with a signature on our petition! ❤️

Thinking about extricating yourself from Big Tech? A Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, arrived at her home in The Hague and called out “Alexa”. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me.” ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.

as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

i have been radicalized into agreeing with the car speed governor idea michael expressed at the top of this thread more or less entirely on the basis of the totally garbage responses to it. everyone who complains should also lose 1mph per complaint.

ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

I was honored to stand alongside Mahmoud Khalil, who was wrongfully detained, to introduce my Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act. He and the thousands of immigrants in detention or who have been detained deserve better from this country.

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.

We're looking for a mission-driven director of product engineering for our product team at @propublica.org. Our journalists investigate abuses of trust and power in the public interest. This is a way to make a difference. (Must be US-based.) job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

I have been informed that Abrego walked in and out of his ICE check-in this morning with no issues.

So, yes, this is horrifying. But there are two things the article does not address: 1. Back in the day, English teachers got two prep hours, not just one. The thinking then was that they had twice as much student writing to go through and grade and it took twice as much time (more, really).

In this volatile, threatened journalism industry, ProPublica is one of the few places that does months-long investigations. In this case, @gingerthompson.bsky.social spent five YEARS reporting this story. When you donate, this is what you're making possible: projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

“The request came from the Center for American Rights (CAR), a nonprofit law firm that has played a prominent role in the news-distortion investigations spearheaded by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.”

Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...

There's no meaningfully good reason to do this from a security perspective. This is all about the administration punishing speech they don't like. Once it gets rolling, regular citizens are next. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Check out Part 3 of @gingerthompson.bsky.social's exceptional series Sick in a Hospital Town: Poor Grades, Poor Outcomes Phoebe Putney paid an exorbitant sum to acquire its rival hospital. Its debt increased and patients suffer. w/ Doris Burke

Community health centers were created to be medical safety nets for people who struggle to afford primary care. But we found that several are suing patients and garnishing their paychecks – which experts say contradicts their mission. www.propublica.org/article/fede...

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

Today, we had an all-day bargaining session with @propublica.org management. Unfortunately, they did not bring a counter proposal on AI or agree to any of the guardrails we've proposed.

So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers. Here's what happened: scientiapsychiatrica.com/index.php/Sc...

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?”

A bit on the nose.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

Have been using sill.social recently and it’s great — super useful and it lets you dip into and out of the feed through the day.

My "an imminent collapse of the BQE is not a threat" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

You know else they won't have? Writing samples for grad school.

Actually giving everyone learning accommodations would remove both the burden and the stigma of seeking them from anyone who needs them, and would be a big positive step in education policy, just like free school lunch helps all kids and all their families. Gatekeeping hurts everyone.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

If you donate $40 to @propublica.org for Giving Tuesday, you can get this awesome Tips Tote: ‘Someone reading this tote has the next big story. Is it you?’ give.propublica.org/campaign/749...

“…immigration judges who were fired earlier this year suggested that the administration was targeting judges who were considered too lenient and was also trying to create a feeling of fear.”

“Aware of the instability of materials like fiberglass, which discolors and deteriorates over time, Hesse said, ‘Life doesn’t last; art doesn’t last. It doesn’t matter.’” www.moma.org/collection/w...

Worth remembering now Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944 "The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day