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Happy to announce I'm a Journalists in Aging fellow, which will bring me to the Gerontological Society of America conference in November AND will support a project I'll do profiling how some disabled/chronically ill people age at home.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.
but, have no fear, the police got new drones, cars, surveillance tech & uniforms 🤪
rare good news! @teenvogue.com Arkansas is the 2nd-most climate vulnerable state: extreme heat, tornadoes, and low investment in climate adaptation from its Republican legislature—not to mention home to Walmart's Walton family and Tyson Foods. these young ppl launched a group to make the fight fun
A widespread data-sharing program with ICE supports local and state budgets nationwide—even in so-called sanctuary cities and states that forbid certain law enforcement cooperation and information sharing with ICE.
“The playlist features songs by Herbie Hancock, an instrumental version of Post Malone’s “Wow,” and Brian Eno’s “An Ending (Ascent).”
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s treatment of Appalachia’s coal miners exemplifies his approach to labor in general: Kneecap unions whenever possible, prop up industry profits at all costs, and if a few workers die in the process, pretend it never happened. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
In the richest country in the world people are baking to death at home. Richard Chamblee died in Arizona two days after the central AC broke and the family couldn’t afford to repair it. His core temp was 108F/42C. He was just 52 years old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Director Jim Jarmusch says he was “disconcerted” to learn that an investor in Mubi, which is distributing his new film, also funds an Israeli defense-tech startup. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
JBS is the largest meat processor in the United States; its workforce is also highly dependent on refugees and asylum seekers.
For @themarshallproject.org I spoke to a warden who wants to use AI-driven robots for “medicine distribution, cell feeding, security searches, package searches for fentanyl, all the hazardous and routine tasks that staff don't want to do." Here's how prisons/jails are integrating AI, or hoping to:
"Build-a-Bear stock outpaces Nvidia"? sure yeah, why not www.benzinga.com/markets/equi...
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
big news out of Missouri
real
“One of the enduring lessons of Katrina was the knowledge that the country could, at the drop of a hat or the bursting of a storm cloud, convince itself that it bore no responsibility to large swathes of its population.”
New Quinnipiac Poll — 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Includes *77%* of Democrats, 51% of Independents, and 20% of Republicans. 60% of voters oppose sending more military aid to Israel. Includes 75% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 37% of Republicans.
NEW: Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Monday it has divested from U.S. construction equipment group Caterpillar (CAT.N), as well as five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds due to repeat violations of intl law in occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank & Gaza.
The Trump administration has halted work on an offshore wind farm that was almost completed, citing vague “national security” concerns with its construction #GreenSky
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The people in this are terrifying, and also lol www.thenation.com/article/soci...
![“It’s good to see someone reporting the truth,” said a blonde friend of hers about The Free Press, adding that [highlight] outlets like The New York Times were too far left, [/highlight] while The Free Press, she said, is “honest” about famine in Gaza.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreiamtrqbkmfwo5j57ntqge3ucemlkijtey6dog4ylwv6z6mts4y5iq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The projections of the amount of heating we're seeing have been spot on. But all the projections of the *impacts* of that warming have been way, way lowballed. Let's not do that any more.
New report from the Williams Institute estimates that there are 722,800 trans adults in the American South, and about 161,000 in Texas. Texas has the third-largest trans adult population in the nation behind Florida and California.
This is just an advertisement for Northrop Grumman - there's no journalism here www.axios.com/local/huntsv...
why do they all talk like this?? www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Like AWS alone *leases half of its data center and office space* HALF! Who are the real estate leasing companies holding the bag on AWS office and data center space? www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-...
10 years ago today, I covered the protest and aftermath of a police shooting of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey. It was a privilege to interview Mansur's father Dennis on our show this week. He took us inside the tragedy of his son's death, but also shared with us some of the story of his life.
bestie Sophie Hurwitz scene reporting from the top rope! @hurwitz.bsky.social
Kelsey wrote about what I think is the single most evil blog I've ever read. Her post is good, The Free Press one is not. defector.com/the-free-pre...
Crowdsourcing a reporting question: I'm looking for any examples of good journalism that has quantified how economically dependent a given locality (like a metro area) is on a single employer. Want to see what records and sources and methods they used. Thank you!
"It is difficult to position yourself as the voice of the sensible unheard when the 'anti-wokeness' your publication feeds on is unequivocally in power."
At Bari Weiss’s “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My favorite line from the piece.
There's a great guide in the @columjournreview.bsky.social today on how to support the most urgent issue in our time as journalists: press freedom in Gaza & protecting Palestinian journalists www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
I asked Gersh Kuntzman, editor of Streetsblog NYC and a vigilante corrector of illegal license plates and parking placards on the streets of New York, when he first saw a cop run a red. “It’s like saying, do you remember the first time you had a slice of pizza,” Kuntzman said. “It happens every day”
More than 40 percent of U.S. citizens are in some form of medical debt. These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.
New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.
#ICYMI Report on how "verified carbon credits" is actually quite a meaningless phrase. The carbon market is rife with conflict of interest, weak/ bad methodologies and "a plethora of unmeasurable assumptions and judgments" about an invisible commodity i.e. CO2 drilled.media/news/carbon-...
Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken, which resides in Kansas' grasslands, were removed after petroleum and agricultural industries challenged those protections in court. via @kansasreflector.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/kans...
The second highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives has joined the growing international consensus in declaring Israel's assault on Gaza a genocide.
Axon is foisting its AI police tech onto vulnerable people and hoping for the best.
The St. Charles City Council is considering zoning approvals for the center. Residents angry over a proposed data center filled a St. Charles open house Thursday, wearing red shirts to signal they are against the 440-acre project:
if you’re wondering why it’s time to start wondering about electricity prices, may I recommend: - my piece for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/politics/ele... - @jessedjenkins.com‘s and my recent shift key episode heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
“Children sit by the roadside. They aren’t begging for money. They’re begging for a loaf of bread. “And the occupation? They have the gall to boast about opening their so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? Don’t be fooled. It’s nothing but a death trap. A new way to humiliate and exterminate us.”
Big news!!! My next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, will be published by @haymarketbooks.org!!!🎉🎉🎉And, it's the Deal of the Day on Publishers Marketplace, get ready... Call for submissions coming very soon, watch out for it!💕💥
I wrote about Darren Beattie, who’s been appointed as acting president of the US Institute of Peace, which was seized by DOGE earlier this year. Beattie once wrote that “competent white men must be in charge.”!Former USIP employees are agahst: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
sorry you're experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought. Have you tried deleted some of photos of your grandmother about it?
In the aftermath of extreme weather, another story often unfolds — one of predatory contractors, price gouging, and billion-dollar firms profiting from the pain. In our new series, we expose the systems that turn recovery into a marketplace. Explore The Disaster Economy: grist.org/series/the-d...
Okay I found the most depressing post
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling
The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances [via @grist.org + @climatedesk.org]
some excellent reporting here from @hurwitz.bsky.social (original story link: grist.org/energy/unlik...)
If you read my Noema Magazine article and were left feeling curious about climate action in the region, check out this interview with Mariam AlSaad in my newsletter. If you're not already a subscriber, you can get a free trial to read the piece here: newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/read-now-cli...
if you're writing about DC losing control of its police department today, just months ago the same basic thing happened in St. Louis (and more durably): boltsmag.org/missouri-sta...
In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.
Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do? I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question: www.wired.com/story/palant...
Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
The U.S. has joined lobbying efforts with other major oil-drilling countries to thwart a bid to set limits on production as part of the global negotiations on a plastics treaty. Read more in today’s climate briefing.
hey just an FYI: we're not yet at the part where AI companies and the state are so closely intertwined that disclosing energy usage would constitute a threat to national security or some other such bullshit, making transparency into the environmental impact of data centers all but impossible
“At one intersection, a minor traffic accident between a car and a moped brought at least two dozen agents running, some wearing masks and one carrying a rifle. Local D.C. Metropolitan police were also on scene.” www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
Ah, looks like Trump is granting Policestatehood to DC
Tim what’s your patronage job gonna be
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..." whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
over 50 Texas Dems fled the state to block Greg Abbott and Trump's push to redraw Congressional districts. Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com
This is what the IDF’s typical current operations in Gaza look like—troops providing overwatch for busy demolition crews. The signature Israeli weapon of the Gaza war is no longer the US-manufactured 2,000-pound bomb, as it was in earlier phases, but the US-manufactured earthmover.
New from @cipolicy.bsky.social Security Assistance Monitor (Ari Tolany and Allie Hansen) SAM Special Report : Arming Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza Export data shows over $4B in arms transferred to Israel since Oct 2023 -- should be considered partial snapshot internationalpolicy.org/publications...
The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances. The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy-efficiency program, but bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it. grist.org/energy/unlik... #Appliances #House #Energy
At a United Nations meeting on pollution, the U.S. delegate said the U.S. has a "national position" on gender. The position leaves no room for the existence of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, who face discrimination around the world. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
"Hard to Breathe": Mother-And-Daughter Activists from Cancer Alley Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment
As New Orleans approaches the 20th anniversary of Katrina, researchers have found that Louisiana holds the distinction of being the state most vulnerable to “deaths of despair,” including suicide, substance abuse, or chronic issues linked to poverty. [via @capitalb.bsky.social]
In this interview, the American mercenary explains that the GHF mercenaries are instructed to shoot and throw stun grenades for ‘crowd control’ because putting up signs or using a bullhorn would “cost too much money.”
US contractors 'aid partner' in Gaza helping out Israel includes a neo-Nazi who praised Hitler jackpoulson.substack.com/p/evangelica...
"B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights on Monday published a report accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, becoming the first major Israeli human rights organizations to join a list of international groups making the charge." www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-two...
super valuable breakdown of how ICE has built a propaganda arm and what goes into it:
Anonymous doxxing websites like Canary Mission are embedding themselves within the Department of Homeland Security and cozying up to people like Stephen Miller. We discuss with @hurwitz.bsky.social on the latest episode. youtube.com/live/ehwYlFh...
I’m listening to Richardson’s testimony and so far every single thing he has said is either a lie or wrong. 🤷♀️🤷♀️ www.c-span.org/program/hous...
Haaretz reports that Khan Younis, Gaza's second-biggest city, has been "almost entirely destroyed" by the IDF demolition campaign that carved the Magen Oz Corridor through the center of it this summer
“What we have seen is a lot of funders who appear to be very aligned with us, progressive on everything but Palestine, who won’t have conversations with us.” Journalists & nonprofit newsrooms detail how Palestine coverage is scaring off nonprofit news funders, @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports.
"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them." Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:
Greek activists prevented an Israeli cruise ship from docking in Syros www.instagram.com/p/DMadamWsf_Y
This is what the halls of our immigration courts look like on a daily basis in America. prospect.org/justice/2025...
This was fun thank you Bitchuation Room
Live with @msolurin.bsky.social and @hurwitz.bsky.social tomorrow (7/22)! Talking Canary Mission's collab with ICE and if New York can DREAM on. Watch live on Youtube here: youtube.com/live/ehwYlFh...
My new massive piece on the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial includes never-reported details of the settlement ET offered GP. It would have thrown the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe under the bus. For @grist.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social grist.org/project/indi...
Great breakdown and episode with @melissagiragrant.com about the rapid construction of a concentration camp in #Florida that is pushing to create a zone of exception for extreme brutality.
"BP notes that its 'Optimization Genie' AI tool has helped it increase production by about 2,000 oil-equivalent barrels per day in the Gulf of Mexico." @kbrigham.bsky.social unpacks how Big Tech's AI partnerships with fossil fuels giants are supercharging more oil and gas production ⬇️
This is an extremely predictable outcome of last year’s campus speech crackdown www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Trump administration has been expanding its global gulag for expelled immigrants, exploring deals with more than a quarter of the world’s nations to accept deported persons who are not their citizens. theintercept.com/2025/07/16/t...
The document condemned “elites of power” who take an “openly denialist and apathetic stance” on climate change. religionnews.com/2025/07/01/c...
The Niche Machine is here. We are now not just seeing AI slop about current events and natural disasters, we are seeing hyperpersonalized AI slop that combines "news" and disinformation with any interest / celebrity / hobby you could possibly imagine www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...
the worst thing you can do in this world is not murder tens of thousands of civilians but to point out that your government is paying for it against its own stated policies
US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident