I like how you can immediately tell that he lives his life weighed down by an unspeakable shame

Now is a time of mensches.... My latest in Jacobin on why the Left should adjust our attitude jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdan…

My friends at The New Republic kindly let me review Cory Doctorow's new book and ask the really important question: What if the internet was a bad idea?

Noem should resign over this.

ICE arrested a 79 year old man who was born in a post-war DP camp and has spent most of his life in the US and sent him to Alligator Alcatraz. His health is failing. He has no citizenship -- anywhere -- but the US government wants to deport him. orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/san…

just going to keep telling my students that journalism is awesome

🔴DIRE WARNING issued by the independent market monitor of PJM, the largest US electric grid operator, about the growing affordability and reliability crisis caused by AI data centers and the need for immediate reforms. Here are some of the most notable quotes from their report:

“China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary and retains primacy over private capital.” thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used…

This is hugely important. Do it.

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This is so cool jmail.world

Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must make this illegal.

Apparently, we've found the literal ONE thing Donald Trump and Elise Stefanik disagree on... ...and it's her entire reason for running for governor. Hard to overstate what a devastating blow this is to Stefanik's campaign.

I uploaded verified images of the “peace” document to Grok. I prompted, “Analyze this document from a logistic perspective. It is in English, but assess whether or not it has been translated. If so, what is the likely language of the original?” 🧵

Mississippi jail tricks disabled inmate into volunteering to be electrocuted—in exchange for a Coke. Just leaked video also show him being lied to about early release—only to beat him up as a "prank." 3 people involved still work there—at least 1 applied for ICE after Trump was

At least 1004 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since US-backed Israeli forces & settlers began escalating violence after 10/7/2023 B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم reports today. 217 were children “In the 21 cases where settlers have killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted”

Incredibly sad and disturbing video depicting the violent end of an Afghan man who made the mistake of working for the Special Forces and the CIA. "I should have served with the fucking Taliban," he says seconds before he draws on the cop: youtube.com/watch?v=pOmqWN…