NEW: The Marin County DA announced no charges for Jeremy Portje, a photojournalist who was arrested at a homeless encampment. First Amendment Coalition (follow us on Bluesky) previously questioned officers' conduct in the case and we remain concerned about the press-freedom implications. marinij.com/2021/12/28/mar…

American children are starting 2022 in crisis. I'm not sure that many people fully grasp the depth of it. 🧵 nytimes.com/2022/01/04/bri…

As our lucky subscribers have discovered: Issue 5 has arrived! Here's to rainy day reads and the incredible team that put together this very special issue. Gorgeous cover art by Elena Zlokazova.

From Sotomayor's dissent: "The Court may look the other way" regarding the 5th Circuit's "delay tactics" but "I cannot".

This lady is boring. Ooh wee.

Friendly reminder that there's an Indian metal band called Bloodywood and when they went on tour they called it Raj Against the Machine

Before the war, I was a writer, says Sofia Andrukhovych; today, I feel unable to string two words together. What’s the use of words during a war? One of 28 responses to the invasion of Ukraine, in the latest issue: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…

reuters.com/business/autos… only $41bn less than someone who builds EVs and the associated infrastructure recently spent on a whim to buy this platform

Returning yet again to Ellen Willis, I found a passage I’d underlined decades ago (in her first collection Beginning to see the Light), staring me in the face and talking to the morning

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

“He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it and, deep down, I think most Republicans know it,” Dick Cheney says in a new ad for his daughter.

A bill that would keep California’s last #nuclear plant open as the state transitions from fossil fuels was finally introduced late Sunday in Sacramento and now faces a difficult path to passage. By Mark Chediak David R. Baker trib.al/G15zPFb

More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.

Boosting this message, in case anyone in Oakland/SF can help save Ramona’s home instagram.com/reel/CilKcl-OQ…

She was full of life Her name is Nika Shakarami. She was only 17. Nika joined #IranProtests on Sept 20. Ten days later her family was asked to go to Kahrizak prison to get her body. The authorities didn’t allow the family to have a funeral for her while arresting her aunt & uncle

She was an inspiration. R.I.P. Loretta Lynn ❤️