Wow, who could have seen this coming. Truly no one had predicted this

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 16h ago

A sell-off in A.I. stocks accelerated on Friday, as investors fretted about whether the industry’s debt-fueled spending spree still justified such high share prices. But the broader market showed resilience. Read more: nyti.ms/4e9bfSH

The conservative understanding of free speech as "you can't criticize me for being offensive" has really seeped into the broader culture. Grading some assignments where students are discussing how censorious NYU is because fellow students might get mad at them for their views. That's not censorship!

Some thoughts on what Dems should do with congressional majorities in the face of a hostile White House and Supreme Court, and it's not wait around for two years. First: Church Committee II, using investigative and subpoena powers to put into the public record the extent of Trump's abuses of power

Democrats win Congress? Here’s what they can do despite Trump - Epicenter NYC

Even with Trump in the White House, a Democratic Congress could launch investigations, reclaim its powers and build an agenda ahead of 2028.

epicenter-nyc.com

Dolores Huerta, who rose to national prominence as the co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and was known for her advocacy for women farmworkers, has died. She was 96. Huerta coined the ¡Sí Se Puede! chant and came to define the farmworker movement.

Dolores Huerta, Chicana activist and prominent defender of farmworker rights, dies at 96

The labor activist spent over seven decades organizing for better treatment and pay for immigrant workers in California’s Central Valley.

bit.ly

Coming this Spring, get ready for… The Failures of Reconstruction 2: The Last Failure

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…

For @vox.com, I wrote about how governments in India, Israel, and the United States are using forms of denaturalization as threat and what it says about their larger projects www.vox.com/politics/508...

The global war on citizenship

In the US, India, and Israel, the threat of denaturalization is being used to silence dissent.

vox.com

Had to check the date here to make sure this wasn’t from 2009

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d ago

The seventh seal has been opened.

With early voting underway, my periodic reminder that to vote is a privilege many of us don't have, and you really should use it

There is, right now, a government surveillance and influence operation far larger than COINTELPRO at its peak and a lot of the public and political leaders seem to be responding with a shrug

David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s." Incredible reporting here from @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Enjoy your couple years in Florida, Flávio, porque o próximo presidente vai te enviar embora

Axios@axios.com · 3d ago

BREAKING: The U.S. government is granting visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family following his defeat in Brazil's presidential election.

Kind of crazy that the plan here was apparently for Trump to somehow steal the election for them

Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Flávio has given up,” an adviser to the Bolsonaro family told me. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”

Judges Have One Defense Against Trump They (Mostly) Haven’t Used Yet

Judicial contempt is a tool few jurists have reached for to curb the administration’s misrule—and for good reason. But that may be about to change.

newrepublic.com

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party

Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.

newrepublic.com

For @boltsmag.org, I looked at the ongoing dissolution of the ICE detention contract in NY's Orange County; these have gotten less attention that the also-banned 287(g) agreements, but are very significant, and the local sheriff's posture is making a once-sleepy race more heated

New York Banned ICE Contracts. Pro-ICE Sheriffs Could Stand in the Way. - Bolts

Orange County was forced to end its lucrative contract to detain immigrants in the local jail. Sheriff Paul Arteta, who’s up for reelection, is among those suing to keep it.

boltsmag.org

Trump take trip

NPR@npr.org · last wk.

If you're planning to fly this holiday season, be prepared to pay more than you did last year. The price of jet fuel — one of airlines' biggest expenses — is close to an all-time high in the U.S. n.pr/48eQMs4

The Panopticon was a thought experiment but the technology is now genuinely there to make it a reality and we have to grapple with what that means for us as a society. /yes, I am aware that others countries had this debate and went with total surveillance decades ago.

Dave Maass 🔦@maassive.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump’s ‘Smart Wall’ of A.I. Cameras Is Watching the Border, and More Than a Million People www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

*spins wheel* the nursing union is working with *spins wheel* the reanimated remains of Strom Thurmond to *spins wheel* ban hydroelectric research

Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.

I am sorry but the transit workers union allying with *donald trump* to protect *horse drawn carriages* is beyond parody

Interesting point but also “undocumented children” born in the U.S. is an oxymoron. Anyone born in U.S. jurisdiction is a U.S. citizen or national (or, in very few cases, a permanent resident)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Adam Hamilton to Roger Marshall: "I'm just curious -- with all those undocumented children that you delivered, did you also call ICE and ask them to be taken away? You had compassion in delivering these children, but then you support quotas?"

luv 2 enroll in health insurance that's $620 a month as a freelancer, the system works

Whatever you are expecting — whatever at all — I can promise that you are not prepared for You Can See Everything and you must run, not walk, to see this film

In @newrepublic.com I argue that the Trump era has dynamited the premise that large corporate interests can or will act in concert to protect their commercial interests. Trump rolled them and liberals can, too, on the road to popular economic and social policy

How Big Business Lost Its Big Bet on Trump

The captains of industry that many assumed would keep the president in check all turned out to be paper tigers. Democrats, take note.

newrepublic.com

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

In what's become a recurring segment, I lay out in @newrepublic.com a lesson we can take from MAGA. The popular notion that the money men who call the shots would step in and stop Trump's economic arson was wrong. This should break Dems' illusion that big business can derail their economic designs

How Big Business Lost Its Big Bet on Trump

The captains of industry that many assumed would keep the president in check all turned out to be paper tigers. Democrats, take note.

newrepublic.com

While the administration is bleating about the nonexistent issue of mass noncitizen voting in federal elections, it is actually promulgating the inverse: keeping potentially hundred of thousands of would-be citizens from being able to vote in the midterms

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

While we don’t have a smoking gun yet, there is reason to believe that earlier this year the Trump admin ordered USCIS to arbitrarily cap the number of immigrants who can become citizens each month. Backlogs in the naturalization process are now skyrocketing.

Hey you guys remember a few months ago when the Trump administration black-bagged a sitting head of state and then we all just moved on

Incidentally, North Lake was formerly a noncitizen-only federal prison (a specific subset of BOP prisons that are all privately run) where I found sudden transfers during the height of COVID led to mass spread. I’m unsurprised things are still terrible there as an immigration detention center

The Coronavirus Threat at Shadowy Criminal Alien Requirement Prisons

People were moved between private facilities amid the coronavirus outbreak despite the fact that the Bureau of Prisons said it would stop transfers.

theintercept.com

Anna Clark@annaleighclark.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nearly five months ago, I got a tip that opened the door to a group of women locked up at North Lake, the largest immigration detention center in the Midwest -- and @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social + I quickly saw a pattern in how they got there.

Lot of people seem confused by the reported attempt to denaturalize Ilhan Omar because they assume it’s a criminal case, but it appears to be a civil denaturalization attempt, which is not a criminal investigation in the same way, has no statute of limitations, and has different standards

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

bloomberg.com

Just caught my cat trying to drink the water from the vat I use to heat photo development chemicals. Girl your clean, fresh water is ten feet away, what are you doing???