I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

I just read @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social’s On the Line and so should you! Fantastic, intimate account of a hard-fought union campaign in all its human complexity, and a celebration of women’s oft-neglected leadership in the labor movement bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...

On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

"Lyrical . . . candid, clear-eyed and utterly engrossing, Pitkin's writing couldn't come at a better--or more necessary--time." --Jessica Bruder, New York Times bestselling author of Nomadland "A riv...

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This isn’t quite the end game but it’s the final seconds of the final quarter of the final game in a best in series playoff of The Game.

Damon Beres@damonberes.com · 7d ago

I wrote about the new "Apple Upgrade" program, which plans to entice people into *leasing* new devices—perhaps devices they can't truly afford—leading them to stay on a perpetual cycle of monthly payments and upgrades, filtering their most personal data through property that isn't truly theirs. 🎁:

August 2 is the 102nd birth-anniversary of the writer James Baldwin. Baldwin figures in my new book, TROOP MOVEMENTS — as a wartime worker in motion — and as an influence on my analysis. My book traces how ‘Greatest Generation’ WW2 workers came of age — in their paths toward “Sixties” politics…

Something I don't think most people know is that the rules for bankruptcy were substantially changed around 2008, which made it harder. (nearly impossible) to discharge all their debt. www.npr.org/2026/07/29/n...

More Americans are going bankrupt. What does that mean?

The bankruptcy rate has risen about 48% between 2022 and 2025, although it's still below pre-pandemic levels.

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We are now at entire continents worth of people inhaling forest ash/ BBQ smoke part of the summer. US last week. Europe this week. @katemac.bsky.social "France and Spain evacuate 150,000 as ‘unprecedented’ wildfires spread" www.ft.com/content/6e1d... bsky.app/profile/adam...

France and Spain evacuate 150,000 as ‘unprecedented’ wildfires spread

Extreme heat and high winds fuel fast-moving blazes as authorities in both countries battle to contain them

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Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2w ago

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...

ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say

Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.

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I wrote about America’s enemies, across 250 years and 1000 days of genocide proteanmag.com/2026/07/27/t...

The Enemies of 1776 • Protean Magazine

In "The Enemies of 1776", Dylan Saba traces the long history of the US's genocidal wars and pacification operations in the global frontier—from the Indian Wars, to the War in Vietnam, to the Israeli-U...

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polling shows trans athletes are possibly the lowest salience issue amongst most voter groups and those that want to vote for the most anti-trans candidate aren't persuadable by democrats.

Scott Witte@scottwitte.bsky.social · last wk.

Tom, suburban, college educated women are scared of “boys in girls sports”. Not arguing it, but that’s what polling shows. Same with runaway DEI and open borders. Again, not gonna argue, that’s just what reality is. If Dems stick to those things, independents and mod Rs are lost, again.

As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.

Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race

Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.

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It’s not great how many media figures on the right are now voicing only slightly veiled neo-Nazi talking points about Communism being a Jewish conspiracy. youtube.com/shorts/rZttP...

6 MILLION VS. 65 MILLION

YouTube video by Lara Logan

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Public Health Needs the Manson Family -The Atlantic, 1968, probably.

I am so excited to announce the pre-sale for my forthcoming book, The Struggle Is Always Worth It! This is also the first reveal of the table contents, and let me tell you, there are some superstars who contributed to this book. givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale

Struggle Is Always Worth It book pre-sale

Pre-sale and fundraiser for the edited collection, The Struggle Is Always Worth It, coming out December 2026.

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We admire great works of art, architecture, and engineering. Why not cancer?

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w ago

We admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?

Months spent hiding from ICE left many DACA recipients unable to afford costly renewal fees.

For Single Immigrant Mothers, the Financial Toll of ICE Raids Is Far From Over

Months spent hiding from ICE left many DACA recipients unable to afford costly renewal fees.

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Much as Americans learn geography by who the country bombs, so too are learning the administrative state by the proliferating illnesses once prevented or treated by disappeared agencies

My two cents People are going to get so fucking sick and not know why. Some people are going to die.

Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.

I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges

Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.

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Checkout Penn Press's Fall catalog — with a bunch of exciting books, coming soon. My book — TROOP MOVEMENTS — is frontlisted as a Featured Title. It comes out this September. You can pre-order it, on any site. Be in touch with me — if you want to review, interview, podcast, event, etc.!

Meanwhile, the NYT & other legacy media won’t label actions by Trump or others racist unless there’s a notarized manifesto proclaiming “I am doing this because of racism”

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Once again, the New York Times imputes emotions to Trump. How do they know he was “grieving”? The evidence: “Mr Trump, who is not known to show emotion, appeared upset by the loss, two people said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...

we've been lucky enough to work w/ @phillipvancesmith2.bsky.social for a couple years, and I think he's truly doing some of the best reporting and writing behind bars right now. follow and read his other work boltsmag.org/north-caroli... boltsmag.org/north-caroli... boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

In North Carolina, Juvenile Lifers See a Pathway to Freedom - Bolts

After North Carolina's previous governor granted clemency to people sentenced to life in prison as minors, others with juvenile life sentences are hoping for a new administration that also believes in...

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Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: North Carolina’s harsh three strikes law was adopted right before Ramulus Mason was sentenced in the 1990s, so was sentenced to life in prison. Now the man he shot decades ago has become his loud advocate, demanding that the state free him. A fascinating and complex story:

Because you are indeed a mentally disturbed person obsessively posting about me every single day. What other kind of sick person would have a keyboard shortcut to hit for my full name and title? That's weird af.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

"cARabAlLo iS a PUBlic fIgURE AND i'm jUst repOrTInG wHAT ShE's SayInG" He's the the only one on X still talking about me.

Click here to learn what you can do to help #FreeAbuSafiya, a pediatrician from Gaza who has been held for over 18 months by Israeli officials: doctorsagainstgenocide.org/statements/r... via @docagainstgenocide.bsky.social

Of all the pieces on "ICE training," and David Brouillette, this is the best one I've read. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette

The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.

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CHICAGO! Join Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove to celebrate the release of the expanded edition of Howard Zinn's SNCC: The New Abolitionists. W/ @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Tue, August 11th at 6 PM CT Live from Haymarket House and streaming online. RSVP:

Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove in Conversation on SNCC: The New Abolitionists - Haymarket House

Join Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove for a discussion on SNCC, one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States. […]

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Great piece on Kalshi's planned ICE betting markets from @pabloreports.bsky.social Disgusting stuff migrantinsider.com/p/kalshi-wan...

Kalshi Wants You to Bet on How Many People ICE Abducts Today

A CFTC filing obtained by Migrant Insider shows the exchange quietly built a market that lets traders wager on ICE's daily arrest count with three confidential appendices the public never saw.

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“Clinton’s victory in 1992 probably had more to do with the recession of 1990–1991, & by ’96 he enjoyed the advantage of incumbency with falling unemployment,” while “poor people and minorities were among the most harmed by Clinton’s politics of moderation.” @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social explains:

Jesse Jackson’s campaigns point the way.

Danielle Wiggins responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

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Stephen Robinson@playtyperguy.com · 2w ago

I voted for the first time in 1992 so it annoys me when pundits like Yglesias urge a Clinton/Gore model for success. First off, while Clinton/Gore were more conservative on some key issues than Dukakis (death penalty, welfare) they didn't openly promote regressive views on culture.