Kristin Toussaint
@ktoussaint.bsky.social
staff writer @ Fast Company / words in Teen Vogue, Vox, Vice, Metro, Boston.com
she/her
WGAEast member
ktoussaint@fastcompany.com
she/her
WGAEast member
ktoussaint@fastcompany.com
"But what if the bubble is an inevitable part of developing & adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity & growth?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o... OK, but who benefits? Productivity has already been growing. So has the "economy." & they left the working class behind
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"But what if the bubble is an inevitable part of developing & adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity & growth?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o... OK, but who benefits? Productivity has already been growing. So has the "economy." & they left the working class behind
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions.
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Health #Climate #PublicHealth #Research #Science
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Health #Climate #PublicHealth #Research #Science
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions.
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Health #Climate #PublicHealth #Research #Science
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Health #Climate #PublicHealth #Research #Science
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
“That means the company’s estimates translate to 560,000 people exhibiting symptoms of psychosis or mania weekly, with 1.2 million demonstrating heightened emotional attachment and 1.2 million showing signs of suicidal planning or intent.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Chatbot Delusions: Is AI Contributing to a Novel Mental Health Crisis?
Some users are losing touch with reality during marathon sessions with ChatGPT and other bots.
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“That means the company’s estimates translate to 560,000 people exhibiting symptoms of psychosis or mania weekly, with 1.2 million demonstrating heightened emotional attachment and 1.2 million showing signs of suicidal planning or intent.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Private jets make up 1 in 6 flights handled by the FAA. As air travel faces cuts during the shutdown, @patrioticmillionaires.org has a suggestion it says would spare commercial airline passengers and still offer relief: Just cancel all private flights www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...
These millionaires have a suggestion for the FAA: Cancel all private jet flights during the shutdown
Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their 'jet setting,' says Patriotic Millionaires.
www.fastcompany.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Private jets make up 1 in 6 flights handled by the FAA. As air travel faces cuts during the shutdown, @patrioticmillionaires.org has a suggestion it says would spare commercial airline passengers and still offer relief: Just cancel all private flights www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...
The Trump admin wants more drilling & mining on U.S. public lands. But besides holding resources, those lands also house hiking trails, camping sites, and so on, & outdoor recreation on federal public lands generates $128 billion in economic activity every year, www.fastcompany.com/91436738/out...
Exclusive: Outdoor recreation on U.S. public lands generates $351 million a day in economic activity
Using federal public lands for fun and leisure provides sustainable long-term value that drilling and mining do not, a first-of-its-kind report reveals.
www.fastcompany.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Trump admin wants more drilling & mining on U.S. public lands. But besides holding resources, those lands also house hiking trails, camping sites, and so on, & outdoor recreation on federal public lands generates $128 billion in economic activity every year, www.fastcompany.com/91436738/out...
Absolutely devastated by this. Teen Vogue is full of amazing people who do truly great work. This is a huge loss for everyone
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Absolutely devastated by this. Teen Vogue is full of amazing people who do truly great work. This is a huge loss for everyone
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
“I can guarantee that he’s not part of the Sinaloa Cartel,” Scott Alati said of his son, Tyler ... “He isn’t a high-ranking member of anything. He’s high-ranking dumb.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...
The DEA said it arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true. - The Boston Globe
A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against suc...
www.bostonglobe.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“I can guarantee that he’s not part of the Sinaloa Cartel,” Scott Alati said of his son, Tyler ... “He isn’t a high-ranking member of anything. He’s high-ranking dumb.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...
Just a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million has generated $5.7 billion in two years—money that has funded bridge repairs, literacy programs, and went toward the transportation system's budget deficit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Just a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million has generated $5.7 billion in two years—money that has funded bridge repairs, literacy programs, and went toward the transportation system's budget deficit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.
idahocapitalsun.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
finally read this piece on the Barboncino union & the whole thing is great but oof this part: "What no one prepared us for, though, was that the logic that we followed—we want the business to succeed; we need our jobs to make money—didn’t apply to ownership." thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...
A Fair Slice | Becca Young
Unionizing at Brooklyn’s Barboncino was the easy part—then came the negotiations
thebaffler.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
finally read this piece on the Barboncino union & the whole thing is great but oof this part: "What no one prepared us for, though, was that the logic that we followed—we want the business to succeed; we need our jobs to make money—didn’t apply to ownership." thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...
I love this Defector piece on learning in the age of AI. "An education concerned primarily with the acquisition of facts is one that prepares its students to be bored in a small, closed world." defector.com/learning-is-...
Learning Is More Than Just Collecting Facts | Defector
Earlier this week, I read Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto for the first time. Published in 1764, it’s widely considered the first gothic novel, the cornerstone of a genre that would include fut...
defector.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I love this Defector piece on learning in the age of AI. "An education concerned primarily with the acquisition of facts is one that prepares its students to be bored in a small, closed world." defector.com/learning-is-...
Refinery29's Money Diaries used to dominate online discourse. Many twitter threads! The New Yorker wrote about them in 2017! They spurred a whole subreddit! Now the past 2 (after 2 weeks with no posts) are Klarna ads ..thatno one is even paying enough attention to to write a homepage headline for
October 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Refinery29's Money Diaries used to dominate online discourse. Many twitter threads! The New Yorker wrote about them in 2017! They spurred a whole subreddit! Now the past 2 (after 2 weeks with no posts) are Klarna ads ..thatno one is even paying enough attention to to write a homepage headline for
what was so clear to me from the mayoral debate last night is that Cuomo doesn't seem to stand for anything. all his answers were just explaining how Mamdani's positions wouldn't work, but not what he would actually do, and I think that's a larger issue in reactionary politics. stand for something!
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
what was so clear to me from the mayoral debate last night is that Cuomo doesn't seem to stand for anything. all his answers were just explaining how Mamdani's positions wouldn't work, but not what he would actually do, and I think that's a larger issue in reactionary politics. stand for something!
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
“You say it once or twice, it’s a joke, but you say it 251 times, it’s no longer a joke,” said Art Jipson, a professor at the University of Dayton who specializes in white racial extremism. “The more we repeat certain ideas, the more real they become to us.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“You say it once or twice, it’s a joke, but you say it 251 times, it’s no longer a joke,” said Art Jipson, a professor at the University of Dayton who specializes in white racial extremism. “The more we repeat certain ideas, the more real they become to us.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.
you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!
and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate
and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
Today at @fastcompany.com Innovation Festival, there was a panel with 3 experts from the @aclu.org. When asked "Are we in a constitutional crisis?" Ben Wizner said: "That requires an active answer, not a passive one. We're in a constitutional crisis if we allow it. We're not in one if we resist it"
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Today at @fastcompany.com Innovation Festival, there was a panel with 3 experts from the @aclu.org. When asked "Are we in a constitutional crisis?" Ben Wizner said: "That requires an active answer, not a passive one. We're in a constitutional crisis if we allow it. We're not in one if we resist it"
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
A major study of more than 200 heatwaves this century has found that as many as one in four would not have been possible in a world without human-driven climate crisis.
Just 14 companies were responsible for a third of additional heat.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Just 14 companies were responsible for a third of additional heat.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
One in four heatwaves impossible without climate change, study finds
Researchers found that top 14 major carbon polluters – including Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Gazprom and state coal industries in China and India – account for nearly a third of global heatin...
www.independent.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A major study of more than 200 heatwaves this century has found that as many as one in four would not have been possible in a world without human-driven climate crisis.
Just 14 companies were responsible for a third of additional heat.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Just 14 companies were responsible for a third of additional heat.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
a lot of these tips say to use your laptop for things like social media instead of your phone, which sure, great idea—except for instagram in particular, the web version is so bad and so limited in terms of functionality. wonder if that's intentional.. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
15 Ways to Break Free of Your Phone
We asked screen-time experts how to avoid the relentless pull of our devices.
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
a lot of these tips say to use your laptop for things like social media instead of your phone, which sure, great idea—except for instagram in particular, the web version is so bad and so limited in terms of functionality. wonder if that's intentional.. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Kristin Toussaint
Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1
drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1
drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...
August 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1
drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1
drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...