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Progressive, pro-democracy nerd.
We can't control everything in this world. What we can control is what we focus on. As we confront a difficult reality, let's all stay present in our own lives and with our loved ones.
We can't control everything in this world. What we can control is what we focus on. As we confront a difficult reality, let's all stay present in our own lives and with our loved ones.
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Zohran Mamdani on His Family’s Experience With Immigration Court and His Plans for ICE in NYC talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani on His Family’s Experience With Immigration Court and His Plans for ICE in NYC
Zohran Mamdani has felt the fear that stalks the halls of New...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Zohran Mamdani on His Family’s Experience With Immigration Court and His Plans for ICE in NYC talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/zohr...
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NYC: Mamdani has revoked every single EO (except emergency EOs) signed on or after Sept 26, 2024
January 2, 2026 at 12:50 AM
NYC: Mamdani has revoked every single EO (except emergency EOs) signed on or after Sept 26, 2024
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Here they all are, our 25 most-read pieces of 2025. Thanks to all for reading and sharing our pieces. Happy New Year!
Our 25 Most-Read Pieces of 2025
- - -We’re counting down our most-read pieces of 2025. This list will be updated daily until we reach #1 on December 31. Thanks to all our contrib...
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January 1, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Here they all are, our 25 most-read pieces of 2025. Thanks to all for reading and sharing our pieces. Happy New Year!
Good practice to start in the new year.
Join me today at 5pm PST to meditate together. I'll be doing this every day for the next 28 days. We'll listen together to a guided meditation from the Waking Up app, then chat together about the experience for 20 minutes.
January 1, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Good practice to start in the new year.
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A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
December 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
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Watch the full deep-dive attached below
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Watch the full deep-dive attached below
Nailed it!
December 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Nailed it!
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Couldn’t help it.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Couldn’t help it.
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"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
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I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
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One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
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I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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Trump to a child: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Trump to a child: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
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During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money.
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
Nonprofit Explorer Adds Powerful Tools to Help You Research Organizations’ Financials
ProPublica has added the ability to find nonprofit organizations that auditors have flagged as having serious financial or control deficiencies. We also added the ability to search for organizations t...
www.propublica.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money.
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
DHS deported a U.S. citizen
Another case of a judge ordering ICE not to deport someone, and ICE doing it anyway. This time a US citizen, with a Maryland birth certificate & immunization records.
Her family has not heard from her.
May everyone at DHS have the Christmas they inflicted on her.
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
Her family has not heard from her.
May everyone at DHS have the Christmas they inflicted on her.
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
www.newsweek.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
DHS deported a U.S. citizen
Please show these folks your support. They have no choice in the matter. They’re cold. They just want to be home with their families.
National Guard wearing Santa hats while patrolling in DC.
December 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Please show these folks your support. They have no choice in the matter. They’re cold. They just want to be home with their families.
And it appears that Tesla is only operating about 5 robotaxis in Austin. IMO, they will never achieve even level 3 autonomy without LiDAR. Adding LiDAR would also require a significant training/development period. They are far far behind Waymo.
Watch Tesla FSD v14.2.1.25 turn in front of an oncoming car and stop in the oncoming lane, forcing the driver to take over.
Elon Musk says this defective software will be unsupervised by the end of the year. That’s 8 days from today.
Do you believe him?
Elon Musk says this defective software will be unsupervised by the end of the year. That’s 8 days from today.
Do you believe him?
December 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
And it appears that Tesla is only operating about 5 robotaxis in Austin. IMO, they will never achieve even level 3 autonomy without LiDAR. Adding LiDAR would also require a significant training/development period. They are far far behind Waymo.
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There's more to the spiked 60 Minutes story than is well understood.
The reporting about who actually had criminal records directly contradicts claims made in March by the two men supplying Trump his entire rationale for extraordinary powers.
The reporting about who actually had criminal records directly contradicts claims made in March by the two men supplying Trump his entire rationale for extraordinary powers.
How Trump Targeted the CECOT Prisoners
The spiked 60 Minutes report raises new doubts about the secret source of Trump's Venezuela narrative
jonathanlarsen.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
There's more to the spiked 60 Minutes story than is well understood.
The reporting about who actually had criminal records directly contradicts claims made in March by the two men supplying Trump his entire rationale for extraordinary powers.
The reporting about who actually had criminal records directly contradicts claims made in March by the two men supplying Trump his entire rationale for extraordinary powers.
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Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
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Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
December 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
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Please watch this now if you want to see it. It’s getting taken down fast.
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Please watch this now if you want to see it. It’s getting taken down fast.
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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Well no need for my 2025 recap then. While we have some disagreements on film and TV, this is pretty much, along with the @greenwell.bsky.social book on private equity, the reading list I’d pitch, but better.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-best-b...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-best-b...
The best books, films and TV that tackled AI + tech in 2025
The Great Blood in the Machine Guide to All Media
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Well no need for my 2025 recap then. While we have some disagreements on film and TV, this is pretty much, along with the @greenwell.bsky.social book on private equity, the reading list I’d pitch, but better.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-best-b...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-best-b...
I’m surprised they can’t handle intersections where the traffic lights don’t have power. It does happen from time to time.
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’m surprised they can’t handle intersections where the traffic lights don’t have power. It does happen from time to time.
This is so inspiring!
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This is so inspiring!
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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New Mexico is the first state in the US to provide free child care to nearly every family, regardless of income level or immigration status.
It just entered effect last month, but universal child care is already helping parents find balance and relief.
It just entered effect last month, but universal child care is already helping parents find balance and relief.
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
New Mexico is the first state in the US to provide free child care to nearly every family, regardless of income level or immigration status.
It just entered effect last month, but universal child care is already helping parents find balance and relief.
It just entered effect last month, but universal child care is already helping parents find balance and relief.