Building Outpost.pub to help build an indie publishing ecosystem. Also Contextly, Stanford and formerly journalist at Wired.
I just watched Alex Padilla get thrown to the floor and cuffed after trying to ask Noam a question at a presser.
The Senate is meant to be only second to the House of Representatives in power in our system of Democracy. They are fewer, older, and meant to be the wise body of the government, serving longer than presidents, and running less often than reps.
If you're waiting for the sign that things have gone too far, it's passing you by.
America is neither safe nor free.
@w7voa
Love what you do but not gonna read anything on Substack, a platform that tolerates Nazis and is funded almost entirely by Trump-loving, anti-democratic Andreesen Horowitz
Please look into alternatives like ghost or even beehiiv
New from me, for Emptywheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/22/digital-fascism-is-still-just-fascism/ A look at how the ICC & Karim Khan case foreshadows digital fascism, and how that's just fascism, for everyone. Plus a nod at how to break free: the tools, infrastructure, and what it would take to do it.
It should be said, and doing this in their free fucking time as a volunteer effort too.
> And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads.
https://mas.to/@kissane/114558323930891999
Under anti-vaccine advocate RFK Jr, FDA to limit access to COVID-19 shots
FDA will require big, pricy trials for approvals for healthy kids and adults >65.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/under-anti-vaccine-advocate-rfk-jr-fda-to-limit-access-to-covid-19-shots/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
James Comey goes voluntarily to an interview with the Secret Service over a dumb tweet?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/politics/comey-interviewed-secret-service
Gotta hand it to James Comey for sticking to the bit of being someone who has never learned when not to talk
@Cassandra
Yes to all of that and steampunk Lou Wilson!!
I can't wait for some retro saltiness
CBP Seizes Shipment of T-Shirts Featuring Swarm of Bees Attacking a Cop
🔗 https://www.404media.co/cbp-seizes-shipment-of-t-shirts-featuring-swarm-of-bees-attacking-cops/
I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
@jonathankoren
Adding good bike infrastructure does increase cycling
Especially protected lanes
Plenty of studies on this or you could visit Paris!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/climate/bikes-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
👀 Jim Jordan sneaking a provision into the reconciliation bill intended to protect Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al from being cited for contempt of court. https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/judiciary_recon_ans_xml.pdf #LawFedi
THIS IS SO COOL!
First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar - YouTube
Edit: watch the ground beyond the gate.
Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/stephen-millers-war-on-cancer-cures/
> Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to take their health care away too).
For those who are not editors, that's like someone endorsing a programmer for being good at jaavaskript
years ago when I was an editor I was viciously endorsed on LinkedIn
Honestly kind of a relief seeing a new blog/newsletter launch and seeing it's *not* on Substack. Aside from how bad they are, I'm really nervous how much internet writing is centralizing on a single VC-funded company.
(The inspiration for this post: Hearing Things, which is using Ghost https://www.hearingthings.co)
Saying goodbye to Pivotal Tracker. A nicely built, not overengineered piece of software I used and paid for since 2010.
Killed off by the brilliant minds at Broadcom. Pronounced DOA May 1 2025
I honestly don’t see why air filters in every single classroom that doesn’t have effective air filtration in the architecture isn’t a no-brainer at this point.
Air filters in classrooms redu...
