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FBI investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says The statement from FBI Director Kash Patel comes after right-wing media figures said they joined the chats and claimed participants were obstructing law enforcement.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

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Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela

Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/b...

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.

“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”

“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

A Criminal Empire The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

'Stranger Things' Was a Casualty of the Franchise Machine How the nostalgic, well-made treat we couldn't help devouring amid the traumas of 2016 devolved into a content factory

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The Dismantling of the New School The New School was founded as an institution dedicated to critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspir...

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Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane-McKinley

I haven’t read it yet so I don’t want to misspeak but in my heart of hearts I feel and suspect this is the book everyone should be reading instead of Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation”

Thanksgiving, Then, and Now: When Being an Immigrant Feels More Fraught Than Ever, Coming Together Seems More Important - American Kahani Thanksgiving, Then, and Now: When Being an Immigrant Feels More Fraught Than Ever, Coming Together Seems More Important

As we emerge from Thanksgiving break in the U.S., I reflected on my evolving relationship with this complicated American holiday:

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America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?

America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...

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Nobody saw that coming…

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Donald Trump seeks to make sure that free speech is reserved exclusively for right-wing billionaires.

Trump threatens trade probe after 'discriminatory' EU fines against Google, Apple Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Trump at a White House dinner after a U.S. judge issued a favorable ruling in the landmark antitrust case against Alphabet.

"President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to launch a trade investigation to 'nullify' what he said were discriminatory fines being levied by Europe against U.S. tech firms such as Google and Apple."
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...

RE Lisa Cook. It’s just so hard to tell why Trump is targeting these people. I guess we will never know what they had in common. A mystery for all time.

The Racist Foundation of the Big Lie of a Stolen Election New research shows how racist beliefs enable lies about voter fraud to spread.

Two troubling new studies find that lies about the 2020 election tapped into racist attitudes and white America’s long-standing fear of a real multiracial democracy. Read about the studies here: bit.ly/3Jqxp6A

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article) Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

amazing article reporting how scientists inspecting planets at an unfathomable distance identified the remote possibility of extraterrestrial life— a holy grail of science and perhaps all humanity— and then the end is “anyway Trump took all our money so that’s that”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15.

"Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI.
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

Today I learned that the largest DEI initiative in American history was the Civil War

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

EPA cancels protecting the environment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham:
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

“No Other Land” just received the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature! And, yet, one cannot watch the film on any streaming service in the U.S.

I don't know how else to say this except for bluntly:

It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries.

This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.