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It’s bc it’s integrated with Gemini/AI

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

"These stories will be edited by a BI editor" is very funny to me.

Editor: "GPT, this is a great start. But where did this quote come from? I can't find the citation."

GPT, gobbling electricity and water: "That's a great question, Steve. Thank you for asking and your close attention to detail."

It feels worth noting that SCIENCE magazine did a two-year study to determine if AI could be used to effectively produce their news brief posts. They determined it couldn't. www.science.org/content/blog...

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

It's very fun. I nominated a quadruple threat @wired.com scoop

The Stories We Most Admired in 2025: Businessweek’s Jealousy List The stories we admired most this year.

Bloomberg's annual jealousy list is out! All the scoops and stories we wish we'd broken and written from our journalistic comrades, both independent and at rival publications: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That. God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.

I'm glad Olivia Nuzzi wrote a book if only so @scaachi.bsky.social could dance on its corpse

slate.com/culture/2025...

Trump to Roll Back Fuel Economy Rules in Nod to Rising Car Prices It’s not clear that relaxing the standard will lower costs for consumers.

If someone wanted to destroy the US automobile industry and tremendously strengthen the Chinese automobile industry, they wouldn't be doing anything differently than what Trump is doing now. China is now producing smarter, cheaper, cleaner cars than the US.

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Welcome to the West!!

One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.

RFK Jr.’s pick to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule embraces Covid conspiracy theories Dr. Kirk Milhoan compared vaccination efforts during the pandemic to the Holocaust and called mRNA technology “the biggest threat to humanity.”

RFK Jr.’s pick to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule embraces Covid conspiracy theories
Dr. Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist and church pastor who has falsely stated that Covid vaccines cause cancer, miscarriage and widespread heart disease. By @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”

Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Ruth Asawa show is a must see!!

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran 1. Tech Billionaires vs. Democracy: Elon Musk and the Rise of "Network States"

Trump's pardon of Honduras' drug trafficker president is raising awareness of Prospera, the weird tech-ruled city he helped to create.

Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias.

More:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...

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The bicycles in ET!

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

You may have heard that DOGE is dead.

Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government

www.wired.com/story/what-i...

Pentagon abruptly calls a press conference for 11 am. Or, since hard-pass holders are now right-wing orgs & influencers, something orchestrated but flavored like a press conference: "For in-person attendance, this briefing is limited to invited press only. There is no Zoom call dial-in available."

Holiday gift ideas:
*see what your Buy Nothing Group or local thrift stores have
*books are always good
*so are socks

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

time.com/7335723/auto...

The Trump administration's strikes in Venezuela were ordered without Congress, without transparency, and without any justification to the public. These actions are reckless, unconstitutional, and dangerous for our national security.

Commentary: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted “Daily Memo” has become the diary Los Angeles never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region's history.

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted. Share, porfas!

DAILY MEMO: ICE Raids Thanksgiving

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@eltragon.bsky.social

YouTube video by Sesame Workshop Making a Memory Box

This World AIDS Day we are grateful for the heroic folks at Takalani Sesame and @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social for helping children remember parents and siblings lost to AIDS.

This is the humanities at its best.

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment

We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇

FEMA Orders Staff Back After Probe of Whistleblower Letter Ends The Federal Emergency Management Agency has ordered a group of employees to return to work after placing them on leave in August — and later dismissing one — for publicly raising concerns about the ag...

New this AM: FEMA has ordered a group of employees to return to work after placing them on leave in August — and later dismissing one — for publicly raising concerns about the agency’s disaster-response capabilities.

Story w/@laurenthal.bsky.social, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

We have totally adopted this!