Reposted by Ursus ArctosMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 8hYes, material problems exist in Germany but the country's capacity to solve them is the envy of almost every other country in the world. And yet the national discourse is that of a place declining at the speed of light (basically because there are too many visible foreigners). Racism is a cancer. 19122
Reposted by Ursus ArctosKate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start. (Gift Article)Why Democrats must prioritize court reform. 711885461
Reposted by Ursus ArctosJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 6hProbably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal 71141239
Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 5hwww.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/14/d...thecityreporter.nycAfter Mamdani Signal Row, Lawsuit Alleges Private City Agency ChatsThe Department of Investigation is probing the alleged use of private email and text messages at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. 000
Reposted by Ursus ArctosSteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 12/10/2026I’d argue the turning point in the Kansas race came when voters heard about Roger Marshall garnishing paychecks and pushing arrest warrants when his patients couldn’t afford their bills. The latest on the interest rates he charged makes matters a noticeably worse. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.nowIn Kansas, the interest rate Roger Marshall charged on medical bills makes a bad story worseThe senator garnished paychecks and pushed arrest warrants when his patients couldn’t afford their bills. His interest rates added insult to injury. 17495136
Reposted by Ursus ArctosDocumented @documentedny.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"We are living through one of the most intense periods of immigration enforcement in American history." In a new monthly column, Austin Kocher explores the impact of rising immigration enforcement. documentedny.comThe Baseline: Getting Our Bearings in an Age of Mass DeportationThe Baseline, a new monthly column from Austin Kocher, explores the impact of rising immigration enforcement. 044
Reposted by Ursus ArctosDarius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026whomever designed this patient check-in drop-down is my favorite person of all time 3142
Reposted by Ursus ArctosStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Absolutely wonderful preview of the by-election by @andrewteale.me.uk: really conveys so much of what makes the seat very unusual and I learnt a lot I didn’t know:andrewspreviews.substack.comPreviewing the Holborn and St Pancras by-election and the four local by-elections of 8th October 2026“All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order” 76425
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In July, I went to the NFL Flag Championships in Indiana to see the enormous boom in youth flag football in person. Turns out, girls love ball. My story leads off @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s November issue on women’s sports. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comThe NFL’s $192 Million Bet on Flag Football Is Paying Off With Teen GirlsThe sport has seen unprecedented growth since the pandemic. Next up: The Olympics and a college campus near you. 431184228
Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 07/10/2026www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...npr.orgOver 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwideResearchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. 000
Reposted by Ursus ArctosSteven Godfrey @stevengodfrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you're at all interested in what's happening in this Christa Pike story, @iamstevenhale.bsky.social is the one reporter to follow 0131
Reposted by Ursus ArctosMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Rees-Mogg endorsed the AfD at a crucial point of their ascent, so he doesn’t get to shimmy away from this. 311925
Reposted by Ursus ArctosMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.com‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forcesNearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the killings and land grabs 02012
Reposted by Ursus ArctosDocumented @documentedny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The expansion of the ‘public charge’ rule is just the latest in a barrage of efforts by the Trump administration to impede immigrants' participation in public life. documentedny.com‘People Will Die’: Mamdani Sues Trump Administration to Stop Attempt to Cut Benefits for ImmigrantsThe new public charge rule is the latest in a barrage of efforts by the Trump administration to impede immigrants from participating in public life. 052
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAndrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 02/10/2026Meanwhile, disgraced former Gov Andrew Cuomo just bought a multi-million dollar mansion in the Hamptons after saying he'd move to Florida if Mamdani won. pagesix.com/2026/09/30/l... Promises made. Promises broken. Andrew Cuomo.pagesix.comAndrew Cuomo buys $9 million-plus estate in the Hamptons with tennis court, pool, gym and wine cellarThe former 2025 NYC mayoral candidate has been a fixture in the Hamptons in the past. 0389
Reposted by Ursus ArctosMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Here, a link to the additional deaths for which Trump and Musk have been responsible in just one year. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi... Trump's election is one of the most consequential and devastating in the history of democracy. 35126
Reposted by Ursus ArctosRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks. 60776672286
Reposted by Ursus ArctosKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@lilymasonphd.bsky.social spitting truth: 115270
Reposted by Ursus ArctosPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo 442788386
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030971089
Reposted by Ursus ArctosBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 272128222108
Reposted by Ursus ArctosHenry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Interesting study on how anti-Muslim animus gets laundered through parking gripes, with new mosques earning 16-18 percent more parking complaints than new churches news.ucsc.edu/2026/09/park...news.ucsc.eduParking policy masks anti-Muslim discrimination for communities building new mosquesNew research shows that disputes around parking during the urban planning process are disproportionately used to fight the construction of mosques across the country 0285
Reposted by Ursus ArctosRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time. 1103131674695
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21088183853
Reposted by Ursus ArctosLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground” 20688312
Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comAnalysis • Herzog, Elor Azaria and NAZA: Today's Israel openly applauds war crimesPresident Herzog's pardoning of Elor Azaria is hardly a surprise to anyone who has been watching the Israeli public's response to extrajudicial and vigilante killings of Palestinians, which continue t... 010
Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 23/09/2026DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 000
Reposted by Ursus ArctosJason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/09/2026That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1 71312232
Reposted by Ursus ArctosMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They always sound so excited, too. “It’s a political earthquake! It’s a shockwave!“ Well yes, that’s the rumble of approaching jackboots. Why are you so hyped? 15772140
Reposted by Ursus ArctosKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing elsekron4.comTesla driver charged with murdering 2 in San Jose shows no remorse, prosecutors saySAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — When Ivana Balistreri and her baby were trapped inside a “fireball,” a Tesla driver who had just crashed into the victims’ car on Highway 87 in San… 2392480691
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This was the image posted by DHS: 82440159
Reposted by Ursus ArctosNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. 12247231138
Reposted by Ursus Arctoslukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is 130133132145
Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 13/09/2026steady.page/en/democracy...steady.pageA Far-Right International Is Assaulting DemocracyMAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism 010
Reposted by Ursus ArctosRaphael Satter @raphae.li · 09/09/2026Scoop: OpenAI's rogue agents didn't just hijack a German wiki, they repurposed at least 10 sites -- and potentially many more -- to carve out communications side channels and cheat on tests. www.reuters.com/world/openai...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers sayAI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed ... 13183117
Reposted by Ursus ArctosMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie. 412127600
Reposted by Ursus ArctosThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2026New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. The records suggest that New Yorkers were told to return to the ground zero area before it was safe. nyti.ms/3UDZehm 2518669
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026[eyes go black] you have to kill the supplement industry 261710272
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026"An estimated 40,000 highly educated but underemployed young people ghostwrite everything from undergraduate essays to master’s dissertations and PhD theses [....]" "A 2018 paper estimated that at least one in seven graduates worldwide have used such services." Oh, I'm about to lose my mind lol 213668
Reposted by Ursus ArctosRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New from me: The first of a three-part series, 20 years in the making. Some may be familiar with the broad strokes, but there's a lot of new reporting here. It's a story about one conviction, but also the systematic corruption that affected thousands of cases in two states over three decades.radleybalko.substack.comThe framing of Chris DuncanPart One: “You won’t believe the videotape we have.” 724782
Reposted by Ursus ArctosMatt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise. 47126113780
Reposted by Ursus ArctosPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We have lifted the paywall for this piece - so feel free to pay @josimarfootball.bsky.social a visit (and you're very welcome to subscribe, of course). 12812
Reposted by Ursus Arctosjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...nytimes.comHow the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades. 9055611400
Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 31/08/2026www.wired.com/story/why-sa...wired.comFrom Salmonella Eggs to Diarrhea Lettuce, Why This Has Been a Sick Hot American SummerWhile Trump administration cuts have contributed to the epidemic of foodborne illnesses this summer, there are also deeper issues that make the American food supply chain susceptible to parasites and ... 000
Reposted by Ursus ArctosMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...deadspin.comDeadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's GamergateDeadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate 332254381
Reposted by Ursus ArctosRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives. 14584482882
Reposted by Ursus ArctosAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:data4democracy.substack.comThe Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ SideThis is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so. 642204762