Daniel Farina

Another victory for democracy in Brazil despite voter and apparent algorithmic suppression! bsky.app/profile/ians...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Food. Supermarket sushi, romanesco, Brussels sprout, potato chips, avocado, almost certainly others… agricultural and logistical engineering has come a long way.

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

Things that are hard to explain to people in the rest of America: the school district in a community where the median sold home is $3,611,172 at $1,798 per square foot, is doing budget cuts because voters voted down renewing a $800 per year property tax.

i've been working on a project that started as a way to map the "tax cut slop" we've seen and it rapidly revealed just how widespread this property tax revolt is basically every candidate in every major race has some kind of property tax relief on their platform (w/ varying degrees of stupidity)

Few recent events show the impotence of Congress as an institution more clearly than this week’s raid of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s residence. Omar is black & Muslim, and a critic of Trump; for most in Congress, that makes sending the FBI after her just fine. apnews.com/article/ilha...

Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

what a coward

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

The drivers of the $2 trillion fy26 budget deficit in a chart from US Treasury. fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/mon...

Guess we reached that point in the company where a handful of slightly naive locks plus a new workload can cause serious issues.

What fine company we keep. www.reuters.com/world/us-liv...

A look into the operational life in an aircraft carrier near the Strait of Hormuz. The earnest professionalism of those interviewed is something missing from those that put them in their position. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

Yes, there has been an absolute explosion of 287(g) agreement since Trump took office; more than 1,000 new ones. Multiple GOP-led state legislatures have actually mandated that local police departments signed these agreements, even if they don’t want to.

The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

Important warning about this year’s super El Niño and the violent weather changes it will cause over the next 18 months, all around the world. Governments have some time to prepare, but not much. The Trump administration has its collective mind on other things. Link via @davidho.bsky.social

How do ordinary people gradually get used to extreme ideologies? Katja Hoyer speaks to Anya Pearson about why it was so important to her to tell the real-life stories of local residents in Weimar, Germany, during the rise of Nazism. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/we-need...

>It is already exciting and fun to chant “Let them drown!” on land. How much more fun would it be, and how much more exciting would it feel, to see your legitimate concerns addressed by being able to chant “Let them drown!” into the wet faces of dying migrants as they actually drown in front of you?

Much to think about here from @froomkin.bsky.social. Assuming Democrats are successful in winning House and Senate majorities this November, what do they do with them? The amount of damage Trump and his pet Republicans in Congress have done in the last two years makes this a difficult question. 🧵

Cambridge's William Hurst argues that not all empty urban projects in China are the same, and that the differences among them imply a different distribution of political and economic costs.

Spend time with this extraordinary column because figuring this out is essential to our city's future -- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

says ai is scary and dangerous for years founds company for making ai says ai hacking things is scary and dangerous makes hacker ai says ai bioweapons are scary and dangerous what do you think happens next?

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

Hello Montreal

The 80th Congress -- famously called "the Do Nothing Congress" by Truman when he used it to propel his stunning 1948 victory -- had actually accomplished quite a lot. It passed the Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, National Security Act, Taft-Hartley and more. Truman *still* ran against it and won.

1/ 1) AI will not eradicate humanity. Humans survived an ice age, the Black Death, two world wars, and (so far) the advent of nuclear weapons. Anyone who is loudly warning of AI-caused human extinction should not be taken seriously.

Don’t do tax abatements for data centers unless you really know what you’re doing.

Oh look at your fresh new record ridership in the East Bay, Lyft Bike!

She's right. You'll find all the blueprints for ethnic cleansing of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza laid out in the Israeli media (usually in Hebrew). WSJ, NYT, WaPo and the usual US broadcast outlets all feel strongly that their readers and viewers don't need to see or hear any of this.

You often hear that if only CAHSR had let the French take over, it would be built by now. They're on the team now, but what did SNCF actually say back in 2010? We did a deep dive into the French HSR operator's original proposal to set the record straight. 🧵 calelectricrail.org/the-true-sto...

The 100 wealthiest Americans now own more than the bottom 50% of the country.

In my day, conservative governments might stick to social messaging like “don’t take drugs” or “abstain from sex before marriage.”

Just as a minor observation amidst all the upper class discourse on here this morning, statistically, they probably voted Labour.

I mean, there's clearly something wrong with this guy. He's unfit for office and needs to resign.

Presumably, some people who had to do this silly work pushed back. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Weird meme stuff piped directly into the armed forces. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Teacher compensation matters. We can design much better teacher compensation systems with the information we already have--systems that would raise overall pay and create incentives to help raise teacher quality, especially for kids who need it most.

For reasons that I believe need examination and explaining, credible news organizations have not made this their lead story every day this summer. If a Dem president did this in one red state it would be nuclear level coverage.