Dennis Dimick

“The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is perhaps the greatest chronicler of that era of scale, which stretched across the long twentieth century and only now shows the first signs of receding.” —@billmckibben.bsky.social

ICE is an ideologically-driven jobs program for men willing to engage in violence on behalf of their authoritarian employer and it would help to view them as a state-sponsored paramilitary militia. And that's probably something to keep in mind as the economy is being imploded.

We sell everyone down the river to line our own pockets

Oh, look! Dear Leader and his fascist lackeys ginning up another “flood the zone with shit” fake controversy. Stop asking about the Trump-Epstein files. Look over here instead! JFC. —- Trump administration sues to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race apnews.com/live/trump-m...

To me, the best part of my (past) Twitter and (present) Blusky feed has always been the opportunity to learn about/from great people and their work. Mark your calendars for Alix and Emily's book!

This is version 2.0 of saying that the smell of 🐖💩 is “the smell of money” and it’s just as false. Iowa has never been a big wheat 🌾 producing state btw, not even during early white settlement days. It’s always been corn 🌽 and hogs 🐖 . So much corn the government makes us force feed it to our cars.

🎭 Tehran billboard depicts Trump-masked actor in prison cell In Tehran's Tajrish Square, an actor wearing a mask depicting US President Donald Trump stands inside a mock prison cell, in the Iranian capital's latest billboard against the American leader.

1. This clip of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is getting a lot of attention tonight, but many of the people sharing it are misstating — and others are lying about — what she was asked.

I'm a doctor and a dad. I rebuilt Detroit's health department, led Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services. We put glasses on kids, took on corporate polluters, eliminated medical debt. It just shouldn't be this hard to get by in the richest country in the world.

I want to hear less about the polls and more about the consequences. The media should be focused on what the next 2 years will look like if Trump continues to be unchecked by Congress.

I discussed the new U.N. report on breaching the 1.5C dangerous global warming limit (and the unhelpful green-lighting of new North Sea gas drilling project by U.K. Prime Minster Andy Burnham) earlier this evening with #BBCNews:

what happened to all those constitutional conservatives www.axios.com/2026/10/21/w...

If you aren't connecting Cornell, Acton's mother, the Shane Gillis monologue, and the household vote movement, the rage you encounter when discussing any of these might knock you down

The word for that is "treason."

Wisconsin 3rd District. Cooke, Van Orden meet for debate in toss-up 3rd CD race wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/10/20/c...

The tide gauge at Virginia Key (Miami) already exceeded the minor flood threshold today. We're still a week away from the peak water levels... this is going to get very bad.

Whg don’t we skip the euphemisms and just call it a bribe? Vote for me and I send $$ —- Gimmick or giveback? Even some Trump supporters don't expect to get $5,000 checks after midterms @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

you got a nice state here, sure would be a shame if anything happened to it

President Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC could give former special counsel Jack Smith a new platform. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...

Again, the scandalous thing about Elon Musk spending $276 million on the 2026 midterms is NOT how *much* money it is. The scandal is how *little* money this is *to him.* Compared to his net worth, this is roughly equal to the median American my age spending $40.

Dear Leader: While you struggle to pay credit cards that you used to buy groceries, I am pleased to announce my latest grift. Thank you for your attention to this matter!! - Trump shares plan to overhaul East Potomac golf course amid court fight over land www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

Hmm maybe soon I won’t have to wait three months to get a desktop Mac. Can only hope. #ai #finance #bubble #tech Weak Links Start to Show in A.I. Borrowing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/b...

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.

It’s oligarchs against the rest of us. And the robots are a means of control. I wish the plot line of so many sci-fi classics weren’t coming true but…

1. Buys democracy. 2. Sabotages allies. 3. Raids the public till. 4. Hides the truth. Why do we tolerate this?

America's Neville Chamberlain Moment. For Shame. ---- Trump waives new Russia sanctions in the "national interests" @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/17/t...

If they can do it to her, they will do it to anyone. Fuck this b

"We have guns too" isn't a bad campaign slogan to run against MAGA, gotta be honest

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

This is criminal. Vote Republican to surrender to Russia. Vote Republican to betray a brave people fighting against annihilation. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

Somebody check with David Brooks to see if we're allowed to talk about this.

Loud booms were heard ​in the vicinity of Saudi Aramco's ‌headquarters in Dhahran on Tuesday night, six sources told Reuters. One source said ​the Aramco headquarters was on fire www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This excellent thread is a reminder that SCOTUS made the President immune from any legal penalties for saying, "FBI, go raid my political enemies." I have yet to see a single positive consequence from that decision, though the negative ones continued to pile up.

Oracle, 29th largest company in the world, led by Larry Ellison, books looking bad, bet huge on AI, tens of billions in negative cash flow, and if the company goes down, there’s a good chance it takes the AI bubble and Skydance down with it.

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

what did you think about the part where he differentiated between 'safety' questions and 'wisdom' questions--like, for reasons of human meaning is it even wise to be going down this path?

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.

In Opinion Almost 70 years after its inception, “The Twilight Zone” remains incredibly relevant, Alan Sepinwall writes. It tackled “prejudice, creeping authoritarianism, the dangers of humans being replaced by technology and the peril of conformity as a societal ideal in ways that still resonate.”

“When a new technology untethers thoughts from their thinkers, we go from thinking for ourselves to thinking that we are thinking for ourselves.” —Dan Rockmore

White coats and padded truck standing by.

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.