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The White House said Maduro was ‘flooding’ the US with fentanyl. Experts and official reports disagree.
A White House social media post misleadingly links deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with the U.S. fentanyl crisis. The X post includes a video highlighting parents who lost children to […]
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The War Over the Weedkiller Roundup Might Be Headed to the Supreme Court
Bayer has asked the justices to decide whether federal law shields the company from lawsuits over its Roundup herbicide and cancer. Democrats and MAHA activists aren’t happy.
Reversing Years of Dietary Advice, the Trump Administration Tells Consumers to Eat More Red Meat
The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, like previous editions, ignores the climate impacts of livestock and could make them worse, environmental groups worry.
The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines, released Wednesday, take a dramatic turn toward encouraging the consumption of animal protein, including red meat, something a growing number of governments and international reports in recent years have urged consumers to reduce for both health and climatic reasons.
‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis
The world’s oceans absorbed colossal amounts of heat in 2025, setting yet another new record and fuelling more extreme weather, scientists have reported.
More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s carbon pollution is taken up by the oceans. This makes ocean heat one of the starkest indicators of the relentless march of the climate crisis, which will only end when emissions fall to zero. Almost every year since the start of the millennium has set a new ocean heat record.
Continue reading...Results are in for one of the clearest measures of global heating in 2025. It should be raising alarm bells
Scientists consider this to be one of the clearest measures of long-term global warming
Australia bushfires latest: Three missing as ‘catastrophic’ wildfires hit Victoria town ‘like a bomb’
Several properties have been destroyed, and police said a man, woman and child remain unaccounted for
Why is Trump interested in Greenland? Look to the thawing Arctic ice | Gaby Hinsliff
Forecasts suggest that global heating could create a shortcut from Asia to North America, and new routes for trading, shipping – and attack
Another week, another freak weather phenomenon you’ve probably never heard of. If it’s not the “weather bomb” of extreme wind and snow that Britain is hunkering down for as I write, it’s reports in the Guardian of reindeer in the Arctic struggling with the opposite problem: unnaturally warm weather leading to more rain that freezes to create a type of snow that they can’t easily dig through with their hooves to reach food. In a habitat as harsh as the Arctic, where survival relies on fine adaptation, even small shifts in weather patterns have endlessly rippling consequences – and not just for reindeer.
For decades now, politicians have been warning of the coming climate wars – conflicts triggered by drought, flood, fire and storms forcing people on to the move, or pushing them into competition with neighbours for dwindling natural resources. For anyone who vaguely imagined this happening far from temperate Europe’s doorstep, in drought-stricken deserts or on Pacific islands sinking slowly into the sea, this week’s seemingly unhinged White House talk about taking ownership of Greenland is a blunt wake-up call. As Britain’s first sea lord, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, has been telling anyone prepared to listen, the unfreezing of the north due to the climate crisis has triggered a ferocious contest in the defrosting Arctic for some time over resources, territory and strategically critical access to the Atlantic. To understand how that threatens northern Europe, look down at the top of a globe rather than at a map.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...From Sea to Shining Sea: A Recap of 2025 State Solar Policy Wins
Here’s an update from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) on its state policy wins in 2025 and what comes next: Illinois took a major step forward today as Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the 2025 Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act, expanding battery storage and advancing a statewide virtual power ... [continued]
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Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards Means Higher Costs for Drivers, and a Worsening Climate
By Josh Valentine & Travis Madsen, SWEEP Even as the Trump administration cranks up the volume on “affordability,” it is quietly moving to dismantle one of the most effective consumer protection policies in transportation: federal fuel economy standards. The latest proposal to weaken Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules would ... [continued]
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Tesla’s Germany Sales Down 72% From Their Peak!
After writing about Tesla’s 10% drop in sales in the UK despite the UK EV market rising 24%, and BYD passing up Tesla in the UK in annual sales last year, a reader pointed out some extra jaw-dropping stats. The reader, “manes,” posted the numbers for Tesla in Germany in ... [continued]
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Panasonic’s AI Strategy Enters the Implementation Phase: Real-World Impact for Better Future Showcased at CES 2026
The Panasonic Group announced its AI strategy at CES last year, aiming to expand its AI-powered hardware, software and solutions businesses for the next phase of growth. At CES 2026, held in Las Vegas from January 6–9, the Group showcased the latest outcomes of the strategy. Under the theme of ... [continued]
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UL Solutions Debuts Testing & Certification Framework for Safer Plug-In Solar Across the United States
UL Solutions has launched a dedicated testing and certification program for plug-in solar systems, also known as balcony solar, creating a clear safety framework to support their installation and use across the United States. The program establishes construction, performance and labeling criteria that help manufacturers design plug-in solar products meeting ... [continued]
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Sentorise 12.8V 100AH Group31: The Reliable Powerhouse European RVers Trust
Ask any RV traveler or off-grid adventurer what they worry about most. The answer is usually the same: losing power at the worst moment. A failed battery doesn’t just shut off lights. It cuts off heating, fridges, and peace of mind. The SENTORISE 12V Lithium Iron Battery 100Ah Solar Battery ... [continued]
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New Data Center Rate Structure Risks Wisconsinites Picking Up The Bill For Big Tech
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) is considering a new rate structure on data centers that favors profits and protections for Big Tech companies and We Energies, putting Wisconsinites at risk to subsidize the infrastructure costs needed for these billion-dollar companies to run their data centers. We Energies is ... [continued]
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US To World: We Don’t Need No Stinking UNFCCC!
The US has withdrawn from UNFCCC and IPCC as well as dozens of organizations involved in climate research and advocacy.
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The Coming Energy Shakeout: Data Centers, LNG, ESG, and What Breaks in 2026
As it’s the start of a new year, Redefining Energy’s annual predictions show has dropped. Every year Laurent Segalen, Gerard Reid, and I assess each other’s predictions about global energy and decarbonization events and milestones from the previous year, scoring them and proclaiming a winner. Every year, we make more ... [continued]
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Waymo Zeekr A No-Go, Waymo Ojai A Go
It feels like ages since the Zeekr Waymo robotaxi was revealed, and we’re still waiting for it to be deployed. However, it’s supposed to be coming soon, and was recently spotted testing in Southern California. I never thought it was going to be called a Waymo Zeekr — I thought ... [continued]
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What Top Climate Scientists Think of Trump’s Treaty Withdrawals
Though the abandonment of international agreements is “a damn shame,” they say science will prevail.
Daniele Visioni sometimes worries he may be labelled an enemy of the state.
As climate change threatened her home, Alolita was offered a chance at a new life in Australia
Alolita Tekapu and her family among the first arrivals under a world-first agreement that allows people from Tuvalu to move to Australia
On a suburban street in eastern Melbourne on a cool summer’s day, Alolita Tekapu sits on the couch feeding her one-month-old son, Philip, while her three older boys play outside. Her husband folds laundry nearby, pausing occasionally to check on the children.
It’s an ordinary domestic scene. But the reason this family are in Australia is far from ordinary.
Continue reading...Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Making Our 2026 Bingo Card
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
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In the first Ctrl-Alt-Speech episode of 2026, Mike and Ben look forward at the year ahead and begin building a bingo card of things that might happen. They discuss a short list of possible squares, ask for listeners to contribute more ideas, and go few a through suggestions that have already come in. Soon, we’ll release an official Ctrl-Alt-Speech bingo card for listeners to play along throughout the year.
How the Past Models the Future
That’s a PageXray of Craigslist.org. I ran it after reading Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet? by Jennifer Swann in Wired. It shows Craigslist doing no tracking at all. Nice!
Craigslist also doesn’t interrupt your experience with a cookie notice, because it doesn’t play the cookie game. And it’s been that way since Craig Newmark founded the service 31 years ago, on March 1, 1995.
For some perspective on that, look at a PageXray for Wired.com:
Go there (it’ll take a few seconds to load) and zoom in and out around that graphic. If you zoom out all the way, you’ll get this:
What you see there is an explosion of paths on which data about you flies out to almost countless places known and unknown.
But I’m not here to knock Wired, or Conde Nast, which runs the advertising show for all its publications. What they do is pro forma in what we might call Web 2.99.
But rather than jump to Web 3.0, how about a reset to version 1? For a sense of that, here’s an excerpt from the Wired piece:
The site is what Jessa Lingel, an associate professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has called the “ungentrified” internet…
“It’s not a perfect platform by any means, but it does show that you can make a lot of money through an online endeavor that just treats users like they have some autonomy and grants everybody a degree of privacy,” says Lingel. A longtime Craigslist user, she began researching the site after wondering, “Why do all these web 2.0 companies insist that the only way for them to succeed and make money is off the back of user data? There must be other examples out there.”
There are. For example, the IEEE, which was born on January 1, 1963, long before Web 0. Here’s the IEEE’s PageXray:
That’s especially cool, since the IEEE hosts the working group for P7012 – IEEE Draft Standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms, which I chair. That standard is now done, and will be published later this month. Its nickname is MyTerms (much as the nickname for IEEE 802.11 is WiFi).
MyTerms’ purpose is to deliver on the promise of full personal agency that we got from TCP/IP (the Internet) and HTTP (the Web), way back in 1.0 days, and lost in Web 2.0, when the surveillance fecosystem expanded to the far reaches of human tolerance.
Simply put, with MyTerms, privacy is a contract between you and the sites and services of the world. You’re the first party, and they’re the second party. You proffer one of a short roster of privacy agreements listed publicly by a disinterested nonprofit. Both sides keep identical records of agreement. That’s it. Five draft agreements are described here at MyTerms.info.
I’ve written a lot about MyTerms here, but the place to start is Toward a Proof of Concept for MyTerms, which I posted yesterday, and have been revising since, as feedback comes in.
The purpose of this post is to challenge Craigslist, the IEEE, and other website and service operators whose hearts never left Web 1.0 to help us put MyTerms to work. (I just checked and see that DuckDuckGo and Mozilla also pass the PageXray test. So this is a challenge to them too.)
We don’t need much to start: a browser plugin, a web server plugin, ways to record identical agreement records on both sides, and other items listed at that last link.
For sites online where the terms people choose to proffer will be listed, we already have Customer Commons in the U.S. and MyTerms.info in Europe. The model for both is Creative Commons. Put simply, MyTerms will do for personal privacy requirements what Creative Commons does for artistic licenses. We thank them for paving the way.
USA’s 1st Public EV-Charging Road — Where To Next?
Motor City, the former automotive center of Detroit, is the first place in the nation to roll out a public EV-charging road. The road charges electric vehicles wirelessly as the drive along it. The EV-charging road is one mile long and comes from the Michigan Department of Transportation, while the ... [continued]
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G.M. Books a $7.1 Billion Loss as It Scales Back E.V. Ambitions
General Motors said it was writing down the value of battery and electric vehicle factories after changes in federal policy undercut demand.
Why university stations need to prove their institutional value — before a crisis hits
Without preparation, stations can struggle to articulate their value, leaving them vulnerable to disruptive changes.
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Outcry Builds Over Trump’s Withdrawal From International, Climate Treaties
Environmental advocates have blasted the administration’s unprecedented retreat as unwise—and possibly illegal.
It landed as one fell swoop after a year of relentless cuts to U.S. climate programs, personnel and policy.
A brief history of the media through political convention pins
I’ve written previously for Poynter about my fondness for covering the quadrennial Democratic and Republican conventions. Recently, I realized that some of my souvenirs from those conventions accidentally tell a […]
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Hidden tree bark microbes munch on important climate gases
Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide.
A Petrostate War
“Petrostate” is a term usually applied to countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, or Nigeria, where the production and, crucially, the export of oil and gas are fundamental to the domestic economy and foreign policy. Rarely, however, is the term applied to the world’s oldest, richest, and mightiest petrostate. That distinction belongs to the US, which this week attacked yet another petrostate, Venezuela, with the explicit aim of seizing the country’s oil infrastructure. For journalists, this means oil is clearly at the heart of the Venezuela story — which has to mean climate change is, as well.
Although most outlets have yet to take up the climate angle, a Guardian article published on January 6 proved illuminating. Noting that Venezuela holds the world’s largest known oil reserves — an estimated 17% of the global total —The Guardian reported that “even raising production to 1.5 million barrels of oil a day from [the country’s] current levels of around 1 million barrels would produce… more carbon pollution than what is emitted annually by major economies such as the UK and Brazil,” citing University of California, Santa Barbara professor Paasha Mahdavi. That, Mahdavi said, would be “terrible for the climate.”
The US has been a petrostate since long before Donald Trump came to power, under both Republicans and Democrats. Oil company CEOs populated the cabinets of Republicans George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush (whose family wealth was built on fossil fuels). And it was under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden that the US regained its position as the largest annual producer of oil and exporter of gas.
“The United States is as much of an OPEC nation as most OPEC nations are.” So said Everett Ehrlich, who chaired the interagency deliberations on climate change in Bill Clinton administration’s, in an interview for my 2010 book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Ehrlich was explaining why a government that boasted Al Gore as vice president was much more timid about cutting greenhouse gas emissions than its European and Japanese allies were. “The US is more like an OPEC nation — an energy producer — while the Europeans and Japan are energy consumer nations,” Ehrlich added.
The US’s vast oil reserves have been key to its superpower status for more than a century. During World War I, the US supplied most of the oil that helped Britain and France prevail over Germany. US oil companies have worked alongside the White House, the State Department, and other US agencies ever since, at home via pro-monopoly regulation that pushed prices above free-market levels and abroad via such collaborations as the “Red Line Agreement” that in the 1920s gained US companies access to Middle Eastern oil.
Discoveries of massive deposits in Texas, Oklahoma, and California in the 1930s reinforced the country’s dominance; unlike any of the Axis or Allied powers, the US had its own oil to fight World War II. Its abundant domestic supply also transformed the US economy after the war, enabling Americans to buy more cars, move to expanding suburbs and drive on new interstates. Building all those cars, suburbs, and highways propelled a decades-long economic boom that ranks among the most spectacular in human history.
But the climate crisis underscores a truism about petrostates: Oil can be more a curse than a blessing. Scholars and journalists have documented that most petrostates are plagued by blatant corruption and inequality. Elites grab the revenues; poverty engulfs the masses. Violence is another by-product: Since 1973, one-fourth to one-half of the world’s wars have been “connected to oil interests,” Harvard University’s Kennedy School for Belfer Center notes. And of course burning oil is a primary driver of climate change.
The US attack on Venezuela is but the latest example of these destructive tendencies. Journalists need to help audiences understand the attack’s connections to oil, as well as what scientists have long warned: Humanity’s future depends on rapidly phasing out fossil fuels.
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Climate Story in 2026. Join us next Wednesday, January 14, at 12pm US Eastern Time (5pm UTC), for a look ahead at the most pressing climate stories this year, with leading journalists and experts Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa; Fiona Harvey, an environment editor at The Guardian; and writer and activist Bill McKibben. RSVP here.
The Climate Newsroom. The deadline to apply for the next cohort of CCNow’s free training program for US local TV meteorologists, anchors, reporters, and producers is Friday, January 16. Learn more and apply.
Noteworthy Stories
‘Dirtiest, worst.’ Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world, are also among the most carbon and methane intensive to produce, refine, and use. Additionally, to maintain current production output will require more than $50 billion in new energy infrastructure investment. By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News…
Activists arrested. Police searched the home of Indian climate activists Harjeet Singh and his partner Jyoti Awasthi earlier this week and arrested Singh. Investigators for the Enforcement Directorate, a law enforcement agency for India’s finance ministry, are alleging that Singh used foreign funds to promote an anti–fossil fuel agenda. In a statement, Singh and Awasthi called the allegations “baseless, biased and misleading.” By Jayashree Nandi and Neeraj Chauhan for The Hindustan Times…
US out of UNFCCC. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that the US would withdraw from more than 60 international treaties, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the US Congress ratified in 1992 under then-president George H.W. Bush. By Somini Sengupta and Lisa Friedman for The New York Times…
Toxic data. After failing to build an energy-intensive AI data center in a mostly white county in Georgia, developers have set their sights on Colleton County, S.C., a predominantly Black community. “It is a test,” writes Adam Mahoney for Capital B News, “of who is asked to bear the risks of the data and AI boom, and what South Carolina is willing to sacrifice to power it.”
Research & Events
Mental health impacts. Journalists experience negative mental health consequences of climate reporting differently depending on the regions in which they’re based, according to a December survey from the Reuters Institute’s Oxford Climate Journalism Network. Read more.
Stories to Watch. Join the World Resource Institute on Thursday, January 29 for a look ahead at the most important climate stories of 2026, including the clean energy transition and how climate solutions are affecting housing and jobs. Learn more and RSVP here.
Jobs, Etc.
Jobs. McClatchy South Carolina is hiring a coastal climate reporter (Columbia, S.C.). KXXV is hiring a weekend meteorologist/climate reporter (Waco, Texas). The Solutions Journalism Network is hiring consultants in India and Brazil.
Fellowships. The Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy, which was created by the Metcalf Institute and Ocean Nexus, in collaboration with The Uproot Project, is accepting applications for a three-month fellowship, running from May to July 2026; apply by January 9. The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship, from Mongabay, is accepting applications for its next cohort; applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis.
Workshop. The Climate Journalism Network Austria is organizing an investigative workshop, “Follow the Carbon, the Money and the Data,” in Vienna, for journalists based in Europe. In a two-day workshop on April 24 and 25, participants will learn how to trace emissions, examine lobbying at the EU level, and follow financial flows. Apply by January 31.
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The Icebreaker Araon Stops Near the Thwaites Glacier
Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica.
Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder
Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad daylight, shooting her multiple times at close range in the head. She had stuffed animal toys in the glove box of her SUV that rammed into another car after she’d been killed for no reason at all.
We have video of what happened. Multiple angles. The Trump administration is lying about every single detail anyway.
Donald Trump kicked off with a blatant lie, claiming that Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer.”
Known liar, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, called Good a “violent rioter” who “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.”
Kristi Noem made up a complete fantasy:
It was an act of domestic terrorism. What happened was, our ICE officers were out in enforcement action, they got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis, they were attempting to push out their vehicle, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.
Not a single one of them is telling the truth. They are flat out lying.
Here’s what actually happened. The folks at Bellingcat put together a top down view showing the murder, pieced together from multiple videos:
This morning (after equivocating all day yesterday, as I’ll discuss below), the NY Times put out a video using multiple bystander videos, showing that the ICE agent (1) was not hit (2) was not in the path of the vehicle and (3) was absolutely fine afterwards (contradicting claims from the administration that he was run over and in the hospital). See it here:
From all the evidence, it’s clear that Good had stopped and when ICE agents started demanding she move, she started to pull around the ICE vehicle in front of her. She paused to let another vehicle drive by her. As that happened (for no apparent reason) the ICE agent who eventually murdered her walked around the right side of her car to the front. As he does that two other ICE agents approach the car, with one telling her to exit the car while another yells for her to move. She then proceeds to try to drive away from the ICE agents. The one who had stepped in front of her car steps aside and then just starts madly firing at her head.
He murdered her. And Trump and his cronies are lying about it with video evidence directly contradicting every word.
This isn’t the first time ICE has killed someone. This is actually the ninth such shooting by an ICE agent since September, every single one of which involved an ICE agent blatantly violating policy by firing into a vehicle. This is at least the second outright murder, as opposed to attempted murder.
While ICE conveniently took down its page describing this (got something to hide?), the official policy is that “firearms shall not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles.” Also, “discharging a firearm from a moving vehicle is prohibited.” There are some limited exceptions, but they appear to apply solely to a case where the car is driving directly at an ICE agent.
ICE shouldn’t even be in Minneapolis. It shouldn’t be anywhere. It shouldn’t exist. Nor should it ever have existed, as many of us have warned for many, many years. When we first started writing about ICE over 15 years ago, it was already a lawless organization.
This murder of an American citizen on a quiet street—someone who was just there to observe and monitor ICE agents kidnapping people—exemplifies why ICE is fundamentally incompatible with a free society. We’re talking about a masked federal police force, operating in secret, with no apparent limits, no meaningful rules, and no consequences for violence. They’re engaging in lethal force against anyone—citizens and non-citizens alike—because they’ve been given implicit permission by the White House to do whatever they want. MAGA folks mock the Gestapo comparison, but what else do you call an unaccountable secret police force that operates with impunity, murders citizens in broad daylight, and then lies about it with the full backing of the state?
As Chris Geidner points out, it was just a month and a half ago that Judge Sara Ellis called out ICE’s (and CBP’s) lawless nonsense and how dangerous it was:
Further, as detailed in the Court’s factual findings, agents have used excessive force in response to protesters’ and journalists’ exercise of their First Amendment rights, without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders…. While the Court acknowledges that some unruly individuals have been present during these gatherings, their presence among “peaceful protestors, journalists and legal observers does not give Defendants a blank check to employ unrestricted use of crowd control weapons,” and, in many of the instances in which agents deployed less lethal munitions, they did not direct the force anywhere near such bad actors…. Agents’ “use of indiscriminate weapons against all protesters—not just the violent ones—supports the inference that federal agents were substantially motivated by Plaintiffs’ protected First Amendment activity.”
Judge Ellis also called out DHS’s systematic lying—the same pattern we’re seeing now:
While Defendants may argue that the Court identifies only minor inconsistencies, every minor inconsistency adds up, and at some point, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that Defendants represent
And yes, they will lie in the face of directly contradictory video evidence. Judge Ellis again:
Presumably, these portions of the videos would be Defendants’ best evidence to demonstrate that agents acted in line with the Constitution, federal laws, and the agencies’ own policies on use of force when engaging with protesters, the press, and religious practitioners. But a review of them shows the opposite—supporting Plaintiffs’ claims and undermining all of Defendants’ claims that their actions toward protesters, the press, and religious practitioners have been, as Bovino has stated, “more than exemplary.”
A federal judge warned us six weeks ago that DHS and ICE would likely kill people and lie about it even when video proved them wrong. Yesterday proved her right. Again.
I had a few other stories I planned to write up on Wednesday, not to mention taking care of some other work, and I spent most of the day just unable to do anything, feeling sick to my stomach.
Yes, this happens in America (and elsewhere), but it shouldn’t. This is fucked up.
As 404 Media points out, this has become the standard course of action by the Trump admin these days.
This is a pattern. Some event happens as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, DHS rushes out a misleading, wrong, or incendiary statement that does not reflect reality, and it becomes another piece of ammo for the X.com grifters, right wing media ecosystem, or people who just love the idea of others being hurt.
And, again, why the fuck is ICE even in Minneapolis anyway? Because a small-time MAGA grifter YouTuber made a misleading video a few weeks ago claiming day care centers in Minneapolis were running a scam. His “evidence”? The day cares had locked doors and wouldn’t let him in with his cameras—which is what day cares do when random people show up demanding entry.
Noem is claiming that ICE had to be in Minneapolis based on her lies that the city is “dangerous” and full of “criminals” who don’t belong there. But as multiple people have pointed out there has been only one murder in Minneapolis in 2026.
It was the one committed by this ICE agent yesterday.
The Trump MAGA DHS position is that if you don’t immediately submit in every possible way, they will frame you as a “threat” who they can kill with impunity. Defector’s summary is exactly right:
Now that the Trump administration has shown it will immediately make up a flagrant lie in an attempt to justify the summary execution of a U.S. citizen, on video, in broad daylight—and will outright valorize the ICE agent who drew his pistol and killed a civilian for the crime of moving her vehicle a few feet—the message is clear, to ICE agents and everyone else: Nothing constrains these agents except whatever inhibits any individual one of them, personally, from brutalizing and murdering any person who disobeys them….
In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism. It’s punishable by whatever the masked and unidentified government agent pointing a gun at your face decides to dish out.
And, of course, the compliant media is playing its part. Both the NY Times and the Washington Post initially embraced the view-from-nowhere approach of claiming the events around the shooting are “disputed.”
The old journalism joke is that if one person tells you it’s sunny outside and the other says it’s raining, you don’t report that the weather is disputed. You go the fuck outside and check. We have the video here. Multiple angles. It shows exactly what happened. But the Times and Post were treating the administration’s obvious lies as equally valid to the documented evidence because… why? Because acknowledging that a federal agency will murder a citizen and then lie about it in the face of video evidence is too uncomfortable? This isn’t neutral journalism—it’s active complicity in state violence. When the media treats documented murder and transparent lies as a “dispute,” they’re telling every ICE agent that there will be no accountability, no matter how clear the evidence.
Yes, eventually, this morning, both the NY Times and the Washington Post published more thorough investigations, showing that the administration is lying. But they let the “dispute” stand for 24 hours, allowing the administration to set the narrative that will live on. And even now they’re using equivocal language. The Post’s story talks about how the video evidence “raises questions about” what the admin is saying, rather than just coming out and saying that they’re LYING.
And I won’t get into how state media like Fox News is reporting on this: focusing on whatever it could dig up about Good to mock her, as if anything in her personal life or views somehow justifies her being murdered. Or all the GOP elected officials going on TV trying to pretend that she might have deserved to have been murdered in the street.
Yes, I know that in these tribal times so many people are playing the team sports thing of just immediately defending their cult leader. Going on X and looking around, you see just an overwhelming flood of absolute bullshit from MAGA folks cracking jokes (remember when they wanted people fired for joking about Charlie Kirk’s murder?) and trying to spin the story, knowing full well it’s all bullshit.
But some are seeing through it. A neighbor near where the murder happened, who identified himself as “right leaning,” admitted that the situation shook him, as “this is not how we’re supposed to be doing things in America.”
He’s right. And it is beyond disgusting that so many powerful forces in our government and the media are trying to twist and manipulate the story to justify an out of control ICE.
The only appropriate response here is to shut down ICE. Shut down DHS. Yes, there are important and necessary roles in DHS, but they existed without DHS before it was formed two decades ago, and we can redistribute those roles elsewhere in the federal government. But we don’t need ICE. We don’t need a secret federal police that goes around in masks kidnapping and murdering people.
It’s about as un-American as you can imagine.
This murder has at least appeared to wake some politicians from their slumber. We’ve seen multiple Democratic politicians, especially in Minnesota, speak out as forcefully as I’ve seen politicians speak out in years, telling ICE to get the fuck out of Minneapolis and calling out the administration’s lies directly. That matters. When officials with actual power are willing to name the truth—that ICE murdered a citizen and the administration is lying about it—it creates space for others to do the same.
But also thousands came out to memorialize Renee Nicole Good, in the freezing cold in a Minneapolis January. Hundreds turned up at a training session for legal observers, even as hundreds more are already patrolling Minneapolis, observing ICE’s illegal actions, and doing so knowing that ICE and DHS won’t hesitate to shoot them dead.
That’s what a movement looks like when institutions fail. Not waiting for someone to save us, but showing up in the freezing cold to say: you will not do this in our name. You will not kill our neighbors without witness. You will not lie about it unchallenged.
I’m going to leave this post up for a while before we post anything else. This matters more than the usual tech policy stories right now.
There are plenty of things going on that are infuriating. Ever day this administration finds new ways to spit on the Constitution. We’re still dealing with the illegal invasion of Venezuela, and apparent plans to attack multiple other nations around the Western Hemisphere.
But Renee Nicole Good’s murder cuts through all of that noise. A masked federal agent murdered an American citizen in broad daylight for no reason at all. The administration lied about it with video evidence directly contradicting every word. The media called it “disputed.” And thousands of people said no.
The institutional guardrails have failed. The courts warned us this would happen and it happened anyway. The media won’t hold power accountable. So the work falls to us—to show up, to document, to refuse to accept the lies, to make the cost of this violence too high to sustain.
ICE must be abolished. This cannot stand. And anyone who makes excuses for what happened yesterday has chosen a side, and it’s not the side of America or freedom or anything resembling justice.
Renee Nicole Good was a poet, a mother, and a citizen murdered by her own government for the crime of existing near an ICE agent having a bad day. Remember her name. Remember what they did. And remember that they lied about it even with the cameras rolling.
Solar Industry Celebrates Signing of Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act
Bill will strengthen Illinois’ clean energy economy, deliver significant consumer savings, and expand access to renewables ILLINOIS — Solar Powers Illinois, a partnership between the Illinois Solar Energy and Storage Association (ISEA), Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), and Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA), released the following statement after Gov. ... [continued]
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40 Fast & Ultrafast EV Chargers Installed Near Chicago Airport
Forty fast and ultrafast EV charging bays have been installed at an EV charging hub near Chicago O’Hare airport. The DC fast chargers can deliver up to 400 kW or 150 kW at the hub, which also has a canopy for shade and weather protection. The new chargers work with ... [continued]
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They Really Are Shooting Data Centers Up Into Space, Where Solar Power Is Free
The idea of sending data centers flying around the Earth seemed kooky just a couple of years ago, and yet here we are. The temptation of limitless solar power, ambient cooling, and freedom from the aches and pains of terrestrial development has prompted a mad scramble for a piece of ... [continued]
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Arkansas TV, PBS dispute accounts of decision to end membership
Correspondence shared with Current reveals conflicting accounts over notice requirements and whether the decision blindsided PBS.
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Tesla’s Dramatic Fall In The UK In 2025, And BYD’s Rise!
I had seen stories about Elon Musk’s political interference in the UK turning people off to buying Teslas, but I had also seen Tesla fans highlighting Tesla growth in the UK in some months. So, even in the midst of severely dropping Tesla sales in Germany and Europe more broadly, ... [continued]
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Reporting on treatment for addiction: Where is the data?
Improving care for people with addictions will continue to be a challenge — despite billions of dollars spent each year
Journalism tends to reward investigative reporting about wrongdoing, so it’s not surprising that coverage of treatment for addiction often highlights shady rehabs or problematic providers. In the U.S., there’s a centuries-long history of miracle “cures” and for-profit programs promising results they don’t necessarily deliver, as William L. White chronicles in his book, Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America.
White is a historian, researcher, clinician, and person in recovery whose extensive archive — The William White Library — is maintained by the Lighthouse Institute at Chestnut Health Systems, which he co-founded in 1973. At the time, the goal was to move people with alcohol use disorder out of the criminal justice system and into community-based treatment.
Decades later, our understanding of what treatment in the community means or should accomplish is clouded by a lack of comprehensive data about the services currently offered. It’s also hindered by infighting among factions and pessimistic pronouncements that treatment “doesn’t work,” disagreements often inflamed by social media.
I’ve read several of White’s books and many of his interviews and papers, then visited his archive in Illinois in 2019 with my husband, Graham MacIndoe. Graham photographed some of the antique medicine bottles, brochures, books, advertisements, documents, and artifacts in the collection, which now has more than 200,000 items, including contributions from other individuals and institutions.
White’s work helped me understand the long history and evolution of addiction treatment and recovery — not just the opportunists selling bottled “cures” or the physicians prescribing heroin to treat cocaine addiction in the late 19th century, but also the dedicated counselors, social workers, peer support specialists, and mutual aid participants who work or volunteer their time in settings media coverage doesn’t fully capture.
To some degree, treatment and support for people with addictions happens behind closed doors, hidden from view. With billions of dollars spent annually on treatment for substance use disorders in the U.S., there’s a lot of opportunity for reporting on the services people receive, and whether this spending ultimately helps them achieve their goals.
What Is considered treatment?
One challenge for journalists covering care for people with substance use disorders is that there’s not a shared understanding of what “treatment” means.
Historically, discussions about types of treatment for substance use disorders focused on location or level of intensity, such as inpatient, outpatient, or residential. Lately there has been some effort to develop a consensus about what services, medications, and support should be offered by providers—in other words, what treatment someone receives, not just where it happens.
In 2025, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released National Guidance on Essential Specialty Substance Use Disorder Care—the first-ever federal guidance describing a list of services deemed essential for specialty substance use disorder treatment facilities in the U.S. These facilities typically serve people with more severe SUDs who have experienced significant health, legal, or social problems, as opposed to people with mild SUDs who may be more likely to seek help from a general therapist, primary care doctor, or other non-specialist provider.
Citing “a dramatic lack of consistency in services available to adults in need of specialty SUD treatment,” the guidance is intended to help identify treatment gaps, support evidence-based planning, and improve outcomes. It was developed with input from an expert panel, the National Association of Medicaid Directors, and the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Agency Directors.
The services are presented in nine categories:
- Language access services: sign language and languages other than English.
- Assessment and pretreatment services: screening for substance use, tobacco use, and mental health disorders.
- Testing services: drug or alcohol screening; testing for HIV, hepatitis C, and sexually transmitted infections.
- Education and counseling services: marital and family counseling; HIV and hepatitis education and counseling; education about substance use, smoking, and health; individual and group counseling.
- Pharmacotherapies: medications for opioid use disorder, alcohol use disorder, and tobacco cessation; medications for mental disorders; medications for HIV and hepatitis C treatment.
- Medical services: detoxification/medical withdrawal, hepatitis A and B vaccinations.
- Recovery support services: assistance in locating housing and obtaining social services; employment counseling; vocational training or educational support; recovery coaching or peer support.
- Transitional services: discharge planning and aftercare/continuing care; naloxone and overdose education.
- Ancillary services: case management, social skills development, interpersonal violence services, transportation assistance, and mental health services.
Realistically, it’s unlikely that someone will find all the services they may benefit from in one place. But a shared understanding of what should be part of a treatment menu can help achieve meaningful person-centered care, selecting options tailored to individual needs and goals, which may change over time.
It would also help clarify ways to bridge harm reduction, treatment, and recovery, with services that cross over these categories, strengthening the continuum of care rather than fostering unhelpful divides.
Data about treatment facilities
The guidance on essential SUD care overlaps with SAMHSA’s National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS), an annual survey of substance use disorder and mental health treatment facilities in the U.S. that has been published since 2021. Previously, similar information was collected by two separate surveys: the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) and the National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS), which were combined to reduce the data burden on facilities.
N-SUMHSS collects information about types of treatment and services offered (including counseling, pharmacotherapies, testing, and ancillary services), whether the facility is public or private, special programs for specific client types, payment options, number of clients served, number of beds designated for treatment, and information about licensure, certification, or accreditation. This information is used for SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov site.
In addition to the 2024 N-SUMHSS report, which was published in 2025, annual detailed tables and a report featuring state profiles are also available.
The 2024 N-SUMHSS and detailed tables are based on data from 21,205 treatment facilities, including 15,953 substance use (SU) facilities, 14,091 mental health (MH) facilities, and 8,839 SU/MH facilities (which provide both types of care).
Highlights include:
- Client totals: 1,660,240 clients were reported to receive substance use disorder treatment on March 29, 2024. (The survey provides a point-in-time snapshot.) Among them, 837,070 were diagnosed with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.
- Substances used: Most people were in treatment for substances other than alcohol (866,547) or both alcohol and other substances (527,071); 250,646 were in treatment only for use of alcohol.
- Adolescents: 96,691 clients under the age of 18 received care from substance use facilities with special programs or groups for adolescents; the vast majority (91,161 individuals) received outpatient care.
- Outpatient care was the most frequent type of service provided among SU treatment facilities (83.8%), MH treatment facilities (85.3%), and SU/MH treatment facilities (91.5%).
- Designated beds: SU facilities offering residential (non-hospital) care had 91,875 designated beds (DBs) and SU facilities offering inpatient hospital care had 24,499 beds for a total of 116,374 designated beds offering substance use care. Combined SU/MH facilities had a total of 47,768 designated beds, including residential and hospital/inpatient care.
- Private non-profit organizations operated 48.2% of SU treatment facilities and private for-profit organizations operated 42.1% of SU facilities.
- Pharmacotherapies were offered by 76.5% of SU facilities as part of their treatment services. Among SU treatment facilities utilizing pharmacotherapies, 61.7% provided medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), 49.9% provided medication for alcohol use disorder (MAUD), and 47.8% provided tobacco cessation pharmacotherapies.
- Education about overdose and naloxone was offered at 80.3% of SU treatment facilities.
- Payment was not accepted by 1.6% of SU facilities. Among SU treatment facilities accepting client payments or insurance, 89.9% accepted cash or self-payment, 78.3% accepted private insurance, 77.8% accepted Medicaid, 52.6 % accepted Medicare, 52.5% accepted state-financed health insurance plans other than Medicaid, and 46.9% accepted federal military insurance.
Data about treatment clients
Another report published by SAMHSA, the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) collects episode-level data on clients aged 12 and older receiving substance use treatment services from facilities that are licensed or certified by single state agencies (SSAs). For each treatment episode, TEDS collects data on client demographics, substances used, the type and duration of treatment services received, years of education completed, and national outcome measures (NOMs). NOMs include stability in housing, employment status, criminal justice involvement, social support, retention in treatment, and abstinence.
The 2023 report, published in 2025, includes data that was received and processed by Dec. 2024. A file with detailed tables for the report is also available.
Highlights from 2023 admissions data include:
- Admissions: In 2023, there were 1,625,833 admissions to and 1,474,025 discharges from substance use treatment services as reported by SSAs. These figures do not represent individuals because people may have had multiple admissions.
- Age: The top two age categories were 21–34 years old (35.1%) and 35–44 years old (29.3%).
- Gender: 65.3% were male and 34.7% were female.
- Race: The top two race groups were White (64.4%) and Black or African American (20.0%).
- Ethnicity: 16.2% were of Hispanic or Latino origin.
- Substances used: The top 10 primary substances used were alcohol (35.7%), methamphetamine (14.2%), heroin (13.3%), other opiates/synthetics (13.2%), marijuana/hashish (9.3%), cocaine (6.8%), benzodiazepines (0.8%), other amphetamines (0.8%), other stimulants (0.2%), and phencyclidine (PCP) (0.2%).
- Housing: The top two living arrangements were independent living (64.5%) and experiencing homelessness (19.1%).
- Employment: The top two employment statuses were unemployed (43.7%) and not in the labor force (30.4%).
Highlights from 2023 discharge data include:
- Discharge reason: Among discharges from substance use treatment services by reason, 42.6% completed treatment, 25.1% were transferred to further treatment, 22.0% dropped out, 4.8% were discharged for other reasons, 4.1% were terminated, 1.1% were incarcerated, and 0.3% died.
- Treatment length: The median length of stay at discharge for ambulatory–non-intensive outpatient services was 53 days, followed by ambulatory–intensive outpatient services (40 days), long-term residential/rehabilitation services (36 days), medication-assisted opioid therapy (MAOT) residential services (25 days), short-term rehabilitation/residential services (21 days), MAOT outpatient services (10 days), hospital rehabilitation/residential services (7 days), MAOT detoxification services (6 days), free-standing residential detoxification services (5 days), hospital inpatient detoxification services (4 days), and ambulatory — detoxification services (3 days).
- Substance use at discharge: Among discharges from substance use treatment services, 30.1% were abstinent, 50.6% reported substance use, 19.0% were missing data, and 0.3% were excluded due to death.
What national treatment surveys don’t track
The main thing national treatment surveys don’t track are meaningful client outcomes, like whether someone still meets any of the 11 criteria used to diagnose a substance use disorder when they complete, drop out, or are discharged from treatment.
That’s in part because treatment is typically short — less than two months, and sometimes just a few weeks — which is not nearly enough time for people with severe substance use disorders and complex needs.
As William White said in an interview in 2014,
“Modern addiction treatment emerged as an acute care model of intervention focused on biopsychosocial stabilization. This model can work quite well for people with low to moderate addiction severity and substantial recovery capital, but it is horribly ill-suited for those entering treatment with high problem severity, chronicity, and complexity and low recovery capital.
With the majority of people currently entering specialized addiction treatment with the latter profile, the acute care model’s weaknesses are revealed through data reporting limited treatment attraction and access, weak engagement, narrow service menus, ever-briefer service durations, weak linkages to indigenous recovery support services, the marked absence of sustained post-treatment recovery checkups, and the resulting high rates of post-treatment addiction recurrence and treatment readmission.
Addiction treatment was developed in part to stop the revolving doors of hospital emergency rooms, jails and prisons. For far too many, it has become its own revolving door.”
More than a decade later, this assessment is still accurate in many ways.
For reporters covering treatment for addiction, it’s important to understand and explain this context when evaluating outcomes for different services.
Someone could get the best treatment in the world for a few weeks, but if their housing situation is precarious, they’re unemployed, they have untreated mental health or medical conditions, and they have minimal support for recovery, our system of care isn’t set up for them to succeed.
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Cite this article
Stellin, Susan (2026, Jan. 8). Reporting on treatment for addiction: Where is the data?. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/reporting-on-treatment-for-addiction-where-is-the-data/
PRX Partners with HBO Max to Produce “The Pitt Podcast”
The Official Companion podcast hosted by Dr. Alok Patel and Hunter Harris is made in partnership with PRX Productions
PRX Productions — the award-winning audio creatives of public media organization PRX — is partnering with HBO Max to produce The Pitt Podcast, the Official Companion podcast to the Emmy®-winning Max Original drama examining the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.
The Pitt Podcast is available via both video and audio. New episodes of the podcast are also available to watch on HBO Max every Thursday after each new episode of season two of The Pitt, beginning January 8.
Co-hosted by physician and medical journalist Dr. Alok Patel alongside culture critic Hunter Harris, the podcast goes inside The Pitt to break down what happened with the people at the heart of the show, while also heading outside the hospital to talk about the real medicine, issues, and ethics at the heart of each episode. Episodes will feature interviews with lead actor Noah Wyle (Dr. Michael “Robby Robinavitch), executive producer John Wells, and members of the show’s acclaimed cast and crew.
“We’re proud to partner with HBO Max to help create a podcast bringing listeners up close with the creative powerhouses behind The Pitt,” said Jason Saldanha, Chief Operating Officer at PRX. “The series also explores ideas poignantly relevant to our lives today, which we’re thrilled to help translate for audiences.”
About The Pitt
The Pitt is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.
About HBO Max
HBO Max is the premier global streaming platform from Warner Bros. Discovery that delivers the most unique and captivating stories, ranging from the highest quality in scripted programming, movies, documentaries, true crime, adult animation, and live sports. HBO Max is the destination for prestigious entertainment brands such as HBO, Warner Bros., Max Originals, DC, Harry Potter, as well as iconic shows like Friends and The Big Bang Theory, all in one place.
About PRX
Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. PRX is also home to PRX Productions, a team of acclaimed audio creatives. Visit PRX.org for more.
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Looking Ahead to a Deepening Affordability Crisis, an Election and the Threat of an AI Investment Bubble
Seven experts weigh in on what they expect in 2026.
U.S. energy markets and policy are heading toward the equivalent of a multicar pileup in 2026.
Thrustday
A model for the future
Nice piece on Craigslist in Wired. One paragraph:
“It’s not a perfect platform by any means, but it does show that you can make a lot of money through an online endeavor that just treats users like they have some autonomy and grants everybody a degree of privacy,” says Lingel. A longtime Craigslist user, she began researching the site after wondering, “Why do all these web 2.0 companies insist that the only way for them to succeed and make money is off the back of user data? There must be other examples out there.”
A thought: Craigslist should, or at least could, be the first company to accept MyTerms. Because it has no interest in spying on people, and has been respectful of personal privacy since it started thirty years ago. Dig this PageXray of the tracking it does. Spoiler: none. Now compare that to the spying Wired does. Which is both massive and typical.
When MyTerms succeeds, most of the world's websites, mobile apps, and digital services will have PageXrays like Craigslist's.
The human kind
Fourteen years ago, agency had lost its original meaning, and was mostly applied to forms of business (real estate, advertising) and government bureaus (farm service, emergency management). That's why I devoted a chapter of The Intention Economy to what agency meant in the first place. Wrote about it again last year in Real Agency. Now the word is even hotter shit than it was then. The latest: Humanizing AI. Look at how many of its pieces here are about the first and best forms of real agency.
Overheard
"When somebody you're talking to about something important interrupts the flow by saying 'I just bronzed my dogs,' what can you say to get things back on track?"