Journalist, author, knitter.
"If you want to know what the first great AI apocalypse is, we're already living it. It's total information collapse." — Carole Cadwalladr
My
@desmog.com colleague
@joeygrostern.bsky.social reports on a confab between MAGA groups from the U.S. — like the Heritage Foundation, author of project 2025 — with like-minded European far-right organizations.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/m...
MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws
BRUSSELS – Groups aligned with Donald Trump’s administration rallied against “online censorship” and “extreme environmentalism” as they took to the stage at an event held in the heart of the European ...
Reactionary centrism is a helluva drug.
"Like a roach infestation that won’t go away, Carlson has been slowly chewing away at the GOP, which has been his political home for his entire life, turning it into a nest only suitable for the worst people."
How Jon Stewart created Tucker Carlson
The 2004 “Crossfire” spat became the blueprint for today's MAGA chaos
Reminder: Based on released docs, this advocate for dictatorship had close ties with Jeffery Epstein.
Additional context: The one on the right wants Trump to surround polling places with masked and armed federal agents.
“The interview also becomes an exercise in intellectual peacocking as they invoke Socrates, Isaac Newton and quantum physics but pay little attention to Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reveals himself to be a living museum of racial prejudice.”
‘Do you think you’re the devil himself?’: highlights from the bizarre, newly released Bannon-Epstein interview
The interview, revealed in the latest tranche of Epstein files, was reportedly intended for a sympathetic documentary
Could be, but you know what is DEFINITELY existential in any race for progress with China? CLEAN ENERGY.
“David Sacks, the White House AI czar, has repeatedly argued that American AI progress is existential in its race against China.”
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms
Silicon Valley’s battle against AI regulation is already shaping the next US election cycle.
Hide your eyes, my beloved bacon, egg and cheese on a buttered Kaiser roll. They’ll see the error of their ways before long.
This article is filled with lies. NYC is not a "tuna melt town" this is not the ultimate NYC sandwich.
In praise of the tuna melt, the ultimate NYC sandwich
Warm fish is so hot right now.
There's a breast-milk-donation network growing in the Twin Cities, because the Trump administration is disappearing nursing mothers.
A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half
Her mother risked going into work when ICE took her away. At home waiting for her were her 16yo daughter and the 3mo baby
The teen tried to feed the baby, who was exclusively breastfed, formula to no avail
19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...
When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
See: Silent agitators, history of US labor organizing, International Workers of the World, Wobblies, Big Bill Haywood
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_...
Silent agitators - Wikipedia
What a bright ray of sunshine through the dark clouds!
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
