Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
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An ~interesting thing about our Immigration team's work is that the volume of events they're adding to our timeline has not substantially decreased, even though actions against immigrants are getting a smaller slice of public attention. I think that means the project is working as intended??
Erin Kissane
Other horrors—and a strategic shift away from showy public violence—have pushed the Trump administration's immigration agenda out of the headlines, but it's still grinding away.
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ending the week with 248 copies pre-ordered, which feels pretty terrific. thank you Bluesky for buying books!!
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This week, we have quick updates on Immigration and Medical Research Funding.
I had to turn off the black and white color filter on my phone to read the article about the colors my phone can’t emit and tbh I’m not sure how I feel about anything
Way bigger rugpull than anything the crypto guys managed
…what even is this paper? I read it and I still couldn’t tell you what this is supposed to be doing, it really does feel like somebody put something wild into a whole lot of very specific water bottles.
HOLLERING START TO FINISH this is so good
And maybe it also points at the gap between what reporters—from indies to nationals—are actually covering vs. what makes it into what we think of as the national conversation. Which are different things! We do this tracking work so things don't fall out of the record when the spotlight shifts away.
In the slightly longer term, it feels like a solid way to ensure that you and everyone you love are rended limb from limb when we hit the wall but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still processing that conservatives spent decades insisting that religious institutions and wealthy philanthropists should take care of poor and desperate people (rather than governments) and then the last few years insisting that both divest from empathy, charity, and philanthropy.
“Green traffic lights are anti-memetic because you only stare at a traffic light when it’s red.“
