stacy-marie ishmael
@smi.bsky.social
not the one.
i am a journalist and i work for Bloomberg News. Obligatory disclaimers about opinions.
No DMs for reporting tips. Signal at @s_m_i.99
don’t expect posts to stick around.
i am a journalist and i work for Bloomberg News. Obligatory disclaimers about opinions.
No DMs for reporting tips. Signal at @s_m_i.99
don’t expect posts to stick around.
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I work at @freedom.press. I'm told it's some sort of holiday for donating to nonprofits.
My team supports journalists with digital security for themselves and sources. In 2025, I really do think this matters more than ever. If this is something you care about, support our work. freedom.press/donate
My team supports journalists with digital security for themselves and sources. In 2025, I really do think this matters more than ever. If this is something you care about, support our work. freedom.press/donate
freedom.press
December 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I work at @freedom.press. I'm told it's some sort of holiday for donating to nonprofits.
My team supports journalists with digital security for themselves and sources. In 2025, I really do think this matters more than ever. If this is something you care about, support our work. freedom.press/donate
My team supports journalists with digital security for themselves and sources. In 2025, I really do think this matters more than ever. If this is something you care about, support our work. freedom.press/donate
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I saw a meme last night about a generational divide marker of folks who cannot sit through videos and want the words typed out because they read faster than they can watch a video and I felt that deep in my heart. I'm happy for folks who love video, but I hate them. Give me text. Let me read.
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I saw a meme last night about a generational divide marker of folks who cannot sit through videos and want the words typed out because they read faster than they can watch a video and I felt that deep in my heart. I'm happy for folks who love video, but I hate them. Give me text. Let me read.
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she and Webster have three days to save Orthographville and its beloved tree lighting ceremony from the machinations of OttoCorrect, an evil corporation that wants the town to pivot to video
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
she and Webster have three days to save Orthographville and its beloved tree lighting ceremony from the machinations of OttoCorrect, an evil corporation that wants the town to pivot to video
i have read several very grim things today but this, this is the grimmest
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
i have read several very grim things today but this, this is the grimmest
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okay you know what I will yell about this. it’s 7:15am ET and I have eight Giving Tuesday emails so far, not counting the ones orgs sent on Sunday, or physical mail. orgs are fighting for scraps of attention and if they don’t their boards will get angry FOMO.
feeling my annual Giving Tuesday Nonprofit Professional Saltiness and instead of yelling about this fake problem I will instead say, if you have GT overwhelm: you will not go wrong if you pick one local org to give to, give to their general fund, and make it recurring. add more when you're ready.
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
okay you know what I will yell about this. it’s 7:15am ET and I have eight Giving Tuesday emails so far, not counting the ones orgs sent on Sunday, or physical mail. orgs are fighting for scraps of attention and if they don’t their boards will get angry FOMO.
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The other point implicitly made by the chart is that defining inflation as the change in prices over the past year is an arbitrary convention we economists use for analytic convenience. If people in their own lives find the change over two or three years more salient, they’re not wrong or confused.
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The other point implicitly made by the chart is that defining inflation as the change in prices over the past year is an arbitrary convention we economists use for analytic convenience. If people in their own lives find the change over two or three years more salient, they’re not wrong or confused.
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Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
watching time grifters get played by a campaign specifically designed to get media attention, there are no winners here but the real losers are the people facing ongoing and serious attempts to remove them from public life and any kind of status
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
watching time grifters get played by a campaign specifically designed to get media attention, there are no winners here but the real losers are the people facing ongoing and serious attempts to remove them from public life and any kind of status
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I love that Bike New York (best volunteer experience ever helping out with their — FREE — adult learn to ride classes) now has a Bike Buyer's Workshop offering. It can be very confusing because there are a lot of choices. Especially if you are newer to riding. www.bike.nyc/education/cl...
Adults - Bike New York
Bike New York offers hundreds of free classes throughout the year at over a dozen Community Bike Education Centers and bike shops across the five boroughs. Pick the one that's...
www.bike.nyc
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I love that Bike New York (best volunteer experience ever helping out with their — FREE — adult learn to ride classes) now has a Bike Buyer's Workshop offering. It can be very confusing because there are a lot of choices. Especially if you are newer to riding. www.bike.nyc/education/cl...
i promise you if you hide the dates and bylines on a story behind a paywall i will bounce so fast *even if I subscribe*
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
i promise you if you hide the dates and bylines on a story behind a paywall i will bounce so fast *even if I subscribe*
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every day, a new discourse that proves how few people want to see a pattern of harassment against a group of people and would like to find ways to blame that group of people for daring to be in public
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
every day, a new discourse that proves how few people want to see a pattern of harassment against a group of people and would like to find ways to blame that group of people for daring to be in public
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It’s really designed to give you some of the pleasures of just kind of looking through stuff, which I think people appreciate in a world of so many 1-2-3 lists. And the fact that it’s designed around covers comes from the same thing. Love or hate covers, that’s the browsing experience. (3/)
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It’s really designed to give you some of the pleasures of just kind of looking through stuff, which I think people appreciate in a world of so many 1-2-3 lists. And the fact that it’s designed around covers comes from the same thing. Love or hate covers, that’s the browsing experience. (3/)
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I am convinced that one reason why NPR’s Books We Love has been so successful is that while it allows you to filter in a bunch of ways, it also emulates elements of browsing. In its regular cover mode, it’s not a list, it’s an array, and when you refresh the page, it shuffles. (1/)
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I am convinced that one reason why NPR’s Books We Love has been so successful is that while it allows you to filter in a bunch of ways, it also emulates elements of browsing. In its regular cover mode, it’s not a list, it’s an array, and when you refresh the page, it shuffles. (1/)
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
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Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise residential complex in Hong Kong for the second day, as the death toll rose to 65 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city’s modern history.
Hong Kong leader John Lee said contact had been lost with 279 people earlier Thursday.
Hong Kong leader John Lee said contact had been lost with 279 people earlier Thursday.
Fire that killed at least 44 burns in Hong Kong towers for a second day
Firefighters are battling one of Hong Kong’s deadliest modern blazes for a second day, fighting to control the fire that blackened several high-rise towers and killed at least 44 people.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise residential complex in Hong Kong for the second day, as the death toll rose to 65 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city’s modern history.
Hong Kong leader John Lee said contact had been lost with 279 people earlier Thursday.
Hong Kong leader John Lee said contact had been lost with 279 people earlier Thursday.
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‘You treated our stories with seriousness and respect, and expected [us] to do the same‘
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
Trinidadian film producer Danielle Dieffenthaller, who helped Caribbean people see themselves, dies at 60
Dieffenthaller was “a fierce advocate for the creative arts [who] championed local talent and pushed for the recognition and respect that Caribbean creators deserve.”
globalvoices.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
‘You treated our stories with seriousness and respect, and expected [us] to do the same‘
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
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We’re out till December. I am so grateful to the folks who do this work with us, and to all y’all who read and pass it on ❤️❤️❤️
Unbreaking will be taking some downtime for the rest of November, so you’ll see our next briefing in December. In the meantime, you can catch up on our Data Security, Immigration, Medical Research, and Equality at Work work: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, November 20 — Unbreaking
This week's update covers what the immigration crackdown is doing to our communities, the ongoing exploitation of our personal data, and what's going on with federal workers and medical research fundi...
unbreaking.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We’re out till December. I am so grateful to the folks who do this work with us, and to all y’all who read and pass it on ❤️❤️❤️
anyway i heard media’s big problem was that for five minutes it hired more black people to run things
about that
about that
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
anyway i heard media’s big problem was that for five minutes it hired more black people to run things
about that
about that
saw someone wearing a jacket with a crossed-out swastika and like, I dunno; it’s still a swastika
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
saw someone wearing a jacket with a crossed-out swastika and like, I dunno; it’s still a swastika
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i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
how to read more
from someone who actually struggles
www.shesabeast.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
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who has written about the way Bad Bunny is framed as a foreign artist by American media?
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
who has written about the way Bad Bunny is framed as a foreign artist by American media?
I legit witch-cackled when I got the latest @mcsweeneys.net in the mail. How they pull it off, I do not know.
But the dream of the 90s lives on.
But the dream of the 90s lives on.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I legit witch-cackled when I got the latest @mcsweeneys.net in the mail. How they pull it off, I do not know.
But the dream of the 90s lives on.
But the dream of the 90s lives on.
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😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
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last chance to see it this year! STRANGE DAYS in 35mm tonight at BAM at 7pm!
if you missed it last night, it’ll be playing again on tuesday 11/25 at 7pm!
www.bam.org/film/2025/st...
www.bam.org/film/2025/st...
Strange Days
Bassett plays a bodyguard and driver for an ex-cop in Kathryn Bigelow’s cyber-punk thriller.
www.bam.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
last chance to see it this year! STRANGE DAYS in 35mm tonight at BAM at 7pm!
'banking apps reshuffle funds to prevent overdrafts before they happen.'
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
'banking apps reshuffle funds to prevent overdrafts before they happen.'
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?