Michael Hudson
@michaelwhudson.bsky.social
Pulitzer-sharing journo + author
current gig: head of investigations @GuardianUS
prior gigs: @ICIJorg (Panama Papers, etc.), Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity, Wall Street Journal, Roanoke (Va.) Times
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current gig: head of investigations @GuardianUS
prior gigs: @ICIJorg (Panama Papers, etc.), Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity, Wall Street Journal, Roanoke (Va.) Times
linktr.ee/michaelwhudson
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Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for over 100 days — for covering a protest.
He's the only known journalist in ICE custody on U.S. soil.
@attorneynora.bsky.social of @freepress.bsky.social breaks down why this is a chilling warning for immigrant reporters.
He's the only known journalist in ICE custody on U.S. soil.
@attorneynora.bsky.social of @freepress.bsky.social breaks down why this is a chilling warning for immigrant reporters.
September 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for over 100 days — for covering a protest.
He's the only known journalist in ICE custody on U.S. soil.
@attorneynora.bsky.social of @freepress.bsky.social breaks down why this is a chilling warning for immigrant reporters.
He's the only known journalist in ICE custody on U.S. soil.
@attorneynora.bsky.social of @freepress.bsky.social breaks down why this is a chilling warning for immigrant reporters.
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a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“We have witnessed these ongoing harms and can provide evidence and testimony of their impacts....Facilities may be forced to close & veterans may be forced into costlier, often overburdened community health systems ill-equipped to meet their specialized needs”
“We have witnessed these ongoing harms and can provide evidence and testimony of their impacts....Facilities may be forced to close & veterans may be forced into costlier, often overburdened community health systems ill-equipped to meet their specialized needs”
VA doctors warn cuts, privatization threaten veterans’ healthcare
Roughy 170 physicians and other medical workers claim Trump administration has weakened veterans’ health system. Trump officials deny their policies are hurting veterans
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“We have witnessed these ongoing harms and can provide evidence and testimony of their impacts....Facilities may be forced to close & veterans may be forced into costlier, often overburdened community health systems ill-equipped to meet their specialized needs”
“We have witnessed these ongoing harms and can provide evidence and testimony of their impacts....Facilities may be forced to close & veterans may be forced into costlier, often overburdened community health systems ill-equipped to meet their specialized needs”
Trump Has Dismantled Anti-Human Trafficking Programs and 'Repeatedly Sided With Sex Offenders' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
Trump Has Dismantled Anti-Human Trafficking Programs and 'Repeatedly Sided With Sex Offenders' | Common Dreams
"The Trump administration has taken a sledgehammer to our capacity to hold sex offenders to account and undermined support and services for crime victims," said Rep. Jamie Raskin.
www.commondreams.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Trump Has Dismantled Anti-Human Trafficking Programs and 'Repeatedly Sided With Sex Offenders' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
Today in the Guardian US
Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/
Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/
Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Today in the Guardian US
Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/
Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/
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Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Important story from @voosen.me on FY'25 cuts to NOAA's climate, weather research programs that bring spending below what Congress authorized. Hints at the bigger research cuts to come in FY'26. www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump administration pushes ahead with NOAA climate and weather cuts
Despite congressional resistance, agency aims to cut research spending now
www.science.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Important story from @voosen.me on FY'25 cuts to NOAA's climate, weather research programs that bring spending below what Congress authorized. Hints at the bigger research cuts to come in FY'26. www.science.org/content/arti...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency risk exposing the US to another Hurricane Katrina, agency staff warns Congress in a withering.
Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency risk exposing the US to another Hurricane Katrina, agency staff warns Congress in a withering.
Fema staff warn Trump’s cuts risk exposing US to another Hurricane Katrina
Workers say president’s attacks on the agency and lack of qualified leadership could lead to deadly catastrophe
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency risk exposing the US to another Hurricane Katrina, agency staff warns Congress in a withering.
Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency risk exposing the US to another Hurricane Katrina, agency staff warns Congress in a withering.
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Dozens of studies in recent years have linked ultra-processed fare to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart attacks, and also to some problems that one might not expect: cancer, anxiety, dementia, and early death.
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Dozens of studies in recent years have linked ultra-processed fare to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart attacks, and also to some problems that one might not expect: cancer, anxiety, dementia, and early death.
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A federal judge ruled construction must temporarily stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” as hearings challenging the Everglades-based detention center’s environmental impact continue.
Federal judge orders two-week construction pause at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Experts testified newly laid down pavement would cause harmful runoff to spill into the wetlands surrounding the airstrip.
www.politico.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A federal judge ruled construction must temporarily stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” as hearings challenging the Everglades-based detention center’s environmental impact continue.
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Epstein victims speak out: This "smacks of a cover up."
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
Epstein victims speak out: This ‘smacks of a cover up’
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
www.politico.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Epstein victims speak out: This "smacks of a cover up."
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
Reposted by Michael Hudson
Reposted by Michael Hudson
Perhaps unpopular opinion — if you’ve been covering business and the economy for 25 years, you don’t have to cite “economists say” to state the truth — that firing the commissioner of the BLS is a bad thing.
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Perhaps unpopular opinion — if you’ve been covering business and the economy for 25 years, you don’t have to cite “economists say” to state the truth — that firing the commissioner of the BLS is a bad thing.
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“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
www.newyorker.com
July 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
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Think outside the car!
In Europe, incomes are lower than the US and gas is €€€. But Europeans spend much less of their income on transportation. (source: itdp.org/2024/01/24/h...)
Why? Europe has:
🔹 Denser cities with closer destinations
🔹 Much better transit
🔹 More trips taken on foot or a bike
In Europe, incomes are lower than the US and gas is €€€. But Europeans spend much less of their income on transportation. (source: itdp.org/2024/01/24/h...)
Why? Europe has:
🔹 Denser cities with closer destinations
🔹 Much better transit
🔹 More trips taken on foot or a bike
July 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Think outside the car!
In Europe, incomes are lower than the US and gas is €€€. But Europeans spend much less of their income on transportation. (source: itdp.org/2024/01/24/h...)
Why? Europe has:
🔹 Denser cities with closer destinations
🔹 Much better transit
🔹 More trips taken on foot or a bike
In Europe, incomes are lower than the US and gas is €€€. But Europeans spend much less of their income on transportation. (source: itdp.org/2024/01/24/h...)
Why? Europe has:
🔹 Denser cities with closer destinations
🔹 Much better transit
🔹 More trips taken on foot or a bike
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Cars are expensive. Really expensive.
And we usually don’t fully account for all the costs, let alone the externalities. Including the cost of parking all our cars at home.
In 2021, while 90% of Americans had at least one car, nearly a quarter of the US population had three or more vehicles.
And we usually don’t fully account for all the costs, let alone the externalities. Including the cost of parking all our cars at home.
In 2021, while 90% of Americans had at least one car, nearly a quarter of the US population had three or more vehicles.
The High Cost of Transportation in the United States
What does the average American pay to get around every day in 2024? What portion of their income is devoted to transportation? Is that cost typical across developed countries? Unfortunately, the porti...
itdp.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Cars are expensive. Really expensive.
And we usually don’t fully account for all the costs, let alone the externalities. Including the cost of parking all our cars at home.
In 2021, while 90% of Americans had at least one car, nearly a quarter of the US population had three or more vehicles.
And we usually don’t fully account for all the costs, let alone the externalities. Including the cost of parking all our cars at home.
In 2021, while 90% of Americans had at least one car, nearly a quarter of the US population had three or more vehicles.
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/18/r...
AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. • Kentucky Lantern
Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear increased costs of an AI boom fueling growth in data centers and power demand.
kentuckylantern.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/18/r...
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Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said she will ask a federal court to unseal more grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
But those transcripts, which could take weeks to release, would constitute only a fraction of the evidence the FBI has. wapo.st/40TzAVW
But those transcripts, which could take weeks to release, would constitute only a fraction of the evidence the FBI has. wapo.st/40TzAVW
Attorney General Bondi expected to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony
The attorney general said she would ask a court Friday to unseal pertinent grand jury records. That’s a portion of what would be included in the Justice Department’s broader investigative file.
wapo.st
July 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Attorney General Pam Bondi said she will ask a federal court to unseal more grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
But those transcripts, which could take weeks to release, would constitute only a fraction of the evidence the FBI has. wapo.st/40TzAVW
But those transcripts, which could take weeks to release, would constitute only a fraction of the evidence the FBI has. wapo.st/40TzAVW
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Reposted by Michael Hudson
@laurahazardowen.bsky.social @sarahscire.com @joshuabenton.com edits elevated this story. Not lost on me, thinking abt impact / audience / cadence, that I'm lucky to work somewhere that gave me the time to dive deep.
Special s/o to Josh for design magic (don't miss the Texas storybreaks!!) (3/3)
Special s/o to Josh for design magic (don't miss the Texas storybreaks!!) (3/3)
July 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@laurahazardowen.bsky.social @sarahscire.com @joshuabenton.com edits elevated this story. Not lost on me, thinking abt impact / audience / cadence, that I'm lucky to work somewhere that gave me the time to dive deep.
Special s/o to Josh for design magic (don't miss the Texas storybreaks!!) (3/3)
Special s/o to Josh for design magic (don't miss the Texas storybreaks!!) (3/3)
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The factors leading to the Landing’s closure may be unique. But its challenges — how to balance the pursuit of impact with building an audience; how to carve out a niche among more established local outlets; how ample seed funding can become a liability — are relevant to other news nonprofits. (2/3)
July 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The factors leading to the Landing’s closure may be unique. But its challenges — how to balance the pursuit of impact with building an audience; how to carve out a niche among more established local outlets; how ample seed funding can become a liability — are relevant to other news nonprofits. (2/3)