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I really do think you should vote. Your actual vote is secret, but the fact that you voted is not. Being a regular voter means campaigns will try to win you over. The more trans people are regular voters the more likely it is that candidates will worry about needing to win our votes.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

US government officials paid by our tax dollars manipulated US policy to interfere in Brazil's election, to punish Lula and push Flavio Bolsonaro to power: insurrectionists supporting other insurrectionists. But they failed. archive.is/7C52g

There's a ton of variability in how these are conducted, but the basic shape of them is that in advance of each session, one or more writers submits finished work to the other writers.

Man detained at Georgia immigration detention center dies as hunger strike continues Death inside Folkston facility comes as officials allegedly threaten hunger strikers there with force-feeding

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Is it a neighborhood near you? Here is the map, with names of the polluters and locations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers

If Democrats win the House, who shapes their AI agenda? Several lawmakers appointed to draft the party’s plan have received support from AI-linked interests. Read: www.levernews.com/big-ais-favo...

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

free article link nymag.com/intelligence...

Incredible story. nymag.com/intelligence...

Vivek Ramaswamy's Wikipedia Page is a collection of some of the most horrifying sentences ever composed

The Guardian spent 9 or 10 months on our justice of the peace investigation. A total of 15 people worked on it at one point or another. 11,000 pages of court records, responsible AI tools, and a custom-made browser extension: read all about how we got it done

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Whatever the worst thing you can imagine being done with AI is, it turns out it's actually happening futurism.com/artificial-i...

Everything old is new again:

Scoop: We looked over the shoulder of a Chinese-speaking hacker as they used AI agents to compromise more than 100 sites, including digital properties belonging to tractor maker Deere and home appliance firm SharkNinja. Almost *entirely* autonomous hacking. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Instead of getting mad at The Atlantic--a magazine entirely dedicated to making you upset--you can read the article linked below that explores the theory that crime is high in the US relative to other OECD nations because our police are risk-avoidant and low-effort despite being higher paid.

“Anyone who is concerned about Flock safety & license plate readers should be equally concerned with Axon & Fusus.” As resistance to Flock sweeps the nation, the number of law enforcement agencies adopting the Fusus surveillance network has more than doubled, @ccartwright123.bsky.social reports.

The slop party: "More than 80 percent of the [AI-generated] ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees."

Several elected officials condemned the attack on Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was beaten and injured by masked Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Levine was treated for broken vertebrae, a broken rib and lacerations throughout her body.

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

Of course Musk's minions have gone off to become government contractors after the expereince with DOGE since it was never been about "saving money" but about learning how to get more for themselves. newrepublic.com/article/2165...

Chicago police solve a 65-year-old cold case, discovering that the man responsible for killing a little girl in the 1960s was a homicide detective for the police department.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

The 287(g) program teaming local cops with ICE has created an American secret police Check out what happens in Carroll Twp., Pa. when Sgt. Terry Williams spots a resident filming an immigration arrest It's legal to film traffic stops. This is unconstitutional (full column in 2nd post)

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...

MUST READ: As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones @ryandevereaux.bsky.social

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

Mamdani, in closing, on today's ICE shooting: "This is an agency that must be abolished."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man in an SUV on a bustling New York City street Thursday afternoon, narrowly missing a 5-year-old boy who was seated in the vehicle’s backseat and sparking a heated confrontation between the feds and outraged citizens, officials said.

Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...

Press release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)

I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.

When the Supreme Court’s quasi-official news site is run by a high-profile lawyer who is also a high-stakes poker player facing years in federal prison, things can unravel really, really fast

Robert Davies, physics professor at Utah State University on a massive proposed data centre in Utah: “This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes.” What www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...