Andy Carvin

For a guy who's obsessed with wellness and longevity, Bryan Johnson may also want to try growing a thicker skin.

"Mr. Netanyahu’s rationale for pressing to attack Iran before the election was not clear, but a return to war could have potentially disrupted or even delayed the vote."

Across the country, election administration is being reshaped in ways that give election deniers more control. In Arizona, groups aligned with Trump’s agenda are pumping money into the state and the Trump admin itself is working with state and local officials. americanoversight.org/investigatio...

"Five women have directly accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company or presence. Three others describe encounters in which Epstein or Maxwell appeared to offer women to Trump or indicate that Trump was “in” on Epstein’s abuse."

Anthropic IPO filing with SEC: Sufficiently advanced AI systems could "pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity, particularly if such systems were misused, replicated, weaponized, or allowed to operate with a high degree of autonomy." www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

After a stunning election victory for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, U.S. right-wingers are falling back on an old favorite: baseless claims that the contest was rigged. www.ms.now/news/flavio-...

There’s no need to begin prepping for doomsday over cybersecurity fears, EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sfstandard.com. “I have water [stored] because I live in an earthquake zone, not because I think PHP is going to be a problem.”

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

This is so wrong. @restofworld.org's work is absolutely vital.

Press freedom groups sued the Trump administration, alleging in federal court that attempting to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House violates the First Amendment rights of ordinary citizens to access information about the U.S. government.

This is a near perfect article whose only defect is the fact that it refers to them as Dan Sullivans rather than the correct Dans Sullivan. www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan...

I am proud to be part of The Rule of Law Project, launched today, which deploys former federal civil rights and corruption prosecutors and investigators to create a nonpartisan organization to restore criminal accountability for US officials who break the law. ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

In yesterday’s deserved euphoria over Vucic’s defeat and Lula’s knife-edge re-election, no one noticed that Bulgaria held presidential elections. The pro-Russian incumbent underperformed and the pro-EU challenger beat the polls but turnout was a paltry 20%. Impossible to guess how the runoff will go

1/ Belgrade, Serbia, tonight, after the snap parliamentary election victory of the Student Ticket. n1info.rs/english/news...

"Who else gets to be filed under humanitarian if Putin makes the cut? Stalin? The iceberg that sunk the Titanic? Calling Putin a humanitarian is like calling Hannibal Lecter a humanitarian, although there is more of a case to be made for Hannibal because he does, at least, subsist on people."

We put up an interactive graph re: X conversations re: the (discovered to be fake) Wedgewood polls. Several "rigged election" narratives are emerging around this case. We're working on an analysis, but making this graph available for folks who want to explore faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...

"Lett said Trump must sit for a deposition by Dec. 11, or face sanctions up to dismissal of his lawsuit -– unless the discovery period was extended past Dec. 18."

Saw this on the PubMed (what we use to look up scientific articles). It's so embarrassing.

abracadabra noun ab·​ra·​ca·​dab·​ra ˌa-brə-kə-ˈda-brə 1 : a magical charm or incantation 2 : unintelligible language

Judge pausing their order til 5pm ET to give the administration time to appeal.

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Ellison media is taking horserace-styled election coverage to its illogical conclusion. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk... #LateCapitalism

COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) - Ohio GOP Gov. DeWine says Vivek Ramaswamy was wrong to run campaign ad featuring Democratic opponent's estranged mother. @apnews.com #OHgov

Let’s just recall that she is talking about a twelve-year-old.

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

This aged poorly.

Just reading through the PHP Foundation's report and yikes thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10...

It's always good to report what you're seeing to election officials, double check the machine is recording your vote correctly and/or track your ballot to make sure it's counted. But let's try to resist the urge to interpret every election issue as evidence of a grand conspiracy against our side.

Dem US Rep candidate @bradlander.bsky.social detained and released by IDF after picking olives alongside @truahrabbis.bsky.social and others, but the rabbis haven't been released as of yet.

Important new US intelligence assessment leaked to WSJ concludes—largely backing the Poles and Balts—that Putin personally ordered the commencement of a new large-scale sabotage and terrorism operation targeting the European members of NATO.

“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...

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

prediction: PHP executes you in soviet russia

Oof, blast from the past...

🚨BREAKING: Arizona tried to remove thousands of voters from its rolls right before an election. That’s against federal law, and we just filed a brief telling the Supreme Court so. It’s a tactic straight out of the Jim Crow playbook, used to keep Black voters from the polls. https://bit.ly/4jy3eue

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

uh oh.

It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.

NEW: The Census Bureau should withdraw proposals to redefine “usual residence” and collect legal status data. We submitted a comment warning how the changes would disproportionately impact minority and immigrant communities and undermine data accuracy.

"Less than $1 of every $100 in Republican television ad spending on House and Senate races from Sept. 9 through Oct. 17 has gone toward commercials that mention the word 'Trump,' according to a NYT analysis of broadcast and streaming ad data and transcripts from the media tracking firm AdImpact."

And the sender of at least one of the letters is trying to pin it on the DSA.