David Armiak

NEW: Fresh with cash from Musk, Koch, Big Tobacco, Big Polluters and many others, RAGA spent more than $17 million to keep its grip on states’ chief legal officers in the last quarter, primarily on competitive attorney general races in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Iowa. Read more 👇

From apps that block distractions to stripped-down phones, young people are finding ways to unplug from platforms they say profit from their attention

“We cannot be proud of working at Boston Dynamics when that work is being used by a government agency that brutalizes civilians, including some of our own colleagues at Hyundai,” according to the employee petition.

NEW: The Republican Attorneys General Association spent more than $17 million to keep its grip on states’ chief legal officers in the last quarter, primarily on competitive attorney general races in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Iowa.

'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next.

Who paid for Vivek Ramaswamy's pro-pedophile ad campaign? Here they are

NEW: Texas has suspended construction permits of 17 data center projects. This comes after 404 Media's @mjgault.bsky.social reported that a group of Texans discovered the state had continued to issue construction permits related to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott calling for a pause.

“Dan Patrick calls the separation of church and state a lie and has worked to infuse Christianity into Texas institutions. Trump is helping him take that strategy nationwide.”

NEW: In the leadup to a bankruptcy that wiped out ordinary investors, IronNet, a controversial cybersecurity tech startup financed by a board member with alleged ties to a Russian oligarch, paid former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers nearly $725K, filings reviewed by the Center for Media & Democracy indicate.

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a candidate for U.S. Senate, received campaign contributions from the staff or political arms of five organizations with interests in legal matters on which his office weighed in."

Missed this last week. Koch is buying Getty Images.

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

On October 9, the Trump administration officially suspended major portions of the 1934 National Firearms Act to allow for the sale of silencers, and short-barreled rifles and shotguns without federal authorization. The change marks an end to 90 years of regulation under the law.

"Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre spent the majority of his time on stage in Waukesha on Tuesday night talking about his time playing football." 😂

Body cam footage we obtained reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMXh...

“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...

“Yandex has been forced to pause its operations at a data centre near Moscow after the facility was damaged in a Ukrainian drone strike - the third attack on the Russian tech giant's sites this week.”

New: David Flippo's financial disclosure revealed his stake in an Arizona company, co-founded by a businessman accused of fraud, that cut $50,000 checks to GOP groups that endorsed him ahead of Nevada's primary

"What's happening to children across this country right now is so utterly reprehensible. And we're going to be living with the repercussions of that for a generation." - NYC resident speaks on the INHUMANE treatment she has witnessed in CHILD immigration courts LIVE NOW ⬇️

"At the same time as the global far right is promoting fear about non-white populations replacing white populations, tech companies are engineering the mass replacement of humanity by AI."

More than 250,000 protesters rallied Tuesday across France, an escalation of weeks of protests against what they describe as inequalities in the country’s education system.

A Cayman Islands source gave Blum incriminating intel on 20 ultrarich Americans defrauding the US Treasury. He took it to the IRS in Miami, where a special agent looked over the documents and told him to get lost. Blum had expected gratitude. “This whole thing is a career killer,” the agent said.

First on @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will consider whether the law’s overnight and end-of-term restrictions violate the First Amendment after a federal judge temporarily blocked their enforcement last year."

MAGA candidate for Wisconsin Governor Tom Tiffany is appearing at a Green Bay event organized by the right-wing American Constitutional Rights Union on Thursday Oct. 8 in Green Bay with none other than Ted Nugent.

“School Boards for Academic Excellence is seeking to be a right-wing influence on school boards across the country, " said David Armiak, research director at the Center for Media and Democracy.

International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵

STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office? MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now BERMAN: So it's gone up MOORE: That is true

JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

These folks cannot be reading the same New York Times. If any bias exists at the Times, it's in favor of Israel. All one needs to do is peruse headlines of stories on Israel for the last few years to understand that it has special love for the genocidal state.

Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

Reminder: Dockworkers in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, and Italy are calling for strikes on October 30 “against war and militarization” and to protest “the genocide of the Palestinian people.”

🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS lawsuit seeking to compel Washington State to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is 0-25. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

Wow, things are really getting bad when even the hardcore cultists don’t want to even mention Trump.

Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.

JUST IN: D.C. Circuit says IRS decision to share taxpayer info with DHS tens of thousands of violates the law — and that the administration's rebuttal to that claim is "weak sauce." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

I wonder why Peter Thiel was so keen to see the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts William the Conqueror’s invasion of England, a conquest that allowed William to formalize the English feudal system.

“A year out from Argentina’s presidential election, Peter Thiel has become an avatar for the left’s charge that President Javier Milei is putting the country up for sale. Opposition lawmakers launched a five-hour congressional hearing Friday into Thiel’s interests in Argentina…” 8/27/26 … 1/

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥