Lindsay Beyerstein

I’ve been dying to share this news for weeks and now I can finally tell you. I sold my book!

I feel like I’m living in some weird fucking Beckett play or a dystopian sequel to Being There where the president of the United States is just increasingly obviously a porridge-brained mental patient and everyone nods and smiles like it’s normal.

Is RFK Jr also a malevolent racist❓ Yep. Do racism & antivaxx BS often go together❓ Yep. Has MAGA always been about lies & hate❓ Yep. via @thebulwark.com

I...worked on this story for a decade...and...he just...he blurted it out.

Tal and Oren Alexander, former real-estate elites, along with their brother Alon, were sentenced to 30 years in prison. Read the full update.

Susan Collins tried to mock her Democratic opponent for being a fifth-generation logger. It backfired. Now Troy Jackson is firing back, exposing just how out of touch Collins has become with working-class Mainers.

He was also happy to sacrifice Samoan children to measles to test his anti-vaccination bullshit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The argument that AI labs are talking about existential risks as a way of creating hype & inflating their stock prices has always been odd. You don't need to believe them, but telling people your product may murder everyone does not, in fact, encourage people to adopt it or reduce regulatory risks.

Justin Pearson's response: "Men of faith––let alone men who are married, in their fifties, and in public office––have no business sending unsolicited nude photos to women."

JFC. “During the primary, Mr. Constantino viciously mocked his Republican rival, Assemblyman Robert Smullen, including over the death of his son.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/n...

That Trump Truth Social post about the GOP winning the 2026 election & not counting votes? That’s fake. But its virality in blue online spaces — & via text chains — reflects a broader pattern in this midterm election: there’s A LOT of concern on the left about the potential of federal interference.

For several days I have been hearing rumors of an ICE detainee death that ICE was not reporting. I've just learned a local journalist has confirmed it and will publish soon. Now I read this and see there are actually TWO deaths ICE is not reporting. www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee...

I’m Moby Dick for Halloween

To recap: F Bolsonaro lost the election. Trump says, oh well too bad but he doesn’t hate Lula. Rubio helps FB illegally dodge prosecution. Trump apparatchik says FB will now lead the opposition from the USA. If I am Lula, or the actual Brazilian opposition, or the US Congress what do I do?

Maybe in 65 years we’ll have a Brazilian-American Secretary of State trying to overthrow the Brazilian government

This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, that has fuck-all to do with OpenAI's culpability here. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

sketchbook beasts

It's amazing how editors will say "we can't see inside this public figure's mind," "we can't assume their intentions" — and then write stuff like this.

Bolsonaro is fleeing arrest in Brazil because he just lost his election and is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and currency evasion. Brazil's police canceled his passports and have been looking for him. Trump is giving him shelter, per this MAGA guy/former Mexican official

There are so many different credible allegations about Donald Trump being a rapist, you can almost understand how The New York Times missed the new charges here, but uh, this is supposed to be The New York Times.

GWB shooter appears in court.