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the pope sleuthing silicon valley supply chains

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

Some Democrats are making anti-corruption the centerpiece of their midterm messaging, and it looks to be working. The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chair has a... different perspective

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Big Tech's Dem-aligned org in Washington, Chamber of Progress is ostensibly all about "repairing" the relationship between Silicon Valley and Dems. But they're being funded by "Build American AI" the org which is spending millions backing imperiled Republican Senate candidates in crucial states

HURST, Texas (AP) — This summer, Texas began rolling out $1 billion in public funding that eligible families can put toward private education expenses.

There’s no discussion of potential penalties in this article, but if people don’t go to jail for flagrant illegality like this, it will keep happening. For companies like Google, fines are just another cost of doing business. Something to toss on the balance sheet and weigh against profits.

The midterm elections are going so poorly for the president that some conservative commentators have said they may become Never Trump again.

The claim is that this investigation started during the Biden administration. Maybe that's true. But they've lost all benefit of the doubt. And the timing is clearly intentional to maximize political damage to Democrats -- and a clear violation of DOJ policy.

Amazing story, also I'm sorry what

One of the more incredible features of modern political media is how, despite a complete breakdown of the consensus media environment, there are so many issues where the consensus of the public is almost never reflected as such

this is one of those facts i wish more people knew—tax cuts for the rich caused the spiraling deficits, and just reversing them remedies the issue.

Here's what these profiteers are doing with the cash: prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...

Campaign spending from GEO Group and CoreCivic, the 2 main private prison/ICE detention companies, suggest they've mostly given up on the House and are trying to save the Senate for the GOP. Major recipients: Susan Collins, Ashley Moody, Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers, Jon Husted, Ashley Hinson

Immigrants are slow roasting our cats ON DELUXE LUXURY GRILLS in their SUBURBAN MANSIONS while Stephen Miller has to eat them RAW in the back of a VAN.

Like I've been saying: Fascism is an international movement.

This election is fundamentally about whether human beings have rights or not. Let's make that clear with our votes - in their quantity, selection & the message we send along with them.

Two countries suffered higher per-capita casualties than the US in Afghanistan and though they weren't attacked on 9/11 they answered an ally's call for help. But now this pathetic drunkard is slandering their sacrifice and loyalty, and one of the countries is routinely threatened with US invasion.

average serious eats article, 2016: I wanted to make the perfect caesar salad so I ran 400 dressings through a centrifuge average serious eats article, 2026: We tested 47 types of air fryer to find the ones withe the best amazon affiliate links

All wrong! Fake news! It should read: "Trump's first choice for Attorney General Matt Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking."

This can’t be. I was assured by the Manhattan Institute that this sort of thing never happens.

WFP Warns Growing Conflict in Yemen Has Cut Off Aid Deliveries to 800,000 People

The whole article is an excellent read, but man, this part really spoke to me. The same folks who couldn't summon the political will for accountability after Bush2 and Trump 1, have no right to lecture the "yoooths" on their disillusionment with the institutions that have failed them.

absolutely insane product owners over there

“scientific” debates about where “consciousness” exists (or does not exist) tend to be about as fruitful as scientific debates on the existence of god. they are just a category error.

Two points I want to make about this: 1. Democrats should immediately threaten to deport Elon Musk and Melania Trump for *actual* immigration fraud once they retake power. Don't @ me about how we're not like them. Do politics. Make the threat. Force Republicans to react and defend their decision.

Isn’t it time for every honest member of the political media to declare loudly and clearly that Trump and the Republicans are building a dictatorship?

Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...

And yet gas-only cars constituted 77% of the new vehicle market in the US over that period. Has the US ever been this far behind the world average in new tech adoption for a major product type?

if US equities flag and foreign holders race to exit and redeem for home currency, it’s the mother of all financial crises. US private finance balance sheets and sovereign capacity would be hollowed simultaneously, losses and defaults would spread everywhere. but trust the market i guess.

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

No one's getting rich from AI influencers. The social media pyramid scheme has just added a new rung. www.garbageday.email/p/no-one-act...

Technological change happens faster than you expect.

Grok says that Donald Trump's wealth since returning to office has increased by ten times as much as all the fraud in government programs in Minnesota x.com/i/grok?conve... Corruption is in the race of the beholder.

People have concerns but I think the U.S. should try, for obviously the first time ever, sending a small contingent of military advisors into a foreign country on a mission with unclear objectives and unlimited scope. It's not like there's a long historical record of exactly this going poorly.

You have to understand that, given the circles in which they travel, it's difficult for any Republican to do anything without involving a sex criminal.