“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.”
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A 22-year-old Somali asylum seeker with no criminal record was snatched by DHS and flown to Gitmo with 11 other Somalis.
@motherjones.com got him on the phone.
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Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.
“The Voluntary Exit Offer reflects an important part of how we’re evolving our approach to change: creating greater flexibility and, where possible, more ways for employees to shape their next chapter,” Amy Coleman, an executive vice-president and chief people officer, told employees in a memo.
Since January, ICE has detained and sought to deport a man who has insisted he was born to a prominent family in Jamaica. But his lawyers say he's a U.S. citizen who has delusions as a result of mental illness.
Another confirmed death due to the negligence of ice, this time here in San Diego.
It has been confirmed that a person passed away on 10/24/26 at Otay Mesa concentration camp.
We have received a report that the victim was experiencing convulsions and was being neglected medically.
Chelsea Gods
From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.
Tonight we are witnessing a profound moral contradiction with an Israeli government facing credible allegations of genocide, being treated as a legitimate democratic partner by Western governments and endorsed by the USA for reelection.
Trump’s DOJ has charged James Comey AGAIN, this time under the Espionage Act over a 2016 New York Times story. In DOJ’s own words, Comey had staff talk to a reporter to “correct misinformation” in a Reuters article.
Comey: Well, they're back again.
It would almost be funny if it weren't such an appalling abuse of the DOJ. One that we cannot become numb to.
Nothing's changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid of these people. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.
NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers.
In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients.
The CEO was just indicted for fraud.
In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize.
Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...
Half a million West Bank invaders, nearly all white Jewish, are entitled to vote in tomorrow's election, while the 3.5 million Palestinians residents there, nearly all Arab, are not. This is exactly, definitionally, apartheid.
Brown and RISD students have taken the streets, joined by Providence community members, to demand justice for Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley! Nolan Wells didn't drown, police executing 1 year old Kohen could never possibly be justified, and we are fed up with the racist capitalist system.
Elon Musk uses ties with other tech bro media monopolists and raw cash payments to successfully suppress distribution of Alex Gibney's explosive documentary "Musk." After TikTok Suspended Its Account for Two Days, the Elon Musk Documentary is Almost Gone From Theaters, and Musk
Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill.
Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low.
Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.
After years of delays, appeals, denials, and litigation, New York City's most secretive agency may finally be forced to cough up a tranche of public documents revealing details of police surveillance programs.
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NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week.
“There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.
Administration has a real data manipulation problem:
- DHS exaggerates immigrants who’ve left US
- Patel's FBI pads crime stats
- IRS hides tax cut data until after midterms
- Census excludes immigrants
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I'm going to try to do this cleanly.
Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.
I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.
NEW: Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes.
Those acts, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.”
New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.
"After the surgeon removed my tumor, my stomach looked like a horror movie connected by twelve inches of staples and yellowish pink flesh. He instructed me to keep my wound clean, but the correctional officers assigned to me refused to let me shower for 7 days. I was also denied food for 5 days."
The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.
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.
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“And in the process, John Roberts rubberstamped such corrupt use of DOJ to steal an election, giving the President absolutely immunity for making demands for sham investigations, which the Chief Justice deemed to fit within a President’s official duties.
Reup: The non-answers Todd Blanche gave to Dana Bash and Margaret Brennan yesterday make total sense when you see how much he is pursuing the plot Jeffrey Clark planned on pursuing if HE had been made AG.
Clark's plan anticipated political violence.
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You can hear a woman screaming that ICE is taking her husband. This incident took place in Stockton, California on the evening of October 25, 2026 around 9PM Pacific.
This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents"
The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
AIPAC's super PAC funded attack ads through groups with progressive-sounding names.
Here are a few of them:
👩 Elect Chicago Women
⚖️ Pro-Choice Majority Action
🗳️ Elect Democratic Women
None of the ads disclosed AIPAC’s role.
NEW: Brent Taylor is the front-runner for one of Memphis’ congressional districts, recently redrawn from majority Black to majority white.
As state senator, he repeatedly used his power to supersede local officials — and the will of the city’s voters.
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This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”
I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.
On this day in 1916, police raided Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinic in Brooklyn, the first such clinic in the U.S. The clinic purportedly violated the Comstock Act of 1873, which prohibits circulation of “obscene” or “indecent” information. That act remains in place to date. #WeTheMen
A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women.
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I cringe posting about the media references to my own report. But my point is to stress how vulnerable this entire ethnic cleansing campaign really is: I'm just a random guy with a laptop in Chicago, who created a report that helps map and shine light on the violence and corruption.
Meanwhile, a guy with a laptop in Chicago is able to produce an interactive, visual report that cleans up ICE's messy data for public use...in between daycare pickups and taking my dog for a walk.
Plans to put U.S. data centers underwater are alarming ecologists: the noise and heat that annoy people could also stress endangered whales
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