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Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

I honestly don’t get what Newsom thinks his future in the party is. Between this and Paramount merger he’s just not close to where Dem primary voters are

It should be illegal for the President, VP, and lawmakers in Congress to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

let's fucking go

Israeli forces turn Hebron homes into military posts amid lockdown https://aje.news/dglzue

The Made-Up Questions Doctrine is a toggle switch invented by justices with billionaire patrons to advance a pro-billionaire political agenda. Anyone who ignores that and analyzes it only doctrinally is the mark. Leonard Leo and his donors were targeting you. And it worked.

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"Right now, we’re living in Trump’s world, in Vance’s world, in Hegseth’s world. This is what a world without empathy looks like. It’s a world of constant othering, of constant rage, of a constant belief that life is a zero-sum game. But nothing flourishes in that world." — @snipy.bsky.social

I agree with all, (although I'm not holding my breath) but I think the last one is the most important. The government should not be making deals with fascists, and critical government services should NEVER be controlled by them.

Trump, Witkoff and Musk reached a joint decision to throttle StarLink/StarShield protections for Ukraine because they wanted to punish Ukraine and do a favor for Putin, who was preparing a nice gift bag for each of them... They then proceeded to lie profusely about what they did.

My exchange with a former top Trump adviser who says it is totally "inappropriate" & "irresponsible" to use the word fascist when talking about Trump. Then I reminded him of his own use of the word. Watch/enjoy/share: (Full 'Head to Head' show with Steve Cortes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJV...)

Residents of Madama describe being cut off from hospitals, schools, and olive groves as Israeli forces blockade village.

If you paid any federal income tax last year, then you paid more than these profitable corporations. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

on some level, this is just a form of anti-politics.

Here's what I'm curious about: will LLM -driven discovery of severe flaws like this slow down as the supply of these outstanding vulns is exhausted? Or will it instead increase as LLMs automate the production of software and thus the production of new bugs? Is the future continued chaos like this?

Many called Jared Kushner corrupt Many noted he took bribes from Middle Eastern autocrats, especially Saudi Arabia, skewing US foreign policy And they were right But as this reveals, he's even more corrupt and took even more money from Middle Eastern autocrats that many, even strong critics, knew

“Disgusted? Not by the pedophilia, the abuse, the mother who proffered her own children as sacrifices to her lover? No, JD wasn’t “disgusted” by any of that. He was “disgusted” by Republicans who wanted no part in Vivek Ramaswamy’s lies.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

The dude’s spiraling will get worse over the next week. Severe sleep deprivation plus sundowning plus stimulant abuse equals complete meltdown.

Atul Gawande at #IDWeek: Child death rates in Africa fell 75% from 1970 to 2020. 40% of that reduction in death was because of vaccines alone. 60% of that vaccine gain was from the measles vaccine alone.

CERN Researchers Apologize For Destruction Of 5 Parallel Universes In Recent Experiment https://theonion.com/cern-researchers-apologize-for-destruction-of-5-paralle-1819579830/

Jury had found Meta misled consumers after Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained user data without consent

The other feedback loop: 1) Putin sends Iran billions to buy Sahed drones to murder Ukrainian civilians. (2) Iran uses the profits from the deal to build more drones and missiles that they use to kill American service members and attack our allies. (3) Trump defends Putin helping Iran.

No one elected Elon Musk to oversee foreign policy. Yet he was able to unilaterally slow down Starlink in Ukraine — because his enormous wealth gave him enormous power. Now he’s using that enormous wealth to buy another election and amass even more power. See the problem here?

If I had a daughter I'd rather have her play sports with trans girls than have icky old men inspecting her genitals.

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

People with knowledge keep saying - in public and to me in private - that you get a pardon in this government by literally paying a bribe. I mean at some point it’s all going to come out, right?

NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.

The US/West policy towards Russia after the Cold War was one of accommodation and welcome. NATO turned down Ukraine. It was *Europe* that began the process of welcoming Ukraine, with an EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in 2014. Putin flipped out over trade and democracy, not any security threat.

Oh yes ... turn neighbors against each other and make everyone suspicious and afraid. What would foster patriotism, loyalty, and well-being better than that? And how many people would you have to turn in to actually make millions? Way to rip the country apart, right? That might be his goal.

This is a major, major talking point on the right. Elon Musk rails against "suicidal empathy" and the term has caught on among millions. They believe that society is collapsing because we are tolerating too much and not punishing enough.

Druid Loving This Cloak Weather https://theonion.com/druid-loving-this-cloak-weather/

The Russians spell it out over and over again that they seek Ukrainian capitulation and stupid Westerners still screech about why Ukraine can’t agree to give up a bit of territory to supposedly end the war.

Tuberville: "Zelensky will play hardball, but you know what? He's not even a player in the game. Putin, President Trump, and the people on our side will make the final decision about Ukraine's future."

Trump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much."

Why is @jamellebouie.net the only major media figure routinely pointing out that Elon Musk, who is spending a quarter of a billion dollars to prop up Republican candidates, is a white supremacist? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/o...

And who sorta happened it??

The sad thing is I don’t even think it would occur to most journalists. Maybe the Putin thing, but how often is Musk’s documented heinous ideology brought up in interviews with Republicans on life support from his cash?

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.

As the Trump regime sues LA officials for not disqualifying 20,000 people DHS has labeled as non-citizens based upon their screening tool, it is good to remember that DHS used to same tool to identify over 15,000 non-citizen voters in Nevada. Complete checks revealed that ALL of them are citizens.

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

WELKER: What are the implications of President Trump waiving sanctions for Russia? ZELENSKYY: Strengthening Putin's war against us ... it's more support for Russian aggression

WELKER: Who do you think is to blame for the disruption to the Starlink and Starshield services? ZELENSKYY: Of course the message came from the American government WELKER: Has the system been fully restored? ZELENSKYY: No, no. We have limitations.

In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”