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David Ellison and his co-CEO Ynon Kreiz sent out an email to Skydance employees today offering up voluntary buyouts and also implementing a five-day-a-week in-office work policy. And so it begins...

We must expect that Meta's interference is happening in other elections around the world *right now*. This isn't just a one-off. Meta has proved repeatedly they are committed to advancing far-right agendas worldwide, are serial liars, and are flagrantly indifferent to the dismantling of democracies.

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.

Interned at the aquarium after sandy and got a hug from a baby walrus.

Hollywood needs a public bank yesterday.

Imagine the unions and guilds collectively starting their own bank chartered for their purposes and that bank acts in tandem with the LA public bank. Think of the impact to art in general. Removing private equity from the equation. What kind of art could be created? Self financed strike funds!

It’s just wild that so many progressives assume that penciling in space for people to fail and be punished by market forces will lead to progressive outcomes. You’re basically just offering reassurance that there will still be an underclass that deserves what it gets.

I don’t just want Americans to get “a fair shake and a shot at a comfortable life”… I want them to get the comfortable life

Most of our presidents were rapists or abusers of some sort. We should probably sit with that in a more meaningful way than we do.

The persecution of @repilhan.bsky.social just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated. I'm leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.

hmmm so there are..39 democrats who are supportive of Trump attacking Ilhan?

I am now safe after being detained and interrogated by Israeli forces and denied entry to Palestine alongside other activists and elected representatives. I will share a fuller statement tomorrow. The @scottishgreens.org stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

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. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-foil-co...

It really is striking how pushers of AI insist its overarching value is to liberate us from tedious work so we can spend time on life’s meaningful things only for rich tech people to repeatedly share how they use AI to outsource the work of bonding with their kids.

Always love talking to @libbyrainey.bsky.social, in this case about what a mayor could do before July 2028. Not only could Raman change out her Metro board seats, she could also change out her LA28 board seats. Imagine promising full transparency about what's being discussed in those meetings!

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

Is Microsoft even going to exist in 2027?

It genuinely does suck and is *bad* that it feels like there’s almost nowhere to go for people who 1. Want to work on robotics (like drones) and 2. Don’t want to build weapons.

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

this is not top of the list by any means but I would like to hear what NYU has to say for itself here

The PAC is run out of Irvine. A lot of what is wrong with LA could be more easily fixed if we HEAVILY discounted the voices of folks who are too dumb & scared to live in Los Angeles. Commuters don’t have our interests in mind.

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

"Democrats have campaigned for two years on the claim that this is an emergency. If they win, they should act like it."

If we want to finally confront our rape culture we must hold the president accountable—for the sake of the victims, for the sake of society.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Shit like this make the landscape pretty bleak when looking for alternatives to google.

Listen I'm no big city white shoe improv comic but yes AND... ???

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

There is a rapidly expanding body of literature on transnational repression, election interference, and subversion. Whether or not you're invested in electoral outcomes abroad is irrelevant, because a LOT of powerful actors and governments are VERY invested in those outcomes.

National borders have *never* been containers for politics and political processes. I don't have time to write a full thread, so here are some resources.

A lot of people unable to comprehend that people hate them.

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 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

The main point of national borders is to traumatize the global problem of dependence and responsibility by coming up with an artificial starting point and organizing responsibility and irresponsibility around it

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.

LA is basically run by a "good old chuds" network. Incumbent officials who have run the city into the ground playing petty-tyrant machine politics are furious that Nithya might actually follow laws and professionalize operation of the city. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Mayor Bass is now calling for an "outside the city, independent audit" of LADWP utility rates, which have been pretty high recently.... ... and this comes a week after her challenger in the mayor’s race, Council member Nithya Raman, called for an audit. squawkbox.la/i/221367461/...

This is one good example of how appropriations hardball can work if you're willing to not blink first. Another: take your pick for demands and restrictions on funding Executive Office of the President. Yes, literally defund the White House. EOP is the central hub of the assault on the Constitution.

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...