Jeff Barrus

I rounded up 13 bone-chilling Indigenous horror reads that’ll crawl under your skin and into your dreams. Stephen Graham Jones is back with Off the Reservation, Never Whistle at Night returns for blood, and writers from Alaska to Aotearoa are bringing the scares. redpopnews.com/13-bone-chil...

#RIPWalterKoenig 💔

I'm so sad to see this.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Great thread about how the forces of democracy beat the forces of fascism in Brazil.

This is the kind of thing that happens when Jared Kushner buys your company

we cannot co-exist with people like this. we either find a way to excise them, or we let them choke us with their ignorance.

"It’s like if The Insider was released in a world where smoking was more popular than ever, and the Marlboro Man had recently been elected president." [🎁]

The metaphors just write themselves. Great reporting as always from @alexhorton.bsky.social and @danlamothe.bsky.social (I'd put a gift link, but my subscription is out of them for the month.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The king issues an edict from his throne.

Hecklers at Republican events get physically assaulted, while hecklers at Democratic ones get a civil exchange of views. And yet I'm pretty sure Tommy would've preferred the former this morning.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Every conversation I’ve had with my MAGA relatives for the last ten years distilled into three sentences.

Just watched the classic French Resistance film Army of Shadows. It hits different in 2026.

“.. Nearly three-quarters said they struggled to pay for food, housing, medical care or daily transportation in the past year compared with 13 percent of upper-income adults.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/b...

theonion.com/man-who-drin...

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

RIP John Barron

A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar-energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season.

European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.

This is, at best, hopelessly naive. At worst, it's willfully negligent. These pledges are toothless and vague, especially in light of reports that publishers are using AI regardless of what authors - and even their own employees - want.

He doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

Trump showed up in Texas looking for cheers. Instead, his rally turned into absolute chaos. Protesters interrupting, Trump supporters getting physical, shouting matches, and security scrambling. So much for that Paxton boost.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

A list of 250-year-old things that Trump has destroyed in 2026 1. The Grandmother Tree 2. The United States of America

Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Startling today — a daily Substack of the greatest Spy hits about the short-fingered vulgarian. Subscribe here: substack.com/@spymagazine... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

The administration's treatment of unaccompanied migrant children is barbaric.

new wolfenstein looks like shit

Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...

And Newsom believes he can still win the nomination.

hilarious

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I just generally love Antichrist vibes, so you know this is getting a perfect five from me