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Peter Sterne@petersterne.com

NEW: DSA's National Political Committee passed two resolutions today aimed at Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, beginning processes that could result in DSA-LA being forced to rescind its endorsement of her this weekend and/or Raman herself being expelled from DSA by January.

IGN@ign.com

BREAKING: Walter Koenig, who played Chekov on the original Star Trek series, has died at age 90. Koenig joined the NBC series Star Trek in its second season as Russian crewmember Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov. https://bit.ly/3UkRz7z

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com

Pentagon bans troops from betting using insider information trib.al/L3RrgN4

trib.alPentagon bans troops from betting using insider informationThe new prohibition bars Defense Department personnel from using classified and unclassified info to gamble on prediction markets.

F.W.A.@fraudwasteandabuse.bsky.social

Ahem

The Associated Press@apnews.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.lySerbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shiftThe long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com

Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

techcrunch.comGrok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Bay of Pigs 2 trailer just dropped

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com

Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels, as an improvised shipping system under U.S. protection is helping tankers move oil through one of Iran’s fiercest waves of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

on.wsj.comMore Oil Is Now Coming Out of the Persian Gulf Than Before the Iran WarExperience and big paydays have created a more resilient tanker fleet. Oil traders worry it isn’t sustainable.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

I know things are very contextual & I very much appreciate knowledgeable people sharing their expertise but it is a little confusing as a layman when some computer thing happens & the reaction of computer knower 1 is ‘ehh you’re fine’ & the advice of computers knower 2 is ‘buy a gun, its happening’

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Alberta voted to remain in Canada, rejecting a campaign to try to separate the oil-rich province from the country.

nyti.msVoters in Oil-Rich Alberta Reject Leaving CanadaResidents of the province were asked if they wish to remain in Canada or to hold another vote on breaking away, in a referendum that left both sides unhappy.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

Reuters@reuters.com

Newly identified green star leaves astronomers amazed reut.rs/4yqaAUb

reut.rsNewly identified green star leaves astronomers amazedAstronomers for the first time have identified a green star, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky ​debris from planets that once had orbited it.

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social

Shot / chaser

The Associated Press@apnews.com

BREAKING: President Trump says the Pentagon won't livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter after bipartisan backlash.

bit.lyTrump, after bipartisan backlash, says Pentagon won't livestream execution of Fort Hood shooterPresident Donald Trump says the Pentagon will not be livestreaming the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺@saladinaldronni.bsky.social

MOAB is being considered again huh, this time in Iran. I remember how big of a deal it was for CENTCOM to use it to bomb Islamic State Khorasan in Achin in 2017. Back then, US and Taliban had multiple mini agreements to fight the monster,Jowzjan's Hekmat most glaring. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/15/p...

edition.cnn.comUS considering using ‘Mother of All Bombs’ against Iran, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe US military has developed new strike plans that include potentially using the so-called “mother of all bombs” to target Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites should President Donald Trum...

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (mirror)@reprashida.govpeeps.us

Trump is grossly abusing his power to raid the home of Rep. Omar. He has repeatedly attacked her, Somali Americans, and Minnesotans. @Ilhan has done nothing to justify a pre-dawn raid ahead of the election. I stand with my sister always. Quoting The Associated Press

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

washingtonpost.comFort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social

I remember going to sleep just after mid-night October 7th 2023, and the first reports were just starting to trickle in, not anything to indicate what was really happening, scattered reports of individual paragliders its really hard to sum up the before and after of it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

The Associated Press@apnews.com

Brazil election moves to runoff after Lula and Bolsonaro fail to garner majority vote, electoral court says.

bit.lyBrazil heads to runoff election after Bolsonaro, Lula fail to garner majority voteSen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off on Oct. 25 in a runoff for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy.

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

A growing network of American high schoolers and young adults are helping to arm some of Mexico’s most powerful and violent cartels, according to law enforcement officials, trafficking experts and students interviewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4hNkx86

Year Progress Bot@yearprogress.bsky.social

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Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

bicc - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies@bicc.de

Pakistan and the Taliban were once close allies. Now, tensions between the two are escalating. In this @DW article, bicc expert Conrad Schetter offers insights as why. (Original title: Pakistan und die Taliban: Das Ende eines Bündnisses) Read the full article: https://ow.ly/vwqt50ZTXp6

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

TWZ@twz.com

What Boeing’s New Rendering Of Its Winning F/A-XX Fighter Tells Us With new F/A-XX art and Boeing having now won both the USAF and Navy's next-gen fighter contracts, we can compare concepts. https://www.twz.com/air/what-boeings-new-render-of-its-winning-f-a-xx-fighter-tells-us

twz.comWhat Boeing's New Rendering Of Its Winning F/A-XX Fighter Tells UsWith new F/A-XX art and Boeing having now won both the USAF and Navy's next-gen fighter contracts, we can compare concepts.

News 📰@some-news.bsky.social

As the US completes its military withdrawal from Iraq, Baghdad declares a new era of sovereignty. But as US troops leave, questions remain over militias, foreign forces and the country's future security.

dw.comIraq: US troops withdraw after 12 years as Baghdad delays disarming Iran-backed militias to June 2027

Vibecession Forever@ghazelleberner.bsky.social

King shit. t.co/0kwtLSmVJL