Least of these

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

He needs to be impeached just for being this stupid. It's embarrassing to have someone this stupid in front of a microphone.

A superb explainer of the ethical transgressions in the proposed RFK Jr-funded trial in Guinea-Bissau—a trial that appears to now be truly dead, but I suspect the researchers & RFK Jr will keep flogging the dead horse & try & find a way to revive it (eg, at RFK Jr’s new NIH vaccine injury center?)

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

I don’t know, man, I’m kind of sick of treating Trump and his cronies like they’re just absurd and laughable and not really spending any time talking about the murders, the concentration camps, the millions starved around the world, people living lives beset with threats of violence and erasure.

I didn't mind paying for it, because I want to support covering all this garbage, both through daily journalism and longer-term projects.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Yes yes all of that of course from someone that’s too late to the party AAAAAAND how about we make some sort of a law that says that anyone that stands to gain- contracts, payouts, or armaments- from the US cannot give even a penny of financial support to those that make our laws?

I'm a doctor and a dad. I rebuilt Detroit's health department, led Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services. We put glasses on kids, took on corporate polluters, eliminated medical debt. It just shouldn't be this hard to get by in the richest country in the world.

You might not be a professional with a design title - but when you're forced to think about the thing you're making, you're at least doing what designers do. AI didn't "democratize" design. It took away the very thing that could make everyone designers, because it made that thinking optional.

This is what happens when young men do not have the moral and spiritual courage to just admit that they're dumb.

Musk must be stopped. Congressional investigations now. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

"What's the point of writing about national security—or, for that matter, of having a national security apparatus at all—if the men in those jobs (it’s mostly men who fucked this up) can’t spot the most obvious domestic threat to U.S. national security since the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861?"

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

…consequences for Meta and everyone involved with the election tampering process. Meta should be forced to shut down entirely, liquidated, and their entire c suite-and those who aided & abetted this bullshit-should be dealt with at The Hague.

Read books, learn history, grow a spine, find your moral compass, stand for something—for someONE—choose basic human decency, at last, at long last.

Break them up.

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this

Listen: if you care about History, especially history written for broad audiences, we need review sites. It’s basically impossible for me to sell book reviews the mainstream media applications now. So I’m asking you to subscribe to this one.

Greg Abbott has backed off data centers, but sticks by his equally unpopular policy of funneling money out of public schools to unregulated "alternatives." Why risk re-election over this? I dig into who is funding Abbott: Billionaires who want theocracy. www.salon.com/2026/10/13/w...

Trump's continued attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social the Somali American community, & our Muslim neighbors are a heinous attempt to distract from his complete & utter failure as president. Every American should be chilled to the bone: these are the actions of a dictatorship not a democracy.

It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.

Hey Democrats, Canada here. Let's be clear: there's no coming back from this that involves Sorkinsian compromise across the aisle. There IS a coming back from this that involves Nuremberg trials and extradition of cabinet members and a new constitution, but less than that isn't going to work.

I hate fight videos. but I'll make an exception for this one

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

new interview in Publisher's Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Wiki: "From 2022 to June 2026, Schwartz was President of Insurance Solutions for Medicare and Retirement at United Healthcare... She additionally joined the board of directors of Georgia-based home care provider Aveanna Healthcare in May 2021..." Not unimaginable then.

To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.

This strikes me as really fuckin bad

“Vaccines will be ineffective against competently designed pandemic weapons. Russia may not be competent yet, but future AI will democratize competence. “We should stockpile pandemic-proof PPE and install germicidal far-UV and glycol misters in public spaces.”