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Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

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.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Here's Sir David Attenborough on why this huge, heart-shaped piece of the UK in Northumberland is so important. A chance like this to save massive space for nature won't come again. £11,000 donated yesterday, £1.37m still to go by the end of the month - the time is now! 💚 #conservation #ukwildlife

Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

The high Green 'better than expected' is the key stat here

Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills, new analysis from @nesta_uk in @CarbonBrief Contradicts idea, which has become embedded in UK media and political narratives, that UK’s net zero target is to blame for high energy bills www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-ex...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

I am a huge disaster nerd (hi @nameshiv.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social) and my first obsession as a kid was the Titanic it really cannot be overstated how absolutely heroic the Carpathia was once they learned what had happened to the Titanic, this is worth your time

I wrote about Elon Musk's fake flying car and its mid-air collision with lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism:

climate change www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

To be frank, this is approaching Charles I's attempt to arrest the Five Members in 1642 and we ought to treat it with the same gravity. And perhaps remind those involved how things turned out for Charles I after 'all his birds had flown.' How about we not restage this particular episode?

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Lion channel

You can be sure that every single right wing commentator, along with every market analyst, will suddenly remember the existence of this deficit as soon as a Democrat is in the Oval.

The Houthis have got hypersonic missiles, but what frightens me is solar panels generating clean electricity to replace oil from the Gulf and Red Sea

Shouldn't be understated how damaging it is to signal and encourage certain sectors and industries to develop, only to pull away support at the moment activity begins to really get going, any supposed savings are eclipsed by the sunk costs of investing in skills and capital no longer needed

Yes, if the last few years has taught us anything, it's that we're not reliant enough on oil and gas from genocidal dictators.

Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.

This is all very weird. Feels like when my six year old is winning a game by cheating and we’re basically all just waiting it out until we can start again

Very sad to hear of the death of Chris Wickham, he was a wonderful historian of early medieval Europe www.medievalists.net/2026/10/chri...

Very good and clear-sighted piece about what's going on with French bonds. It ain't great and the potential consequences would be ruinous for pro-Europeans paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

how can I be expected to go to bed before there's an @secondcaptains.bsky.social podcast about this?

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

"The whole internet hates Dilkshake Muck, a loathesome bigot who loves misogyny. *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you Dilkshake Muck is assistant general counsel of the General Services Administration"

My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad.

Spice must flow. Saudis at 6 million barrels per day in September, same as 2025 and above anything during current Iran war. P.S gg to AIS boys www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/s...

When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.

No, arresting ‘Danny Tommo’ won’t make him a martyr. *Not* arresting him will fuel his agenda.

I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.

This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)

Again, a lot of political economy, economics and IR research needs to start assessing possible scenarios for the global economy where current key producers of commodities or supply chain nodes might through war and state failure cease to be significant exporters for years on end

I feel like we are so used to living in a time of madness that we can't grasp just how insane the Kennedy Center dispute is. Trump took something that was running just fine and destroyed it because he couldn't put his name next to the murdered president whose memorial it is. That's completely nuts.

Higher Education risks irreversible damage, says British Academy president Prof Susan Smith, with humanities and social sciences disciplines disappearing in many cold spots. BA is tracking subject provision & calling for a comprehensive review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

It's just a tantrum and should be treated as such, i.e. a meaningful punishment (blockade the parish until it gives up after 3 days, then double the size of the planned accommodation). Otherwise the govt are going to have to deal with these antisocial stunts anytime they need to do anything.

Canada has a total ban on company/corporate donations. Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions and it's capped at $1,750 a year. They still have functioning parties and the sky hasn't fallen in. Quite the opposite... www.elections.ca/content.aspx...

They do. We just don't tend to think of studying law, medicine or engineering at a Russell Group university as vocational training. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

lol I just realized Trump is treating the voters like his construction crews on a building project. Tell them to do a job and then stiff them on the promised compensation.

I’ve reconciled myself to being to the left of any Labour government in my adult lifetime, but I didn’t anticipate that I’d also wildly diverge from them on whether masked gangs of fascist thugs should be allowed to break the law with impunity in the service of inciting racial hatred

I know I have now said this three times in the last hour, but what do you mean they still haven't arrested Daniel Thomas? This is his third incident, the first two were definitely illegal, the last is clearly a breach of the peace, he is identifiable and has literally recorded himself planning it!

Having reported on the climate crisis for 20 years I am here to inform you that warnings we've unleashed something with a >10% of destroying humanity will have less of an impact than you'd expect.

On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc...