Robin Stuart

Reporting on Keul's account: newrepublic.com/post/217159/...

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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.

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.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Valkyries!!!

NEW: "You can’t unscrape that content." With Meta’s new commercial terms set to take effect on October 30, more and more publishers and media advocates on both sides of the Atlantic are pressing Meta and regulators to stop them. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/publ...

wow, no.

Protect your work from AI before sending it out to agents, producers, actors and others. Add Cloak when you register your script with the WGAE to receive a copy of your file that it is resistant to AI analysis, scraping and training. www.wgaeast.org/mo/script_re...

Been quietly working on this with @wgaeast.bsky.social and @cloakprotect.org for the past year. Now writers can protect their work and the chatbots can be humbled. deadline.com/2026/10/wga-...

broke a man the first time i told him this. He came up to me and said "I just don't like tattoos" and I said "well, I'm not trying to have sex with You" and I saw something permanently rotate inside him

As always, thrilled to share that Queer Crime Writers' seasonal round-up is now live on CrimeReads! Lots of great titles to check out for fall-to-winter reading. ❤ @queercrimefic.bsky.social @crimereads.bsky.social ⬇⬇⬇⬇ bit.ly/4Bf0ng3

Screaming

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Reason number eleventy billion to never use AI bots/chats as search engines

And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.

Today's writing prompt

Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.

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"Whereas the AI users got answers wrong or gave up entirely when the AI assistance was withdrawn, the group without AI stuck with the task and were more successful at the end."

Valkyries!!!

“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...

Happy Banned Books Week - here are some ways to celebrate the right to read

"A personnel file maps a public servant's life, family, career, network, and, in some cases, mission. At scale, those files can illuminate an organization: who its people are, what they do, how they are connected, and where specific expertise resides."

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The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

Oops. www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exp...

Nat Again is a perfect graphic novel for the time teaching about fake information #comics #graphicnovel #kidlit https://graphicpolicy.com/2026/09/16/nat-again-is-a-perfect-graphic-novel-for-the-time-teaching-about-fake-information/

She cracked Nazi codes with a pencil and paper and helped save more than 8,000 lives. Elizebeth Smith Friedman's codebreaking exposed Nazi spy networks during World War Il. Intelligence she decoded helped the RMS Queen Mary evade a U-boat attack with 8,000+ people aboard. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

And by the way, from our scoop, we also discovered that Anthropic is also using human reviewers to read conversations.

This is an item of great Genius and Value.

The gays are not ok, y’all. We are drowning in our tears. RIP Tim Curry youtu.be/8wLArncKxag?...

Come on. This is too much. First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry. 😞 www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...

STOP IT

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

If you haven't heard this series, you should listen to it, and you'll like Dolly even more. (My fave episode is the one where Jad talks to his dad about how "Tennessee Mountain Home" spoke to him as an immigrant far from home.)