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Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

It isn’t a stretch to surmise that in this year’s three statewide ballot measures, MAGAed-align billionaire Brian Heywood and his PAC Let’s Go Washington — along with the Washington State Republican Party — were desperate to interject divisive culture-war issues. Read the full endorsement at sgn.org

Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

Another Kilmar Armando Ábrego García situation unfolding in Equatorial Guine right now - you'll be shocked to learn ICE lied to a judge.

The CDC denied a request from California, Hawaiʻi, Oregon, and Washington to validate a high-volume measles test, citing “other priorities.” 🤨

AI firms want you to believe their fraud bot is alive so they won’t be held responsible for the fraud bot’s crimes. But there is no gray area here, they hold the on/off switches in their very human, very prosecutable hands.

so it begins.

One of the big findings in my research is that people invested in disbelieving victims are not swayed by evidence. Just like other issues of misinformation, they cherry pick irrelevant details to allow them to continue to believe whatever they want.

Hello wonderful concept artists! Do you like creepy, cute and weird games?! How about wonky shapes, aggressively stylized art, and supernatural themes? Yes?! Then let's work together! Send your work to ashley@creature.email. #gamedev #conceptart #hiring #artistsofbluesky #art #indiegames

hmmmm...not sure one person giving half a billion dollars to one party is a great sign of a healthy political system just not quite on board with that

His admission that the vaccine would have lowered the risk of hepatitis B is the *exact* reason why this study is unethical. The right answer is simple. Just give the vaccine.

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

We're looking for a graphic designer/illustrator to join the Hello Sunshine team for a few months, starting ASAP. There are a lot of artists here looking for new opportunities so I'd be super grateful if y'all could share this call with your followers! www.redthreadgames.com/graphic-desi...

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

Just saw the pre-release for Wildwood. I feel both discombobulated at returning to reality and buzzed from the sheer artistry. God, all the little details and engravings and manually animated twitches. All.the.moving.leaves. 🍁 Ugh. How can I go to sleep now?

The Trump admin is moving forward on plans to impose financial penalties on Americans in default on their federal student loans and hire private debt collectors to go after them. The plans are unlikely to be announced until after the midterms.

The government looting continues, this time with $86m in teen pregnancy prevention funds diverted to Guidehouse, a contractor owned by Bain Capital with ties to Trump’s admin. Related: abstinence only education has been repeatedly proven to have no effect on teen sexual activity. Corrupt AF 🤬

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

every democratic member of congress should be giving meta hell right now, and every democratic state government needs to be announcing investigations for election interference — these were early voting events

Just voters. No kings. Tomorrow, Saturday October 17, choose a ballot over a wannabe king. We the People decide who leads, whose rights matter, and if democracy survives a power grab. VOTE early; Find your event and bring everyone you know. #VoteEarlyForNoKings social.demcast.com/s/lJTR6KiF

ICE is still using WA driver data in their arrests & detentions, while Ferguson fails to act to plug the data flow (New York state shows it's possible). I also wrote about a Bellevue incident showing ICE/DHS is using this data channel to identify local ICE observers.

Crystal Frasier loves bringing worlds to life, and she’s helping us make sure the workers at Wizards have the resources they need to do just that! Learn more about our party of unionizing adventurers and sign our petition! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

I think the general public tends to believe that a university president who says something like that means that the school is going to see the error in their ways and radically change their approach. But I have never seen that happen. They really mean that they should get status for protecting men.

BREAKING America's gun psychopathy continues: *436* mass shootings so far in 2026: 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer 4 killed, including 3 children, in shooting at Oregon elementary school, source says. Shooter is also dead. abc17news.com/news/crime/2...

Only in America are mass shootings in schools a regular occurrence. Kids endure active shooter drills. They never get to enjoy a sense of safety. Yet America refuses to deal with the guns. They value the second amendment over the lives of their own children:

For anyone who thought the Cornell case in the news would deter fraternities into better behavior… They’re still as violent as ever. They may even act with more impunity as they watch people tie themselves into knots to justify their continued existence.

I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Charlotte Anora Elizabeth Clymer! You did not just make me laugh that hard! (Seriously though, well done @charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 😅

I’ve been biting my tongue on this one. But I’m just going to come out and say it: The Sexual Citizenship approach is the next era of symbolic compliance for campus sexual violence. It’s trying to solve sexual violence by putting more chairs in dorm rooms. Literally.

It’s like the opposite of finding out your old baseball cards are worth a fortune.

Yes, please!

It turns out explaining basic human consent is so bewildering to some people that someone literally had to whip out a stick-figure cartoon about Earl Grey just to get everyone on the same page.

Yep! I wrote about this in @ballsandstrikes.org last year after I was like hmmmm this legal argument sounds......familiar! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

Data gathering you say?

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.