Goddess Of All That She Encounters (G.O.A.T.S.E.)

The Mississippi Supreme Court permanently revoked former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba’s law license on Oct. 15 as a result of his July 6 guilty plea in a federal felony case. Lumumba pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy after a federal sting operation in 2023. buff.ly/pMkoDdu

🤖🫧💥 www.newscientist.com/article/2595...

Trump presses Ramaswamy to keep running controversial ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother politi.co/4Bmy8fo

NYT reports that the DOJ has opened a criminal investigation into Corey Lewandowski over accusations that he profited from his role as a top adviser to the DHS Wd normally assume this is legit--not a standard-issue political enemy anyway--but there is no normal, and plenty of infighting in admin.

What the alien on Lanterns wishes he said to Hal Jordan

Incredible — Stephen Miller "has asked for repeated updates on what the U.S. government has done to target or investigate the activities of specific names…on his lengthy roster of enemies… At times, Miller’s inquiries have included questions about Cuba and the leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker…"

Attention: prem’s first installment in our four part Four Horsemen of the Trump-ocalypse @zeteo.com series publishes soon tonight. See who his first MAGA Horseman is

A federal judge has extended an order blocking the Trump administration from banning reporters for three news outlets from the White House, as the extraordinary case pitting the president against the media makes its way through the legal system.

Judge Kelly issues a preliminary injunction against Trump’s CNN/Politico/MSNOW ban, finds the news orgs likely to succeed on their Due Process claims and their First Amendment claims storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

I hope non-journalists can appreciate how embarrassing this is.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

It’s 21 days until the US midterms: This is How We Win My latest for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/09/its-21-days-until-the-us-midterms-this-is-how-we-win

NASA said Monday its Perseverance Mars rover, built and operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has broken the record for greatest distance traveled by a vehicle on another planet. 🔗 Get more details: vist.ly/5nahq ✍️ Matt Dangelantonio 📸 Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

wealth tax now

The new black (black dye is cheaper) British passport sums up Brexit perfectly, made by a French Company in Poland and shipped from Germany. That's your sovereignty.

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

that’s right

Normalize democrats saying abolish DHS as a first step

HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEA: SLUTTY BARBERA THORNHILL

I have serious concerns about the purchase of the NWDC and my ability to continue to conduct oversight. That’s why I’m leading over a dozen Members in demanding answers from DHS on their plans for this facility. https://bit.ly/4hWtSds

My God, imagine getting laughed off the stage at a League of Women Voters event.

hey we might break a bunch of private property because we want the biggest IPO possible this is OK in a way burglary is not, because

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

Just like Exxon knew about the impacts of climate change, the beef industry knew too. A new PLOS Climate study documents how the National Cattlemen’s Association (NCA), now NCBA, responded to evidence linking cattle methane to global warming from 1986–1996 (study 🔗 at end of 🧵)

Oregon’s governor has effectively issued a moratorium on new data centers and data center expansions in the state by ordering environmental regulators to pause approving new state and federal air and water pollution permits for data center projects until next July. buff.ly/1DOmDWO

This is Gilded Age-level squalor. trib.al/Qmif9HR

Pop quiz: Which planet is by far both the easiest to get to and has the best chance of having a livable climate? (the answer is hiding right under your nose)

These fucking people. If you want to save humanity, save it *here* and *now*. Bezos could easily move the needle on climate change if he wanted to try.

Upon further questioning, it turns out she tended bar at a Chinese restaurant

"President Donald Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not initially know that Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down..."

India's central bank has done enough for the government. Its most crucial goal is to regain investors’ trust

NEW: The criminal complaint against an OpenAI engineer reveals that, according to investigators, he allegedly used a $14 device to spy on company executives’ meetings. @peard33.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/an-ope...

OTTAWA – Health Minister Marjorie Michel says Canada is very closely following reports that a woman who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia has died.

Seemingly in crisis mode as billions of dollars in data center projects have been blocked nationwide, Amazon appears to be flailing in its damage control efforts, critics say: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tR-oKv

I can’t imagine any off the record remarks were removed from the audio recording before it was shared—including before it was potentially uploaded into an AI service.

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

As an update for anyone who isn’t digging through the comments: I found more articles by USA Today journalists I’ve never met. There are THREE that used quotes from my interview recording—including many quotes that were never publicly published anywhere else.

And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.

After I posted this thread, I got an email from an editor indicating the story had been updated. They removed my quote and added new text about the developments in the case. I don't know if they ever would have done that without pressure, but it's something.