The president is staring into the abyss of defeat in Iran. After the midterms, he may reach for one last face-saving escalation: bomb again, sanction China, raid buried uranium, or call a failed deal victory.
New on Lawfare - Iran's options with Cole Bucy, Nate Swanson and @atabatabai.bsky.social.
I am b e g g i n g people to mask up at major cons, *especially* ones with 5-digit crowd sizes!!
Lightbox this weekend was absolutely ravaged; I’m hearing of SO many attendees and exhibitors who got sick from doing the show this year!! Please stay safe out there! 🙏 🙏
Having a bad mental health day but research shows that making something can alter brain biochemistry for the better, so l’ve made a cabinet of curiosities/small museum in a tiny antique Cadbury’s cocoa powder tin.
This DEFINITELY helped ✔️
The Broken Times "News Judgement"
Presents
The Amazing Shrinking Epstein Article
The article on the Democratic call for a special counsel to investigate Epstein charges and file releases as it appeared on the home page. Minutes after this screenshot was taken, it disappeared entirely.
The Broken Times "News Judgement"
Presents
The Amazing Shrinking Epstein Article
The article on the Democratic call for a special counsel to investigate Epstein charges and file releases as it appeared on the home page. Minutes after this screenshot was taken, it disappeared entirely.
Lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50 would guarantee healthcare to millions of more Americans at a critical age where earlier detection and treatment can make a big difference for patient outcomes.
Let’s pass this bill!
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The persecution of @repilhan.bsky.social just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated.
I'm leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.
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SAMIZDAT
GAMIZDAT
"Reporters without Borders and BlockWorks built the 2020 server holding 300 banned books across twelve wings tied to censored countries . . . "
"The Uncensored Library is what you might call gamizdat: forbidden literature hidden inside a game . . . "
www.uncensoredlibrary.com
Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter pilot Air Davy shared footage of people in Kharkiv Oblast waving to him as he flew past on his way back from a combat mission in Donetsk Oblast.
Trump admin arrests Colorado priest.
Incarcerates him for over a year.
Judge orders him released without charges.
They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out.
He's now being tested for latent TB:
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...
🚨Breaking:
TEXAS VOTING NUMBERS DON’T MATCH.
Bexar County reported nearly 18,000 mail ballots. The state showed EIGHT. Fort Bend reported 75,000+ in-person votes. The state showed barely 41,000.
Officials cite problems with the state’s election system.
Source: Houston Chronicle
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 ... 🧵
A 1GW AI data centre is coming to the Liberty Steel site in Newport, beside the River Usk. The Usk is protected for its salmon, shad, lamprey and otters.
Newport City Council approved three applications for the facility, yet no plans or ecology reports are available online.
Why not?
My trauma & addiction recovery shifted when I stopped thinking in terms of "problems," & started thinking in terms of patterns.
Focusing on my problems was triggering & depressing me. Focusing on my patterns, w/ compassion & realism, started giving me options.
Our community knows that nothing changes unless we come out and tell our stories. I’ll keep telling mine and fighting, because this is my country too.
Thank you to @cwnewser.bsky.social and Out Magazine.
Proud to be named to the 2026 Out100 Most Influential LGBTQ People.
20 years at CIA. Four presidents, three wars, and 35 countries. Then the White House fired trans soldiers and intel officers like me for being who we are.
No adversary could have done that much damage. We did it to ourselves.
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...