Heavy Sigh.

Exclusive: President Trump’s trade deal with South Korea is on shaky ground, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick taking a tough line in talks as some Seoul officials privately argue to allies that the White House is moving the goal posts.

At this point I think the 3 liberal justices should just boycott and start publicly demanding court reform. I'm not convinced they're doing any good sticking around

Just watched the first two Hunger Games for the first time this week so pleased to see that the main star is pro Palestine, anti apartheid

they did not www.desmog.com/2025/07/22/t...

Laura Loomer is in the news for being a racist ass, which is part for the course with her. But since she's so insistent on making racist comments, I thought you might enjoy seeing what she's like under oath in a deposition. Hint: it's not pretty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Italy’s USB union will host trade unionists from ports in Spain, France, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco and Germany to hammer out a joint strategy.” European and North African dockworkers will gather to devise methods for curtailing the flow of goods and arms to and from Israel

Yet more fatuous, constitutional nonsense from Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Greenblatt is throwing a tantrum on Twitter rn

Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities. Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.

Ukrainian drones struck oil infrastructure 1,400km deep into Russia, hitting refineries from Samara to the Arctic in a sustained campaign Over 21% of Russia's refining capacity now damaged or disabled as Ukraine dismantles Moscow's fuel production capabilities euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/27/f...

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Indonesia agency says lack of oversight in free meal programme led to food poisoning cases reut.rs/4gHLMjj

Indonesia urged to halt $10 billion free school meals plan after mass food poisoning reut.rs/4pvrwpf

Retired New York financier Howard Rubin and his former personal assistant have been charged in a federal indictment with running a years-long sex trafficking ring, prosecutors say.

NEWS: FAA confirms this AM's @wsj.com report, saying that it will allow "limited delegation" to Boeing to issue its own airworthiness certificates on some 737 MAXs & 787s. This would be the first time Boeing has done so since in 2019 for the Max and 2022 for the Dreamliner.

The European Commission will work on technical and financial details to build a drone wall to protect Europe against Russia, after a series of airspace violations by Moscow's warplanes and unmanned aerial vehicles.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

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Mamdani: The ADL doesn’t speak for New York Jews in interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, Mamdani panned ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt, who said the Democratic nominee for mayor has failed to meet with or address concerns of most Jewish New Yorkers. forward.com/fast-forward...

New from me: In May, the United Arab Emirates’ state-backed investment firm MGX deposited $2 billion into the Trump family crypto venture. Now, it's set to get a big chunk of the TikTok U.S. deal negotiated by the Trump White House www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid funds b/c of Trump’s “pocket rescission” argument and b/c enforcing the injunction would affect foreign affairs. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

They're going to use the Comey case to break the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, just like they used the Adams case to break the office in the Southern District of New York.

Before we move on, it's worth noting that one of the most egregious parts of this whole episode was Sinclair publicly demanding that Kimmel make a personal political donation to TPUSA as a condition of restoring his show. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

Trump calls for Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general in the Biden administration, to be fired from Microsoft, where she was hired in June as president of global affairs.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Nexstar is lifting its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live! starting tonight. (Nexstar is seeking FCC approval to acquire 9NEWS/TEGNA)

I bet they think the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional.

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The U.S. is preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, and the strikes could potentially begin within a matter of weeks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

Trump says he’s ordering the release of all government records on Amelia Earhart.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress. Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’

SOURCES: OpenAI is planning to bring ads to ChatGPT. Also: In a message to employees, Sam Altman says he wants 250 gigawatts of compute by 2033. He calls OpenAI's team behind Stargate a "core bet" like research / robotics. "Doing this right will cost trillions." sources.news/p/openai-ads...

Oh. My. God. Meta is launching a humanoid robotics team and their CTO's first words about it make it obvious that he doesn't know anything about robotics. from @alexeheath.com: sources.news/p/humanoid-r...

WSJ: Videogame Giant Electronic Arts Near Roughly $50 Billion Deal to Go Private. "A group of investors including private-equity firm Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund could unveil a deal for the publisher best known for its sports games as soon as next week" LINK

Report: Saudi Arabia And Other Investors Nearing $50 Billion Deal To Buy EA

In a statement, Mayor Adams says he thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for "defending the western world and our way of life" during their meeting at the UN today.

WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The White House's goal "is to have chip companies manufacture the same number of semiconductors in the U.S. as their customers import from overseas producers. Companies that don’t maintain a 1:1 ratio over time would have to pay a tariff .." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

".. economists reckon [Milei] spent too much cash propping up an overvalued currency – creating risks for anyone who lends the country dollars .., as Bessent is hinting .. “It’s a pretty big gamble,” says Brad Setser, a former top Treasury official @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just say White this is taking forever

More people should be talking about this.

This in the end is what your whole male loneliness discourse leads to.

Aside from how utterly deranged it is to even make light of this, he's not mocking some reporter or pundit by calling him "General." Ben Hodges is a real three-star general, he was the commander of the US Army in Europe before he retired. In other words, he's worked with a lot of Germans soldiers.

Exposure to a higher share of female peers in school improves mental health, from Monica Deza and Maria Zhu https://www.nber.org/papers/w34269

Most depositors are 'sleepy' — rarely switching accounts. Sleepy deposits drive 58 percent of bank value, softening competition while making banks more stable, from Mark L. Egan, Ali Hortaçsu, Nathan A. Kaplan, Adi Sunderam, and Vincent Yao https://www.nber.org/papers/w34267