And with the largest Parliamentary majority in over twenty years that can basically put in place any progressive centre-left policy it wants with minimal legislative pushback. Boris' win in 19 (pre-Covid) was treated like the Tories had a legislative carte blanche with less than half the majority.

A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. https://cal.news/3IzCysH 📸 Adriana Heldiz

Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, Olivia Rodrigo headline new ACLU letter with 400+ signers against government threat to free speech, citing Kimmel. Also signed by comedians including Nimesh Patel, Mary Beth Barone, Sam Morril, Gianmarco Soresi, Anthony Jeselnik, Pete Holmes

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

A Weapon Against Women in Politics: Reining in Nonconsensual Synthetic Intimate Imagery www.newamerica.org/future-secur...

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All over people changing their votes Along with their overcoats If Adolf Hitler flew in today They’d send a limousine anyway

I wrote my first investigative piece raising concerns about Covid contracts in *April 2020*. Great to see this finally on screen

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

The government is stuck running a 20th century news operation – focused on traditional media – 25 years into the 21st century. But even worse, it’s even losing at that, not because of “comms” but because the government seemingly has absolutely nothing of its own to say.

The government is, y’know, the government. They could announce policies of their own in Monday’s papers, which the media would cover. But instead they just leave an endless news void, and end up chasing their tails trying to keep up with Reform on its strongest issue. It’s woeful.

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week. It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This really reflects how technocratic neoliberal logic has captured the centre of political spectrum. The argument against it is not moral or ethical, it's on cost and feasibility grounds. It's the logic of managing the numbers is what gets you elected.

Hilariously, I’ve taken leucovorin before— I was taking a cocktail of pretty toxic drugs for another issue and Leucovorin gets added to mitigate the worst side effects. It didn’t make me any less autistic. Since apparently n=1 is totally acceptable and worth reporting now.

I am *shocked* by the poor quality reporting on Leucovorin as an autism treatment by the Washington Post. I’m not even going to link it. Just abysmal.

Yarvin is one of world’s most influential racists right now. Yet, here we are.

Coming to a US near you soon.

tired: pentagon pizza index wired: culture war grindr outage index

This would strike directly against any British notion of fairness People who would have followed all the rules having those rules switched up on them overnight and then being punished - in spite of not doing anything wrong

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

Not sure it's possible to find a more canonical example of this meme

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

Rise of the Golden Idol DLC looking good

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Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

Having to prove my my goodness day in and day out on whatever godawful platform I have to use because of my name has occasionally spillt over to the real world. But yes, keep entire neo-Nazi manifestos on there instead.

Google is out there restricting a sheet it says violates their phishing policy except my sheet is just a collation of footage of war crimes. Nothing that I haven't created 10s of times over the past eight years

I have a theory that Russia is focusing so much of pumping out fake videos about Moldova, despite them having no real impact, because they hope the election results will be overturned, like in Romania, because of all their interference (which has no real impact).

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Populist movements across West are being driven by groups of people who don't all believe the same thing - but all share a huge distrust of institutions, fed by social media's algorithms Must watch with @eliothiggins.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-algori...

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I hate that you can’t explain current political events in the USA without sounding like you’ve completely lost it: “the billionaire’s group chat is panicked about whether the admin is taking AI superintelligence seriously enough because of drastic action it took based on an eigenrobot tweet” — what?

Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New York Times reported.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

x.com/EdwardJDavey... lmao he’s still doing it

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Surveillance footage shows a Starbucks worker did not write “Loser” on a drink ordered in honor of Charlie Kirk, despite a right-wing activist generating outrage over the incident that led to the coffee shop's temporary closure

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

FCC chair warns ABC to “do this the easy way or the hard way.” Hours later, Jimmy Kimmel is benched from TV. Trump warns any critical coverage of his administration should be “illegal.” Are we still living in a democracy? #Velshi

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

BREAKING: Luigi Mangione's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss his case on constitutional grounds. Some arguments are specific to his case, involving AG Bondi's actions, while others are more generally applicable. Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...