Daniel Kinahan is one of the most powerful cocaine traffickers in the world—but he lives a strikingly public life in Dubai, shopping at malls and consorting with famous boxers like Tyson Fury. http://nyer.cm/XjUJEti?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null

I wrote about Chuck Schumer newrepublic.com/article/2029...

Hey, if you're planning on dressing up as an ICE agent for Halloween because scaring vulnerable people is funny to you, there is still time for you to change your mind about the worst fucking idea you've ever had.

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

The Python community has done a decent job of supporting and encouraging developers from marginalized communities. It's no surprise to me that the Python Software Foundation rejected the anti-DEI poison pill. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/softwar...

Non-paywalled link to Ed Luce's quoted article at the Financial Times: archive.ph/zDjRG

This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Confirmed. Bah!

Wow 👇

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case: As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

This, exactly. Assume it is a lie until data is shown to prove otherwise. Show me that Portland is under siege. Show me that it is war ravaged. Show me Full Force is authorized

Three weeks from today, on Saturday 18 October, there will be a second No Kings Day. Thousands of events are planned to protest the Trump regime all across the United States of America and across the world. There is so much to protest--new outrages every day. Snatching people off the street.

Whether it be in Broadview here in Illinois or in Portland, Oregon, the Trump Administration is intentionally creating chaos to threaten sending military troops to American cities and suburbs.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I’m over the whole “XXX is just a stunt to distract for YYY…” framing. No it’s not. It’s *all* really bad and it’s not meant to distract, it’s meant to OVERWHELM you with 500 pretty equally bad things so we can’t get organized and fight. PICK. A. LANE. AND. STAY. THERE. This is how we win.

Trump and his MAGA movement have mastered the art of projection, accusing the left of doing what they themselves have done. But now, Trump has taken that to a new level, becoming the manifestation of an oppressive state that the right has always warned against. So why aren't more sounding the alarm?

🧵1/6 Hours before a gunman fired nearly 500 rounds 🔫 into CDC HQ — killing Officer David Rose 🚔 and forcing hundreds of us into lockdown — RFK Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisor posted a gun photo with this caption: “Five out of six scientists have proven that Russian roulette is harmless.” 🎯

#Trump’s “Liberation Day” in D.C. was less about crime and more about showing how to occupy a city, sideline local govt, and wrap it in a ballroom sales pitch. Bogus stats, #Pirro’s Judge Dredd act, #Hegseth’s invasion pep talk #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Back in June, I gave a talk about "Exploring Wordle" at the Seattle Python user group, PuPPy (Puget Sound Programming Python). www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXmY...

I am fucking FUMING — but goddamn, I am so proud of this kid for having the wherewithal, the guts, and for refusing to delete the footage when threatened. He was arrested and charged for the footage alone

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…

Tulsi Gabbard Uses The Twitter Files Playbook To Mislead Gullible MAGA Fools I’ve been warning people since the beginning of the year to expect the Trump regime to use the Twitter Files playbook on the US government and now we’re seeing exactly that play out. Trump is facing a bunch of pushback…

Really remarkable how we have gone from "former President Clinton met with the Attorney General" as a scandal to "the DOJ is the President's personal law firm, and every part of the administrative state serves to target the President's political opponents" as the norm.

I am being completely serious when I say that Democrats in Congress should be planning daily press conferences between now and September asking why Republicans are refusing to do their jobs to protect the country’s most famous pedophile who was also best friends with the leader of their party

Swalwell: Democratic attorneys general in these states have their own law enforcement abilities. And I would recommend, and I have recommended to them use those capabilities. If these agents are committing assault or battery, you can charge them with assault and battery.

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I want to give due credit to those particular ICE agents who are honoring their oaths to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States. Two problems: (a) I can't identify anyone behind those masks, and (b) I haven't yet encountered any account of an ICE agent's meeting this description.

I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Notably, the WSJ Editorial Board—a notorious right-wing clown car—was capable of accurately describing Trump's failure and capitulation. But @cnn.com—which claims it provides unbiased, objective journalism—had its Chief Domestic Correspondent publish blatant partisan lies as "news."

rarely has there been a purer example of human progress created by someone repeatedly pressing a button labeled “DO NOT TOUCH”

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Scott Montgomery remembers Ken Bruen: crimereads.com/remembering-...

Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff

“Ordinarily I would say that while tariffs are bad, they don’t cause recessions,” Paul Krugman says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” “What’s unique about this situation is that the protectionism is unpredictable and unstable. And it’s that uncertainty that is the recessionary force.”

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

The American Police State is here. "Those of us who have lived in countries terrorized by a secret police force can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/...

This was….five months ago

These tariffs are going to be one of the most corrupt extortion rackets ever conceived of. Any industry that wants to be exempted will be forced to donate to Trump or otherwise bribe him. Political allies will be spared while opponents will not.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I wrote recently how I thought journalism just isn't able to properly cope with the bad-faith actions that typify so much mainstream politics. And I generally believe it's not bad intent by journalists and publishers... but sometimes you have to wonder.

DOGE claims to have found billions of dollars in fraud yet not one criminal charge has been filed against anyone, just mass firings of federal employees. Which means they’ve been wasting millions of dollars finding absolutely nothing on purpose. The fraud is DOGE.

Interesting opinion article on how to oppose Trump. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

In two months, Trump and Musk have: -COST the US government hundreds of billions of dollars -Substantially increased the risk of a recession -Dramatically weakened national security -Condemned 1M+ people to die with aid cutoff What are the cuts and the chaos buying us?

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”