My favorite: > 13. Before using the word “unprecedented,” interview a historian.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

A months-long investigation into the Kush21 cannabis retail chain showed how their owners responded to a new law aimed at limiting the power of retail groups by acquiring more retail groups and more stores.

Charles Babbage's Brain

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

CBS News correspondent:

It turns out the person posting White supremacist content on the DHS social accounts is a White supremacist.

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

The first part of a new investigative series into the use and abuse of management agreements in the #Washington #cannabis sector.

Innovation at the Philadelphia Inquirer to monitor 34 local jurisdictions for newsworthy happenings.

From March 2025, a proposal by cartoon villain Stone to pardon convicted narco-terrorist Hernandez to re-install a regime favorable to failed Network State island Prospera.

Well this has to be good and mind expanding.

Epstein emails (2.5 GB) Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years. ddosecrets.com/article/epst... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Eager to create "structures of factuality"

A promising approach!

Best take I've read on the new Twitter account location feature which helped verify how much the platform incentivized disordered discourse.

A creative and fun activism technique applicable to any private retailer.

The founder of @bellingcat.com has been developing a helpful concept of "disordered discourse" to help comprehend these strange online times.

Deep dive into what became of DOGE with details on individuals and factions.

Yet another example of why it's disconcertingly helpful to interpret incendiary Republican accusations as admissions of what they themselves are doing.

Browse the #Epstein email archive in a replica Gmail interface: jmail.world (HT @camrodriguez.bsky.social)

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

A Congressional staffer fabricating and staging a fake violent attack on herself seems like a pretty weird thing to do.

Here is the video that everyone is about to watch because of the Streisand Effect.

Follow The Money

My new favorite quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

Me: It's impossible to keep track of the lies, there's so many @leadgraffiti.bsky.social: actually

NEW: A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests. The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.

Bannon advocating for "more intense action" to "seize" the political institutions and "codify" what Trump has only been able to suggest by Executive Order.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Helpful context and rundown of today's Supreme Court oral arguments by @brennancenter.org advocate.

The surprising model: OpenAI o1

Google's Project Suncatcher marks the beginnings of a Dyson sphere for #ML #AI compute: research.google/blog/explori...

Rushkoff does a really admirable job of deconstructing the horrifying elite anti-ethos in play here - and coming out on the other side with humanity. This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.

“All members of armed forces must comply w/ their internal operating procedures & military manuals & strictly abide by int'l law. Officers should refuse superior orders where these are a manifest violation of the law & may result in a serious violation of human rights incl. extrajudicial executions”

Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her. Her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released without charges. Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Now where is that list of CBS advertisers - let the boycotts and subscription cancellations begin!

You too could pay $20K + $500/month for a REMOTELY PILOTED humanoid robot INSIDE YOUR HOUSE. What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO

All you need to know about Bari Weiss being bought over to CBS News.

Chuck Schumer has got to go.

Let them eat... nothing.

SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...

"Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace" —@willsommer.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government. https://to.pbs.org/47oCJzm

$550 billion in Japanese funding. Directed by the President. Outside Congress’s control. My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse. www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald .. @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Here's my post on right wing efforts to turn an investigation into how Trump cheated his rubes into something damning for Democrats. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/f...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Clearly demarking the two different "armed gangs" (ICE/CBP) and the more egregious abuses led by Bovino.

Helpful summary of the moment and how the federal shutdown has become about much more than healthcare subsidies.