You know the way your sims used to stare at their life burning in front of them and not do anything about it? I get it now

FCC chair Brendan Carr isn’t arresting anyone. Instead, he’s trying to crush your freedom with regulations. He wants to silence critics of the war. He wants to decide what talk shows you’re allowed to watch. To lovers of free speech, he is the devil. Read my Stop the Presses newsletter.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

A worse time for the other astronauts on board

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

Reminder that CBS spends thousands of dollars a day on an unnecessary security detail for Bari pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LD1... @nateingraham.bsky.social and I will discuss our Apple reviews, including the MacBook Neo, iPad Air M4 and MacBook Air M5. And @strngwys.bsky.social is joining at 11:30A ET to talk about EVs!

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence. And then he bragged about it on X later.

Oh god this is live What did I agree to Tune in to watch me trip over my words and potentially faceplant

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast this morning, starting early at 10A ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5dw... I'll be chatting with the great @attackerman.bsky.social about the ongoing fight between Anthropic and the DOD, and @nateingraham.bsky.social will join to break down MacBook Neo + Apple!

Brendan Carr of the FCC is the literal definition of a useful idiot. He can fuck all the way off with this nonsense — run your own fucking propaganda, guy.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Watching yesterday’s snowboarding PGS makes me feel better because multiple athletes are older than I am. There’s still time!

I appreciate the judge that is trying to make this happen, but I have no faith these fuckers will comply. All the administration has been doing is ignoring law, why would that change now

“State terrorists, angry that he was filming their activities with his phone, surrounded him, pepper-sprayed him, thew him down… disarmed him, and then, with malice and conscience aforethought, fired at least ten bullets into him while he was utterly helpless to do anything.”

Listening to ...And Justice for All this morning, for no particular reason youtu.be/HbokBTEBEOE?...

think it’s time to start treating cbs news links the way sensible people treat free press links, by which i mean ignoring them and not spreading them

It's a totally crazy idea my colleague has here, but what if Elon, the second-dumbest man alive... just turned Grok off, just for a bit? www.engadget.com/he-could-jus...

Maybe she should try not sucking and being incompetent? bsky.app/profile/medi...

I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

First sensible things these motherfuckers have felt since they put on those masks. We need to make it 100% clear that we will be coming for them. They will be identified, prosecuted, and imprisoned. And if formal justice falls short, they will nonetheless be hounded for the rest of their days.

Today would be a great day for Donald Trump to stroke out while taking a crap, J.D. Vance to sever his dick with his zipper, and Stephen Miller to fall into an open manhole. If you can dream it, it can happen.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Fuck ICE with the power of one million suns and every fiber of my being

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

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

Lots of details in this story that get into just how awful Bari Weiss is, and has been for the entirety of her career: substack.com/home/post/p-...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

This is Colonel Nicole Malachowski. A 21-year veteran of the #AirForce, she is the first woman to fly with the #Thunderbirds & flew 26 missions in Iraq. #Trump has removed all mention of her from federal websites. Please reshare if you stand with @RealMalachowski against Trump!

In Boston, every day is No Kings Day

#Boston shows up. #nokings

Politicizing tragedy is always out of bounds and a horrific desecration of the victim if it’s in service of trying to prevent future tragedy by taking obvious and proved remedies. But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .

Sure, the world is absolutely on fire, but the weather in Boston is CRISP and I'm wearing a flannel and generally feel rather cozy, so I'm going to try to enjoy that. Also, fuck Mitch McConnell, Trump, ICE, and most of the corrupt and racist SCOTUS.

This is fucking horrifying and I cannot believe that it is real, except that this is the world we live in. In case you don't see what's going on in the preview for this story: "The former CNN host "interviewed" an AI avatar of one of the Parkland shooting victims." It's as bad as you can imagine.

Reminder that in 2021, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have banned partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.

Love this detailed report @cheymac.bsky.social put together on an ongoing attempt by the UK to agree on how to curb plastic pollution. I did not even know this was a thing. www.engadget.com/science/will...

Second big story of the day is here: a deep dive into iPadOS 26. If you've been craving better multitasking, I think Apple is finally delivering on what you are looking for. It's quite a major update, even in beta form. www.engadget.com/mobile/table...

I've been in a bit of a gaming rut for a while. Fortunately, Donkey Kong Bananza absolutely slammed me out of that rut — I've been plowing through this game and loving everything about it, even though 3D platformer isn't my favorite genre. www.engadget.com/gaming/ninte...

Lol, bye-bye Linda www.engadget.com/social-media...

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You'll be shocked to learn I had feelings about what Neil Druckmann's departure from HBO's The Last of Us means for both the show and Naughty Dog's future. The timing is particularly interesting with Microsoft doing its best to single-handedly blow up major parts of the games industry yesterday.

The Xbox / Microsoft layoff situation is wild and depressing. So many of these studios are doing good work and Microsoft's bottom line continues to grow but and getting cut because MAKE MORE? www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/...

Hmm, big changes afoot for The Last of Us season 3. I still liked season 2 a lot, but also recognize that there were a lot of legitimate issues with the plotting and pacing. Just a difficult story to adapt to TV, so shaking things up isn't a huge surprise. www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

Jim Spanfeller is a fucking joke and I am glad that the fine folks at Kotaku no longer have to work under him. Also, he's a shitty writer (assuming he didn't have AI write the bullshit missive that went out today).

Meanwhile, the bill that passed the Senate can fuck off in innumerable ways, one of which is what it may do the US solar energy market www.engadget.com/general/trum...

I heard UPenn is now offering degrees in cowardice, kowtowing, and boot licking.