Undefeated.

China has commissioned its latest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, after extensive sea trials, state media reported. The ship will help what is already the world's largest navy expand its power farther beyond its own waters, experts say.

This man is a sociopath. What other evidence do we need?

A clarification

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

I solved the Monday 11/03/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 13:38! That’s pretty fast, even for Monday.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

As air traffic controllers face a second missed paycheck next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm that the system is nearing its breaking point.

Good job, Colorado! Proud of my home state.

CBS aired a condensed, 28-minute version of a 73-minute interview for “60 Minutes.”

Network edits, you say? Lawsuit time.

On this All Saints Day, let us remember all those people who have come before us who have shown us the way to hope and love, who did so with courage and decency. Let us celebrate a communion of those saints doing the same today in a world in need of so much more light.

“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

I LOVE that this woman in Georgia decided to terrorize her neighbors with the Fall Of Democracy and Trump's Ghouls (in poetic detail) instead of your usual demons and monsters. She said, "It's scary because it's true."

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

NEW: A federal judge orders the government to continue SNAP benefits during the shutdown, while another judge calls the move to cut them "unlawful."

“There’s this machinismo aspect that they don’t want to accept that we have breasts, but we do,” said Kirby Lewis, who served in the Navy and was diagnosed with breast cancer a dozen years ago. He called the decision “very upsetting.”

🚨Matt Waltz, Ambassador to the UN, is called OUT during a General Assembly by Cuba’s Foreign Minister! 🚨 Sound ⬆️. 1/2

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Wow! It’s not even close. Food banks can’t keep up with the need… Question: “How long is this sustainable.” Food bank director: “It’s not… for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

#Carnegie by Quined Games. Finally got this to the table after several years on the shelf. It’s a table hog but I like it. If the solo game is good, it’ll be a keeper.

Congress has an important warmaking role. Mike Johnson is abdicating his constitutional responsibility to investigate this and help determine whether we should be heading to war.

About stinkin’ time.

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

“It’s an extreme power meant for true emergencies. What if a future president declares Christians domestic extremists? Would we have any moral ground left to stand on when those powers are turned on us?” Wow- TN-based Republican Kirk Cameron speaks out against Trump using the Insurrection Act

Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review

This is not good.

NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

#China’s_War by @gmtgames.bsky.social Finished my first game after the third propaganda round. Both the communists and nationalists reached win conditions but communists led. Warlords passed on last round to go first but they probably couldn’t have overtaken for the win. Good time!

Imagine if we did this but instead of paying people to racially profile and terrorize communities and grab mostly innocent people we did it for teachers

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump without Trump by @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social

For Trump, the pardons are not a one-off. They are a central pillar of his emerging kakistocracy. They are his instruments of immunity and impunity. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Great essay by @therickwilson.bsky.social on Trump’s grotesque and incredibly arrogant razing of the East Wing. open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

CBS been cooked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pretty wild that the Republican Party apparently now hates Ronald Reagan — and everything he stood for — and is actively trying to destroy his actual legacy.

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. ➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

I solved the Thursday 10/23/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 59:04! Fun little puzzle. Not bad for Thursday!

Or, What Trump is Doing Literally AND Figuratively

#China’s_War by @gmtgames.bsky.social Played the first propaganda round by the playbook a couple weeks ago. Finally got around to playing the second round. It’s a lot learning all the different factions but I’m starting to enjoy this look into the history of the time period.

You expect him to go to the Snake House?

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

I solved the Tuesday 10/21/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 15:11! Easy puzzle but nice time.