Omfg yo holy shit look at this shot. Taken 34 minutes ago. I got some decent video I'll edit once I get to a hotel after catching the milky way...so..3 hours? 🪶

…why would you end a Frankenstein story with a quote from Byron?

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Just to be clear: trump’s new healthcare tirade is gov should give people money to buy health insurance. The government is currently closed because GOP refuses to give people money to buy health insurance.

GOP members of Congress could agree to extend ACA subsidies to help keep people on their insurance and end this shutdown ANY TIME THEY WANT.

Millions of servicemembers and veterans rely on the commissary system for basic needs. The tax-free grocery stores offer a substantial savings on many items and also comes with the benefit of the Star Card, a defense system credit card used at the commissary and PX (like a Target/Walmart).

I’ve reached the “I thought I only had five chapters left to right in this book but no lol I have like ten chapters” stage of trying to finish this fucking thing by the end of the year. God damn.

Crockett: When you go and you hit those booths come the midterms, think about which party decided that it was okay to literally be on vacation while people were going hungry in the streets of America.

babe wake up they just subpoenaed Sam Altman in front of a live audience

I took every one of my paid days off AND my sick days. Yes, they were different. Every time I woke up with super cramps, oops, looks like I also have the flu.

NEW: Experts say that any lags in protections like security updates and network monitoring caused by the government shutdown could lay the groundwork for future breaches. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-go...

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

Appeasement will not save you.

Florida’s attorney general is suing Planned Parenthood over mifepristone in a case designed to limit or eliminate the availability of the abortion drug and cripple PP across the state.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 video generator has become quite adept at creating imagery depicting violence against women and girls, while TikTok and Elon’s twitter help it spread.

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

Tell me you don’t understand the art of translation without telling me you don’t understand the art of translation PART 2 (i HATE THIS.)

I bet I could have insomnia even in a cryo-sleep pod. I’m really good at it.

Just let this franchise die until it’s unearthed in 100 years by some kid who read all the Crichton books in paperback and has every Spielberg film on VHS and therefore understands the DINOSAURS ARE NOT THE MONSTERS AND YOU DON’T KILL THE DINOSAURS.

trump is still doing his $2 gas shtick but it was $3.15 outside my door this week.

The blacklist is back just as Hollywood is contracting and right-wing billionaires are capturing every broadcaster and studio. At this rate, mainstream entertainment as we’ve known it will be exclusively state media before these four years are up.

“Internally, Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion ‘high risk’ scam ads a day.”

With alt text:

“There was a McDonald's a couple miles away that was selling Happy Meal toys stuffed full of heroin and it still got better reviews.”

Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth. www.wired.com/story/data-c...

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

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Media literacy is at an all-time low. And chatbots will only make it worse.

The claim: Qatar paid Mayor’s trip with staff. The same Qatar that gave trump a plane he plans to keep when he leaves office. Anyway. I forget. What did he pardon Eric Adams for again?

Ahead of Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, in which investors will likely approve a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk, some rascal was projecting this on the side of its vehicle distribution center in West Los Angeles

Tesla shareholders have a shame kink

EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Shaking down a corporation in the Oval Office on live television and no one gives a shit. We’ve completely given up.

Congressional budget office was hacked by a suspected foreign actor. In recent weeks Congressional offices stopped communicating via email with CBO due to cybersecurity risks. wapo.st/3Lpfmyx

Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues. trib.al/xAURXAW

LET FREEDOM RING

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

This week, Brady casually dropped the bombshell that his new dog, Junie, is a clone of the family’s former pit mix, Lua, who died in December 2023. www.jezebel.com/tom-brady-cl...

Are you in the US military or a military family? How is the shutdown affecting you, from no PCSing to SNAP being cut? Please let @taskandpurpose.com know. We want to give you a voice. We have a new tip system active here. taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Stars and Stripes, the editorially independent daily newspaper and website covering the U.S. military worldwide, is hiring a U.S. Bureau Chief at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. 🗞️ Interested? Apply here➡️ www.usajobs.gov/job/849430100

Frito-Lay (now owned by PepsiCo) is closing 70-year-old facilities in Orlando because sales are down after they RAISED prices. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/05/f...

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

lol what?!

Orange County Dem mayor Jerry Demings (former Rep. Val Demings’ husband) has entered the race for FL Governor. He is former OC sheriff and former Orlando police chief. Jobs he and his wife traded before their turns at higher office. DeSantis is term limited. Byron Donalds is trump’s endorsed pick.

I wrote for @slate.com about a legendary (and violent) Tennessee sheriff who more likely than not murdered his wife and the people who want to keep him on a pedestal. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Not for nothing, but Meta announced that the CFPB dropped an investigation into financial products advertising just last week! news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...