The Congressional Budget Office is investigating what appears to be a hack by a foreign actor, four people familiar with the situation tell @washingtonpost.com's @jacobbogage.bsky.social and @rbeggin.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"why does the Times keep publishing Ross Douthat?" can be answered by the fact that more people on here have linked to Ross Douthat content today than have linked to a Maureen Dowd column in this decade

🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months. The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open. 🎁 Gift link:

The Heritage Foundation faces an open revolt against leadership over its defense of Tucker Carlson — including a wild all-hands staff meeting yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A ballistic vest meant to stop a bullet “is definitely going to keep you safe from a sandwich thrown at you," Sean Dunn's defense attorney argued.

D.C. United: not in the 2025 MLS Cup playoffs, but in the Nov. 5, 2025, @nytgames.bsky.social crossword puzzle clues

Andrew Cuomo gets the coveted (?) but lukewarm Trump endorsement the night before Election Day

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food. He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S., according to internal DOD memos. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

A reminder here that these men and women have jobs, lives, and families they’re away from.

Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi. Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C. buff.ly/16gTRJa

Totally apropos of nothing, we always called my grandfather’s cousin my uncle (and they were both alter kockers who grew up speaking Yiddish)

“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement, and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

We need data on Gio's minutes spent giving interviews versus playing professional soccer

WILD story. A DHS officer shot at a man he thought was fleeing (a judge dismissed all charges). Bullets went into the driver's side window, through his jacket collar, and into the empty passenger seat. An MPD cop on the scene says he was ordered not to put it in the police report.

Mike Johnson sees no way to amend the Constitution in time for Trump to run again in 2028: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Trump administration says it can't make SNAP payments using a contingency fund, even though it did that in the last shutdown during Trump's first term www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Hours-long wait times. Endless looping music. Useless robot messages. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security every month. What they experience is often maddening.

auntifa

Breaking news: Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm — one of the most powerful storm landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin. The storm is expected to include total building failures and catastrophic wind damage.

New: Elon Musk appears to have just launched "Grokipedia," billed as a more right-leaning rival to Wikipedia: grokipedia.com Story to come. If you try it out, I'd be interested to hear what you find.

State Department official: The United States has the ability to provide “lifesaving assistance to affected countries and people across the country when it is in the interest of the United States” @danlamothe.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In the first half of this year, the income of President Trump's family business soared 17-fold to $864 million, based almost entirely on new crypto ventures that have been a magnet for overseas cash, a Reuters investigation found. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Definitely seems from the tone of the email we just got like the newsroom failed last week's fire drill

Many American Jews believed the U.S. was a unique haven, @lilacb.bsky.social wrote for @washingtonpost.com after the Tree of Life shooting seven years ago. But we were wrong. (Baruch dayan ha-emet.)

@theonion.com:

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

“Prop bets but the house controls the outcome” doesn’t seem like great upside for anyone placing these wagers

Hear what it’s like to spend hours waiting for help with your Social Security wapo.st/4hC161y

In which a pay package for Elon Musk that could be worth more than $1 trillion is described as “equitable” x.com/tesla/status...

A spokeswoman for the White House declined to comment on why the administration hasn’t included legacy in its demands to schools or in standards put forth by the Trump administration in return for preferential federal funding. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

I listened to Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures, so you don't have to www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

OpenAI’s Sora gets knocked out of the #1 spot in the App Store — by Dave’s Hot Chicken, which is promoting ‘free sliders’ to celebrate Drake’s birthday.” - MS desk

ACA premiums will increase by an average of 30 percent next year, which consumers will see when federal open enrollment begins Monday (or when you click this @washingtonpost.com scoop) www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

one thing that AI is going to teach us about the consumption of cultural products, for better or worse, is in which markets and sectors consumers just want the largest volume possible of mid, and in which sectors it matters if something is good and interesting or not

Anyway Letitia James has pleaded not guilty in a case that centers on whether she saved $50 a month. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The Solomonic solution would be to fly him to Liberia, Costa Rica

The U.S. military killed six people overnight in the 10th reported strike on a boat alleged to be involved in drug smuggling, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced.

Conservative groups are working the White House, Homeland Security, DOJ to go after prominent environmental organizations. It's part of an effort to link progressive groups to Antifa, despite the lack of evidence. Stripping away nonprofit status is only 1st step. www.eenews.net/articles/gre...

An unboycottable list—good luck avoiding Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, Meta, and Microsoft unless you go live in a cabin in the woods buying nothing and using no technology

At least 67 members of Congress (28 of them Republicans, 39 Democrats) reported holding multiple mortgages, potentially opening them up to scrutiny of the sort the Trump administration is applying to its adversaries www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

New: Elon Musk's feud with Sean Duffy, the Trump official with the most oversight of his businesses, is raising eyebrows. "You’re essentially fighting with the guy in charge ... It’s so much self-sabotage." wapo.st/4nf0OyB

The 2025 990 for the Trust for the National Mall will be Washington's hottest document some time next year www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Curtis Sliwa says he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out of the NYC mayoral race and work for Andrew Cuomo.

“YouGov polling conducted Tuesday found that 53 percent opposed demolishing part of the East Wing, 23 percent supported it and the remainder were unsure.”

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Did not fall off the ladder while taking the sukkah apart, despite the best efforts of one string of solar lights to make it happen

Hi everyone, I've been speaking with Lubna about what she needs since the ceasefire. She says food prices have come down but housing is basically exorbitant even the rents for tents, because do free buildings are left in Gaza. Can we help her and her children please?

Ah, good, as I approach 50 I needed new ways to feel bad about my own athletic abilities