X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case. But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow. Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

They’re all just looting the treasury now

There's *so much* in there about Bannon's work to promote the far-right in the US and Europe, e.g., this exchange the usefulness of giving the press and the public an enemy to focus on (specifically, China):

The photographer Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home. See more of his images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AzEaHO

13 November 1919 | A German, Fritz Rose, was born in Poznan. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1941. No. 17849 He perished in the camp on 13 March 1942. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

No border control for the rich. A sanctioned Iranian tycoon accused by the U.K. government of funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) owns a 33.7 million pounds mansion—worth about $52.8 million.

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!

If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.

Powerful piece about the banality of evil, really.How simply trying to get by and pay the bills can cause folks to go along with a lot of stuff. We can cast stones but I'd rather say: "Welcome to the resistance" My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

12 October 1911 | A Czech, Anton Nozicka, was born. A welder. In #Auschwitz from 23 December 1942. No. 84935 He perished in the camp on 15 March 1943. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

Who was President on January 6?

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

This is why I really can't stand the people who think not voting somehow absolves them of moral blame, even though I recognize that a Harris administration (like literally every presidential administration) was going to be morally flawed in one way or another.

Quote of the day. “This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” Donald Trump to the assembled top brass.

The reason for military rules of engagement and adhering to laws of armed combat is not “political correctness,” it’s better strategy, serves long-term national interest, and is a way to make an awful part of the human experience a little less awful, based on lessons learned from centuries of blood.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

In need of some good news? Smoking has now been virtually eliminated among school age kids in England! (Yes, some of this is a shift to vaping but still...) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68d3ee...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

1/ Gab es bei der Ermordung von Tamima Nibras Juhar eigentlich Berichterstattung in Deutschland? Der mutmaßliche Täter ist deutscher Staatsbürger – trotzdem scheint der Fall hierzulande kaum aufgegriffen worden zu sein. International wird er hingegen als rechtsextrem motivierter Anschlag diskutiert.

Canceling Stephen Colbert and now Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert - and Matthew Dowd is horrendous- and pure fascism. Shame on those networks for caving We have a right to freedom of speech and we want it back. This is textbook fascism.

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The best thread I have seen on tonight’s events