Surely Johnson is the most pathetic Speaker in the history of the United States. An unctuous toady to power, crawling up to his presidential benefactor, practically begging for Trump to usurp Congress's constitutional role.

“President Trump’s instinct when he loses is to sulk, and to lash out. He will almost certainly now retaliate against New York City – but doing this comes with enormous political risk.” inews.co.uk/opinion/city...

Breaking: Democrats have surged into a commanding win capturing a super-majority in the New Jersey Assembly!

BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA

Another day, hundreds more ads for #AI nudify apps across #Meta platforms... Meta loves to talk about "new technology to detect ads for nudify apps" and "strict rules against non-consensual intimate imagery." Funny though, because we at @americansunlight.org sure do find these ads often...

The Trump administration has recast Binance founder CZ as a martyr—and his pardon may have unintended consequences for the US crypto industry. www.wired.com/story/trumps...

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

The effectual truth of “don’t tread on me” is “do tread on them.”

The German far right wants to defend the homeland.    It just can’t say how — or against whom.

CC Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin...

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

OPINION: Catherine Connolly's Irish presidential win highlights how delusional the country has become when it comes to security. It should also serve as a wake-up call for other EU members in terms of the country’s unreliability on defense issues.

Germany plans €377B in defense procurements as Kremlin bot network spreads fake story about Chancellor Merz’s wife buying Rheinmetall shares A new disinfo campaign flagged by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social is spreading videos posing as @bellingcat.com, The Telegraph, and German tabloid Bild.

Polls show that only 33% of Americans blame Democrats for the shutdown. But at this Atlantic staff Zoom meeting, that percentage feels much higher.

Integral to Mussolini's notion of corporatization was the absorption of corporate leadership into the ranks of the Partito Nazionale Fascista.

National Guard troops were at Portland ICE building despite court ban, feds admit Portland police Cmdr. Franz Schoening testifies he was ‘startled’ by federal officers’ indiscriminate use of force against passive protesters outside ICE facility. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

MAGA has been doing everything it can to portray anyone remotely left of it as blood-thirsty terrorists out to kill your entire family. It’s stupid and pathetic, but it’s also meant to support egregious violations of free speech rights like this.

Kyle Cheney: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.

If the Carney government deploys generative AI -- a product that by design cannot be trusted to provide reliable information -- to answer Canadians' tax question, it should be required to forgive the taxes of anyone who follows any incorrect answers.

“The 🇺🇸 US military conducted strikes against four more boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 14 people on board the vessels, with one survivor, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It marked the first time multiple strikes were conducted on the same day.”

That theory is wildly wrong (a VP candidate has to be eligible to become president) but why are you tossing him suggestions for how he can violate the Constitution? Who asked this? Is this what we can expect from the new and improved White House press corps?

Lithuania intends to permanently close its border with Belarus and shoot down any balloons entering its airspace, Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said today.

It is continually astonishing to me the lengths the US government goes to in order to protect Israel from criticism. This journalist would have been left alone if he’d criticized the United States, but criticism of Israel is treated as lèse-majesté.

Business, Media, Political Elite will encourage US to forget about the crimes against US, they will demand we forgive & forget in the name of unity, but what they really care about is ensuring that the wealth & power of the Elite are not disrupted by their 10+ years of collaborating against US.

Some day Trump and MAGA will be gone, and we will restore the democracy & rule-of-law. But, many people will have suffered & died, and it will take decades to rebuild our government & economy to once again serve US rather than the Trump Family's corruption.

Striking line in the Atlantic's story on the Venezuela build-up. "The U.S. hasn’t sent this many ships to the Caribbean since the Cuban missile crisis." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Two Ukrainian nationals have been detained in Poland on suspicion of spying for a foreign intelligence service, authorities in Warsaw said today.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that the end of Russia’s war in Ukraine might lead to efforts to rekindle economic ties with Russia — including the restarting of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

It is incredibly difficult to get folks to understand that there are literally 20-30 people in DC who could end all of this tomorrow, & all of them are Republicans in Congress, & no one in the National Conversation seems interested in paying attention to that.

Lisa Murkowski Susan Collins Thom Tillis David Valadao Bryan Steil Etc. Every day, the entire National Conversation is laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do, & these supposedly "moderate" Republicans get total free passes. They're the ones who can end it all. Find them. Ask the hard questions.

Lithuania shuts airports due to balloons from Belarus, transport ministry says reut.rs/3L660HW

SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza. theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...

The wreck of the sunken ferry “MS Estonia” in the Baltic Sea, which is a gravesite and off limits to divers, is now thought to be used by 🇷🇺Russia as a hiding place for undersea sensors, report WDR, NDR und SZ.

In den USA wurde ein (Krebs)Forschungsprojekt mit transgenen Mäusen abgedreht, weil das Wort "trans" vorkommt, erzählt @benmshultz.com Wir haben auf der #disinfo2025 über die schwierige Situation von Wissenschaftlern in den USA gesprochen. Er selbst hat das Land verlassen oe1.orf.at/player/20251...

Important information for anyone doing AI research who has downloaded or used the NudeNet dataset

They don't care. "It was the only publicly accessible channel of its kind for organisations or individuals to inform it directly of potentially serious abuses by US-armed foreign forces." www.bbc.com/news/article...

UPDATE: I’ve graduated from “nobody” to “distortionist”

Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month. No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education. This is just one page.

Federal District Court Judge George Bourquin grants a writ of habeas corpus to block the deportation of a non-US citizen accused by the government of being a "Red." (This occurred in 1920)

Russ Vought Gets Some. In which we learn that Oklahoma's former MAGA education commissar Ryan Walters fell after auditors discovered he was paying large sums of education department money on a consulting contract with his mistress, the former wife of Russ Vought,

Alphabet Altria Amazon Apple Blackstone Booz Allen Hamilton Carrier Caterpillar Coinbase Comcast Google Hard Rock International HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Meta Microsoft New York Jets OpenAI Palantir Reynolds American Ripple Roblox T-Mobile Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tether Union Pacific Railroad

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?

As AI videos and images spread across the internet, tech companies have developed a plan to prevent mass confusion. But tests by The Post on eight major social platforms found that only one of them added a warning to an uploaded AI video.

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain. https://to.pbs.org/48JXYOI