EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America. Link below.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Remember our mantra: Don't Engage, Just Block.

Fight the urge to go dunk on trollish USG accounts; it's like mud wrestling with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. Instead, focus on picking Bluesky fights like Alf intended: by willfully misunderstanding skeets from people who actually agree with you entirely

Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have To say Don’t bait them. pay them DUST. Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target . In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them

This guy's just-woke-up-from-a-coma act is so good I'm gonna have to steal it. Boss asking you about that missed deadline? Hearing about it for the first time. Wife mad you forgot your anniversary? Sorry I'm not familiar with that person. Weef? Is that how you say it?

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life. If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution. Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

note to incoming bluesky users: you MUST bring your own joke understandings. members and staff are NOT responsible for explaining what, how, and why jokes are

As it happens, this is almost exactly the same as Nintendo’s annual revenue. Which seems like the right comparison- a successful producer of electronic toys. on.ft.com/4nMkP0B

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since. www.polygon.com/strange-days...

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

want cake? why not try "mug of cereal." that's right, mug of cereal: Its what you have

Just finished Staircase in the Woods by @chuckwendig.bsky.social, who somehow manages to recreate the feelings of loneliness and horror and friendship and hope I felt reading Stephen King in middle school. Going to save these for October every year fr now on.

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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

lying

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

This whole section really.

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation. defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

“Hating a computer program is racism” is such a funny belief to talk yourself into.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

Check out which Image books made it to the NYPL Best New Comics of 2025 for Adults www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

A quick note about money and comedy and power. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

I yearn to one day be totally unaware of cybersecurity

the "who will the public blame for the shutdown?" handwringing is asinine. the vast majority of voters have no idea how government shutdowns work, and by the time midterms roll around they won't remember anything that didn't impact them directly