This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.

Jeg tror epstein listen er international eller så har hvem end han samarbejdet med/arbejdet for en lignede figure i Europa Sexuel overgreb handler om magt. Det er derfor så meget af rige magtfulde mennesker begår overgreb på børn. magt.

The people on this app who have been wading through the emails and reporting their findings are really doing a community service! thanks y’all 🖖🏽

Narcisstic systems survive by finding people who will engage in transactional relationships with others. And creating the fear that doing the right thing will be more costly than sustaining the system The only way to stop that is consequences so bad everyone stops

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

It is really getting harder and harder to glibly dismiss the data centre driven growth of demand in the US, which is causing coal growth domestically and impacting the entire planet's emissions Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

This is what I mean when I say this is getting absurd. Pulte is the guy pushing the indictments of random people Trump disfavors for trivial mistakes on routine mortgage forms for a second house, and in contrast to that, this is the scale of what he was doing real estate-wise.

3/ mayor brandon johnson’s 2026 budget proposal includes cuts to crucial domestic violence services—while police get even more money.

So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.

I still believe Christine Blasey Ford and I still believe Anita Hill.

Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release. DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:

I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

feels relevant today

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

It's not surprising that men in their 50s and 60s were writing all this stuff on gmail accounts in the late 2000s/early 2010s and thinking it was safe, but it does mean a lot of important people have known about all of this for a very long time.

"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive." #KeepEyesOnSudan www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Removed Claudine Gay for (1) not being harsh enough on Palestine supporters and (2) some overhyped and cherry-picked plagiarism accusations. Replaced with Larry Summers who is overtly sexist and had close contact with the chief pedophile. Double standard much? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I hope @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social ed board calls for his resignation www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

— 🇸🇩: The Rapid Support Forces have taken control of Umm Jumt village, west of Bara, causing residents to flee. Several civilians were killed and injured during the militia’s attack. #Sudan

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

The U.S. gathered intelligence last year of Israeli officials discussing how their soldiers had sent Palestinians into Gaza tunnels the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

If anyone feels like reading the 20000 pages of Epstein emails, the link is here: oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Filing this under: man, I love graded rings

Iceland are correct

"New York City's police watchdog agency retroactively altered thousands of records of police misconduct allegations." "[A] host of sexual misconduct allegations [..] were all recategorized after the fact to the generic 'abuse of authority–other' category." #NewYork #USA #Policing

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

BREAKING Weeks after she won her special election, Adelita Grijalva has been sworn-in and is now a member of Congress.

It's cloudy here!!!

Well I’m just so glad that even with a government shutdown that they tried to use to take food from hungry people, government resources can still be allocated for Trump’s staff to have an emergency huddle in the situation room about how to handle his heinous crimes against minors coming out.

FREE LINK!!

I don’t follow Sarah Kendzior or subscribe to her Substack (because Substack) and I think her suspension is silly but honestly I care more that her suspension was temporary while Link’s was permanent

The September jobs report wasn't released either. So there's just no jobs reports now. Cool. Coolcoolcool

Terrible update on hunger striking political prisoner, Jawhar Ben Mbarek. His sister & lawyers say prison guards ordered inmates to beat him brutally. His condition is awful. Jawhar is a good man I’ve known personally since 2011. He’s fighting for all Tunisians’ freedoms. Autocracy is worsening 🧵

I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984

Just became a member this week. You should too. Banger after banger, every issue.

"would not, of course, resemble any traditional conception of property." As such, the SCOTUS held that police owe people no duty to enforce laws or court orders whose aim is the protection of people instead of property interests. "We conclude, therefore, that [Jessica] did not,

Rest in peace dear Aysam Jihad Labib Naser 🕯 #DefenseForChildrenInternational #WestBank

A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics. No talk of Zohran!

MORE DOCUMENTS obtained by Oversight’s subpoena of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate include communications between Epstein and Steve Bannon, Larry Summers, and others. Take a look: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This analysis from Brookings is probably going to be unfortunately prescient. www.brookings.edu/articles/sna...

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'“There is a generation of young scholars who are finding themselves stuck in what feels like a period of protracted adolescence,” wrote one young academic earlier this year, in a series of blogs on the early career researcher experience published by the Society for the Study of French History.' 1/3

The UNHCR warned that shrinking state contributions are leaving millions of refugees facing a harsh winter. Aid in #Syria will be “much lower this year,” risking 750,000 people without basic supplies. The agency launched a global appeal to fill the gap. #UNHCR #Refugees #Aid

Language learning requires *both* detail and context