It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

1. Billionaire Larry Ellison is set to acquire TikTok's US operations. Ellison, the second-richest person in the world, is a Trump supporter and a vocal enthusiast of the surveillance state.

GSK doesn't make or market leucovorin anymore, it's all generic, but they're stuck complying with the Trump admin's autism treatment scam (GSK just submitted a sNDA, which only they can do as they original sponsor) or risk having the Trump admin use the FDA to blow up everything else they make.

Congress wrote laws to protect leaders of independent agencies like the FTC, SEC and The Fed from being fired at will. That’s the law. SCOTUS agreed in 1935. Todays corrupt SCOTUS may tear that down. Benjamin Franklin warned us: the republic would only survive if we could keep it. We're not.

The presidency has been very good for Trump's finances. From Axios:

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also in Grace Kay’s story: “Earlier this year, several hundred [xAI] employees opted out of "Project Skippy," which required employees to record videos of themselves and grant the company access to use of their likeness, according to screenshots reviewed by Business Insider.”

"Civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women."

"There are only three operating [small modular nuclear reactors] in the world... The cost overruns on the China SMR was 300%, on Russian SMRs 400% and on the Argentina SMR (so far) 700%.” All promised to be up and running in three to four years and all took 12 years or more to complete."

Ukraine is successfully striking oil refineries multiple times a week now. Russia can't make it stop.

America is no longer a nation of laws. Trump is publicly pressuring his own Attorney General to start putting all his political enemies in jail.

I didn't know MAHA stood for "Make America Hungry Again," but that's what Trump and his cronies are doing with this cruel, senseless move.   With food insecurity already on the rise, this will only make it harder to help those in desperate need. It cannot stand.

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Designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” is legally meaningless. But ominous. Designating narcos as “terrorists organizations” didn’t authorize use of force, but nonetheless paved the way for lethal strikes in the Caribbean on “terrorists.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump uses his speech at the memorial to push Christian nationalism hard, as many of the previous speakers. The whole thing is steeped in language of martyrdom, (international) religious revival, spiritual warfare - to incite the movement, but also to legitimise the further authoritarian escalation.

Another thing about Lindsey Halligan is that she has never prosecuted a case

It's been my hobby theory for a bit now that ChatGPT spells the death of search traffic, which is catastrophic news for media outlets and ecommerce companies that don't have a dedicated sales team. Readers visit Substack intentionally, not through search. You're not stumbling on a Substack article.

here's an important thing about deterministic tools: when they fail, they fail predictably you can learn how to use them *for your own purposes* because they behave in consistent ways even if they aren't 100% optimal AI tools add a layer of ambiguity so you're 100% never sure what the output means

Yep, every word of this. America should be listening to Black women. The Democratic Party should be listening to Black women, not wealthy white podbros & NYT opinion writers.

🚨 It's official - 2025 observed the 10th lowest annual minimum #Arctic sea ice extent (statistical tie). My next blog will focus on this past summer season. This minimum was set 4 days earlier than average. For more information: @nsidc.bsky.social (nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...)

He fired the JAGs for the services in the first week of Hegseth's tenure. This was always where it was going. They don't want lawyers stopping their war crimes.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

BREAKING: The U.S. attorney who is under pressure to charge Letitia James in a mortgage fraud investigation is resigning, AP sources say.

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

On September 30, I'll be doing an event at Charis Books in Decatur Georgia about my new book The Seven Mountains Mandate, the strategy to win the culture war led by Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA. You can also watch online charisbooksandmore.com/event/2025-0...

Thanks to @mjgault.bsky.social for letting me come on the Angry Planet pod and talk about the memes and stuff online culture in general. It was a great conversation and I got to talk about Gamergate too, which I always love to do. Go give it a listen if you’d like!

Alarming reports that the Trump admin is trying to silence history at the National Park at Harper’s Ferry—where abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt. Signs being targeted include those that refer to “racial discrimination.” archive.is/gGV2d

She doesn't get to edit the Bill of Rights. However the heck she "feels."

Highly recommend this episode youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?...

1/ First, the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicalla (MMRV) votes at #ACIP What fAkeCIP didn’t understand - until after they'd voted - was that, by voting MMRV as *not* recommended for kids <4, they changed access to MMRV They did the opposite of what they said they’d do: give parents choices

There is deep truth in this analysis

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

When Putin took power in Russia, he made sure all the comedians who made fun of him were removed from television. Trump is perfectly copying Putin's authoritarian playbook to end Free Speech in America.

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

So cool they replaced a promised bustling factory with some high-rent storage units

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

Another flashing red light with 🚨 sirens

Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel violates the Communications Act, which bars censorship of broadcasters. Gomez also says Brendan Carr is pressuring Nextar, which is waiting for FCC approval for a merger. newrepublic.com/article/2006...

As the small border town of Sunland Park, NM faces the arrival of a data center, many in the community are wary of big promises about money and jobs and tech futures. They're already struggling to access clean water and essential services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Really interesting new paper on the rising health effects of our warming world with some great data visualizations. Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @theguardian.com article on Tyler Robinson's online persona cites my June 2023 @gwupoe.bsky.social report on generations in online radicalization, which (for whatever reason!) has had a good life. extremism.gwu.edu/third-genera...

"Robinson fits a modern trend of attackers leaving behind messages that not only show they are products of an online culture, but are in conversation with it." Terrific reporting in @theguardian.com by Nick Robins-Early. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I’ve read enough dystopian fiction to know this is the bigger part of an intended government takeover: that they predict people will gradually accept the network state if it is all that’s left to choose from. www.reuters.com/business/wor...