Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

Here's a fascinating little parlor game for you. From 1941. Disturbingly insightful yet today. Thompson's insights into human nature are deftly on target. Thanks, Ken White.

Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

Can't think of a more essential function, can you? Hmmm ... let me think for a nanosecond.

What the everloving ... www.404media.co/landlords-de...

New: 404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS. We're seeking a copy of a data agreement that is giving ICE the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients. This is on top of our other lawsuit seeking ICE's $2 million spyware contract www.404media.co/404-media-an...

More on "Bag O' Cssh" Homan's alleged grift.

After the Trump administration sought to privately email some crucial spreadsheets instead of filing them on the public docket, a judge scolds: "We have no secrets here. The government needs to file everything publicly and needs to do so now." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

The White House wants equity to invest as it sees fit, and not necessarily in Korean firms. 🤦‍♂️ (As usual, @justinwolfers.bsky.social appears to have been right that this was a vapordeal.)

I found +3,000 Meta ads for nudifiers & AI girlfriend apps that featured bare breasts, simulated sex acts etc. Meta said in June that it had deployed new methods to block nudifier ads. Indicator will continue to report on its progress, or lack thereof:

Why dies "Grokipedia" sound more like an indexed reference of Trump's hstory with women?

In which Hegseth confirms this administration is basically a large frat house. apnews.com/article/trum...

Not sure this is going to have the reception he thinks it might. For starters, what does made outisde the US mean? No foreign films? No location shooting outside the US? Prepare for the carve-outs and TACO Tuesday.

Is CPB, as one of its final acts, leaving @NPR.org out to dry? www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

The technobros are truly dangerous. This is unlikely to end well.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

It’s 2025 every reporter at every major media organization should at this point know about 4chan and what a fucking edgelord is. 4chan has been around for TWENTY ONE YEARS.

If you had any doubts about the Retribution Administration. ... But the danger for Trump is like that which brought down McCarthy -- push it too long and too heavily handed, and eventually public tiredness of it all gives those behind the scenes their opening. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Try not to let the door hit you on the way out.

Hahahaha Hahaha UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, said a U.S delegation videographer who ran ahead of [Trump] triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator. A UN official speaking on condition of anonymity said the White House was operating the teleprompter. apnews.com/article/trum...

So. Much. Cost. Saving. The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement ... Those who accept must report to work on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation.

I grew up in NYC during the latter years of the mob era. (One of my HS classmates became, shall we say, a known "corporate" lawyer.) And even those mob bosses would have gone, whoa, dude, maybe be a little more subtle.

BREAKING: Florida cop treated for autism after exposure to tylenol during traffic stop

Dear @apnews.com, Have you learned nothing about reflexively calling every major change "reform"? The word has a positive connotation. There is a wide swath of people who would vehemently disagree with that. Stick to the neutral "changes."

Translation: We've so screwed things up, please rescue us. "Miran said the combination of Trump’s mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and higher tariff revenues would sap enough energy from the economy to require significantly lower interest rates." thehill.com/business/551...

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

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Their usual finely planned and tuned rollout. Read the fine print. It gives the Grift Administration the discretion to waive the fee as it sees fit. So another pressure point. www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/t...

Because if you don't know, there's nothing you can't easily see any effects of our policies.

8nteresting list.

Recommended read. Totally 🎯. convulsions.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

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Censorship much? WaPo: For example, even the initial planning efforts for June’s parade marking the Army’s 250th anniversary ... was initially categorized as ... “Controlled Unclassified Information,” which would be barred from public access. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🤣🤣 Didn't I say this violated Fed. R. Civ. P. in so many ways? They can resubmit, but it is limited to 40pp (and maybe best to drop the illustrations). apnews.com/article/trum...

Be aware. You know those mandatory arbitration clauses in about every contract and ToS you agree to these days? The clauses you love to hate? They're coming to the stock market.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

C-suite not happy: • "chaotic, hard-to-navigate business environment" • 71%: the tariffs are harmful. • 75%: these tariffs are illegal • US consumers and importers bearing most tariff costs. • 62% won't invest more in US. Things are too chaotic. www.wsj.com/business/ins...

“We all see where this is going, correct?” Letterman said. “It’s managed media. And it’s no good, it’s silly, it’s ridiculous…” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Sinclair is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Oof.

Before you spout off about how "hate speech" or "flag burning" or whatever you don't like is not #FirstAmendment protected -- or so and so can't be fired for saying that -- read this. One of the best current primers you'll find out there. scpress.org/first-things...

Best commentary/analysis I've seen so far. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/c...

Cowards. Shameless, morally bankrupt cowards.

Saying mean things to Donald Trump is not a RICO predicate act. Even YELLING at Donald Trump is not a RICO predicate act.

"Woo-hoo"; when Woo comes out and suggests a line's been crossed, you've achieved something truly special.

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

coates is genuinely a generational writer