This AWS Outage is proving it may not be the best idea for us to rely on a few tech monopolies and their billionaire founders to control the core infrastructure of the internet. While it’s top of mind, cancel your Amazon Prime. Let’s kick em’ while they’re down, literally.

A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

She was legally declared a victim of a crime in a court of law, she was not an "accuser," she was a VICTIM

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

block this shit

New York is not for sale.

Crazy story. Scroll past the AI on Google and click the Wikipedia link the info is cribbed from because the trust and safety volunteers there will not only make sure your info is accurate they will also disarm a gunman barehanded.

🔴 UN: Humanitarian Teams Scaling Up in Gaza, Access Still Severely Restricted Despite a fragile ceasefire, the UN says aid delivery to Gaza remains heavily constrained by Israeli control of crossings and visa restrictions on international NGOs. Here’s what to know: ▪️ 1. Rafah Still Closed...

Oleksandr Usyk's massive career update as the undisputed champion reveals his plan to fight until 41. The core contenders for his final four bouts come from a pool of six. My Story: https://www.worldbox... #boxing #boxingnews #PhilJay

Admiral who raises concerns about killing people without due process no longer a fit for Trump’s military

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Palestinians are struggling to identify bodies returned by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal, many showing signs of torture and execution. Some appear to have been run over by tanks. Meanwhile, Israel has extended the detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, held without charge since December.

“When asked about the planned protests and accusations that Trump was behaving like a monarch, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson replied, ‘Who cares?’“ The vast majority of American people care. In fact, we care so much that tomorrow will be the largest peaceful protest in American history.

Just so I have this straight: Vance thinks racist men in their 20s and 30s are “just kids,” but 12-year-old girls are grown enough for forced pregnancy?

Tallying the number of Americans detained by immigration agents is inherently messy and incomplete. The government has long ignored recommendations for it to track such cases, even as the U.S. has a history of detaining and even deporting citizens.

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

The flip side of Callais: Blue states may soon be compelled to "unpack" their majority-minority districts drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act. That could net 12+ House seats for Dems if they're ruthless enough. But at the very real cost of congressional diversity. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

You must read this account because it will make you understand how evil Ghislene Maxwell & how heinous it is for Trump to even consider pardoning this monster. Kudos to the late Virginia Giuffre for her bravery and battle to redeem her young and vulnerable self www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Somehow it's only "demonizing half of the country" when Democrats mildly criticize Trump supporters. This just doesn't count

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not to be trite and live laugh love but also: protest can be fun and antiauthoritarianism can be playful because you’re only going to get the one life—these are the structural conditions in which you find yourself, so why not make joy where you can

I wrote this a little over a month ago: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Beyond GDP means measuring more than just the economy – social, environmental, and human well-being form a central part of development! These must be part of financial strategies to foster sustainable development. Join us at #UNCTAD16: ▶️ ow.ly/pzG850Xcujq @unctadstat.bsky.social

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it. But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues. Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

Collins: Speaker Johnson that Republicans are actually the party that wants to fix health care by addressing issues with it, as he says they did in the one big beautiful bill. Sanders: Did he really say that? They're trying to fix health care by throwing 15 million people off of it?

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

These guys destroyed USAID (budget $28bn) causing a potential 14m preventable deaths by 2030 because the deficit but can find $40bn to bail out their buddies who stand to lose money in an Argentinian crash.

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives' a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not' so the funding disappeared?? and people are dying??

Earlier this year I dug into an NYPD unit led by Eric Adams' buddies, ridden w/ abuse & rarely held to account In one case, they swerved into a motorcyclist, killing him *Now* video shows they purposely slammed into another rider www.propublica.org/article/eric... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

I have a lot of respect for Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @haleaziz.bsky.social and have talked to both many times in the past. That the Times lets them be so blunt about what is happening with the U.S. refugee admissions program is a good sign of how much the Trump admin is not even trying to deny it.

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

California keeps passing overwhelmingly popular bills by wide margins and Gavin Newsom, who sucks, keeps vetoing them https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/california-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-have-required-employers-to-provide-notice-of-ai-use/

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION. Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare. Shame.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Sotomayor: "race is *always* a part of redistricting efforts." Thank you. See, the Republicans are trying to gaslight people by suggesting they're for "no race in gerrymandering." That's just not true. Race is ALWAYS a factor when you're drawing a map.

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race. That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

Nelson: "Section 2 requires neither a confession, nor an accusation of racism. It looks only at results." This should be the winning point, but it won't, because Republicans.

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇 (Published Dec. 2024)

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?