In light of "pocket rescissions" no deal CAN be honored. Any paper is worthless while that's still an option!

Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?

So this story is super duper interesting for a whole ton of reasons, but one big one is its a very rare glimpse into the private valuation of high-end exploits held by major defense contractors bsky.app/profile/lega...

WTF 🤬 A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

I assumed this had to be AI. It is not AI. It's like concept design for Neil Patrick Harris at the end of Starship Troopers that Verhoeven rejected for being too on-the-nose.

credible modeling from impactcounter.com shows that trump and musk have killed nearly 600,000 people with their illegal cuts to date. nearly 400,000 of them were children.

This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Casey Means is a wellness influencer & unqualified opportunist who will face the Senate on Thursday. She should be called out on her conflicts, pseudoscience, & extremism, along with her weird scammer brother. She should not be confirmed. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-means-to...

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood... Andrea Cavallier Tuesday 28 October 2025

Another video showing ICE thugs assaulting a marathon runner, which resulted in 6 broken ribs and internal bleeding for the 67-year-old man. This video is a different angle and longer than the video that has already gone viral from this incident. www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/...

All it would have taken was “I messed up and I know I have to win back your trust but I am prepared to try to do that”. Instead he really went with DARVO. The reaction is itself disqualifying.

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

Absolutely right.

This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days. It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.

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Heads up introverts, autodidacts and other former gifted kids: at this point if you haven't covered up your old harry potter tattoos.... uhhh...... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............

‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?

Will Lewis gets up every day asking: How can I get more suburban DC readers to cancel their subscriptions? It's called grindset and you wouldn't understand.

From new Wired article about Alpha Schools: www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."

Joshua Doss

Still not enough …. Credit @mwuerker.bsky.social #Greed

Cuomo can say Kościuszko but not Mamdani?

median cuomo voter

The way Dems treat Mamdani versus Platner... hm

Trump is underwater on everything. And massively so on a lot things:

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.

“.. staffers were taken aback the next morning, when Thompson suggested during the daily network editorial call that it should ease up on covering Trump’s East Wing demolition ..” @nataliekorach.bsky.social @status.news www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

"Here is a photo that about sums things up. This is my friend and colleague Pastor Jorge Bautista getting shot in the face by an ICE agent's flash bang grenade. Jorge's demeanor is calm and brave. Here's what's true: those who, like Jorge, are calling for Love and Peace and inclusion and the

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency. An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

Catherine Connolly, the independent socialist, is President-Elect. Yet again, Ireland bucks the trend of liberal democracies falling to far right nihilism. Here is who she is - Connolly supports the LGBTQ community & People with Disabilities, Carers & a United Ireland. #Aras25 #SpeirGhorm

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification. Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

#ProudBlue Tough guys wearing masks bullying a woman 😡 What country were you born in? Were you born here? It’s none of your fucking business where she was born 😡 #FuckIce

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There's a lot to unpack, digest and consider here, though some of the solutions they suggest seem unworkable. But it's striking to me that they dismiss @aoc.bsky.social as "AOC at the Met gala," when she is actually an example of a working-class candidate with great communication skills who wins.

I just read Ezra’s intro to that interview and he just breathes/represents the elite disdain/contempt for the Democratic Party (not its often subpar officeholders but its composition) in a way that makes my skin crawl.

Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.2% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.2% in September www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/10/clev...

Older people watching White House get demolished: Oh this is just like when Soviets installed listening devices in U.S. Embassy in Moscow in 1980s. They used a sophisticated system with the microphones embedded in the pre-cast concrete that was brought in.

Re CZ: Binance is sitting on $2B of Trump’s USD1 stsblecoin, allowing Trump to earn interest on the money.

Trump rewarded Changpeng Zhao, a business partner who boosted his crypto venture, with a pardon for crimes that Zhao pleaded guilty to. Trading presidential favors for self-interest. You can’t get more classically corrupt than this.

Is Musk to blame for the increase in Social Security signups? Some of it, sure, as people alarmed by the chaos he unleashed rushed to sign up before it was too late. But the bigger driver seems to have been the Social Security Fairness Act signed by Biden on Jan. 5 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Hey, remember when Elon Musk was going save hundreds of billions of dollars by revoking Social Security benefits for dead people? Didn't happen, because hardly any dead people were getting Social Security. Instead, there's been a big *increase* in Social Security recipients since Musk's DC stint.

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

Matt Kacsmaryk has gone woke.

In Germany, the police academy is 2.5 years. In Finland, 3 years. Even the NYPD is 6 months. ICE is was already 3 months. Now 1.5 months. Pure indifference to any actual skill or ability. Makes them both more dangerous and less effective. Hell of a double-edged sword.