A Russian drone has struck an historic Christian monastery - one of the most important sites in the Eastern Orthodox tradition - the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, causing a fire in the main cathedral. In a response, a spokesman for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine referred to the Kremlin as the “antichrist.”

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Trump's losses are piling up: *Fed chair prosecution collapsed *Losing redistricting fight *SCOTUS struck down tariffs *Birthright citizenship push faltering *Iran not breaking *Effort to jail other foes imploding On the pod, @swin24.bsky.social is fun on all this: newrepublic.com/article/2095...

7-year anniversary of my favorite customer service response

St Paddy's Day is always a reminder of how we can protect our mental health in the smallest ways

The scenes pretty much every time I open my phone, laptop or even my eyes, to be honest.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Fascinating and bizarre to watch US media report Khamenei's death with "Israel says" and "Trump confirms" without any other verification.

this is NUTS. sorry to keep fan-girling, but the level of reporting is just exceptional.

Two days after saying Russia doesn't want global conflict, Dmitry Medvedev is now on X implying that a nuclear "winter is coming," following the expiration of Russia's nuclear weapons treaty with the US.

With all the Washington Post layoffs happening, it makes me wonder how much Bezos is paying Angelina Jolie to be an Amazon recruiter

Nike has apparently learned absolutely nothing from the last time they released a Black and Tan shoe: www.theguardian.com/world/shortc... www.nike.com/ca/launch/t/...

Art direction

I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

I despair

"Grok announced on X..." the Guardian writes. Again, Grok is not a person and cannot deliver statements on behalf of anyone. Rewrite: "X announced, in a post delivered via its Grok AI tool, that..."

Q: There's about $17 billion of oil reserves in Venezuela TRUMP: You mean trillion. Did you say billion or trillion? Q: I said billion TRUMP: It's much more than that Q: So what is going to happen to those reserves? TRUMP: We're going to run everything

A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

Just watched two rats battle over a bagel on the subway tracks at Delancey-Essex for 3.5 mins #nyc #newyorkcity

Former news video editor here. There's a practical reason they don't. They don't have the right to any images of sick people. You can't just grab a picture off google and throw it on tv/your website. You need the rights. So either you filmed it yourself, or a newswire you subscribe to did.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

"[You're] not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?" "I'd rather not have you ask the question."

My mother's response:

If you're curious what AI scam calls sound like, here's a voicemail I just received from "Nicole with Consumer Services".

My co-worker just used OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate a fake video of a bear rummaging through garbage in a Tennessee backyard. He then asked OpenAI's ChatGPT if the video was real or fake, and it concluded that it was real. 🙃

Unbelievable scoop from Anna Bower. I genuinely admire the entire lawfare team, but this is bananas-level.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

A look at part of the crowd of tens of thousands out this afternoon for the “No Kings” protest in downtown Chicago

Incredible drone footage of Chicago’s No Kings protest:

If anyone ever asks, "why don't people immigrate to the US the right way?", it's worth noting I was just quoted $14,460 for an O-1 visa application with premium processing. My first O-1 application, without premium processing, was $6,160 in 2018.

No one is ready for any of this. Read through Drew’s thread.

This is not how copyright works. OpenAI is simply admitting to stealing intellectual property for profit but is telling the creators that it’s their fault if they don’t ask for their stuff back.

I just went to a shoe repair shop in NYC to ask them to resole a pair of black leather boots I bought 4 years ago for $130 The cost: $165 Sooo I guess I'll just buy new boots and throw them out This system is bad.

Story, which it would be great if you could all click on www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/16/m...

"The who? I'm not familiar," Trump says after being asked why he didn't lower flags for Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortmann, a Democrat, who was assassinated at her home in June along with her husband. "I wouldn't have thought of that," he says.

9/11 Tribute in Lights on a cool, clear Tuesday, Sept 9, in #NYC

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

“This is a golf course, stop it “

Israeli PM Netanyahu's office says the IDF killing of multiple journalists in a double-tap strike on a hospital in Gaza as a "tragic mishap". The military will be investigating its own actions, his office says.

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

Israeli media reporting that Netanyahu has decided that Israel will occupy Gaza:

I deeply dislike this nation’s persistent mass shooting status quo, and I particularly would rather not walk around the scene of a mass shooting to make my way home. But the way New Yorkers on the street find commonality with one another in the wake of events like this remains a source of awe.

"How did a 30-year-old Chinese-Brazilian finance professional working for a Chinese state energy company secure $100 million to buy crypto tokens from the President of the United States’ main crypto firm? And what do he and his colleagues expect in return?" www.jacobsilverman.com/p/revealed-t...

NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The Trump White House is planning to send 100s of people from allied nations to Guantanamo, according to the Washington Post. The countries include the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, the report says

AP reports that the Trump Administration has violated a court order by flying around 10 migrants, inc men from Vietnam & Myanmar, to South Sudan, a country that the US itself says is rife with violence and human rights abuses, and which the UN says is at risk of civil war apnews.com/article/depo...

The Lebanese health ministry says 2 children were among at least 9 people wounded, including three critically, in this Israeli drone strike on a motorbike in Mansouri, Tyre district: x.com/idfonline/st... Location: 33°10'23.2"N 35°12'31.3"E maps.app.goo.gl/XuBqnK6Jn6QT... @geoconfirmed.org