I’m thinking of a family friend who made several fortunes. Including as the first investor in Bob’s Big Boy. At his funeral, there were endless stories of all the ways he had helped people. Almost no one who knew him knew any of it because he’d never announced it. Paying entire college tuitions […]

Mud Maid — Sculpture by Sue Hill in Cornwall, UK: This moss-covered figure of a woman rests on the forest floor at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. Her face is sculpted from clay and softened by time, while her hair and body are formed from earth and living […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Incredible, first-of-their-kind images show an orca being born in Norway https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/incredible-first-of-their-kind-images-show-an-orca-being-born-in-norway-and-the-rest-of-its-pod-forming-a-protective-circle 🐬 #cetaceans #marinemammals #marinelife #marinebiology […]

Very displeased with one of my Alma Maters! #cornell Reaches Deal with #trump Admin to Restore #research #funding The Ivy League #university had warned of #layoffs after the Trump admin stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher #education. #law #firstamendment […]

President Trump suggests that Americans simply fly private on jets provided to them by Qatar.

There are vital lessons in Mamdani’s decisive drubbing of Cuomo, as @mmasnick.bsky.social explains. But Dem insiders will resist them. They would rather perpetuate their losing grift than win by embracing hippies.

Welp. I have no interest in ever supporting my alma mater again. Fucking hell.

#PeteHegseth’s actions, which are without precedent in recent decades, have come w/ little explanation. In many cases, they have run counter to the advice of top #military leaders who fought alongside the officers in combat, snr military ofcls said. The utter unpredictability of #Hegseth’s […]

#giftarticle #hegseth Is Purging #military Leaders With Little Explanation The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass. #defense Secy #petehegseth has fired or sidelined at least 2 dozen generals & admirals over […]

hey that seems corrupt af

So the VPN company, CyberGhost, sent a DMCA takedown to Cloudflare to try to get them to take down our article about the last sketchy DMCA notice they sent to Facebook to get them to take down a promotion we did *for them* a decade ago.

As they should, #democrats hold out for #healthcare talks as Thune says 'time is now' to reopen government Senate Majority Leader John Thune asked Democrats on Friday to “end these weeks of misery” without offering anything in return, which is the way of democratic government: compromise. Dems […]

For all you #gop #isolationists, #trump is putting #bootsontheground #us steps up presence in #gaza to support fragile #ceasefire The #usmilitary *led* “coordination center” charged with implementing Trump’s *peace* plan in Gaza is replacing #israel as the overseer of *humanitarian aid* to the […]

ATFKM? cuz you know … #law #constitution #emoluments etc!!! Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury #trump #hotel on #historic Bombing Site Despite a #fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through […]

Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes. He has ties to Russian intelligence — and Trump’s businesses. Again: The law does not apply to them. newrepublic.com/post/202897/...

Not the relevant takeaway here but Heggy keeps trying to sound tough by using poaster memes. Just comes off as desperate and weird.

Here we go! www.trumpcancelledmyflight.com

Lots of interesting nuances in First Amendment cases regarding government employees, but the administration using furloughed employee emails to blast partisan messages against their will *should be* an easy call. We'll see how the shadow docket, unexplained ruling feels about it, though.

This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.

Every time the media presents Kevin O'Leary as a good business person I like to remind people of how he got rich, by selling a sketchy software company to Mattel (who did no due diligence) for billions they had to write down a few months later. archive.is/HL67I#select...

Not pro-life. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is what good journalism looks like. Go talk to the people actually impacted by all the nonsense, rather than just presenting the view from nowhere...

This kind of corporate arrogance from Conde Nast is making me rethink my paid subscriptions to WIred, ArsTechnica, and the New Yorker. https://www.semafor.com/article/11/06/2025/cond-nast-abruptly-fires-4-staffers-after-hr-confrontation

trump desperately filing a last-minute bid to prevent americans from buying food

China is reportedly behind the newly disclosed hack of the Congressional Budget Office, and it may still have access to some CBO systems: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack. In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.

#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.

They're so desperate to starve people they couldn't even wait for the proper rejection.

"If it pleases the court, our position is that the poor people should go hungry"

Seems like a valid question. Why is ICE considered essential while ATCs are not?

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

Since no one seems interested in a #tlcleanse . . . more horrific #crimesagainsthumanity courtesy the #unitedstates #trump admin: #immigration Agents Arrest Man in #la Raid & Drive Off With [abduct] His Toddler The #child was later “reunited” granted sanctuary] with her grandmother, but the […]

A federal judge issues a permanent injunction barring the president from deploying National Guard troops from any state to Oregon, finding Donald Trump exceeded his authority. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.146.0.pdf

This is a big deal, although a lot will depend on what #SCOTUS does in the Illinois case (in which we don’t expect a ruling until the week of November 17 at the earliest).

Remember, historically judges will almost always take gov't claims at face value. It's an astounding fact that judges are now increasingly realizing that this administration just flat out lies to them constantly. And it's good to see them calling it out (in this case with a Trump-appointed judge).

Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?

NBC News - The Trump administration is exploring buying warehouses that were designed for clients like Amazon and retrofitting them as detention facilities for immigrants before they are deported […]

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#trump says no #us government official will attend #g20 summit in #southafrica - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trump-says-no-us-government-official-will-attend-g20-summit-south-africa-2025-11-07/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Judge Permanently Blocks #nationalguard Deployments to #portland for #ice #protests With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the fascist #trump admin had failed to prove that protesters were *hampering* Trump’s policies. #law #immigration #constitution #firstamendment […]

This is why I protest #Tesla and #ElonMusk every chance I get #TeslaTakedown

CARTOON OF THE DAY

The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

The wording of this is highly unusual, and suggests that Justice Jackson is expecting the First Circuit to rule on a stay pending appeal (a longer pause of the district court's order) in the next few days. I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

Kyiv Post - Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine with drones, Kalibr and Kinzhal missiles, hitting Dnipro’s residential building and energy sites, causing casualties and blackouts. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/63877

Heartless billionaire assholes #trump admin seeks to halt #snap #food #aid payments after a #courtorder Trump’s admin asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP benefits amid a #us govt #shutdown, even as at least some states […]

Pope Leo's recent criticisms of #trump anti-#immigration policies are emboldening #catholic efforts to help #immigrants caught up in the admin's hardline crackdown, snr US Church leaders say. After Leo called on Tues for "deep reflection" in the #us about the admin's treatment of #immigrants […]

From the independent reporter Jacqueline Sweet (Disaster Girl): "An FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Donald Trump any […]

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man