Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This may become the funniest trial of all time

"Witnesses and school employees said they thought the school was under attack and scrambled into rooms and vehicles outside in search of safety." One mother who walked in right after described "a room of crying kids, crying parents and crying teachers" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

The Trump administration is shutting down flights before the holidays www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

Zohran Mamdani's Campaign Figured Out How to Channel Fandom The Zohran Mamdani campaign ran a competent social media program, yes. But it's the fandom it fostered that transformed Mamdani into a digital (and IRL!) phenomenon. More here: www.wired.com/story/zohran...

Trump's name wasn't on the ballot, just his party and the people and issues he supported

Election Night bombshell. Literally no one saw this coming

Nailed it

Dems in Array

The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”

Coca-Cola has done it: Its new AI-generated Christmas ad is more hollow and soulless than ever

. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped in on many online microfandoms to conquer the fragmented media problem, including a personal favorite of mine, the streamer who walks around New York making beats for strangers to freestyle to @ariathome.bsky.social

Need a word for AI people who are performatively reverent about art and media in bulk while also dismissive or hostile to the individual works and creators they're made from

The "proud Islamophobe" and banned Uber Eats user Laura Loomer confirms that the Pentagon has granted her special press access www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @scottnover.bsky.social

From being banned by Uber to getting credentials to cover the world's biggest military. The "Department of War" just Loomered itself @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW >> Laura Loomer, the far-right activist has been credentialed to cover the Pentagon after signing its new press policy. She has repeatedly criticized defense officials while boasting of her close ties to Trump. with @drewharwell.com for @washingtonpost.com

I went and found the truth of that Fox News story about food stamps

Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I will see you in Valhalla. 🫡

"The right has no immune system against hatemongers and grifters. Few people in MAGA circles are willing to stand up to them—and the audiences likely wouldn’t support them if they did."

The Heritage Foundation president just did the dril "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them'" bit about Nick Fuentes

Great reporting from @drewharwell.com and @joyceshlee.bsky.social. They do a great job of explaining their process. I’m going to share this with students as an example of how to fact-check videos and figure out where they came from.

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

A 61-year-old Tennessee man posted a liberal meme on Facebook after Charlie Kirk's death. A conservative sheriff had him arrested. Bail was set at $2 million. He spent nearly 40 days in jail before charges were dropped. Now he's planning to sue. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A $1 trillion valuation for a money-losing company with 25 million paying customers www.reuters.com/business/ope... @deepa.bsky.social

NEW: I scanned dozens of Grokipedia pages related to Texas. What I found were entries that downplayed slavery and promoted Texas secession, as well as an entry on the 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting that said Great Replacement theory may be backed up by "empirical data." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

“She was the top communicator for the president of the United States and she can’t get through basic interviews.”

The government is spending so much time and money working to deport a guy who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan back into Taliban hands wapo.st/433Qsun @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Scoop: Multiple U.S. agencies backed a proposal to ban the top-selling home routers, from TP-Link, as a national security risk. But the plan has stalled as Trump tries to cut a broad trade deal with China, sources told me. wapo.st/4oiPKBY

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Alejandro Juarez was supposed to be transferred to an ICE facility in Arizona. He has a court hearing in October. Instead, DHS put him on the wrong plane -- and deported him to Mexico. One of the craziest stories I've reported w/ @luisferre7.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

My 'We're not building Skynet' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

National Guard personnel focused on nuclear disasters and terrorist attacks will instead be given riot-control gear and sent into cities, a sign that Trump military deployments into urban centers "could become the norm" wapo.st/433N9Dk @alexhorton.bsky.social @davidovalle.bsky.social

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Any updates on this

Nice detective work by WaPo, finding that DHS viral videos are full of false imagery. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes" wapo.st/4nuDGwf

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

"They used tear gas in a neighborhood where children were about to march in a Halloween parade" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

How tech companies lie with statistics, OpenAI edition www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/ www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell

3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests" Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

Yeah, this tracks

The same Grok that referred to itself as MechaHitler and which Elon himself said naturally tended towards extreme fascism any time he tried to de-wokify his little chatbot? That Grok?

Mike Johnson has chosen to render himself irrelevant through constant subservience to Trump, who he said 10 years ago didn't have "the demeanor to be president." “I’m the speaker and the president,” Trump has joked www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u... @anniekarni.bsky.social

Took a look at the new so-called Pentagon "journalists" w/ @annamerlan.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. Here's how they've covered their new overlord and the agency they're tasked w/ reporting on: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DHS just posted a Little Dark Age edit. Clear pattern of black-pilled memes and fashy fancams that reflects who ICE wants to recruit www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/ www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell