US named its new nominee for ambassador to Hungary. I read he made wealth in senior care & immediately knew who it was without reading a name. Owner of for-profit senior care among the worst in the US that kept nurses in indentured servitude. What a pick for a country topping corruption indices.

For sure, little was changed by AI, only amplified. Unprepared people who cannot read maps or elevation lead others to death. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/j...

Full article, no paywall. tl;dr: Face-to-face contact and trust are unbeatable assets when it comes to mobilization for collective action. Same lesson over a century later from the Montgomery bus boycott in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

💥🔎 On X/Twitter, Visegrád24 became famous for its anti-Muslim and anti-migration stance as well as waves of disinformation. A recent report brings to light people, funding and political actors tied to their Central Europe-based but international network. @vsquare.bsky.social

💰Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz and their proxies spent six times more on Facebook ads than all Czech parties combined. In Czechia, it was an election campaign; in Hungary, it wasn’t. The Orbán camp' paid content is still live on Facebook and YouTube despite a new ban. Source: @HungarianSunday on X

/4 So there I was, the winter of ‘93. Everyone in the decrepit Malden courthouse had duck boots on and clomped around the courtroom. One of the real prosecutors handled me a case file and pointed me to court. A drunk driving case.

Justice Jackson is obviously correct. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are now illegally going to have their status terminated early — as every court other than the Supreme Court has found so far. Not a single word of justification from the Justices in the majority to justify this. NONE. Not one.

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

the bedtime thing rips my heart in half. i would not have a fraction of the creativity i possess without my dad not only reading us books but literally making up stories on the spot every night. cannot express how lucky i was and how sad i am for children being raised by chatbots

Despite Jane Goodall's incredible efforts, the great apes are still in dire straits. Humans are eating chimpanzees to death, and killing them with our viruses free link from @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

start telling your friends and family now that CBS is no longer reliable, because I'm still explaining how Newsweek was hollowed out by Republican ghouls and that deal was like a decade ago

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights. This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

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"The case was brought by digital rights group Bits of Freedom, which argued that Meta’s current design violates the European Digital Services Act (DSA). The court agreed, saying users must have genuine control over how content is presented." www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/cour...

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors. grist.org/politics/aft... #Climate #Arctic #Research #Science #Funding

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … no longer exists” (Hannah Arendt)

Jane Goodall dies, the Pope condemns climate deniers, and Kemi Badenoch decides today is a good day to say she’d scrap the Climate Change Act. Economically bonkers, morally bankrupt, out of step with public opinion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Adding "feds fucking choking a man in broad daylight" to the list. Absolute terror across Chicago today. Begging for national attention that matches the level of crisis on the ground here feels like screaming underwater at this point.

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.” 🔗 www.404media.co/openais-sora...

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Even *in that story*, where he's telling Chris Cuomo to "piss off," Cuomo calls him "a genius"! Our entire elite culture is pathetically eager to bow & scrape before money & power. Once you have it there's nothing you can do to lose it, no accountability anywhere.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Young thinks the admin's "worst of the worst" rhetoric is "meaningless but effective," and clarifies that immigration enforcement is *civil* law enforcement, not *criminal* law enforcement. He then calls out immigration courts, calling them "not true courts at all," and beholden to the President.

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Agreed, “No” was a contender for the two, especially for those without an ethical compass.

reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Perfect image for this moment -- Pete Hegseth wasted millions of dollars flying military leaders from across the globe to hear him blather about gender-neutral physical fitness standards and appearance, and the chryon in the corner notes the government is about to shut down.

Just to take stock: the first claim was that there was an entire literature supporting the anti-birthright position. Then, *after* that claim, scholars emerged to post drafts on SSRN. And *now* the government points to a "growing body of modern scholarship" all drafted after the initial claim.

“This transaction represents something fundamentally different: the acquisition of cultural influence and soft power by sovereign wealth, marking gaming’s transition from a pure entertainment product to a strategic geopolitical asset.”

crazy, how could he get an idea like that www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Tim Cook's 24 karat golden trinket at the Oval was an embarrassment, but more than that, it was a token of policy corruption. What Apple wanted from the WH was exactly what it got this weekend: blatantly corrupt pressure to undercut rules that create fairness: on.ft.com/46tYoXZ

If William Rehnquist were in his 20s today, he would 100 percent be an aggressively online Groyper who declines to join his law school's FedSoc chapter because it's "a little too woke" ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/william-re...

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

This farm bailout situation is so breathtakingly foolish, it's hard to know where to start. The US farm sector has been so insulated from the consequences of its own actions for so long. Is it even capable of learning from its mistakes at this point?

💥"The Hungarian leader said it doesn't matter if a few Hungarian drones flew over Ukraine, since he doesn't consider Ukraine an independent, sovereign country."

My SCOTUS term preview for the Guardian - it focuses on the case challenging what remains of the Voting Rights Act (Callais), how that's part of a centuries-old campaign against Reconstruction, & how that's representative of several issues on the Court's docket. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?” Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”

Remember to be on your best behavior, everyone! They're watching.

I know this is just anecdotal information from a small focus group, but still...it's terrifying to think that we've now reached the place where young "conservatives" can listen to Nick Fuentes and think "it's so unfair that people call him names like antisemite, racist, and fascist."

there's a professor at a university on the west coast who spends some of his time figuring out how AI can help cops use nicer words when they pull people over. i think about it occasionally.

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The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

Anytime someone says you should do something from exposure, remind them that you can *die* from exposure.

During his address to the United Nations--in which dozens of delegates staged a walkout--Netanyahu announced the Israeli government took over the cell phones of every Gaza resident to broadcast his speech live. That is some scary shit. I have many questions, and none of them are remotely comforting.

JUST NOW AT THE UN…