#BBCNews - Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Bloom Effect’s Oscilón six track EP available on their Bandcamp in vinyl.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to declare immigration enforcement actions a local emergency.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate,” Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings write in a guest essay. “A.I. investment fits that pattern.”

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random. It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing. Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

By allowing for the dismantling of minority districts held by Democrats, a ruling against the VRA could give President Donald Trump and the GOP enough additional seats to lock in the party’s control of the House for a generation. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

A Chicago teacher said tear gas deployed by ICE drifted toward a school playground, forcing students and recess indoors. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/15/t...

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

Jenny On Holiday reveals plans for forthcoming debut solo album Quicksand Heart and releases new single, "Dolphins".

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow. And we go where others fear to tread… Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

How did a climate change curmudgeon become an unexpected optimist? Two words: solar power. On @revealnews.org's “More To The Story,” environmental activist @billmckibben.bsky.social talks about why harnessing the sun is our best chance to rein in the effects of climate change.

I'm sure there are plenty of faculty at colleges and universities across Pennsylvania who can share stories of the profound impact Kirk made on their lives thanks to the harassment campaigns fueled by his Professor Watchlist

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican. As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.

Trump has cancelled $18B of spending in blue states. He fired more than 4,000 federal employees the same day he sent $20B to Argentina. He is propping up the government of the guy on the left, while firing government officials working for the guy on the right. But those employees also work for us!

East Side is a cool-as-hell Chicago neighborhood that @tedmcclelland.bsky.social wrote a great piece on back in 2021. Hope other Chicagoans will make the trek to support its brave residents this week if ICE continues to terrorize it www.chicagomag.com/city-life/ye...

Our movement knows & believes in our collective power. 110,000+ people across England and Wales getting involved in our communities to do politics differently. A politics of community to build a country we can all afford to live in. Join.greenparty.org.uk

🚨 JUST IN: If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—the increased health risks would be extraordinary. #nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky

A prominent foreign affairs analyst and senior State Department adviser was arrested over the weekend and charged with illegally storing sensitive government records after federal agents found more than 1,000 pages of secret documents at his home, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Can These Ex-Hollywood Chimps Find a Place Among the Apes? Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind. By Emily Anthes @nytimes.com Photos taken in Sept ‘24 Link to story in bio.

NYT: ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back. By Julie Bosman. Visuals: @jamiekelterdavis.bsky.social Davis' visuals are powerful and just right, as always. Esp. look at the video at the top, showing the South Side confrontation on Tuesday with endless wafting tear gas.

Leigh-Anne announces her upcoming debut album, My Ego Told Me To, and shares UK/EU tour dates.

Kansas GOP leaders have condemned offensive messages sent in a national Young Republicans group chat. They said the group is now inactive.

Nothing on earth is free // Even in ecstasy // Hell is the day after the party. Lala Lala, the project of Lillie West, has signed to Sub Pop and has a new single/video for you to experience immediately -> youtube.com/watch?v=UiFKFo6nmAI. @flutelilliewater.bsky.social

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined” If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

I believe the south side Chicago building was “full of Tren de Aragua gang members” about as much as I believe the Venezuelan boats are filled with “narcoterrotists”. The regime will say anything to justify unreasonable, and even lethal, force.

"“Ori, our clarinet player, was pinned against this fence, with whoever they’re trying to detain at her feet, and she’s just kind of stuck,” Thompson said in an interview Tuesday. “Then suddenly one of the other officers just tackled her. I didn’t see anything that warranted any kind of arrest.”

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

I wrote about how all the beautiful dumb stuff really does matter, and why you should come out for No Kings Day on Saturday.

The legacy of Charlie Kirk, ladies and gentleman….

"Everyday Chicagoans are proving that they’re the first line of defense against this extraordinary federal incursion into this city," Edward McClelland writes for @chicagomag.com: www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

The truth is that Trump is held to a uniquely & pathetically low standard by his voters. Trump’s voters treat him like a spoiled child. He can lie, cheat, steal, personally profit off his office, etc, etc, & his voters are just fine with it. All behaviors they let no other politician get away with.

Deep dive from me into natsec memo that encourages DOJ, FBI & others to investigate antifascism.

ICE’s Use of a Full-Body Restraint on Immigrants, Referred to as ‘the Burrito’, Raises Concerns Over Inhumane Treatment | The WRAP is the subject of a growing number of federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and torture.

JUST IN! 'THE BPM' by Sudan Archives Genre-melding musician Sudan Archives follows the unanimously acclaimed ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’ with a left-turn into club/electronic-tinted art pop. @stonesthrow.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2105...

Former President Barack Obama has filmed an ad for Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50.

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Miss Major was known as many things in her community — a caretaker for other Black trans women, a defender of the homeless and the incarcerated, and a Stonewall veteran who did not want the past to be used as an excuse for inaction. Read our full obituary here:

Here is the first aid protocol for tear gas exposure, in case anybody wants to have it handy phr.org/our-work/res...

the buildup to this Jeffries bit in the piece is really well done, and manages to impart real depth to a standard no-comment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

ICE is probably causing an increase in crime. I’m not referring to the many crimes committed by ICE officers—though one certainly could—but to how they’ve enabled criminals by giving them opportunities to impersonate masked ICE officers and by pulling cops off of police work to do harassment.

ICYMI: @dfriedman.bsky.social & I explored a big DHS deal being challenged in court: “the contract adds to a growing number of deals that have prompted questions about the integrity of DHS contracting."

A tale as old as time: Guy uploads his entire stash of 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy network so he can train an AI to "make better 'robot pornography,'" gets caught, gripes that the DOE (which is charged with maintaining nuclear secrets) is "spying on him a little too much."

UK pals! do you like flock of dimes? jenn and the team at @undertowmusic.bsky.social are trying to arrange a 2026 UK "living room" tour. they're looking for non-traditional spaces / non-rock-club venues. think book shops, chapels, yoga studios, and literal living rooms. details: shorturl.at/6oPot

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