Ex-leader of Reform in Wales admits taking bribes in return for pro-Russia messages - on.ft.com/473iZBx via @FT

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Gift link

The AI titans predict that AI will become profitable when it replaces “10% of white collar jobs”. With straight faces. If 10% of high earners stop earning… what effect do they think that will have on the overall economy? 🤔 It. Is. A. Bubble.😑

Good summation of what the world is up against as AI growth gobbles up resources and spews pollution. (It’s a gift link - click without worry)

#USA #Autocracy #Democracy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Gifted Read: "James Comey’s rights and liberties are not the only ones at risk today. So is your own right to participate in free and fair elections in order to render a verdict on Trump’s invasion of those rights and liberties. "

GIFT ARTICLE: "Fighting doesn't always result in victory, but surrendering guarantees defeat. The only people who have preserved their dignity or their rights in dealing with Trump are those who have been willing to stand up to him."

I'd already been dreaming of a future trip to cities of the Rhône. Definitely putting this on my list. I *love* a good historical costume collection. (Fragonard in this case turns out to be a perfume brand, which is outside my frame of reference.) Gifted link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

👇 Let's not forget this happened. 🎁 WSJ gift article www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

Updated with additional context. The CISA directive gave federal agencies until the end of Friday to hunt for evidence of compromised devices and submit the data to the agency -- which is to say, the investigation is very much ongoing. Here's a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Is there a lesson here? Researchers applied modern-day tools of epidemiology to trace how the spread of false rumors provoked the “Great Fear” of the French Revolution. @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/fren... via @wsj.com

Gift. “They Cheated Like Dogs, but We Got Them Back’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o... “At least two political science papers have reported that after Sinclair buys a television station and sets programming policy, the Republican share of the local vote rises by 3 to 5 percentage points.”

But it’s totally cool to constantly say that your opponents are baby-killers.

You can't make this shit up abcnews.go.com/US/ice-relea...

My kid has managed to find 5 entire days of work in the last year. She has no trouble *doing work*. But *getting work* is proving near-impossible. 😒 Last time we talked about it, she sent me this:

The reason more men have voted for Trump is that lots of men want their desire to casually sexually harass and assault employees and coworkers reified by the state and its not anything more than that

I don't give a shit about Comey, but I give several shits about the president actually and personally using the carceral state as a vehicle for his petty grievances against individuals he doesn't like. You shouldn't risk jailtime if the president finds you irksome ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

"A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure."

NEW from PP: You know how Krista Noem has been bottlenecking disaster relief? Turns out, you can get them greenlit —if you‘re a Noem donor! After donor asked, Noem quickly cleared project. Then she flew to town and dined at French bistro with the donor. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

It pains me to say it but we can't let internet dorks near power ever again. Next president should have a flip phone

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

Exactly this. One thing that scares me about this administration is that they’re much more skilled at choosing unsympathetic people to target than they were last time around.

imagine something new that can give people prosocial outcomes, meet them where they are now. just for the love of god stop telling them that everything will be fixed if we bring back the 20th century

Novel Orwellian technique aside, what an asshole.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Seems weird that the president can just demand a company be sold to his buddy.

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

People seem determined to remember Charlie Kirk as a devout Christian. This includes mainstream and liberal descriptions of him and not just MAGA hagiography. But look, the things he said about people were in direct contravention of Christ’s teachings. It’s deeply perverted to suggest otherwise.

Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds

They really indicted a former FBI director because Trump hates him, after firing a previous Trumpy prosecutor for saying there was no case. Even after everything, this is breathtaking.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, regulation is the antichrist.

overall, I think the crisis we face needs to be personalized as much as possible because people need to get back in touch with their feelings and away from their "brand identity." culturally, we consumed the capitalism.

I think the internet has made everyone live a kayfabe lifestyle and it is destroying our weakest minds and loudest mouths

Repeal the telecommunications act of 1996 and dust off the Sherman Anti Trust Act…. Let’s smash some monopolies!!

Wilson called on Sinclair Broadcast Group to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s show and announced that she will not participate in the debate that Sinclair-owned KOMO is scheduled to host on October 8th unless and until he returns to the local airwaves.

Seattle Mayor candidate Katie Wilson is at KOMO Plaza to tout her plan to help local journalists and fight back against censorship by right wing media conglomerate owners that has pushed some talk show hosts off the air.

If you have any blood left to boil, this will take care of it. There’s absolutely levels of wealth, power, and prestige in America that allows people to do whatever the fuck they want. Rule of law is a sick fucking joke.

Not many figures in Epstein’s legal circle have been more closely linked to him than Dershowitz, a central member of his legal team for years. The emails show the depth of the support he gave Epstein.

4 simple words to keep in mind when these assholes demand you capitulate to their agenda: "Fuck you. Make me."

Anyone want to bet that they’re trying to oust a bunch of top brass? 🤔 I can imagine them proposing something legitimately outrageous, then firing anyone who objects at all, because “patriotism”. 😑

One of the vehicles had a vest or something lying on the dashboard with the word "POLICE" emblazoned on it, but these were not uniformed SPD officers. So heads up Seattle. ICE or some other fascist hit squad may be prepping for something local.

BTW, over the past couple days I've twice come upon unmarked SUVs in Seattle's Rainier Valley with multiple apparent law enforcement or security officers inside that did not appear to be SPD—3 or 4 people per vehicle, which is not how SPD typically operates. Once it was 2 vehicles side by side.

Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle the FTC’s Prime lawsuit

Recommended reading: Rudolph Herzog's book about humor — what jokes were allowed, what jokes weren't, what jokes could get you imprisoned, what jokes could get you shot — during the Third Reich. It's sobering reading right now, as Trump attacks comedians, late night talk show hosts, and actors.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth convenes a meeting of generals (2025)

Gift article that could be titled: “How can so many young people be so stupid (Trump Edition)?” Some of these people have been explicitly under attack by Trump policy/whim going back years, and they are just now, *maybe*, starting to notice. 😒

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

All powerful god emperor foiled by ramps and escalators.