Meta’s own researchers concluded that a third of the scams in the U.S. happen over its platforms and that fraudulent ads and those for banned products might contribute a tenth of its revenue. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

In this economy, 5% would commit the murders.

Google has updated the Play Store page for the Mobile Identify app, saying Google has verified it is affiliated a government entity. This is the app DHS is giving to local police departments around the country to identify immigrants with just a photo of their face www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Maybe unleashing secret militarized police on the public while taking food from the poor wasn’t the electoral masterstroke we all thought it was.

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

love this from @juliaangwin.com

If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.

I have been a reporter for close to 40 years, including stints covering police and the courts. This thing, from the president down, of accusing people of crimes when not charged: That did not used to be a thing. Authorities don’t do that because it is unfair and leads to cases being tossed. .

Healthcare but only for my friends

Here’s #FoxNews, admitting that Friday’s outrage story about the alleged SNAP recipient demanding that the taxpayers feed her children was, erm, fabricated.

Page one yesterday.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is receiving backlash from the GOP over his recent interview with white nationalist and far-right activist Nick Fuentes, reopening a debate in the party over how forcefully to condemn antisemitism.

Wait are these the same guys upset that not all people on the public dole are working?

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

Free, no-strings archived version of my Post story on the proposed national-security ban of top-selling #TP-Link routers. archive.ph/PhA3w

The most French story since bumbling jewel thieves hit the Louvre.

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

Omg the bats are in on it too

How derivative can you get

If the British Royal Family has more accountability than your own leaders, you have a serious problem.

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

Sure, why require telcos to have cybersecurity plans? www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...

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

Really important reporting on the big tech participants in Israeli gov deals. Not just the headline winks, but the somewhat buried idea that the companies are not allowed to cut Israel off if it breaks promises about what it is using the tech for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Former employee at big US defense contractor L3Harris pleads guilty to selling 8 hacking exploits to Russian broker for millions in cryptocurrency. If he had been a solo researcher, would it have still been illegal? cyberscoop.com/peter-willia...

Today I visited the concentration camp (Thereseinstadt) where my ggrandfather was imprisoned. It's something I fairly consciously avoided doing in the 12 years I lived in Europe. It was, as you may imagine, a fairly emotionally charged thing for me.

What

NEW @reuters.com investigation: The Trump family’s crypto income is now approaching $1 billion, with more than $11 billion in unrealized gains ⬇️ www.reuters.com/investigatio... $WLFI

"'Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,' Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia tells The Verge." www.theverge.com/news/807686/...

Russian lawmakers are talking about crafting a bill that would require all Russian bug hunters to register with the state and require anyone who discovers a zero-day vulnerability to report it to the vendor - and to the state - or face criminal charges. A law like this already exists in China

The number of Matryoshka dolls you have to open in order to find the original basis for the claim that TikTok is rigging the FYP algo to favor Mamdani is almost as wild as what the "evidence" for it turns out to be.

Hot take: God is a Keynesian.

Good to see the country moving on from identity politics

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Incredible that the Simpsons predicted AWS US-East-1

With Trump pardoning Changpeng Zhao and accusing the Biden administration of persecuting him because it hated cryptocurrency, here's a reminder of what the IRS's cybercrime investigators dug up on CZ and Binance. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

The East Wing is gone.

People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't) www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Here's who @scottnover.bsky.social and I have confirmed so far. All right-wing bloggers and influencers who * agreed to the press restrictions refused by established reporters * are known for soft-touch treatment of the Trump administration * will now get special access to the "Department of War"

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)

Also I know the truth doesn’t matter on earth two, but I’m not sure how well the cease-fire is going

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

Hamas isn’t handing over enough dead bodies so Israel needs to make new ones, do I have that right?