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Amazon will pay $2.5 billion after the FTC found it tricked millions into Prime and made canceling nearly impossible. The scheme, internally dubbed “Iliad,” shows corporate power exploiting consumers for profit.

Amazon agree to pay $2.5 billion to settle an FTC lawsuit over allegations that it duped users into paying for Prime subscriptions and made it hard to cancel memberships. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/amazon-to-pay-2-5b-in-ftc-settlement-over-deceptive-prime-tactics/

So, if Antifa is against the law, then fascism is OK. Got it.

Many viruses have evolved ways to ‘thwart’ the immune system. For example, hepatitis B virus produces large quantities of non-infectious viral particles, many free of the viral genome. Such decoy viral capsids can overwhelm neutralizing antibodies leading to immune tolerance. Get vaccinated

The steering column in recalled vehicles may detach, increasing the risk of a crash, regulators said.

False arrests unraveling of Fort Worth activists alleged to have attacked ICE thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/24/n...

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

No shit. www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

I played squaredle.com 09/25: 61/61 words (+12 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 4% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 88

7-Day Bird Migration Forecast We’re entering the peak of fall migration across most of the U.S. Hundreds of millions of birds are on the move, with Thursday and Friday forecast to be the biggest nights of the season so far — over 400 million birds predicted to be taking flight.

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Oh what a relief

New: "Bruce Springsteen - Open All Night (Live at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ - Official Video)"

TIME correspondent Eric Cortellessa’s front cover story marks 50 years since Bruce Springsteen first appeared on TIME’s cover. Eric takes readers on a rich, behind-the-scenes journey with The Boss on his home turf. #Springsteen time.com/7319963/bruc...

Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen Pose The poster for Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen biopic about the making of Nebraska starring Jeremy Allen White, has been revealed.

BREAKING NYT: A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney's offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.

Trump to Erdogan: "He knows about rigged elections better than anybody. But when I was in exile, we were still friends."

So, they're deporting children who are US citizens -- except they're not?

We are ruled by absolute fucking morons.

Homan: "If you ask them why they're protesting, they're gonna say things they've heard on the fake media. We're deporting US citizens -- no we don't. We separate families -- if a parent is being deported and they are here illegally and they chose to have a child, that's on them."

Rep. Tony Gonzales on why he thinks some migrant don't deserve due process: "If you broke another law and committed murder or did something else, you think I want you to sit around in our jails for 5 years drinking our drinks and having our food and watching our TVs? No. I want you gone."

Harry Enten: "The more RFK Jr is trying to implement his policies, the further down his net approval rating goes. And at this particular point, 21 points underwater is not a place you want to be."

If a miraculous and unprecedented productivity boom that could possibly happen were to actually happen, that positive supply shock would offset the negative supply shock of tariffs that are definitely happening.

Let us simply ignore 1828-1860.

I know what it is like to get a torrent of nasty emails. I don’t wish it on anyone. That aside, he’s brushing aside the fact that the entire interview read like a running blind spot. Kissinger, Hayek, Alito… it was a mumbled disaster from beginning to end. It wasn’t just the unexpected questions!

Karen is represented by Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonprofit that is litigating national court fights against the Trump Administration.

Here's the full letter: "She did precisely the job you hired her to do as an opinion writer and acted fully in compliance with The Post’s own social media policy."

scoop: Karen Attiah, The Washington Post opinion writer fired by The Post earlier this month over social-media posts related to Charlie Kirk's death, has responded with a four-page letter, saying she was wrongfully terminated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...

This is the entire ballgame and IMO why democracy is struggling, not just in the US, but elsewhere as well. Parties have abandoned their communities in favor of financial constituencies.

I support Harry. It's time for new leadership if there is ever to be effective opposition again.

NEW: When Mallory McMorrow conveyed her plans to run for Senate, DSCC asked her to hold off, per 3 sources. More calls, some staff level; same result. Per one source: “It was, ‘Can you wait a little longer, can you wait?’” McMorrow defied them and launched. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

They thought they were the kind of highly skilled engineers ​who could help fulfill President Trump’s goal of reviving American​ manufacturing. Mr. Cho was checking his team’s balance sheets in his office when he saw helicopters and armored vehicles outside. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

I just don’t think that it occurs to reasonably well-adjusted adults who aren’t being excessively provoked while drunk to say something like this.

If you want to understand why Trump is purging Immigration Judges (IJ) + Board of Immig Appeals members, see our NSF funded ungated article. The work backgrounds of IJs strongly correlate to their denial rates. By loading up on IJs w/enforcement backgrounds, Trump is stacking the deck for denials.

trying to read into their politics one way or the other is falling for the bit they're suicidal and want to go viral so why not write some ramblings on white genocide or hating Israel or whatever it's clickbait, that's the point

the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost

Propaganda works, and Stephen miller and the rest of them know that a constant parade of fear will indeed do much of their work for them

130 immigration judges have been fired or forced out since Trump took office, a figure which doesn't even include the count of those who have retired or quit (quite a few). The Trump admin is systematically moving to kill a fair day in court for immigrants facing removal.

To put it another way, you don't walk 3,000 miles through deadly jungle and cartel-infested territory to get here if you don't think this country is worth coming to.

Not true at all. Talk to immigrants. There is a reason millions and millions of people over the years have put their lives on the line to get into this country.

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

I guess they no longer trust Hegseth with Signal? Jokes aside this is v freaking weird. Calling them in from around the world?

"You know, the 90s, you could say the r-word, nu-metal was a thing, oh and also you could be a sex-trafficking pedophile, it was a different time." Probably not a rationale that's going to go over well, but what do I know, everything is horrible and this is what they're going with. *meltyface emoji*

can't even go into the changing rooms of teen beauty pageants unnanounced anymore because of woke