Kavanaugh crash

A resident criticized the Surprise City Council’s weak letter sent to DHS and Noem, saying they need to take more action to stop the camp. “We will protest and we will show up to every meeting. We will not go quietly into the night. I want you to feel the weight of every child kidnapped.”

POLITICO reports that the US is looking to back out of several NATO commands: UK to lead NATO’s Joint Force Command in Norfolk, Va. and Italy to staff JFC Naples. Both are currently led by US officers. (US takes MARCOM instead.) subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026... Called for this last Oct 👇

In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen. Now US law enforcement wears it.

Hanging this on the wall in my office

Former CO here and if your facilities have a problem with shit getting smuggled in via books and magazines I regret to inform you the problem is with corrupt COs and not books and magazines.

Former BLS commissioner Bill Beach says the agency has lost 25% of its staff since January. 40% of leadership positions are vacant. And DOL leadership “does not seem to support the Bureau.” #ASSA2026 #EconSky

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

The tightening of border controls and freedom of movement is truly a global phenomenon. Kyrgyzstan has tightening rules for Kazakh citizens with hundreds of Kazakhstanis, including students, now stranded at the border. kaktus.media/doc/537255_v...

It is amazing that the ruling administration has managed to set up not one but multiple opaque schemes that essentially allow for mass money laundering/payouts/corruption, some of which have already resulted in favors such as pardons, and the rest of the government isn't even trying to stop them.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Drunk raccoon found in liquor store suspected in karate studio break-in

As Trump and Infantino work the red carpet, bragging about setting records for ticket prices. (video below) Lets break down what “record prices" really mean for football fans and host countries. An important thread. 1/10

This deserves every bit of the scorn and ratio it receives. It is fundamentally inaccurate and deeply irresponsible framing. Stuff like this is simply announcing to the world that the Economist does not understand what is happening let alone how to cover it.

"The sites are all over the country, including California, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia."

The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here

5/Its easy (or difficult to swallow) this as corruption/crony capitalism. But in a new paper w/ @segoddard.bsky.social in IO, we argue these interactions suggest something much more fundamental -- a shift in the international order which we call neo-royalism. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

1/When @himself.bsky.social and I wrote about the future of US economic coercion we hoped that the tools could be used for global collective goods like climate. Now US “evaluating sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies”’ on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko

The Python Software Foundation is forfeiting a $1.5 million NSF grant because it came with Trump administration anti-DEI strings that would have affected PSF's entire portfolio. The grant would have helped fix flaws in major coding languages. cyberscoop.com/python-softw...

It's not the sort of thing that collapses overnight, but I think that a lot of Americans do not appreciate the impartial application of the rule of law as being integral to their national prosperity. They're going to miss it when it's gone.

I think the reply to this citing the 1925 Pirates v. Senators WS counts. But a Mariners vs. Brewers WS is still special. The 1969 Seattle Pilots played just one season before going bankrupt. Team was sold & moved to Milwaukee for the 1970 season and became the Milwaukee Brewers.

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids! prospect.org/politics/tru...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

Although it's difficult to watch this horror show unfold, one amusing thing here is the "MAHA activists" are getting exactly what they want and still complaining about it.

App for outing Charlie Kirk’s critics, known ironically as "Cancel the Hate", is of course not at all secure and leaked its users’ personal data. Cancel the Hate took the app offline following reports but have not otherwise commented on the matter. www.cyberdaily.au/security/126...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

On this point, worth noting Lapado's obfuscation RE: the vaccine. He frames it as a poor mandate b/c of its lack of effectiveness in limiting the spread of the illness, making no mention of the fact that it is *highly effective* at reducing severity of the illness & preventing death in children.

"A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

Sometimes it really feels like we are unsalvageable

Kyle Schwarber was the fourth player to have a shot at HR #5 in a game, that is – at least one PA post-HR #4: Bobby Lowe (1894) — first-ever 4-homer game! Lou Gehrig (1932) Mike Cameron (2002) Kyle Schwarber (2025) h/t @EliasSports

Recall that last year Trump said he wanted to staple green cards to every international grad student’s diploma and much of the press reported it as fact. Three days ago he suddenly declared he’d bring in 600k Chinese students (?). This is basically the opposite of what his admin has actually done

And this ain't great. 20% of Dems are unsure how they'll vote (and yes votes only at 48% overall!), which means lots of voters needed more information. If they drop the ball on getting the word out, it's effed in the b right out of the gate

Donate to orgs doing the work in DC. Some favs include Free DC, Miriam's Kitchen, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, Pathways to Housing, Black Swan Academy, and Remora House.

Interestingly enough, this one is actually skeeting bsky.app/profile/atto...

Excellent point. Part of why I emphasize that Trump's autocratic power is grounded in his control of GOP primary electorates is precisely that it brings out the logic behind why constitutional officials are not fulfilling their duties or oaths

I hope people who work outside of this field read this, if only to understand the kind of expertise and knowledge our giant FP apparatus was capable of accumulating as a casual aside, not even as a priority

Trump kill economy cc: @mtsw.bsky.social

I was at a conference in the spring where an academic said the “techno coup” is already over and any favorable judicial rulings would be too late because the data has already been scooped up.

Undergarments with Amy Klobuchar's face printed on them continue to litter the streets in the greater Wedge metro.

Here's my story about this panel from yesterday: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nsa-def...

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

hard to broach this topic quickly since I wrote a whole PhD about it, but let's just say the system collapse as described below is a weakening of Empire. the part to lament is that the end of expropriation of international human capital via US higher ed won't mean more edu resources for anyone else