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.

A Costa Rican man, Randall Gamboa Esquivel, Dies After Health Decline in U.S. Immigration Custody. His health deteriorated for months while in ICE custody. He was later sent back to Costa Rica in a vegetative state. ticotimes.net/2025/10/27/c...

It's been quite a year for JD Vance's California motorcades www.cbs8.com/article/news...

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.

This article is of a lot more interest than the headline suggests. Good piece on Finland's unlikely role as a potentially major player in transatlantic relations.

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...

Hegseth openly advertising to military leadership that he seeks to renew the military’s recruiting crisis. Inspirational stuff.

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.

Summers blessed the extortion of Columbia about a week ago. Now he thinks "launching assaults on universities" is "giving way to authoritarianism"? I guess I'm glad he finally got on board, but it should not have taken the next glaring signs of impending economic calamity to make that happen.

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

The Arkansas Board of Corrections shut down its live stream of its Friday meeting after a hacker twice began playing a racist video containing racial slurs and the Confederate flag, along with swastikas and sexual imagery. ✍️: @ainsleyplatt.bsky.social

Maryland man detained by ICE in Gaithersburg while walking dog, family says www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/m...

100 As an aside, it is bothersome that the quoted skeet from @allchronology.com misquotes the Dow Jones statement. See the screen shots for comparison. 1/2 www.livemint.com/news/wsj-own... www.cnbctv18.com/world/us-pre...

Excellent work from CBC. Investigative journalism at its finest.

I have good data on X usage and for cyber stories, it's less than 1% of traffic on my site - it's a crazy drop off over past few months.

"if only Dems can get their act together" is doing so much heavy lifting they need bodybuilders to carry the party

FSOs are some of the hardest-working, hardest-to-recruit, most specialized personnel in USG. Rubio is going to cripple everything from global situation analysis to high-criticality negotiations to managing our international alliances.

As Pakistan and Iran ratchet up their mass deportation of Afghans, Tajikistan orders Afghan refugees to leave the country within a 15-day period Tajikistan hosts more than 10K refugees from Afghanistan who are banned from living in Dushanbe & face discrimination www.khaama.com/tajikistan-o...

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"I’m going to miss this store, it’s close, convenient and I get everything here. I own a small business across the street. I understand. The taxes and rent are just getting too high." The end of an era in Mount Pleasant. 51st.news/best-world-c...

Highly selective reviews into assessments it does not like, driven by partisan appointees in roles in which they traditionally have not served. Trump 1 broke the mold on this by appointing Ratcliffe as DNI, which was too much even for congressional republicans to stomach. Until it wasn't. 1/

Happy Bobby Bonilla day to all who celebrate