Vladimir Guerrero Jr. shows up to Game 7 in a Marie-Phillip Poulin jersey, the captain of the Canada women’s national ice hockey team

Boko Haram kills more Muslims than Christians but it will be a cold day in Hell before any Trumpist gives a shit about that.

Good news: UN experts welcome landmark ASEAN Declaration on right to safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

CATO takes a remarkably firm stand on Trump's secret police and their tactics.

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Emergency UNSC meeting condemns mass killings by the RSF in Sudan, but doesn’t take action against the UAE, the RSF’s main backer. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

#KeepEyesOnSudan 🙏

Court overturns QLD ban on gender affirming care for transgender patients

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

If you read my stuff often, you'll probably detect a shift in tone tonight. It felt weird writing it. Truly hoping for the best but my goodness this is bad.

NEW: The Trump administration is racing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia as soon as Friday, conceding it does not intend to follow through on his criminal case despite earlier assurances. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Not to mention framing it as "increase refugee admissions" when Trump has stopped them entirely.

"Run from the water, hide from the wind." It's hard to grasp what 175 m.p.h. sustained winds can do — even before you add in a deluge of 30-40+ inches of rain and a punishing storm surge. #melissa

Melissa is a monster. Thinking of Jamaica tonight www.cnn.com/weather/live...

Canada welcomed nearly 300,000 #Ukrainians through the CUAET between 2022-2024, but what happens when temporary status expires? Adèle Garnier and Shauna Labman offer recommendations for supporting their transition and integration in communities across Canada. 🔗 www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/...

Nevermind DC... this is as much rainfall as *Kingston, Jamaica* receives in a normal year. That's right -- some parts of Jamaica will receive a year's worth of rainfall this week, and then get hit with 120mph+ sustained winds for hours on end as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall.

The next UN Secretary General, due to start in 2027, was slated to come from Latin America & the Caribbean. on Friday at the Security Council, US Deputy Rep Dorothy Shea dismissed the usual norm of regional rotation & said the US welcomes candidates from any region usun.usmission.gov/remarks-at-a...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

DHS is at it again. They’re mad that I correctly pointed out that their claim of 515,000 “illegal migrants deported” was wrong so called me a “chronically online troll,” which is particularly ironic coming from an account which actively trolls people all the time.

I call this chart "Oh, we were right all along."

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

I know nothing should surprise me, but I'm stunned by this picture. If you own a designated historic property (not that I do), usually you can't even install a doorbell that isn't period-specific. Or at least you wouldn't. This makes me heartsick.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

As Australia seeks to change FoI laws important to note @australia.theguardian.com's story. It seems to be because the eSafety commissioner received an automated request "every 5 minutes" and were afraid "it may jam something" (IT response: "that isn't a concern) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Inquiry into Labor's FOI laws today 💩 - this bill stinks and keen to understand where on earth it came from and what actual reforms we should do instead!

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Not great that fishermen fear being randomly murdered by the U.S. government. Or that the U.S. President jokes about it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

He had lived in the US since he was four years old Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, is one of at least 15 people who have died in immigration detention since Donald Trump returned to office. Sky's Martha Kelner meets his grieving mother and brother. news.sky.com/story/man-wh...

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

In my book, I argue that this kind of elite disagreement is an important constraint in democracies. And up til now these concerns would make the president think twice, so the “stepping down” would not ever happen. Now it’s happening, but there’s nobody else to pay attention to the fire alarm.

Just going to leave this here, in case any other senior officers are thinking about resigning over these strikes

Admiral Alvin Holsey, who heads the US Southern Command, will retire early (only one year into a three year term) apparently after he “had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Between it being a Fox poll and coming just after Mamdani maximized the value of his Fox appearance, this might result in ketchup thrown.

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Finally! The three time runner up wins!

Remember, in month one, when Hegseth fired all the JAGs and the civil-military folks said it would be a disaster? This is the disaster. Or one of them.

NEW for @washingtonpost.com: Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy. @nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland ...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care. Thread below on how they did it. Write up in @australia.theguardian.com @australiainstitute.org.au www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

“This bullshit has to stop” is a quote for the ages.

“Rosales Castillo admitted to being illegally present in the U.S. to Border Patrol officers which is a crime,” DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin told MSNBC.” This assumes 1325 is a “continuous offense,” a bonkers view this admin is desperate to push in court: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

No world war. No oil shock. No rally-around-the-flag. Just a reckoning for Tehran.

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”? Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

this week, we consider UNGA's aftermath; below the fold, we talk through the new Gang Suppression Force for Haiti & what, if anything, it can do differently from past interventions; & we both hope the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the remarkable mutual aid networks of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Renewables have officially overtaken coal in Australia for the first time. ⚡🇦🇺 In September, renewables hit record highs while coal fell to record lows. The shift’s no longer theoretical — it’s happening in real time. Clean energy is now the backbone of Australia’s power grid. 🌞💨 #EnergyTransition