William Richard Roy, an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, has been arrested on accusations of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from Indiana with the intent of sexually assaulting her, the FBI said Thursday.

WOW: More than 220 immigrant drivers have been arrested in Indiana by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. That means 220 truck loads of goods from food to medicine to auto parts to toys are now sitting in a federal depot and businesses are missing goods. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Thanks, I needed a good laugh.

As someone who has been on SNAP benefits in the past, what will happen Nov. 1 is that people will start diverting other funds towards groceries. They will choose to feed their families over making credit card payments, paying medical bills, car payments, etc. This is going to affect a lot of things.

The actual money spent on this nonsense is only outweighed by the moral cost.

They're doing interment camps now. Fucking hell.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

The paradox of reading headlines like "would the US military obey illegal orders by Trump" while illegal orders are obeyed on an almost daily basis

Exclusive at @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy - US plans "show of force" against Chinese aggression in South China Sea as Trump, Xi to meet, sources say. If the order by Indo-Pacific Command goes forward, it would be directed towards the Scarborough Shoal, the disputed atoll. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-sho...

I’ve some friends who are feeling this so hard right now.

Sounds very typical of government to “overlook” the very long history of facial recognition algorithms incorrectly identifying people of color. www.npr.org/2018/07/26/6...

At the risk of sounding like a doomer, I'm not sure why this surprises anyone. This has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with how law enforcement agencies work.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Anyone with even a passing interest in the marketing of political positions needs to read this thread. 🧵

@gelliottmorris.com had a good post on this topic today, describing it as "The Strategist's Fallacy." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...

The next section is them pounding the table, insisting that moderate candidates do better than progressive candidates. SMH. I'm just gonna link to @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social on this one. They've done the work already. data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...

1. There is no evidence that Venezuela produces fentanyl. 2. The UN drug office says it is not a cocaine-producing country. 3. Most illegal drugs come here in container ships, not small boats with outboard motors. 4. The admin has produced no evidence to justify these extra-judicial killings.

Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.

Trump Media announces Truth Social will offer prediction markets through arrangement with crypto .com Not sure the grifting gets much worse than the majority owner of company offering predictions markets is the world leader who can most influence events www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

I'm halfway through this article and I have two questions that are not a critique of the article. The first: why don't we openly talk about these kinds of approaches as what they actually are - experimenting on children with little oversight and the potential to cause real lasting harm?

🚨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.

Some good information on Clay County in this article from the Indy Star. www.indystar.com/story/news/i...

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

I'm starting to lose students from class because they're working extra hours because their military spouses aren't being paid.

Indiana governor summons lawmakers for redistricting session amid national GOP pressure indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/27/i...

Per court filing, a federal immigration agent pointed a gun at a U.S. citizen protesting and told him “bang, bang,” and “you’re dead liberal.” From a weekend Loevy civil rights firm filing

It is a joy to report that I managed to convince U-M to remove this absurdity from our website. If faculty governance proceeds triumphantly at this pace, we should have @umich.edu fixed by around the year 2327.

What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.

Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him

Thank you, Chicago.

Idaho prosecuted the FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge for manslaughter. A different DA then got elected and dropped it, but that was after the Ninth Circuit said he didn't have sovereign immunity and could be tried on state charges. It's a high bar to clear but it's not impossible.

I assumed that second quote was satire, or at least a paraphrase. It’s not. The thug trash said that.

Guess who Hegseth's Pentagon awards its biggest drone contract to....? Naturally one in which Don Trump Jr has a stake and sits on its board. Every goddam conflict of interest law is being vandalised daily by Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/4ced...

Even the work-installed image of Windows 11 needs a good 15 minutes of disabling phone-home-AI, distracting news feeds and stock tickers, shutting down deeply embedded Cortana, and turning off lock-screen pollution. What a nightmare.

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

The local jail has strict requirements for sending books to inmates. Paperback only, shipped directly from publisher, both of which are *very* limiting. They still rejected every book I sent, and would not provide an explanation other than “Oops.”

Back when I was infiltrating early Nazi Telegram, I very quickly came to the conclusion that it is outright DANGEROUS to cultivate on-background relationships with Nazis as sources. Because I encountered too many researchers who were clearly compromised as a result of that sort of contact.

We should all check the assumptions of our environment regularly. I once lived in a highest poverty area of a city … mostly elderly, disabled, and non-English speakers. It was a shock to realize the extent my environment was influencing my unconscious biases.

I just saw a video that said cutting SNAP would lower food prices because it would cut demand. I'm starting to think that Econ 101 either needs to be drastically overhauled or that you cannot take it unless you commit to taking four econ courses one heavily focused on externalities and elasticity.

Updating my LEGO White House

Not a fan of the new $20 bill…

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC […]

4th Cir.: hospital was not required to accommodate employee under Title VII following her request for a religious exemption to COVID vaccination bc accommodating her (and others) would jeoparize patient safety and increase the risk of a disruptive outbreak. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/242...

Series of historical photos of the East Wing, in case anyone else was also wondering. www.tysto.com/east-wing.htm

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

Fantasizing that the next president will call up those same billionaires, extract 2x the “donations” (with explicit threats if necessary), then donate the entire thing to workers rights organizations.

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it. @eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome. My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Had a boss at work, on a work call, relate she’d heard the government was shut down because Democrats insist on funding pride parades in foreign countries. She should damn well know better.

All the things folks pretended were happening in 2022-23 under Joe Biden are actually happening now under Donald Trump