NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

I can’t overstate how entirely untethered to the constitution and past practice this unilateral move to repurpose funds to pay for military pay is. The commander-in-chief clause has precisely 0 bearing on the ability to expend funds. Here’s a list of authorities that do:

let me put it this way: it is a sign of something changing when someone like David Brooks says something like this. it means that people who read David Brooks on purpose will read it.

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

We live in a racist country and have racists who sit on the Supreme Court, making racist decisions that impact 350 million people for decades. First they abolish the New Deal; then they abolish the Great Society - just so White men can stay in power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

In case it’s not obvious, trump is signaling that he wants authoritarians from around to world to interfere in American elections The way Trump is interfering with Argentinian elections @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are asleep on the depth of danger and corruption we’re facing

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor. According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

57% of 4,000 consumers surveyed in Deloitte's new holiday survey said they expect the economy to weaken in the next year — nearly double last year's 30%, and worse than the 54% in the Great Recession year of 2008.

This is straight up white nationalist talking points posted by the DHS.

Vought: "We're gonna keep those RIFs rolling throughout this shutdown ... think the Minority Business Development Agency that divvies up business grants on basis of race. Think Environment Justice at EPA ... "

"It's getting worse. The fact is that Trump’s authoritarian apparatchiks are tightening their control over the key power ministries of the federal government. And they are getting more aggressive in asserting their power over the private sector and civil society." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

China, Iceland issue joint statement on further enhancing cooperation in geothermal, green energy with CCTV

Reports that a North Carolina congressional redraw is now going to happen, most likely targeting NC-01, the eastern North Carolina district of Black Democrat Don Davis.

My niece in 6th grade had a boy she had a crush on tell her he wouldn’t date her because she’s Indian 😔 I honestly don’t remember people being this racist at that age in the 1990s — I never had a girl straight say my race was the reason she didn’t like me

Holy hell, this has to be the single most incriminating thing a President has ever done on camera.

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

Klarna’s CEO says AI let them cut staff from 7,400 to 3,000, while growing revenue 38% YoY despite some high-profile missteps. He’s also skeptical AI will create enough new jobs to offset losses, pointing to Brussels translators who can be replaced by AI yet not easily retrained.

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well." An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

“police kidnap de blasio’s daughter and issue veiled threat demanding mayor authorize specific tactics” was blip in the press And NYPD "Adams's protective detail kidnapped an Italian crypto investor and brought him to gangsters who sexually tortured him for his password" "forced him to smoke crack"

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

Kamala Harris: "I don't know if we can trust what's coming out of the DOJ right now. And that pains me to say that."

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

The Trump admin cancels what would have been one of the world’s largest solar power projects.

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment. "Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

If you want a good laugh he’s Vivek Ramaswammy facing the racism and Christian nationalism of TPUSA www.instagram.com/reel/DPmRFNs...

Two Former Trump Officials Warn About Trump and Miller's Plan For Absolute Power With @oliviaoftroye.com and @milestaylor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

This article is spot on about the UK's descent into anti-trans hysteria. In 8 years, they went from the conservatives trying to make it easier for trans folks to self attest gender to a liberal government implementing a bathroom ban by fiat. www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Another Kavanaugh stop.

Facebook reels just showed me a whole bunch of rightwing disinformation content in a row… wtf

Democratic leaders need to embrace being anti fascist Trump is handing them a gift wrapped win by attacking antifa They’re trying to make this a slur and already have Nazis like posbiec saying being against the Nazis was antifa Hopefully @schumer.senate.gov realizes this

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

New day, same fake story. 👋🏽 Donald Trump is an embarrassing, racist, and corrupt liar. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.-IO

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others. Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

I've been taking this for near-granted, both military and ICE etc. goons. The question is if they'll do anything more than stand around relatively harmlessly, or actively interfere in some worse way. Also a question of how big a scale it'll be on. But they absolutely intend to do some form of it.

With each passing month it’s crazy to think how much better things would have been if Kamala were elected instead of Donald

Bondi’s non-denial, here, should generate front-page, bold-letter headlines. Frustrating that Sen. Whitehouse didn’t respond with a harder-hitting soundbite. It would’ve been better for him to say, “That’s not a no”, rather than his inaccurate remark, “you don’t know anything about that?…ok”.