A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

U.S. airlines again cancel more than 1,000 flights on the second day of cuts tied to the government shutdown.

The amount of financial scams happening are getting more diverse & harder to spot. I imagine access to data brokers and the amt of data leaks, hacks and poor security practices at large companies is making it worse. Lots of job and rental home scams! Two things in short supply/high demand.

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Oh my goodness, I'm glad my dog is cleverer than this!

It's a wee weasel.

"The BBC didn’t get January 6 wrong. It should be brave enough to say so. Whoever wrote the internal report... is either malign or mistaken. The way it has been weaponised to attack the BBC shows the folly of trying to appease Team Trump, or to negotiate with them in good faith." #bbcpm

“The BBC is not an American broadcaster, and it doesn’t owe any obligation to shareholders determined to close deals and make profits. Its clash with Trump is a chance to show the advantages of being a public broadcaster by standing up for the truth. It should seize that opportunity.”

The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump My god. If only @arusbridger.bsky.social was a BBC director instead of Robbie Gibb. The whole country would be in a much better state www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Son of Mario sounds like a very bad spin-off game.

Katie Halper on Useful Idiots does an ad read for their sponsor Venice AI, which is everything terrible about AI, including effects on society, jobs, and the environment except that they pledge not to share your data with corporations and the NSA.

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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 5:10 A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

Multiple people at US military base fall ill after suspicious package delivered, CNN reports reut.rs/3X2Fbal

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...

Throwing sandwiches is not assault apparently. 🥪🙋🏼‍♂️

Recommender algorithms controlled by unfriendly foreign powers threaten democracy and security. They artificially boost authoritarians and break society apart. They silence the rest of us.

Big story from Sky news. It is a mistake to think the DSA alone is going to fix this. This requires more, including and most particularly enforcement of GDPR Art 9 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

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We are almost at the point where we can let people text and drive, Musk says. In the next month or two, we will allow you to text and drive, essentially, he says to wild applause. No word of Tesla taking legal responsibility if the car crashes when you are texting, which is what actually matters

Lol holy shit it's all so bad

Less sanguinely, I’m convinced by Matt Jacobson’s argument that it was part of a wave of cultural production (cf. Yentl, Fiddler on the Roof) that appealed to previously “ethnic” Americans’ sense of themselves as immigrants who overcame barriers to assimilate and succeed (vs. the…other kind).

This piece suggests Meta is dragging its heels on reducing the (very large) number of scam ads on its services because they're concerned it will materially hurt revenue (the article estimates they make as much as $16bn a year from scam ads) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The whole press is Breitbart now

Mark Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto neighbors complained about the noise, the presence of security and the hordes of traffic. Then, neighbors noticed that an unlicensed school appeared to be operating out of the Zuckerberg compound. They began a crusade to shut it down that did not end until summer 2025.

well, at least there's this electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This is disgraceful. No soldier should rely on charity for food. If the world’s most powerful military can’t feed its own, something’s deeply wrong. "US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It" www.404media.co/army-tells-s...

lol

How does John Oliver still sound so English? My accent has got a weird twang already - he's been in the US for years and it hardly seems to change!

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Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

Why it's so important to invest in science (not just tech) in Europe

When none of this happens - they will still be saying this is going to happen...

how is it possible to be this cute 🥹

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I laid out a tech agenda for Mayor-elect zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that resists surveillance and extraction while advancing his goals for affordability, dignity, and justice.

In case you were lost...

‘Strung Up and Tortured’: Hostage Recounts 2 ½ Years of Captivity www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."

You have to admire the bloody-minded ambition of a pelican trying to eat a whole capybara (who seems utterly unconcerned). The thing with pelicans is that they have ONE super-power & their brains default to "get it in your mouth & deal with it later." Let's talk about the gular sac of the pelican.

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Not a good look for your brand.

"AI made me believe in the human soul by showing me how a soulless art looks like" has never been truer.