Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

Beautiful example of the Turkmenistan school

Guy Fawkes night is amazing because internationally I don’t personally know of any other fireworks-tier holidays that are directed at a religious minority

once again, @jasonaw.bsky.social's reporting gets results: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A whopping 54 percent of all Americans aged 18–29 believe that Israel has committed genocide. The Palestinian-American pollster Shibley Telhami has noted that this is a paradigmatic shift in public perception which is unlikely to be overturned.

Horrific litany of death in the press release Customs and Border Protection sent out just now about four separate incidents. One in TX last month: agents chased a "suspicious" truck. The driver crashed into a tractor trailer and died; two passengers were hurt, including one with a brain bleed.

🚨 🗣New York is getting a new professional baseball team next year

It sounds like the Republicans should stop protecting Bill Clinton and release the Epstein files.

Ideally you want voters to have priced this in

Amazing story and work: dive into the controversy-ridden world of the lab leak theory, accompanied by biochemist-turned-author Philipp Markolin. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...

If a class as craven as university administrators is prepared to tell you to pound sand your authoritarianism may be a bit brittle

Telling Kevin Rudd that you don’t like him and demolishing a heritage building is maybe Trump living my dream?

keep going, we can end presidentialism once and for all

The next person should just demolish the entire building and get a fucking apartment. I hate to speak in favor of Britain but the semiotics of number 10 are more democratic. He doesn’t need a plantation

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

If you ever see a cheap and unloved pair of spectacles in a charity shop buy them for the screws. Just repaired a pair of glasses for the third time today by salvaging screws from my pile

The John Birch Society guys try to glom onto Trumpism but they're still just a little too weird

Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Appointed by Meta as an adviser on AI bias, anti-DEI campaigner Robby Buck has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, trans people, vaccines, crime & protests The Guardian repeatedly contacted Meta for comment but received no response

Did not know this about Old Bay

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

New from @jasonaw.bsky.social A far right MAGA influencer named Robby Starbuck worked with Asst AG Harmeet Dhillon to get himself installed as an “AI Bias” advisor to Meta Starbuck impulsively peddles lies and spreads far right conspiracies incl about Portland www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Amen

In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Tag yourself I am the shy frog

The biggest challenge for a newswriter is when nothing is going on but your editor says you need to pretend something is going on

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released. DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube. Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

I can imagine a Portland store built from plywood but it would be a bunch of mid century Danish shit they bid on from a dead guy’s lock up in Baker

Hahahahaha come on

Blocked this guy

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Apparently Alastair Campbell has issues with regime change operations now

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

My god why won’t anyone ask how that’s possible

What is a Kavanaugh stop? An explainer.

Maybe this is parasocial but I feel bad for Hasan Piker as another guy who loves his dog. He did nothing wrong but being accused of cruelty is the one thing that could make a thick skinned person second guess themselves