this should be a much bigger story

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

i am catching up on the moderation discourse and it’s really annoying that this episode basically goes back to leadership trying to have a goof and a gag. there’s not a lot of room-reading happening which comes across as immature and unprofessional

people can change

Screwing over poor people and the environment for a cash grab. Great values, Mister Bill Gates.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but news / social media—especially when constant, chaotic, and unfiltered—can hit our brains like a DDoS attack: overload attention, flood emotions, and make it hard to think clearly. It’s okay to step back and curate what you let in. Your mental uptime matters.

Journalism is dead, long live journalism. You will find your critical mass of scrappy journalist collectives right here. #NewSkies

“.. The president’s son, Eric Trump, signed up as a client of the third-largest US lender and established a trust there that holds some of his father’s money, according to people with direct knowledge ..” @bloomberg.com $C www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When Trump let Musk feed USAID into the woodchipper, he started a chain reaction that began by firing dedicated public servants & ended shortly thereafter in the gasping last breaths of children denied medicine within reach. It's murder with slighty more steps www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

A quick FYI: They have *just* relaunched the online NPR shop with bunches of new stuff, plus some throwbacks and, of course, the Tiny Desk hoodie. So if you are that kind of public media person, there’s some stuff to check out! shopnpr.org

1. UPDATE: Billionaire Rob Citrone, whose hedge fund bet heavily on Argentina, pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, his longtime friend and former colleague, to rescue the country, according to Argentine media. Shortly thereafter, Bessent announced a $20 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.

Surprisingly lame excuse around obvious censorship coupled with a weird can-you-believe-they-are-not-all-on-camels naïveté about Saudi Arabia. Really a sad miss by Bill Burr www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

We must pay billions to farmers Because we cut off their customers with tariffs And pay billions to Argentina Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited Because that is America First

Beyond cringe. Can we get so e fucking adults in the room SOMEWHERE?

ceo of bluesky making light of being asked about the continued presence of perennial hate mongers on her platform (a website that bans people for saying 'lol' wrong). again, website run by children

Most morally offensive part of hegseth's speech was the idea that manliness and courage consists of bullying and abusing people weaker than you rather than standing up for justice against people more powerful than you. Real andrew tate shit

chaser www.jalopnik.com/1976444/spac...

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

Undocumented immigrants don’t get Medicaid subsidies. Republicans know that—but they’re lying anyway, shutting down the government and threatening health care for 4 million Americans while premiums for everyone else skyrocket. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Gaming-Only journalists and analysts are pretty accurately calling this EA acquisition what it is: a doomed idea that will cause untold human misery and kill the company and probably bury all its IPs Tech/Gaming Journalists keep trying to find a silver lining. Huh. Curious. Strange. Odd. Quirky.

Good.

Middle schoolers walked out www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

Hanna Barbera animator Davis Doi once gifted Lupin III creator Kazuhiko Katō (aka Monkey Punch) this picture of Barney Rubble being startled by Lupin coming out of a Fred Flintstone costume.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Video games releasing in October 🎮

I'm writing a piece gathering reactions from military veterans about Hegseth's address to the assembled flag officers of America. If you're up for it, ping me.

“Less than a week after her symptoms began, Suza was dead. Congolese government data shows that in Suza’s province, [malaria] deaths nearly tripled in the first half of this year.” Suza was five years old. Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Elon Musk killed her.

"Three different defense officials who spoke with The Intercept called Trump’s speech 'embarrassing.' ... One called Hegseth’s address 'garbage,' using a term the war secretary used during his speech. Another said: 'We are diminished as a nation by both Hegseth and Trump.'"

Just got back from Tanzania. Two different locals asked me if I knew what USAID was. I told them I did and I apologized for what we had done. They both said, "Now, when people need medicine they die."

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Oh weary travelers, stop and rest.

Rest of world already pouncing. @bloomberg.com @reuters.com #H1B www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

jail for everyone that works in ICE

FBI Director Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials inoperable 3D-printed guns in July that were illegal to possess under local laws.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The University of Chicago is now hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor of fiction writing. apply.interfolio.com/174642

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

An ICE thug committed a hit-and-run and then they gassed the cops who came to investigate.

PSA: I'm sharing a ton of audio from Hawks Media Day on Patreon. (Yes, there will still be a Locked On Hawks Podcast tonight, but I can't jam 4 hours worth of stuff into it!)

I always thought Bill Maher was kind of an idiot years ago, even back when he had his network show that got canceled. However I have to admit he has exceeded my expectations and blossomed into a very potent idiot today. It's beautiful to see such a rare transformation in nature

“AI cannot take a happy person and make them happier, but it can take a lonely person and turn them delusional.” A word from Josh Gondelman, human