All, please be aware... and can we please not do J.J. Abrams/Lost-style teasers for WH decisions?

For @flaminghydra.com, I wrote about the peculiar experience of being a crime writer on a grand jury.

shipping just got more expensive

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

mainstream media outlets should probably be vocally asking who the actual President is

Allies and Congress are about to lose a key window into US military plans

Can I be honest? Not a fan of posts like this. 1. Yes, Dems can be better at messaging. I've long explained that part of the problem is the average salary for comms director jobs on the Hill is $70K, which means the applicant base is often inexperienced. Experience matters in this climate.

I know this is old news at this point for many, but the NSA sent out an automated email to previous candidates this AM to apply to this position: apply.intelligencecareers.gov/job-descript... And these questions. Woof.

I checked. It's real. 1. I think most of you know - I'm writing a book about the co-founders of JPL for Bloomsbury, and they would been beyond embarrassed by this. This absolutely wasn't what they envisioned as they worked to conquer rocketry and dreamed of traveling in space.

‘Sent a plan’ to Iran via a third party is clearly not ‘negotiating with Iran for 2 days’ as trump had claimed…

Exactly. Here's a detailed write-up from the Atlantic Council on the ripple effects as the war continues:

First thought: I would very much like to not have a 2020 redo. Second thought: I hate that Trump is giving other countries so many reason to hate the U.S. (Also: I know that logistically, our supply chains are a little different when it comes to items like toilet paper. But deja vu is strong.)

the thing about "i'll just pirate it" for this HP show is that it is *ruined* i literally cannot enjoy it, she has put her disgusting transphobic veneer over all of it and so it literally cannot be enjoyed, even if I wanted to try (I don't) I would see her smarmy cigar smoking face in my mind's eye

Boosting again! Thank you to everyone's responded, and please continue sending your best comms leads!

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

ah ok, so this FCC router ban is basically a shakedown, requiring foreign router manufacturers (which is pretty much all of them) to obtain "conditional approval" from DHS or DOD, which you can assume involves a fee of some kind

"People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets." Read @pkrugman.bsky.social on the latest incident of people making piles of cash using insider info about national security matters & how it could amount to treason. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

Republicans will either do one of two things: pass a DHS bill without ICE funding and go through a torturous process to pass another reconciliation bill (the last time they nearly ripped each other to shreds) or pass some modest ICE reforms. Either way, it’s an L for the Senate GOP.

Something peculiar: Democrats by most accounts seem to have forced Republicans to blink (ie, pass a DHS bill without ICE funding and force them to pass ICE funding via reconciliation). Nevertheless, lots of folks seem to think Democrats caved. As a Republican once told me “take the damn win.”

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time

Okay, all - would appreciate your help. I got RIF’ed in January, and am in the market for a comms job. Please help with your best contacts/referrals? Thank you!

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this administration is as dumb as they are fascist

hey what if we sent a ton of the president's masked, armed and anonymous secret police to an already stressful place with a high concentration of human trafficking, what could go wrong

SCOTUS is hearing argument right now in a case that could bar states from counting mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day. It's part of an effort to "soften the ground for efforts to try to overturn or interfere in [the] election," says @wendyweiser.bsky.social.

I don’t know what to say anymore. Tearful this morning after reading what the U.S. has done to the sick and ill in Cuba: “Late last night, a report came in that patients on ventilators at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital have died.” Trump is running an imperialist necropolitical regime.

If ICE agents are not masked in airports, everyone needs to get out their phones, take photos, and spread them as widely as possible.

I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️

Scoop: 13 US airports will see ICE agents at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints on Monday, a source with knowledge of the plans told CNN. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Okay, all - would appreciate your help. I got RIF’ed in January, and am in the market for a comms job. Please help with your best contacts/referrals? Thank you!

I lost my jobs, my kids have measles, I can't afford steak, and gas is $5 a gallon. But at least now there's a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds.

This is such a good question, and I really do think that a lot of media outlets have unfortunately normalized Trump's ramblings for us. They've moved the window to the point we accept it, and no - we should keep calling it out AND push on journalists with access.

This is part of the reason why I haven't given up on my goal of a media literacy book. (Yes, I won't shut up about it, haha.) It's weird seeing people's thinking be siloed in real time on places like Threads, and I worry what that means for our ability to determine rational facts and reasoning.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

As horrifying as the Minnesota killing spree stuff was, you need to remember that: that is what they were willing to show you in public: imagine what is happening now behind closed doors and walls.

Speaking strictly from a defense perspective, I can see multiple majors that are vital to DoD interests right now.

Source for California's economy:

State Department issues "Worldwide Caution" memo to all Americans abroad as a result of Trump's war

One of our local districts is in BIG trouble, after years of kicking the can down the road. The county office of education has been sounding the warning for eight years, but the state didn't do anything until it was a bug crisis. I hope Becerra gets some traction. I think he's most qualified.

Here’s a good article on what the state superintendent should be doing and why they’re exploring moving the CDE under new supervision. edsource.org/2026/what-do... My local district is in big financial trouble (under receivership) & part of it was extremely lax oversight by the state on audits etc

Tony Thurmond is an absolute disaster as state superintendent. Way too many districts going bankrupt because the CDE wasn’t properly supervising them.

Threads is the Katie Porter of social media.

I posted the same thread on Threads, and I have people calling me an idiot and saying Katie Porter is the best... And truly: we can do better than someone who is known for abusing her staff.

I didn't do much research, but for some reason I was always leaning toward Becerra, so I feel vindicated here! Would love to see more ads to boost his name!

Here @celestepewter.bsky.social refers to the California governor's election. But "don't vote on vibes" is good advice in general.

In support of this post, here are some extremely negative things that I expect to happen as a matter of course because of this.

This is ignoring the logistics and the fact there's no clear chain of command and it's the night before all of this is supposed to happen. Any half-decent project manager or event planner can tell you that you can't implement something like this without major planning. Or it's chaos.