The Academy of Private Life, which claims to have served more than 150,000 students, trains young Russian women to become housewives to oligarchs and the élite. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-real-housewives-of-moscow

The Daily Show always nails it :

The US is currently a biotech leader, but the inconsistency at the FDA will make it hard to make new medicines. “I think this is going to kill drug development,” Replimune CEO Sushil Patel told Adam Feuerstein at the #STATSummit.

God, moving the TV outside so you can rip Marbs while drinking the lightest beers on the planet is such a weird version of masculinity

With few exceptions, the consultant-pundit-pollster nexus was eager to treat even the most modest subgroup vote swings toward trump 24 as structural realignments representing shifts in deeply held ideology (eg among Latinos, Gen z men). Crickets when those subgroups rapidly turned against Trump

Yeah, that tracks. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

The most important article you will read today. This is simply not the America we love. I say this as a former national security professional who is very much pro law enforcement. The tactics used here are anathema to actual policing, against all TTPs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Seeking to curb Moscow's influence, Latvia and Estonia are phasing out the Russian language in education, tightening immigration rules, and targeting Russian-linked organizations.

It’s important to understand why DOJ indictment of John Bolton seems very different than Letitia James and Jim Comey indictments. 1. Biden administration opened the criminal investigation of John Bolton in 2022. It's been detailed investigative work ever since. www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/p... 🧵

I’ve spent the past month reporting on the #PKK dissolution. Most people want the process to work: they’ve had enough war. But hope isn’t always joined by belief that it will. Thank you to Ali Harisi & Juman Jarallah for space to report such complex stories www.thenationalnews.com/news/2025/10...

Oh wow

22 arrests. All Maga. Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman. I think we know who the violent ones are. #NoKings

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier" on.ft.com/4n9nlNd

So would I!!!👇

A stunning story of critical developments that the US press missed entirely

While I was reporting this NYT profile of defense tech investor & JD Vance ally Katherine Boyle, a State Department official told me: “If you’re looking at her project as a policy project, you’re not really understanding it. Her project is ultimately civilizational.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

HW Bush said the ADA was the thing he was perhaps proudest of in his presidency. To learn more about the history of the 504 regs & the ADA (& the sit ins & capitol crawl), check out “Forgotten America: Rediscovering Events that Changed the Nation” on The Great Courses & Audible bit.ly/4omm0oi 🗃️

Yikes — WP reports Rubio turned over gang informants to El Salvador to get that deal to let Trump send immigrants to their hard labor prison without due process. A lawless regime. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America. Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought. Here is the story. A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The entire Republican Party is in thrall to a 79-year-old whose behavior, if you saw it in a teenager, would cause you to believe they were emotionally unwell and would prompt intervention.

A driver intentionally drove their car up on the curb to hit a protester in Ohio yesterday. This is the protester’s reaction, broken leg and all. You may break our bones, but you will not break our spirit.

Beyond lazy edit of our NO KINGS DAY 2 in DTLA. One of my highlights was getting a hug from @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social while I was in my banana costume. Sadly, there is no photo evidence. 😹 #NoKingsDTLA #NOKINGS #ICEOutOfLA

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

One wonders how the president would react to a "no punching yourself in the nuts" protest.

Conflicting data at that. I think it's unlikely unless #SCOTUS is overhauled.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has instructed staff to allow hunting in many of the roughly 600 National Wildlife Refuges, three employees said, as President Trump continues to direct select parts of the government to ignore the shutdown.

The truth about Trump’s tariffs: “While administration officials have insisted that exporters will be forced to bear the greater share of the levies… just one-third will be borne by companies, with the rest falling on the shoulders of consumers, under conservative estimates.”

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

NEW: This Las Vegas Republican had high hopes, but a 'Trump slump' has made his life worse. A food server for decades on and off the Strip, he says inflation and the president’s pugnacious policies have chased tourists away. He feels it in his wallet. Bigly. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

JPL's rough ride: Can California's shining star of space science recover?

Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."

The so-called Homeland Security Secretary is a corrupt and malignant fraud. This video she sanctioned is fake. Manipulated by cowards who hide behind masks while violating the law.

The vice president is a literal shitposter. I guess this is the only job they think he's capable of handling.

Valuable thread from an expert

Getting on 40 years of doing this, and never once imagined I would be writing a lead like this -- not about someplace in South America or West Africa, but right here. In America. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In the absence of anything approaching an actual uprising, Trump still threatening military action against American citizens.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

In Missoula, Montana, the Missoulian features a sweeping aerial shot of the rally:

* TRUMP INSISTED ZELENSKIY SURRENDER ENTIRE DONBAS TO PUTIN: FT

Russia, Russia, Russia, as they say

Yes because of the Epstein files discharge petition, but also because Johnson and the rest of the GOP are going to try to overturn the elections of Democratic House members during the midterms, especially in more competitive seats. Laying the groundwork for that.

bad news for my haters

Favorite signs group #3 from the Champaign-Urbana, IL, No Kings rally (10/18/25)

Absolute buffoons. ICE is now just a bunch of roided up idiots with no training.