And, much like seeing the Pentagon and World Trade Center hit on 9/11, it cuts deep because it’s the symbolism.

In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements. In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.

Two former Air Force officers Two CIA officers One FBI agent Retired Marine and aide to Gabbard, Paul McNamara.

I think this is more interesting. Vought’s wife filed for divorce the same day Trump pleaded not guilty to conspiring to steal the 2020 election.

Worth remembering the time Trump demolished a historic 1929 building to pave the way for Trump Tower. He promised the Met he would donate architectural fixtures it sought for its collections. Instead, he demolished them. John Barron told press they had no value. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

Called Hawley’s DC office and the woman answering the phone asked, “What demolition?”

Call your Congress members. That juvenile video of the President shitting on Americans was foreshadowing. Putin must be ecstatic.

“However, the government did not require the OpenAI data to identify their man. Instead, they were able to glean enough information during undercover chats with the suspect to discover that he was connected to the U.S. military.”

🔴Inside Epstein’s Russian Tech Web: How Oligarch Cash and Three Women Connected Moscow to Silicon Valley Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein’s network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley bylinetimes.com/2025/10/20/i...

The Russian WhatsApp replacement MAX, run by the state to spy on citizens, has been hacked and all data stolen.

Keep South America policy straight everyone: Argentina: propping up the currency to keep an ally in power Colombia: applying sanctions due to presidential criticism Venezuela: planning a covert but not secret military intervention

Say what you'll re: people in 🐸 & 🦄 costumes, but the reality is that fun+play are crucial to the success of social movements. Check out this excellent 🧵 by @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social, a social movement studies expert, on how this dynamic works to help a movement grow & what to expect nxt. #NoKings

Diplomats say that Trump is destroying America's closest alliance in Latin America. But legally, what he has done is to predicate a second war after the war with Venezuela. A normal president would have quietly authorized an ex gratia payment to the victims' families to silence the whole thing.

At a recent SASC hearing, Senator Reed asked a DoD official why the US was bombing boats in the Caribbean if fentanyl was actually entering the US from Mexico. The response: "Sir, we're conducting those attacks because the President of the United States directed that we conduct those attacks."

Keep playing it and laugh every time.

Was the biggest Trump protest I’d ever seen in KC. People everywhere.

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

#NoKings Miami!

NOW: US court permanently bans Pegasus spyware maker from hacking WhatsApp. NSO Group can't help their customers hack WhatsApp etc. ether. Must delete exploits & R&D. Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company. Big additional win for WhatsApp 1 /

🚨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...

New: Prosecutors in Florida have charged voting machine vendor Smartmatic with corruption in an indictment that previously only charged three of the company's former executives. Smartmatic's machines are used in LA County. This is a breaking story so I'll have more later, but here's my initial piece

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Just when you thought it wasn’t possible, a new low in American politics. May history remember the names of all those who brought us this.

Exclusive: Special Operations helos, flying in a configuration best suited for ground assaults, were less than 90 miles from Venezuela last week. Official says they were training. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Dominion Voting Systems was purchased by the founder and CEO of Knowink, a Missouri-based maker of electronic poll books…”

Holy guacamole, this could be the weirdest story I ever worked on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

The fourth and final passage of the CIA’s encrypted Kryptos sculpture has been cracked. Not with math, but by digging through the Smithsonian’s archives.

Maj. Gen. Bassam Hassan ➡️Lebanon➡️Iran➡️Beirut “Few from Mr. al-Assad’s inner circle were more feared than Mr. Hassan, accused of a litany of crimes, including coordinating the regime’s chemical weapons attacks to the kidnapping of the American journalist Austin Tice.”

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs

Powerful way to convey the state of the union at a glance.

Why would you think they intend to make it useful if they’re focused on dropping people from coverage?

Guys, I think we might have lost the element of surprise on this one.

The First Amendment or Hegseth:

Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat www.thepitchkc.com/kansas-young...

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

He’s spent more time in combat than the Secretary of Defense, cultivated relationships with officers over decades and informed Americans what was really happening with their sons and daughters sent to war. A must read to fully understand the loss for journalism and an informed citizenry.

You forgot The Associated Press. Nobody boycotted the WH in solidarity when it got excluded from major events there over “The Gulf of America.” apnews.com

It’s a tough district but maybe Marj is afraid of running against a General after tying herself to Trump/his low polling numbers. Unleashing the military against Americans? Try and defend that while running against a General.

“Anything that is visible when the target app is opened can be stolen by the malicious app using Pixnapping,”

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

How could no one have said this before now? Bold. Fearless. Courage that’s contagious.

She’s eyeing those Trump approval numbers.

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland. Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Snap the VINs.

This is why I prefer to see protestors holding posters with messaging directed at their individual Congress members. They’re accountable and they get let off the hook when everyone focuses on Trump.

I miss the mindset and naive assumption that we are all working to create a better, more humane world.

Details on the first 3rd country flight to Guatemala with Hondurans deported there.

Now we're seeing confirmation of the NSO acquisition. Mark my words, this is the path through which Pegasus gets put on Americans iPhones & Androids. This dictatorship-in-a-box belongs nowhere near our constitutional rights.