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Genuinely fascinating and terrifying to have a person who has never read a book or basically anything and only learns and retains about 5% of what the last person he spoke with told him running the country

Moreover, even though the whistleblower story contains real news—he hasn’t talked before and he’s making his case publicly—here’s how the CBS News website is playing the two stories at this hour: Kushner leads, whistleblower story is below 10 other stories under “more news.”

okay lol I just checked and I kid you not this is literally the cover of my own copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Note: This was published in 2012, more than a decade ago. This was just the iconography the publisher felt best expressed Paine’s views.

ICYMI, on the Kaiser strike: "Kaiser concedes that the unions and management are just $300 million annually apart at most in negotiations, and the company is sitting on $67.4 billion in reserves, up from $40 billion just four years ago." prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...

NEW: The FTC is removing blog posts, authored by Lina Khan, including some that articulate the potential risks that commercial AI tools pose to consumers.

Scott Pelley got a big scoop with the Trump DOJ whistleblower that almost surely was going to be the top story on 60 Minutes this week. But per the NYT, Bari Weiss personally booked Jared Kushner on 60–letting him take a victory lap for the Gaza deal. Pelley’s story was pushed to second position.

Well hey, look who's back!

Glad to have a safe haven like Bluesky sometimes. Have been getting harassed non-stop by bullies on Twitter for suggesting that so-called "adults" should grow up, and stop celebrating Halloween for two weeks straight.

In the wake of the George Santos rescue, Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Imagine going back in time 10 years and showing yourself this tweet

Everyone on prednisone should be told that they may experience serious mental health side effects, which can include mania and psychosis. It's hard to navigate if your doctor doesn't warn you.

my god, it’s full of stars

I sat down with Zohran Mamdani, presumptive winner of NYC's mayoral election and the internet's fave politician, for a @wired.com interview. We covered: -Big Tech capitulation to Trump -His tips for finding <3 on Hinge -The backstory of his social campaign -Linkin Park, multiple times, vv important

Epoch Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Dog owners, you ever just absolutely nail the “last time out to pee immediately before it starts pouring” and no one is there to give you a medal

Hitting California highways with accidental artillery fire, as REAL Americans do

There's some research that suggests the more severe symptoms you experience with Covid can increase your risk of Long Covid. It such a failure of public health and the media that there isn't an encouragement of getting the Covid vax, which can reduce severe Covid cases, let alone masking.

Trolling subtext aside, striking to see a White House make king jokes to a country founded on anti-monarchism. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense: “…there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned … the distinction of men into Kings and Subjects.”

If the “No Kings” protests weren’t such a triumph, Trump’s over-the-top reaction to the events would’ve been far less ridiculous. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan – who reportedly has U.S. marshals accompanying her for security protection within her own office – has fired two more career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia. Plus other new developments at Trump DOJ: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

A full-throated hell yeah to this sentiment www.gravityisgone.com/i-wanted-my-...

brother it *is* the trap

Scoop: The federal government was warned last month that 1 in 3 parents plan to help their kids get around the social media ban. The risk of "non-compliance snowballing and becoming normalised" could "undermine" the ban, the report says, based on polling done in Feb/March www.crikey.com.au/20...

If you want Covid to be taken more seriously, calling it airborne AIDS (or airborne vasculitis) accomplishes the opposite, as the science doesn't add up. Something can both be serious and different enough that people would use such callings to delegitimize actual concerns.

me: has a team of professional scientists run 60+ tests in an iso-certified lab some guy in the comments: dO yOuR oWn ReSeArCh

Hakeem Jeffries now has a little less than 4 days and 22 hours to endorse a candidate for mayor of New York City before the start of early voting

Years ago I wrote an article about how fucking with pensions is basically wage theft and I stand by it.

I happen to think 7 million pro-democracy protesters are more representative of this country than the deranged people who go to his hate rallies

Shadow president gets his way thanks to the shadow docket

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it's so wild that in retrospect it turns out it's the only power the president doesn't have

so i showed the john oliver thing about bari weiss to someone who hadn’t seen it. i think it’s one of the best they’ve done in a long time. on second viewing it was still funny but i gotta admit the rage:laugh quotient was different than the first time. the shamelessness of these people. it a sin.

just total 🤡 shit. god only knows how much $ trump and witkoff think they can make with putin if they persuade Z to give up on ukraine’s basic right to sovereignty.

While hospitals across the country were falling apart, leaving patients in crisis and facilities severely understaffed, a shocking campaign to silence and surveil critics was underway. Read @h-lev.bsky.social and @acleek.bsky.social's latest investigation into Medical Properties Trust.

How many times do we have to reiterate that people vote based on vibes, not policy

I did an entire episode on Trump's Slopaganda. If you don't find this absolutely hilarious, you're likely not behind on alimony payments: www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0z...

Thinking again about the scene in All The President's Men where Ben Bradlee tells them to cut the word "tit" even though John Mitchell said it and Redford asks why and he just goes "this is a family newspaper," no reason

So infuriating that investigative journalists have been reporting on ghost networks in the health insurance industry for YEARS and there is apparently still no industry accountability.

Tamara Lich, who Poilievre continually posts in support of, was on a panel last night alongside Diagolon/Second Sons leader Jeremy Mackenzie. They were both introduced as panelists off the top. Lich, at the end, then says the panel was made up of her “heroes” 😬

There’s a narrative that resistance to Trump’s second term is weaker than the first. Data indicates the opposite. There have actually been over 3x more protests in Trump’s second term than the first, and No Kings 2 was the largest single-day political protest in US history.

obviously

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We had reporters in New York, Washington, and southern California (last one would be me) at No Kings protests this weekend, reflecting on the meaning and purpose of mass mobilization, and how to create that gateway to action. prospect.org/2025/10/20/p...

And that's why we're making sure sick people can't afford healthcare. That's what Jesus would do

Working with my editorial intern one last time before she turns 1 tomorrow.

Early voting for Texas' November election begins today, Oct. 20. Here’s what you need to know. 🧵

Heard from a few more since publishing this. Eg, a DOI employee who has gotten less worried about potential consequences for attendance as numbers have grown. "It's also bigger than my job. They are taking American citizens off the street... and ignoring so many other laws. We have to fight that."

Accidentally bought color correcting moisturizer and got a real jump scare when I opened the tub and it was green but I gotta say the magic of color theory made my face look a lot less red so happy little accident I guess?

as described, this is just murder

Lucky doesn't know how to read. Lucky only knows "I want attention." Lucky is at peace. Lucky wants you to be at peace.

I hope this gentleman, who was in Denver heckling No Kings protesters and faceplanted, enjoyed this weekend's Giants-Broncos game

Relatedly: Common Sense is a wild read, man. High recommend picking it up ahead of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. declaring independence.* *Unless you ascribe to the Mecklenburg Declaration claim, in which case this past May marked 250 years since colonists began declaring independence

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A revelatory quote in this Politico story, attributed to a Trump 1.0 official: “I do get the sense that the longer this drags on, the more this becomes kind of a loyalty test — who stays on message and who starts to flinch once the hometown pressure kicks in.” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

ICYMI: For years, religious groups have applied for a special government program that helps secure worship spaces. But this year, DHS changed the conditions — such as apparently requiring grant recipients to cooperate with ICE. Now, faith groups are voicing outrage religionnews.com/2025/10/17/f...

I wrote about how to stay (relatively) sane under authoritarianism for my newsletter

Chip Roy, Messenger of God. My ass.

posting the right way

Good news: Morocco has lots of cats

I attended a couple of protests and read accounts of others and while I Do Not Regret To Inform We Are Going To Win may be a tad strong, the portents are positive. edroso.substack.com/p/joy-to-the...

Allowing the distribution (and therefore ownership) of library ebooks to remain in the hands of private industry is morally wrong www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

TIRED: the white house should be banned from bluesky because it's being run by little alt-right freaks WIRED: the white house should be banned from bluesky because mr donald j trump has been engaging in partisan behaviour while on government property... which is against Bluesky's TOS

Anyone who tells you that they have data showing that politics is Actually Really Easy is lying to you and themselves. I genuinely think a grown-ass adult who wants to be seen as a politics-knower should feel embarrassed to make this kind of argument in public. Go touch grass, man. Moderately.

I really need people to hold the line right now because when people hold the line, these dillweeds DO respond.

Covered CA and other marketplaces should really be sending out their renewal notices ASAP because, like...people are gonna FREAK when they see that number and they WILL be calling their legislators to tell them they'd better not sell out our health care to reopen the government.

The last time a Republican president was in his fifth year, working with a GOP-led Congress, the party struggled with “culture of corruption” allegations. Twenty years later, conditions appear ripe for a sequel. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

"Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Gets Into Business With Donald Trump Jr." Fair and balanced David Gilmour for @mediaite.com

This appears to be the photo used to generate the AI video US President Donald Trump posted that portrays hims wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet that dumps feces on influencer Harry Sisson and other Americans who were protesting him in New York City.

this argument has a content-to-smarm ratio that would make the free press proud

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"...Benny Johnson worked for BuzzFeed and Eliana Johnson worked for Politico. They know professional outlets operate in no way like the propaganda shops they eventually returned to, but they deceive their audiences about the reliability of the news media anyhow." www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

Scott Bessent has gone from a critic of state capitalism to one of its biggest practitioners. "When you are facing a nonmarket economy like China, then you have to exercise industrial policies," he said. Imagine that! From Harold Meyerson: prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...

i offhandedly brought up none pizza left beef today to a stranger and they looked at me like i had three heads open the schools

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FWIW, this seems like one of the only options that might make a difference.

Cute one to ward off the Sunday scaries @erinbiba.bsky.social

People are saying I escaped to Morocco because I did a jewel heist at the Louvre

Wait until these kids find out about the Ottawa 67s 😫

The article also argues, in a way intended to make you think these designations were widely accepted at the time, that JFK and Obama and Clinton were all moderates. Buddy, I was alive in 2007 and 2008. In neither the primary nor the GE was Obama regarded as a distinctly moderate figure. Sophistry.

Prestige Press guys keep treating Tubby and his goons like honorable gents and the goons keep stuffing them lockers. Why not just print that it's shit and when they complain about it say you stand by your story? Jesus Christ.

I hope you enjoy our new website! It's a minor update but more to come. While you're there, read this @gurleygg.bsky.social piece on the Maine Senate race: prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...

"For Hooters’ Original Founders, Saving The Chain Is A Higher Calling: 'America Needs Us.'" @chloesorvino.bsky.social for @forbes.com

NEWS: Supreme Court takes up another big gun rights case concerning a federal law that bars drug users from possessing guns. It's the same law that Hunter Biden was prosecuted under. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

The reality is, most people are not going to read journal articles in full. Some might not have the energy to due to chronic illness. All this is the outcome of a title raising the possibility that Covid could be airborne AIDS in a journal article. The authors should have known better.

Traditionally, satire is used to punch up, not down

Hey Democratic messaging people Trump is literally tearing down the White House

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ohh there’s a hole in my AWS US-EAST-1, dear Labor dear Labor!

Possibly the best one hit wonder of all time: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Leaving for Tangier shortly

NEW: @katie-drummond.bsky.social spoke with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about internet fame, technocracy, and... Linkin Park? www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Huh. So DHS is just using some…*rented* cars?

Note: There were many religious demonstrators at this weekend’s No Kings demonstrations. I’ve seen at least one demonstrator that, in fact, waved a “No king but Jesus” sign, and I spoke with a demonstrator who held similar one at the No Kings protest this summer. religionnews.com/2025/10/18/n...

"Taxpayers are also people—not just economic actors but human beings with vulnerable bodies and families. And sooner or later, most people need significant medical care." www.thebulwark.com/p/actual-hum...

this is such amateur hour shit. he wont even commit to selling Z out. wants everyone to like him. weakness personified.

Apple TV appears to be down—not just the subscription service but the whole app. I’m unable to access TV shows I’ve purchased via the Apple video store and my Apple Channels subscription to Acorn TV stopped working in the middle of an episode of Art Detectives.

Of note: I covered a 2023 ballot measure in Maine that would have restored voting rights for people under guardianship. It failed, but highlighted that this is an ongoing issue in many states!