Do you like Friday night news dumps? In the last 24 hours Elon dumped another $4,082,655.01 into GOP campaigns. Sad news for Mike Rogers tho. Elon must be disappointed in Mike's debate performance. He added big $ to dozens of races, but not a single dollar in this batch for Mike. Too bad, so sad 😢

Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Incredible stuff in Michigan last night. Check out this protest stunt outside the debate where Abdul mopped the floor with Mike Rogers www.instagram.com/reel/DeR7Y8r...

Batshit craziness again. I know it’s played out at this point, but just IMAGINE the reaction had Biden said something like this. The press would be writing how he needs to be in an institution. Certainly the 25th Amendment would be discussed at the highest levels of our institutions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be

Is this doesn’t describe this moment in history, I don’t know what does.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.

ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.

Private jets. Luxury vacations. Ethical scandals. Thomas, Alito and Roberts demand respect while the Supreme Court’s credibility crumbles. Steve on the Court’s crisis of accountability. Read it here: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/start-with...

Start with the mirror, Sam

The last desperate card for MAGA senators facing defeat and repudiation is the Supreme Court.

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Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

g.h. kirsch@gh-kirsch.bsky.social · last wk.

Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy.

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

The important thing to know about the Starship launch today is that Elon Musk is directly responsible for an unfathomable number of people dying preventable deaths and has never faced a single consequence for it.

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN

It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

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“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel

Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel

WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ...

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BREAKING: White House defies court order, doesn't reinstate access for banned reporters

White House defies court order, doesn't reinstate access for banned reporters

CNN is set to be the television pool for President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House on Thursday evening.

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Wilber Garces Perez was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin. Now he's in detention with the bullet still in his body. Today, 100+ Members of Congress are demanding that ICE get him medical care, stop trying to deport a key witness, and immediately release the video footage.

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

here's Sunday's post: "what kind of shithole piss-baby president gets mad at reporters for reporting?" I’ll give you one guess. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

what kind of shithole piss-baby president gets mad at reporters for reporting?

I’ll give you one guess

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Ah, Chicago. Where it can be 70 and gross because the humidity is at 95% 😓. I already sweat through one shirt today.

I played as an investor in 'Thin Air,' Real Money. Rank: SAD!. 🎮 My $2,000 → $296.70 (−85%). 💸 His reported 2025 take: $1.4B. His investors: down an estimated $4.7B (@publiccitizen.bsky.social). I tried to win. I couldn't. See for yourself: thinairrealmoney.com

‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game

An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.

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The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...

The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)

The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.

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We’re encouraged to keep the thermostat to a slightly less comfortable temperature, to use flickery LED lightbulbs, to shift our electricity consumption to off-peak times. Meanwhile…

OPB@opb.org · 3w ago

A first-of-its-kind report documents the quantity, size and impact of data centers in Oregon. Among the findings: More than 100 facilities consume about one-quarter of the state's electricity.

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We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir

Guacamole is extra, but a side of Palantir is free.

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Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

Republicans can’t govern. They campaign on government being bad, then get elected and prove it. Campaign slogans and fear- and hate-mongering don’t produce good results after the election. It doesn’t help that Trump is uniquely heinous and the party is now synonymous with him.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4w ago

is that good

Not all heroes wear capes. Or maybe they did, who knows? #deflock

404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

Went to the grocery store yesterday thinking I’d buy ground turkey for dinner since beef is so expensive, but ground turkey prices have clearly been raised opportunistically as well. The cheapest option, ironically, ended up being 93/7 beef that was on sale. #groceries #gouging

Robert Kraft — who's given millions to pro-Israel orgs like AIPAC — once got a $1M award from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. "Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft," Netanyahu said. Now, Kraft helps kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour:

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

Russian oligarch and close personal friend of Putin Umar Kremlev secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr’s May wedding in the Bahamas, ProPublica reports. Kremlev and several other Russians were among the 50 guests.

Here is AOC and Mamdani laughing at the solemn 9/11 commemoration. Oh wait…

Five C-17s delivered King Donald the Mad’s Secret Service motorcade to Ireland: Cadillac SUVs, anti-drone systems, assault vehicles and emergency equipment – all for a 2-day trip including the Irish Open at his own Doonbeg golf resort. And US taxpayers pick up the bill for his private event.

"The Braselton Police Department announced it has fired an employee for misusing the department's Flock camera system." 🤦‍♂️ www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/brasel... #Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff #fyp #trending

Braselton fires police officer for misusing Flock cameras

Another metro Atlanta police officer has been fired for misusing Flock cameras that have increasingly become controversial over privacy concerns and reports of misuse by law enforcement.

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