This Halloween has had a severe lack of M&Ms and I demand an investigation

What Musk is actually scared of: -DOGE hearings -Starlink hearings -NHTSA implementing a 2016 guidance that deems "foreseeable misuse" of driver assistance systems a defect -DOJ fraud charges over "Full Self-Driving" -EPA crackdown on systematically out-of-compliance facilities at Musk-run firms

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2d ago

the "other reasons" Musk deems "irrelevant" include silly little stuff like requiring his companies adhere to the law

Jamo's point about the bylines is the critical indicator here. When the Times decides they really want to juice a story, they assign multiple reporters to it - in this case, NINE - which produces a torrent of articles, which then convinces everyone else in the media that this is a Really Big Deal

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · yesterday

I wrote about the New York Times’ multimedia full-court press on the dumb Alaska story — a dozen print, video, audio, and newsletter reports at last count — and the news media’s responsibility to cover things in proportion to their importance. www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...

Trump's Alaska lawsuit will likely prove unsuccessful. But it could still establish a record of voter confusion allegations in an effort to prevent the winner of the state’s U.S. Senate race from being certified. And one Alaska official may be especially worth watching: https://demdock.com/4jLsX2g

If the NYT is so interested in the Alaska Senate race they should ask Dan Sullivan, who in 2016 said he could not support Trump due to "reprehensible revelations" about him, what he thinks about the latest rape allegation against Trump. Oh right I forgot: The NYT hasn't reported the new allegation.

Alaska is screwed. Democrats cannot get away with the "dirty tricks" approach as much as everyone here wishes they could. There is no way this gets through SCOTUS www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Alaska Governor Orders Criminal Investigation Into Peltola Campaign

President Trump had lashed out at Mary Peltola after The New York Times reported that her campaign and national Democrats helped recruit spoiler candidates to the race. He offered no explanation of wh...

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I'm just going to keep putting this here until like ONE political editor at the @nytimes.com bothers to read it and internalize what I'm saying www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"Published following Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September of last year, NSPM 7 instructs federal law enforcement to use every tool available against organizations and people who criticize the administration's policies and espouse "anti-Christian" ideas. "

David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s." Incredible reporting here from @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

this just in....Will is running for office again

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6d ago

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

I will not forget that Zuckerberg and Facebook shut down the accounts of the most popular presidential candidate in one of the largest democracies in the world, and he was elected anyway

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Would have ended Trump 2016 immediately, we'd have a majority on the Supreme Court, we'd still have USAID, we'd still have Roe

one dozen bats at a keyboard@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 7d ago

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Two-round electoral systems are very underrated - I’m always saying this

one dozen bats at a keyboard@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 7d ago

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

It's all machine opcodes and punch cards for this guy. Don't want to be reliant on "automated systems" like "assemblers" and "compilers", that's "cheating"

Treemans@treemans.bsky.social · last wk.

Then I'm sorry but uh Maybe it's not for you? You are not only cheating the system, but also yourself. Becoming reliant on automated systems to produce your own creativity. Have fun i guess but its nothing id ever want to touch.

This seems like a big deal

Controversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411

Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone. Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it's gone

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im just embracing the blocks now.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2w ago

Republican lawmakers are incensed about Trump's dismissal of Ukraine — and powerless to stop him. That frustration hit a new peak on Monday as they sought to address Trump’s decision to purchase Russian diesel, waive sanctions on Moscow, and potentially stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine.

if you are running a PHP application - it does not matter what it is - you are vulnerable. if you are running some embedded firmware that uses PHP to serve its web UI - you are vulnerable. full details and a patch at 2 PM UTC sharp tomorrow, you have been advised to prepare to patch immediately

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.

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NEW AD: “Ken Paxton says I don't have his experience — and he's right. I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party. And I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.”

Susan Collins on Kavanaugh: "I'm very disappointed in his his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. There was no way for me to anticipate that."

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

saw a poll showing Talarico up only two points and I decided it's time to Doom Again. Polls have all skewed D in the past ten years. I think we'll get the House but not as much as we think and I really can't imagine the Senate going. Look for Florida being called barely by sunset, as usual.

T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2w ago

Like if you were to show me this graph in isolation, I'd expect a Republican wave tbh 😔

JD VANCE: The biggest reason why gas prices are so high is because when Joe Biden ... DOKOUPIL: It's almost been two years. At a certain point it becomes your economy, not Joe Biden's economy

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Singer songwriters make your demo recordings using a real drummer and not a drum machine challenge

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“AI boosters may say that their hostility is just fear of change. But they’re wrong. The promotion of AI music-generation software as a way of making music is an insult to musicians. Musicians are right to react to it as such.” www.ft.com/content/2c21...

NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It

A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.

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Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

i think that the best way the understand conservative legal philosophy is to know that, literally, it was constructed backward from the premise that a Republican president should be permitted to commit crimes against democracy

it's unethical for Gemini to read all my docs and use it to generate its own content for profit that isn't shared with me!