Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 4h ago

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

The knives are out for Guilfoyle: Everybody from whom she's solicited bribes knows she can't deliver, so they're settling old scores. -She lost all her access when she broke up with Junior. -She's too dumb to have covered her tracks. -Trump loves grift-- but only if he gets to wet his beak. Bye, Kim

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h ago

Another bad report for Kim Guilfoyle: According to an audio recording reviewed by WSJ, Guilfoyle boasted at Davos about her close ties to two Greek tycoons and said they were bankrolling her high-rolling trips around the world.

I've turned in my mail-in ballot to one of the many ballots boxes throughout our city. If you are voting in person, make SURE you are (still) registered and you know your polling place. #VoteBlue2026 #BlueDownTheBallot #Vote #Blues

Monica@softtail65.bsky.social · 53m ago

Hey y'all 👋 Let's fucking do this bitches! #VoteBlue2026 🗳💙 Find your polling location here: www.vote.org/polling-plac...

I staffed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years, shepherding the confirmations of 100+ ambassadors nominated by three presidents of both parties. ♦️Under prior presidents, any ambassador conducting Guilfoyle-level bribe-solicitation would have been fired immediately.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4h ago

Trump and Rubio weigh firing Kimberly Guilfoyle after reports of improper conduct

Two thoughts: 1. The fact that this exists means multiple people in the entertainment industry had the episode explained to them, and said, "That sounds like a GREAT idea." 2. This happened within my lifetime.

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling@rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3h ago

A booking error puts the Partridge Family in a black neighborhood in Detroit. To save Richard Pryor and Lou Gosset Jr’s soul music club, Keith writes a “sort of Afro thing” song and writhes around at a fundraising block party, to a mostly indifferent black audience youtu.be/75qtf9AcxME?...

1. Natural bass player. 2. Probably better than me.

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 13h ago

This horse genuinely syncs its moves to the music, no training involved

This one wins:

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting.bsky.social · yesterday

turns out the real National Treasure was the Nicolas Cage we made along the way

By ignoring the advice of David Brooks, Ossoff jeopardizes the support of nearly a dozen potential voters.

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

If the Dems win the House, what will they do with it? -I'd so like to share Steve Bannon's optimism:

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6h ago

🚨 WHOA! Steve Bannon is sounding the alarm about Democrats taking the House: “I think you'll see Bobby Kennedy impeached. I think you'll see Pete Hegseth impeached. I think you'll see subpoenas flying every day. They will look to destroy President Trump, and we’ll be bogged down for two years.”

MIT professor John Urschel previously played as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. Now, he supervises PhD students, teaches classes and gives talks with titles such as “Normalizing Flows, the Special Linear Group and Block Unitriangular Matrices.” https://wapo.st/4rYLCK5

In fairness, the US has lost wars before: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and arguably Iraq, just to stay within living memory. But we've never lost a war as quickly, and as stupidly, as Trump's war on Iran.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 7h ago

Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino.

An irony of this era is that Trump’s opponents and Trump share the same exact opinions about Trump supporters bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

An advantage of a Dem wave year: ♦️It probably doesn't matter whether the always-annoying Rep Gluesenkamp Perez keeps her seat.

NPR@npr.org · 10h ago

In a highly competitive Washington congressional race, the incumbent Democrat has angered part of her party base and the Trump-backed Republican challenger faces backlash against the party in power. n.pr/4jzOz1F

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

turns out the real National Treasure was the Nicolas Cage we made along the way

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterday

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

Disney has broken new ground in the shove-ads-at-you-even-though-you're-paying-a-subscription game: ♦️They now demand that you CHOOSE which awful ad to watch. I refuse to be complicit in this, so after a while Disney picks for me. And lets me watch my Simpsons in peace for another 10 minutes.

Abu Aardvark@abuaardvark.bsky.social · yesterday

Sorry but it’s bullshit that I pay for Disney Plus and I still have to watch ads during Frozen.

Follow up, sir: ♦️Do you feel the same about Russia?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president”

It's fine: AI just hacks weird websites we've never heard of: It won't affect the real world. It's fine: That real-world AI attack is in Australia-- that's the other side of the world! It's fine: Sure, AI is interfering with homicide cases in the US. But that's Philly for ya! It's fine...

The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said.

A note of encouragement to all of my fellow terrible bass players: ♦️No matter how awful you are, you'll never be as bad as Sid Vicious. (I knew the band had to unplug his amp at multiple concerts. But I just learned that guitarist Steve Jones had to record the bassline for most jams on the album)

And right after he says it, the woman behind him claps.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

Yeah Boyyyyyyyy! Ever since '87, Flav's Uzi has weighed a ton.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · yesterday

In retrospect, I should not have been surprised that Flavor Flav turned out to be a hardcore resistance lib.

So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???

“There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are eternal, universal and indestructible.” — Frederick Douglass

The trees on East Potomac Park provided much-needed shade for generations of runners in every year's Marine Corps Marathon, Army 10-miler, Cherry Blossom, Nation's Triathlon and many other races. As well as everyday DC residents who just like being outdoors, away from all politics.

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · yesterday

If you don't live in DC, may be hard to appreciate scale of nihilist, grifter-based desecration of what has always distinguished the nation's capital, and what so many people have worked so hard for so long to sustain and improve. Backhoe-based counterpart to wartime damage we see in news footage.

Part of the reason Hains Point/East Potomac Park is such a wonderful place to run, bike or do other outdoor activities is that the long, largely car-less road around it is tree-lined and fairly shady. Or, was:

Jim Goldgeier@jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · yesterday

He just can’t stop ruining DC www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

That Halloween candy your kids will soon be hoarding? ♦️Made with inmates' tears.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · yesterday

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

This is going to sound crazy, but: ♦️How about instead of "gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event," maybe... ...game out scenarios for PREVENTING one?

Axios@axios.com · 3d ago

SCOOP: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.

We should be dominated by home-grown robot overlords, not foreign ones.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute