I'll be honest: at this point, I genuinely don't understand how some ambitious local prosecutor hasn't indicted Sam Altman over some of this shit. I can't imagine you couldn't get a grand jury to go along at this point.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3h ago

OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity

Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.

Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter

The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.

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This country needs to internalize: preventing a legal voter from voting is AT LEAST as bad as letting a person vote illegally. This is true practically and morally, but we act like it's not true.

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 9h ago

Thanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One thing I can always comfort myself with: I am handling my ever-approaching mortality better than the wealthiest people in the world.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 10h ago

Rotating “why can’t we be elves” in my mind constantly

It is a problem that a single person decides when we go to war and when we don't, despite what the law says. And this problem exists because our Congress is a bunch of cowards who want the perks without doing the job.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 13h ago

I don't think the United States should invade Cuba. This, to me, sounds like a bad idea. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...

Excellent NYT article captures the sweep of ICE’s now decentralized surge, then zooms in to tell the individual stories of cruelty and heartbreak. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/us/ice-surge-immigration-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.Ty_p.0Ek0rMGefUyl&smid=url-share

A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)

A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.

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From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

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The weather FINALLY broke here, and Fall has arrived. My favorite time of year in Oxford!

We have made a complete lack of shame a social superpower. We don't have to live like this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

ALSOBROOKS: Do you have any reason to believe birth control contaminates drinking water? OVERTON: It's important for all agencies to answer Qs the American people might have A: Do you have any reason to believe women are contaminating our drinking water? O: The American people want transparency

If they deserve to be impeached — and so many of them do — then the House should impeach them. Maybe the Senate won‘t convict but it’s still worth the effort to remind people that laws still exist and that Democrats still defend it. Also, as noted here, make ‘em sweat.

ceej@ceej.online · 2d ago

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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I don’t know why, but something about the one-two punch here strikes me as morbidly hilarious in a cosmic sort of way.

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

nytimes.com

I could really use some good news today, and the universe delivers:

IGN@ign.com · 3d ago

Disney+ has ordered a new Darkwing Duck series, bringing back the classic Disney Afternoon character for a new generation featuring Mark Hamill and Seth Rogen in lead roles. https://bit.ly/4hj6lDv

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

All that power just to make professors go back to blue book exams. Seems a bit excessive.

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 4d ago

“New York City demands 5.5-6 GW of baseload power: we are short power by six New York Cities… if we cannot close the power shortfall, the expected pace of improvement and adoption may not fully materialise in line with market expectations.” www.ft.com/content/f29d...

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Katie Miller confirms the Trump crime ring is counting on pardons

If you’re still making fun of Lane Kiffin at midnight, STAY IN LINE

"Hotty Fucking Toddy" Trinidad Chambliss

That win is going to be good for this town! Closure on a bad relationship. Big congrats to the Rebs and to Oxford. And big congrats to Pete Golding and his staff. We don't hear as much about him because he puts the focus on his players, but UMiss sees you.

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

Oh look, Russ Vought being bad at everything again.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 7d ago

New: Officials battled over NIH in the Oval Office today, per people familiar. RUSS VOUGHT criticized NIH "woke" spending and floated executive order to review its grants. JAY BHATTACHARYA defended NIH's alignment with Trump. TRUMP appeared to side with Vought. with @rbeggin.bsky.social

realize I'm a little bit of a quirky guy but being punched in the face repeatedly by masked men with guns actually is something I find frightening

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

BASH: He's a US citizen MARKWAYNE MULLIN: He wasn't arrested BASH: He was arrested. He was later released, but he was arrested. Do Americans need to carry around proof of citizenship now? MULLIN: If you're a citizen, you have no reason to fear

Wow, people that I've already blocked have been very successful today in riling up other people that I follow.

If I steal shit, I don't just get sued. I get arrested.

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · last wk.

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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U.S. Homes are now the most unaffordable in history #EconSky

www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

After Kentucky Banned DEI, Senator Called for Professor to Be ‘Fired or Worse’

After Kentucky Republicans banned DEI, a diversity, equity and inclusion defender used open records requests to reveal what public universities face behind the scenes.

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