Honk, as always, a high point of my year.

ICE always lies. It’s the one constant in our tumultuous time.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 17h 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...

every elected official they interview in this article, except derrick van orden who they lead with for some reason, had their death threats instigated & encouraged by donald trump. the country doesn't have an incivility problem, it has a maga death cult problem

Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · yesterday

A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

None of this means you have to like it. But it’s true.

Chris Dwan (he/him)@somershade.bsky.social · yesterday

It's tactical voting discourse season again, so I will just gently remind everybody that the only information you can meaningfully encode with your vote under our current system is "I want this person to win." 1/?

Until I made this it had never occurred to me I could just make cannoli filling at home in like five minutes.

Chocolate Cassata Cake

Chocolate Cassata Cake is a dense chocolate loaf cake, filled with sweetened ricotta cheese and chocolate chips, and iced with creamy fudge frosting.

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If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 3d ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 3d ago

NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

onion person@junlper.beer · 3d ago

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

Susan Collins sent these lawless secret police goons and the rogue Trump paramilitary they work for $70,000,000,000 in JUNE -- after they'd killed two Americans with impunity. She says her vote was for body cameras but that's an obscene lie. Cameras were 0.03% of the $70B appropriation. #MEpolitics

Maine Newsroom@mainenewsroom.com · 2d ago

10/10 Court filings confirm ICE agents did add Mainers to “nice little database” of “domestic terrorists” #maine #MEpolitics

Truly the most pathetic man on the planet

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d ago

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

A ransomware “negotiator” turned out to be playing both sides?? I for one am shocked. This shit isn’t going to stop until we remove the incentives for it. Cut crypto out of the banking system once and for all and make it illegal to pay the ransoms. Enough.

Philip J Fry's Shocked Reaction

ALT: Philip J Fry's Shocked Reaction

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InfoSec@infosec.skyfleet.blue · 3d ago

FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm

That half of Medicare plans are now run by private insurance- with some people offered benefits and others refused them because of their location - is a betrayal of promise by Medicare of equal care for everyone Medicare Advantage was always a scam. End it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...

Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance (Gift Article)

As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.

nytimes.com

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

Live in Massachusetts? Don't be fooled by billionaires. Vote no on Question 3. All-party primaries are bad for democracy (let's support ranked choice voting instead!). baystatebanner.com/2026/10/08/w...

Starting Monday morning every candidate who Elon Musk is spending against should hold an event where they tell everyone Elon Musk has their Social Security number & he’s funding their opponents’ campaign so he doesn’t have to give it back.

#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com · 2d ago

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 😢

Love to have someone who is definitely not a progressive lecturing progressives about why the truest expression of their values would be to vote for a Republican.

The most common type of false allegation of sexual violence is DARVO complaints made by perpetrators against their very real victims. DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s a way perpetrators avoid accountability by accusing their victims of wrongdoing.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 3d ago

The general sense from law enforcement is that victims are “asking for it” by expecting systems to take concerns about violence seriously. A kind of, “If you want us to believe you, then we have to believe your abuser who said you were dangerous.”

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

I, too, love to purchase companies older than most nations, with names that are known to multiple generations of people all over the world, and then get rid of the names and replace them with the name of a thing nobody gives a shit about.

Nerdist@nerdist.bsky.social · 4d ago

When Paramount and Warner Bros. merge they'll take the new name of Skydance.

"It’s unclear how many children fall into this category, because ORR doesn’t systematically track them" <-- the administration is hiding data and eroding research infrastructure because, without data and research, it's easier to deny the damage they've done

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last wk.

Children living safely with families are being picked up by ICE and referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them in shelters or foster care. These shelters were designed for new arrivals, not settled kids—and the children are struggling badly.

Susan Collins told Mainers she was so powerful cause she was Senate Approps Chair. Then, she voted for Vought knowing he'd take her power away - and he did She's been undermined!!! But, I agree with @troyjackson207.bsky.social, "Expressing concern isn't enough. Mainers see through the bullshit"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d ago

Breaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.

Are Massachusetts voters going to let a few private equity assholes decide what form our democracy will take?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7d ago

Another campaign finance report from the Yes on 3 (top-two primary) campaign, and again, it's almost all from private equity and the investor class. $1.3M in new money, and 80+% of it coming from just 8 donors--7 private equity executives and investment firm managers plus 1 investment firm itself

Another campaign finance report from the Yes on 3 (top-two primary) campaign, and again, it's almost all from private equity and the investor class. $1.3M in new money, and 80+% of it coming from just 8 donors--7 private equity executives and investment firm managers plus 1 investment firm itself

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

ms.now

The US has spent $43.6 billion on the Iran war: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Much Has the U.S. Spent on the War in Iran?

A detailed look at the $43.6 billion the Pentagon has spent so far.

nytimes.com

Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · last wk.

What a school library in Roseville, MN could do with $10,000: #LocalAngle Also: “Nothing shows more privilege than when people say, Can’t people just buy books?”

I don’t know how Facebook tweaked its algorithm in the last couple weeks but suddenly I am getting content from far-right influencer types, which has never happened before. This content is less relevant to me than the cattle castration tool ads I’ve gotten from time to time.