🔥 y’all — kristi noem did not want this Kacey Musgraves smoke 👀 (@ellalangleymusic wisely untagged herself in Noem’s tweet)

Friends, Sad news! Our dear friend #MajorJasonWatson will face a historic general court-martial, the military's most severe trial! He remains in pretrial confinement. His attorney told @cnn.com the conditions amount to "cruel and unusual" solitary confinement. Want to help? Keep posting about him!

Attorney: US moving forward with general court martial of airman | CNN Politics

Air Force Major Jason Watson will face a historic general court-martial—the military’s most severe trial—following his high-profile July arrest for calling for President Trump’s impeachment in uniform...

edition.cnn.com

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’

John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists

theguardian.com

The annoying: Sam’s Club is apparently using AI to create official product pics. The horror: AI made Little Debbie Oatmeal Crème Pies into tacos. 😱 (Hat tip to Reddit. Verified in Sam’s app. This is image 9 of product.)

Hit the rest of them!!

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Cut out and keep.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations accuses Trump of breaking the law, in his support for Putin. 7 members issued this statement.

Hey @MarshaBlackburn looks like Stella Parton has a question for you

apnews.com/article/trum...

Six senators call for Trump administration to 'immediately reverse course' on Russian diesel plan

A bipartisan group of six senators are calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fu...

apnews.com

We ride at dawn for Ms. Rachel. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes

Zelenskyy: “This week was very difficult for us, not only geopolitically, but also because of massive Russian attacks on our civilian infrastructure. They attacked our energy sector 196 times, our gas and oil 20 times. So far, they've killed 153 civilians.

Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯

Rachel Fairbank@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 3d ago

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

🇺🇸🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: It would cost the U.S. nothing, absolutely nothing, to help Ukraine.

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 · 4d 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...

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

BRENNAN: Are you comfortable with any US official asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to government officials? BARRASSO: No I'm not, but the focus today is making sure that the American people know just how far to the left the Democrats have gone

Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site

Fixed it for Trump.

this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d ago

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

Incredible Journeys: How Hoofing It Helps Deer and Caribou -- just one of our stories on shifting migration... https://therevelator.org/deer-caribou-migration/

Incredible Journeys: How Hoofing It Helps Deer and Caribou • The Revelator

Migration increases the survival of ungulates like mule deer and caribou, but changing landscapes are hampering their movements — and their future.

therevelator.org

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

news.berkeley.edu

Trump, Hegseth et al are the Taliban.

Evan McMurry@evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 4d ago

Watching people die by violence “damages the spectator irreversibly,” @gcaw.bsky.social writes. “To see this process is to be diminished.”

I just filled a combine and a tractor with over 250 gallons of diesel and I am wildly, vehemently opposed to doing business with Russia for diesel.

Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚@jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 4d ago

F Trump @piperformissouri.bsky.social @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social @jbminatra.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @tonyhq1985.bsky.social @sheilaharris.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social @docsociology.bsky.social

yes. gotta call these dirty white supremacists what they are to their faces. more of this.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3d ago

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

Donald Trump desperately wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, and believes he deserves it more than anyone on Earth. This morning, the prize went to Navi Pillay — a former ICC judge honored for defending international law. HOURS LATER, Trump sanctioned the ICC.

the-independent.com

They couldn’t paint the bottom of a pool, but we’re building on the moon. 🙄