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...
@mysticalmagical7.bsky.social
Gov. Pritzker: Lie after lie after lie. This is the Trump playbook. So I want to tell people who I am. I'm somebody who fights for expansion of health care. I've been fighting for universal preschool. And I've been making sure that we lift wages across the state.
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Susan Rice: Vote Like Your Life Depends on It
Americans are living in a more dangerous world now because of Donald Trump.
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Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice tells @timmiller.bsky.social: “This Iran war is a classic example of stupid shit. It’s these ventures of choice that get us bogged down and erode our strategic position, cost lives, and cost the American consumer that we must avoid.”
"The Pentagon has named one of its own public affairs officials to run the publication Stars & Stripes, and he will keep his Pentagon job while doing it. This places a single official inside both the office that shapes the military's message, and the newsroom charged with covering it independently"
Pentagon PR Official Takes Over Stars and Stripes Months After Editor, Publisher Kicked Out
Christian Devine, an executive director and principal adviser in the Pentagon's public affairs office, was appointed weeks after terminations.
military.com
The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis
The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis
The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising
theguardian.com
Whoa! Ossoff pulling no punches: "And you're campaign is in collapse bc the whole state knows that you're currently under federal investigation for illegal misuse of tax dollars."
Ossoff: "You know I voted for the bill. You're not just lying about my record, you're lying about a young woman's death bc your campaign is in collapse. And you're campaign is in collapse bc the whole state knows that you're currently under federal investigation for illegal misuse of tax dollars."
🤩🔥 The moment of the attack by the Defense Forces' strike drones on the energy infrastructure in the city of Balakovo, Saratov Region.
This is jaw dropping. CBS News still has many credible journalists - including Holly Williams-but the news leadership is clearly in the propaganda business instead. Don’t fall for *this is routine editing* It’s not.
Bari Weiss’ handpicked foreign editor unleashed an explosive tirade at CBS News staffers, threatened insubordinate journalists with firing, and clashed with correspondent Holly Williams, according to audio we obtained. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
Just tuned into Trump holding a campaign rally in Alaska for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, and he's talking about... Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico.
❗️Russia is trying to attack energy facilities in the Kyiv region
She didn’t want to answer whether US stopped sharing intel with Ukraine. Said her job is to “amplify and multiply Trump’s wins as he is his best spokesperson”. People asked how she manages family life with them being in CA. If you were worried, her family moves to DC. No more Qs taken.
do not worry people his not walking in a straight line is purely a security measure
Trump arrives in Alaska and walks to his helicopter
87% of Republicans support Ken Paxton the guy that's SO CORRUPT he gave a sweetheart deal to a child abuser, was impeached by his own party and reported to the FBI by his own employees.
President Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as fueling Russia's war against Ukraine, violating existing U.S. laws and drawing the U.S. closer to Russia. https://to.pbs.org/4yo5QOJ
Trump's diesel deal with Putin draws bipartisan criticism from a frustrated Congress
The deal is being criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as fueling Russia's war against Ukraine, violating existing U.S. laws and drawing the U.S. closer to Russia.
to.pbs.org
Ossoff: "I want everybody who is clipping this debate to roll that tape. You stood here right on this stage and you said 'a total ban, no exceptions, even for rape, even for incest, even to save the mother's life.' That was your position and now you are changing it."
This is the 2nd day that there was no early warning given to Ukraine from allies as Russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles. No freaking early air raid sirens and now 2 murdered and 21 injured as terrorist Russia yet again hit a residential building
President Donald Trump shocked his critics on Tuesday after he posted videos of brutal animal attacks on his Truth Social account. "If an elderly relative of yours was posting videos like this on Facebook, you'd do a wellness check."
Disgust after Trump posts brutal videos of animal attacks: 'The president is a sick man'
President Donald Trump shocked his critics on Tuesday after he posted videos of brutal animal attacks on his Truth Social account. In one video, a man was repeatedly bitten by a tiger inside an enclosure. The other video, which appeared to be generated by artificial intelligence, was a mash-up of di...
bit.ly
DOGE failed to make the state smaller, despite Elon Musk’s ambitious promises. But it did make it dumber, as Michael Lewis’s new book makes clear
How Donald Trump made America’s government dumber
DOGE was a huge missed opportunity
bit.ly
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that French forces seized a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker more than 450 nautical miles south of Réunion Island suspected of “illicit fuel transportation activities.”
Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.
Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
10.13.26
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WSJ: Ken Paxton partied in Dubai on New Year's Eve 2024 with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn't his wife. Paxton is the top law enforcement official in Texas.
Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
wsj.com
This is insane (also, & I wish I didn’t have to point this out, seemingly nothing to do with AI) www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Cyberattack shuts down refrigerators at French supermarkets
Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted Danfoss refrigeration controllers.
bleepingcomputer.com
“The Afghan authorities have suspended the transmission of the #BBC from FM radio sites across #Afghanistan. We are continuing to report fairly+ independently in Pashto, Dari and English to our audiences in Afghanistan, on shortwave and medium wave radio, online+via satellite."1/
Statement on BBC services in Afghanistan
bbc.co.uk
AI 'supercharging' security threats to UK, MI5 warns
AI 'supercharging' security threats to UK, MI5 warns
Artificial intelligence (AI) is "supercharging" security threats to the UK, including the potential development by terrorists and states of new killer bioweapons, the head of MI5 has warned
news.sky.com