President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023. The president also withdrew his bid to make Carroll return the money.

Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first'

President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023.Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

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Every accusation is a confession.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2d ago

For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here?

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Delaware Corporations-Can-Vote Ruling Looks Likely to Win Appeal

The ACLU looked to have a steep hill to climb Wednesday as it urged Delaware’s top legal tribunal to invalidate a town charter authorizing some corporations, LLCs, and other artificial entities to vot...

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(strong) Opinion: All of y'all should make it a priority to watch "The President's Analyst". We're almost 60 years from the release, and it's prescient and funny, and especially connected with the AI bubble. Watch it. And don't forget, this was released in 1967.

"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

Coming to Calvert City, KY.

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/21/b...

Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country • Kentucky Lantern

The mayor of Russell learned in June that a Barcelona company wanted to build a two-gigawatt data center on the old AK Steel site in his town. He learned it from a consultant's email.

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Why does it matter what happens to the Kennedy Center? Because the guy running it into the ground is the same guy running the war with Iran.

And yes, there's a site with an AI "doomsday clock". The owner and operators are completely opaque.

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 

brutusdavis99.bsky.social@brutusdavis99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you ever meet Bob Kraft?

A minor detail is missing from the headline.

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Kai Schreiber Makes History as First Trans Girl to Win Breakthrough Model of the Year

​Schreiber became the first trans girl to win the Breakthrough Model of the Year statue at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Media Awards.

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I want to talk a little bit about a tangent to recent discourse here. The discourse is generally of the form of "I could never vote for anyone unsupporting of [a particular issue], no matter what else they support. I'm not going to cite examples. They're _everywhere_ now in the runup to the midterms

"That's what America is all about. It's to go down to Disney World in Florida. Take your families and go shopping, after you've done your duty in the way we've structured it." GWB after 9/11. Disgusting.

This is quietly big news for @esa. General chat around #EPSC2026 is a strong desire to reduce dependence on perfidious NASA, driving Europe to new capabilities and partners (see expanding partnership with JAXA for BepiColombo and beyond)

Leigh Fletcher@leighfletcher.bsky.social · 3w ago

A lot of the coffee-discussion here at #EPSC2026 has been about European-led future exploration of the outer solar system, for Saturn and beyond. This would be a game-changer.

When my father was in his last 6 months, he suffered from a host of ailments, including dementia caused by cerebral atrophy. He would often conflate events widely separated in time, or place himself at events which he had only seen in the news or on TV. He was insistent his false memories were real.

accurate. timely. relevant. we could all use more @mcsweeneys.net in our lives.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3w ago

"Yeah, we know, we’re seen as boring and old and out of touch. But we’re hungry for progress. As long as it feels scripted and familiar. We’re ready to usher in profound change, abstracted into a focus-group-tested campaign slogan." buff.ly/tt1slzK

I wish it was more of a scandal that our government is staffed by neo-Nazis.

Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

"Things are the way they are because they got that way" - Gerald Weinberg

Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says

The U.S. does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in a war with China or Russia, per RAND.

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You are here.

JoeMyGod@joemygod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Chevron press release: "Chevron expands position in Venezuela" Chevron donated $2 Million to █████'s inaugural committee Chevron donated $5 Million to Trump's Freedom 250

rest in peace to Wendell Berry

Andromeda@ulveheksa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

My partner and I watched the 1983 film "The Pirates of Penzance" this evening (for the uncountable time). Starring Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstandt, Angela Lansbury, et al. And also the amazing Tony Azito, lost to HIV/AIDS in 1995. Highly recommended, whether you're an "effeminate theatre kid" or not.

Flock: "Comparing state-by-state, the share of residents who are Black was the only demographic variable in the analysis with a statistically significant relationship to camera density." cybernews.com/privacy/stud...

Flock camera density linked to black population share

Our study finds that US states with higher Black population shares tend to have higher Flock camera density. Discover how demographics influence surveillance.

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It's not until he says the magic words, that he fears losing control, that it fully clicks. It's not that he believes philanthropy is bad, it's that the risk of someone receiving his money who he doesn't approve of is a bigger problem than the risk that his money helps no one. That speaks volumes.

Billionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: ‘I’m not going to do that’

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don’t expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. During a recent interview, Armstrong exp...

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The Trump administration, according to the diocese, believes the “power of eminent domain overrides the right to free exercise of religion” enshrined by the First Amendment.

Why Trump is picking a fight with a 29-foot-tall Jesus standing in New Mexico

Does eminent domain prevail against the First Amendment and religious freedom? A diocese in southern New Mexico says ‘nothing could be less Catholic’ than the president’s border wall, Alex Woodward re...

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Well this is horrifying. Learn more here: www.uclahealth.org/news/article...

Measles Infection Can Cause Immune Amnesia

I keep hearing about the complications that can happen when you have the measles and how they can land you in the hospital. I just saw on the news that getting the measles can mess up your immune syst...

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Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last mo.

Thinking about how my GP, who specializes in family medicine, didn’t know measles infection causes immune amnesia (your body forgets all of its immunities and you have to start all over rebuilding them) and how dangerous, and likely common, that lack of medical knowledge is in our current climate.

A Kentucky law meant to increase housing is now being wielded by a data center developer From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/27/a...

A Kentucky law meant to increase housing is now being wielded by a data center developer • Kentucky Lantern

A law meant to increase housing is now being used by a data center developer in Simpson County to stop community resistance to the plan.

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