“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5h ago

“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...

Last time the Fed hiked before an election? 2022 midterm under Biden. From 1984 to 2024, the Fed adjusted rates (up or down) within 60 days of an election (43%) as often as in any other 60-day period (45%).

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Hassett threatens Warsh: "I'd be wary of a rake hike. The Fed has had hiked rates ahead of an election only a couple times all the way back to 1913. So I think if you want an independent Fed, one thing the Fed does is stay out of the way of elections."

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 6 Steam Early Access codes for SHROOM AND GLOOM from @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social and @devolverdigital.com. Giveaway ends Sept 14th - 6 PM PT. Early access available now on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3271280/...

this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · yesterday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells 60 Minutes that news of a U.S. fighter jet being shot down over Iran woke him in the middle of the night. His first thought: “S***.”

The corruption in and around this administration is fucking *stunning*. It’s orders of magnitude more than anything under Biden and gets orders of magnitude less coverage.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 14h ago

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h ago

BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee sitting in DC, issues a preliminary injunction blocking the entire U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rule. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (Key portions of the rule were blocked by Judge Talwani in federal court in Massachusetts.)

NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Democrats are not advocating for a Jim Crow-like set of policies against trans people! It is not real! This is a delusion you have absorbed from the internet.

Bunson Sans-Culottes@bunson8r.bsky.social · yesterday

This fucking bullshit like telling black people to vote in favor of Jim Crow or women to vote for anti choice candidates. Fuck off

This sort of endlessly transitive bigotry - where someone becomes a transphobe for merely disagreeing that you should seek to defeat Democrats who are bad on trans issues - is really corrosive to any kind of discourse or understanding. This is a question about electoral politics.

I don’t want to call anyone out specifically, but a prominent trans journalist I respect a lot has DMed me to say I should delete this and “clearly have issues with trans people” for saying it. Folks that is a very serious accusation and I wish it was made with more care on this site.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'll confess I'm shocked by this: seeing a respected progressive voice openly argue that it's better to defeat Democrats who have been flaky on trans rights than to secure Democratic control of the US Senate and US House. Unbelievably foolish, short-sighted, self-sabotaging nonsense.

It’s like clockwork: three months before a critical election, people start up with the “don’t for Dems! Teach them a lesson by NOT voting” lunacy.

djdubd.bsky.social@djdubd.bsky.social · 2d ago

She's correct, and some people can think further than the next midterm election or the next quarterly profit to identify the path which our country has been on and correctly state that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for an evil which will further your own demise.

I'll confess I'm shocked by this: seeing a respected progressive voice openly argue that it's better to defeat Democrats who have been flaky on trans rights than to secure Democratic control of the US Senate and US House. Unbelievably foolish, short-sighted, self-sabotaging nonsense.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 5d ago

The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀

I’m jealous of his dedication to taking afternoon naps regardless of where he is, who’s watching or the event.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, the story is that Mamdani was the disrespectful one because he was seen laughing with AOC during the roll call of names.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3d ago

Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:

And to be extra clear, this Russian disinfo op is ... not persuasive. Not well executed. Just bad. But other faked videos from related campaigns have had real impact, their narratives reaching members of Congress and millions of voters. www.nbcnews.com/specials/rus... They just need one to hit.

The fixation on whether we'll singularity before alignment and the robots will kill us is missing the trees for the forest. AI companies have already disseminated socially destabilizing technology, and we (Americans) handed the power to regulate them to Donald Trump. Happy Friday!

Killer Robots Aren't The Threat. We Are.

Tech execs made a devil’s bargain with a dim, amoral, vain man, and handed him the Superintelligent, Amoral, Sycophantic Robot Conundrum. We need to solve that problem before we get to “alignment.”

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Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).

This begs several questions: 1. Where is Microsoft’s capex going? 2. Why has it been saying it’s added a GW of capacity a quarter? 3. As one of NVIDIA’s largest customers: where are the GPUs Microsoft is buying going? Because it clearly isn’t into a data center.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3d ago

Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...

A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms

The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.

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I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.

It isn't quid pro quo because there's no way he's going to pay *after* he has gotten what he wanted. It's quid pro fell-for-it-again

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump’s claim that his $5k payoff isn’t a quid pro quo for voting Republican is undercut by the fact he’s not pushing to do it now, when Republicans already control Congress

incredible headline for the ": LAWYERS" *APPLE’S ALWAYS-ON AI FEATURES TEST EAVESDROPPING LAWS: LAWYERS

Billionaires don't use the money they save on taxes to create jobs. That's another myth. They use it to buy back stock, get bigger corporate jets, and build grander yachts.

We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · last yr.

On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.

Trump is dimwitted, amoral, and susceptible to sycophancy. And we put him in charge of resolving the Superintelligent, Amoral, Sycophantic Robot Conundrum. Great job, us! www.offmessage.net/p/killer-rob...

Stop. Treating. This. Seriously.

Axios@axios.com · 3d ago

The White House is doubling down on President Trump's promise to deliver $5,000 checks to American adults. Here's how it's supposed to work.

The Saudis calling us on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 begging us to bomb their own home-grown extremist opposition for them is so wild it would get thrown out of a writers room. It doesn’t leave any nuance for the audience it just slams them right in the face.

OSINT Mirror Feed@osint-mirrors.bsky.social · 4d ago

Source: @defencegeek on X RT @Osinttechnical: Saudi Crown Prince MBS called President Trump twice Thursday, urging him to launch strikes against the Houthis as they made sweeping advances in Yemen - Axios Trump declined. https://x.com/DefenceGeek/status/2098290831283081605

"The mainstream media, is, unsurprisingly, not covering itself in glory as it struggles to avoid saying that either the president’s brain has completely left the station or that he’s a mendacious liar who knows no bounds, or both."

The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure

It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.

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