"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.

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To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 4d 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...

In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social

Chris Rufo: “We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right to smuggle into media apparatus of Left, legitimizing narrative to center-left actors power to topple her” NYT editors: Claudine Gay in "top 5 featured on New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · last yr.

Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal" bsky.app/profile/chri... NYT front page coverage all the time! By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege

Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals

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This tragedy occurred on a street where the county recently completed a “pedestrian safety” project, but which local advocates pushed back against due to the lack of physical traffic calming & bike infrastructure. The warnings were ignored.

KTVU FOX 2@ktvufox2.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alameda County authorities are investigating a hit-and-run crash in Castro Valley near Sommerset and Anita avenues. This is video from above the scene Thursday afternoon.

I went into the debate with a strong position but was willing to learn. I was surprised at how willing the Yes side was to advance arguments based on obvious misrepresentations, evasive answers and supremely confident and straight up incorrect legal interpretations.

The Plot to Enslave America is real and this is it. They're going for it unless we stop them

Jeremy White@jeremywired.bsky.social · 12mo ago

ELON MUSK: “If we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army? … I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.” Read the full piece from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3w ago

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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This is a genuinely terrible piece of journalism: Reporting, editing, writing, all of it. (Photos OK). Will appear alongside the word "credulous" in dictionaries. I had thought that the WaPo's news section was still "mainly good," in contrast to its laughable editorial section. But...

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Some people think all that we work on at @bikeeastbay.bsky.social are protected bikeways, b/c that's what gets media attention. But we also obsess over the minute details of painted bike lanes, trails, & bike boulevards to get as much as possible out of every project.

The East Bay's newest separated bikeway is ready to ride, covering 0.2 miles of Portola Ave in Livermore. This was installed as a quick-build alongside routine paving, along w a slip turn lane closure on Enos at Portola using recycled plastic curb stops.

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Breaking News: President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the Kennedy Center if his name wasn’t added to the building.

Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center

President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.

nyti.ms

🚨 Patel admits agents will be deployed to polling places 👇 WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls? PATEL: Nope W: So you are sending FBI agents? P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance

Theory of Canadian transit cost escalation since 1990s. Canadian governments adopted opaque oversight/assurance model of FTA (think consultant PMOCs). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

NEW: Remember Don Jr’s wedding ceremony? In the Bahamas… Fireworks, dancers… “Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said. Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it? A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

A really cool new TSP operation was added this week for the EB Route A. When the EB bus gets the green at Segoe & Sheboygan, an SCP detector gets turned on at Segoe & Frey, Segoe & University, and University & Midvale. Each doing different things to help the EB bus.

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

In an interview with the AP, DiGenova walks back his earlier comment that there is “no evidence” in the grand conspiracy case. He now says there is “plenty of evidence.”

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last mo.

Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….

Just heard the entire opinion team at Sacramento Bee—except the editor—also got laid off. I was the opinion editor at The Bee from 2018-2021. All gone.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last mo.

The gutting of local journalism continues. I started as an intern at the Lexington Herald-Leader, which laid off a majority of its reporters today. The McClatchy company was bought by a hedge fund that promised to be a good steward of journalism. And here we are... www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...

Ok, not only was the intent what I thought, but “doctors and engineers” is in fact a well-known (mostly European) sarcastic trope used to demean immigrants. The “joke” being that of course we all know, ha ha, these inferior peoples would never occupy such roles. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doctors...

I've read countless numbers of bad opinions from judges in my time. This is one I'll remember for how constantly it combines shallowness with ambitious stupidity.

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

OpenAI claimed their model had a breakthrough in a longstanding mathematical problem, but this scientist says that they basically stole his work

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

Unprecedented corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...