Duke Briscoe

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

President Trump pardons former TN House Speaker Glen Casada, chief of staff, after corruption convictions President Donald Trump has pardoned the disgraced former Speaker of the Tennessee House Glen Casada and his co-conspirators after their corruption convictions and sentencing.

Trump pardons the disgraced former Speaker of the Tennessee House Glen Casada and one of his co-conspirators after their convictions for wire fraud and money laundering.

www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...

They never say this “liquid” bullshit when it comes to tax cuts for the rich or wars or giving money to their friends (in Argentina) etc

See through it

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

When a Microsoft data center opened next to the small Mexican town of La Esperanza, locals say electricity outages and water shortages grew severe. The local doctor rushed patients a half hour to the nearest hospital when blackouts cut off his oxygen concentrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

Here is the story from checkbook.org and audio version soundcloud.com/user-5672534...

Please make sure you have a front and back copy of your host's credit card used to purchase the tickets. Yesterday I read a story of someone not being able to board their return flight from London because there was a fraud concern where the airline demanded to see the card before they could board!!

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Medical Mysteries: A high-schooler with hip pain, then a life-threatening diagnosis One doctor told her the hip pain was a twisted pelvis. Another said the pain was just in her head.

An interesting medical story with a happy ending. Gift link:
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Fascistic and absolutely unacceptable rhetoric from the unmoored little man who is basically running the federal government right now.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

The full force of Trump’s federal job cuts is about to hit the D.C. region Paychecks will end soon for thousands of workers who took offers of deferred resignation — and a possible shutdown looms, too.

wapo.st/42f5Vaw
Gift article. Big impact on D.C. economy.

Opinion | Trump Is Pulling the Plug on Puerto Rico’s Economy

Important gift article about Trump interference with Puerto Rico governance and repayment of debts, that is likely illegal but can interfere with their economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

‘The news devastated me’: Pennsylvania NPR station will be first in the US to go dark following Trump’s cuts A public media organization in a university town just a few hours northwest of Philadelphia is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS. 

The first public media station to go dark thanks to Trump’s cutoff of federal funding to public media is a 70 year old station in Pennsylvania. https://loom.ly/IjOHdzI

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps
Step 2: Stop measuring hunger
Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Mississippi declares infant deaths emergency as CDC program that could have helped is halted State forced to stop gathering critical data on pregnancy experiences after Trump administration’s shakeup

Mississippi has suspended data collection for Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (Prams), a national database that has been integral to policymaking on maternal and infant health for nearly four decades www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University.

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths."

Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

"Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue of the assassinated Republican activist and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader”, or pay monthly fines. The proposed legislation comes as conservatives pay tribute to the murdered activist and podcaster, whose life will be commemorated by the president at a service in Arizona on Sunday, by comparing him to martyred political and spiritual leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr and Saint Paul."

It's notable that so many of the people who want to honor Charlie Kirk while ignoring his actual words are comparing him to Martin Luther King, Jr. - a comparison that Kirk himself would presumably have rejected, since he openly disdained Dr. King. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just since yesterday, the President has engaged in more extrajudicial killings, promised to use the federal government's power to repress the political opposition, threatened to prosecute a reporter for asking him a question, and filed a baseless lawsuit to try to intimidate a leading news outlet.

Opinion | Rising Electricity Price? Thank Trump Bigger bills are a direct result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut green-energy subsidies.

Rising Electricity Price? Thank Trump
Bigger bills are a direct result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut green-energy subsidies. www.wsj.com/opinion/risi...

YouTube tops the list of the online platforms we asked about in our survey. Nine-in-ten teens report using the site, slightly down from 95% in 2022. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among teens. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat. Facebook and X use have steeply declined over the past decade. Today, 32% of teens say they use Facebook. This is down from 71% in 2014-15, though the share of teens who use the site has remained stable in recent years. And 17% of teens say they use X (formerly Twitter) – about half the share who said this a decade ago (33%), and down from 23% in 2022. Roughly one-quarter of teens (23%) say they use WhatsApp, up 6 percentage points since 2022. And 14% of teens use Reddit, a share that has remained stable over the past few years. We asked about Threads, launched by parent company Meta in 2023, for the first time this year. Only 6% of teens report using it.

Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

As weird as it is to see Trump, his VP, SecDef, and SecState out in DC with hardly any security, it is weirder that it was Codepink that was protesting. Codepink is an astroturfed "women for peace" organization whose "peace" means giving Putin whatever he wants. ("No escalation in Ukraine!"). 1/

How Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videos Details in an indictment match Nashville-based Tenet Media, which offered lucrative paychecks to prominent right-wing influencers. The influencers say they were deceived.

Note: when FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced the US government is going after comedians, he did it on Benny Johnson's podcast. Benny sat in the front row at Trump's rally on Jan 6, then took Russian money to push Putin's propaganda.

Free speech is not free; it has a price: we must defend it. 3/

If you can't laugh at the government, it's not a democracy. Networks have now cancelled the biggest 2 late-night comedy shows for offending the regime: in July, CBS pulled Stephen Colbert (top-ranked), now ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel (top for younger viewers). It can happen here - it is happening. 1/

If Trump is once again declaring Antifa a terrorist organization, that's not a good sign. The last time he did that was on Jan 5, 2021. The next day the Proud Boys "dressed as Antifa" when they set off the attack on the US Capitol. 1/

Vague, open-ended designations of "terrorism" are a signature of authoritarian regimes. Antifa isn't a group but the label can be attached to whomever the regime disfavors.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

no, really: nazi shit (richard evans' Third Reich in Power)