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A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

Israel just arrested the former top lawyer for the IDF for leaking a video of Palestinian prisoners getting viciously sexually abused.

(Barely a peep in 🇺🇸 media about this)
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Here is a point I don’t think is discussed enough: Microsoft stopped discussing their AI revenue as of Q2FY25 (announced in January).

Why? Is the AI revenue not very good? This information is extremely material yet I do not see anybody else who seems concerned.

www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

Top academic researchers leaving US amid funding cuts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Here's a list of the billionaire mega donors trying to stop Zohran Mamdani

White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

Two headlines.
Two economies.
Same day.

Poetic.

@nytimes.com @bloomberg.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

"In a campaign for water efficiency, Amazon, the biggest owner of datacentres in the world, chose to account for only a smaller water usage figure that does not include all the ways its datacentres use water to minimise the risk to its reputation." #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

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Inside the mind of MAGA: A conversation with Steve Bannon | The Economist Insider Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, has a worldview that contradicts that of The Economist. He’s a populist nationalist; this publication is classically liberal. But liberalism demands ...

From The Economist: “Steve Bannon insists that Donald Trump will be president again for a third term in 2028—and that America needs him to.”

Watch the full interview: econ.st/49jp0wr

MAMDANI, on Bill Ackman:

“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"

@casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC

“Our monthly premium is $443. It’s going up to $2224. We’re kind of in shock. Both of us have worked our whole lives.”

These are the people Burchett & @MarshaBlackburn refuse to help, even as Marge says Republicans should work with Dems to fix this. #TrumpGOPShutdown

The press secretary of the United States. It’s all just so embarrassing. These people are trash.

All of this. This isn’t a functioning democracy anymore.

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD BEEN ATTEMPTED OR EVEN IMAGINED IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding Margot Raggett has spent the past decade raising money for conservation efforts around the world but, right now, she feels nervous about the future. “It does feel like we’ve taken a backward step,” she said. The wildlife photographer has raised £1.2m for the cause in the past 10 years through her Remembering Wildlife series, an annual, not-for-profit picture book featuring images of animals from the world’s top nature photographers. The first edition was published in 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was being drafted but, in the years since, efforts to tackle the climate crisis have been rolled back. Continue reading...

World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer

Unfortunately for America, this is exactly what has happened.

OpenAI Needs Over $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months To Complete Any Of These Deals - And Sam Altman Doesn’t Have Enough Time To Build Any Of it I know, I know, you’re going to say that OpenAI will simply “raise debt” and “work it out,” but OpenAI has less than a year to do that, because OpenAI has promised in their own announcements that all of these things would happen by the end of December 2026, and even if they’re going to happen in 2027, data centers require actual money to begin construction, Broadcom, NVIDIA and AMD are going to actually require cash for those chips before they ship them. Even if OpenAI finds multiple consortiums of paypigs to take on the tens of billions of dollars of data center funding, there are limits, and based on OpenAI’s aggressive (and insane) timelines, they will need to raise multiple different versions of the largest known data center deals of all time, multiple times a year, every single year. Say that happens. OpenAI will still need to pay those compute contracts with Oracle, CoreWeave, Microsoft (I believe their Azure credits have run out) and Google (via CoreWeave) with actual, real cash, $40 billion dollars worth, when they’re already burning $9.2 billion in the first half of 2026 on compute on revenues of $4.3 billion. OpenAI will still need to pay their staff, their storage, their sales and marketing department that cost them $2 billion in the first half of 2026, all while converting their non-profit into a for-profit, by the end of the year, or they lose $20 billion in funding from SoftBank. Also, if they don’t convert to a for-profit by October 2026, their $6.6 billion funding round from 2024 converts to debt.

Premium tomorrow: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW for Broadcom by 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months.

Here’s $10 off an annual subscription.

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One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts don't know what to think.

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. www.wired.com/story/scott-...

Why would we give billions of US taxpayer money to ANY country with universal healthcare (eg Argentina & Israel) before giving universal healthcare to our own US citizens? Just asking on behalf of 300M+ Americans who are all sick of this ridiculous, unaffordable healthcare “system.”

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

Oh. Huh. Hm.

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Rapid descent to irrelevance for @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

- @therickwilson.bsky.social

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked t...

10K Word Premium: OpenAI is another unprofitable, desperate AI startup building products on its own models, spending $2.60 to make $1. Sora 2 is a reckless attempt to grow ChatGPT that costs them at least $5 per generated video. They need to raise $20bn+ before EoY.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/

Jane Goodall, primatologist and chimpanzee champion, dies at 91 Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...