Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline. After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All. Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.

This is just fantastic read from @notus.com. Democracy is indeed a letter to the editor www.notus.org/perspectives...

The Dems conned you into believing groceries should be affordable
—tRump, evidently

Michele Rayner bill takes aim at food insecurity in Florida food deserts 'Access to healthy, fresh food is a right, not a luxury.'

“This legislation provides local leaders with the tools they need to bring healthy food options directly into communities that have been historically underserved,” Rayner said. floridapolitics.com/archives/764...

ICE abducted 9 documented workers at a car wash in Allston & denied them the chance to retrieve their documents — this is cruel & harrowing.

My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.

The question being asked by the NYT after an election that promoted MANY women to power.

It’s not a question.
It’s a comment.
An attack.

Did Men With No Rizz Ruin the Workplace?

A poem titled “Love Letter From the Afterlife," by Andrea Gibson. My love, I was so wrong. Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body,
I did not go away. That portal of light was not
a portal to elsewhere,
but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.

Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken word poetry, died of ovarian cancer in July, leaving behind their longtime partner, the poet Megan Falley. On Modern Love, Falley shared a poem Gibson wrote for her: “Love Letter From the Afterlife.” nyti.ms/49CO41A

Good morning. The New York Times is touting a big surge in subscriptions, The Motion Picture Association is telling Meta to cease and desist, and Erika Kirk is opening up to Jesse Watters. But let's begin with the election results...

Excellent take @brianstelter.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani: "Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,"
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Trump’s foe in tariffs case? A group funded by anonymous conservatives. The Supreme Court test of Trump’s tariffs is backed by a legal group funded without disclosure by some of the wealthiest conservative donors.

President Trump’s tariff policy faces a Supreme Court challenge brought by small businesses, which argue that his tariffs have harmed them by raising their costs.

They’re being backed by a legal group funded by wealthy conservative donors.

Ranking Member Robert Garcia Demands Answers on Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Transfer, Trump Admin Cover-Up, from Camp Bryan Prison Warden Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote to Dr. Tanisha Hall, Warden of the Federal Prison Camp Bryan, where Ghislaine Ma...

“The Committee is particularly alarmed by compelling evidence that the Bureau of Prisons has granted Ms. Maxwell preferential treatment while simultaneously stonewalling congressional oversight into her transfer and her ongoing conditions of confinement.“
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The Damage Done to #Florida has to stop.

Opinion | Crypto and Trump Corrupted America Trump has bared the corruption at the heart of crypto and the libertarian ideas behind it.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Trump, with his thirst for money and power, has in one fell swoop both exposed and embraced the corruption at the heart of digital currencies — a corruption inherited from the libertarian ideals that created them,” Finn Brunton writes.

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the… The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

SCOOP from me:

I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.

Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

it is very annoying that you say pregnant people. only biological females, i.e. women get pregnant.

If Trump’s DOJ loyalists help him take $230M they can be held accountable:

State bars
DOJ IG
Office of Prof. Responsibility
Litigation
& more!

These aren’t minor ethics lapses. They are a coordinated abuse of power

I explained @msnbc.com👇

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

As usual, when you then try to find the story on in their website, it isn’t there. (Shrug). And I am a subscriber.

Three hours apart. 🤡

OMB’s latest effort to conceal spending data - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington OMB should not be doling out funds behind closed doors and must make public the contents of legally binding spend plans that apportion fund. Full transparency is critical for effective oversight.

How is the government spending taxpayers dollars?

OMB is using footnotes to hide how and whether things are actually being funded.

But taxpayers deserve full transparency. So we're suing.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers' The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

Fascist regime stuck on stupid.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

www.rawstory.com/trump-oregon...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
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A big thanks to @mit.edu. Their saying NO to the compact will hopefully make it easier for smaller schools to say no as well. This is a collective action problem & MIT is signalling they're choosing cooperation over self interest. Too bad @columbiauniversity.bsky.social didn't do this earlier