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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:

"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

Interesting piece from Jessica Winter. I think there are slivers of relevance and meaning in what Galloway, Emmanuel, etc. have to say, especially vis-a-vis an aspirational vision of masculinity. I find their visions pretty myopic.

Not so much that they never fixed it, just that it's not designed for adults, which makes it super enjoyable to watch adults attempt it.

NY Times is wild.

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Things ARE pretty bleak. Dick Cheney died and I don't even feel a smile in me.

Shut them all down until funding is restored.

Fire The Consultants The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...

For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.

Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

Gov't Demands Roll Back of Protections for LGBTQ+ Foster Youth The Trump administration has told states to review and amend policies requiring foster parents to affirm the gender identity of youth.

Trump admin is rolling back protections for LGBTQ kids in foster care.

Why does this matter? Currently 1 in 3 foster youth identify as LGBTQ+.

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And I'll repeat myself again: I think a lot of folks fail to really consider the geography at play. Many US folks can't afford the time and expense to get to their own state capitol, never mind the national capitol, and the national capitol is the locus of grievance.

So many thoughts. I'll point out a couple: We've had decades of weakening of labor organization and propaganda against mass movements, most US citizens have never demonstrated for anything.

The DEA said they arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true. - The Boston Globe A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against such groups.

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August.

A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

They're not sending their best...

US Labor headed toward general strike and I'm here for it.
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Oh, you didn't enjoy Canterbury Tales? Well, what if Chaucer included a giant spiky alien robot torture god?

FLYING WHEN UNNECESSARY IS UNETHICAL, 1 OF THE WORST THINGS U CULD DEW 2 UR ATMOSPHERE

THE AVG CAR DRIVER EMITS ~4.6 METRIC TONS OF CO2 PER YEAR

A *SINGLE* ONE WAY FLIGHT FROM SAN FRANCISCO 2 LONDON EMITS ~3.5 METRIC TONS DIRECTLY IN2 THE STRATOSPHERE

JUST THINK ABOUT IT

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

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😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Everyone needs to set their own boundaries, but this is important perspective. Our neighbors have been the subject of decades of pointed conservative propaganda and disinfo.

With stripes of trans flag colors: EMERGENCY RALLY Fenway Community Health Center Join us to protest Fenway's new policy ending all transgender healthcare for those under the age of 19 Friday 10/17/25 1340 Boylston Street 4 - 6 PM We cannot allow our institutions of health to abandon transgender youth! Fenway's caving to bureaucratic fear sets a precedent that the administration's threats are effective and only serves to validate their continued efforts to chip away at the rights of our most vulnerable here in Massachusetts! Logo for ACT UP BOSTON

"Illegal aliens" and violent criminals, two well-known, enfranchised voting blocs.

GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enter...

New: victims of GirlsDoPorn are suing major payment processors, saying they enabled sex trafficking

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Are they? Weird dude, weird fandom for sure. I admired him and rolled my eyes at him in equal measure. That said, wh at about the role of daytime television? Oprah's book club pushed this sort of content hard.

Huh, funny how Rose City was one of the first named by the administration.

I purchased a backlit mechanical keyboard a few years ago and it's great. I mostly touch type, but the backlight helps at night.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

The bastards took Robby.