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TIME TO BREAK OUT THE WHITE CLAWS WOOOOOOOOO

Administration hints furloughed workers may not be paid after shutdown Agencies are sending messages indicating that workers who are on the job will be paid when the government reopens — with no mention of those on furlough, despite a 2019 law protecting their wages.

Breaking news: The Trump administration is sending messages to federal staff suggesting only those who are working during the government shutdown will be paid when it ends, despite a 2019 law that guarantees pay to furloughed employees, too.

Poster features a painting of young men flying out of a car that's speeding down a hill.

Poster for the lost silent action film FIGHTING YOUTH (1925)

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

The American Military Officer After Liberalism Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what

Hard to imagine a more sinister & dangerous argument, couched in euphemism & high-minded language. "This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that [US] military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...

America's young men are blowing their money like never before Young guys are gambling on everything from sports to crypto — and companies have turned their appetite for risk into a lucrative new market.

Agree with all of this. We need a unified theory of sports gambling, cryptocurrency, meme stocks, day trading, and free-to-play loot boxes

TikTok sympathy scams use racial slurs and insults to sell products TikTok removed close to 200 accounts after Indicator reached out

Sympathy scams have proliferated across platforms this year, especially TikTok. I looked at the latest iteration, which uses fabricated racial slurs & insults to bait people into buying cheap products. We IDd ~200 TikTok accounts w/ millions of views:

Mexican WWII poster

This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

Hundreds of millions of people use AI. Trillions of dollars fuel it. It's in our schools, homes, even government computers. We feed it our data, and tell it our secrets. The world is collectively engaged in a live experiment, with few controls and almost no regulation. What now?

Our AI package:

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Tolkien, who saw almost all his friends die in the Somme, and knew the seduction of despair, wrote both Denethor and Saruman as doomers.

dooming accomplishes nothing for nobody other than for your enemies

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

A collage of some of the female fans of Star Trek throughout history

Trektober 30 - The women of Star Trek fandom!

Star Trek has a long history of fandom (One of the first!) and women are such an integral part of it that I thought I would highlight some of them!

(Long thread upcoming)

I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is.

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Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize for ‘No Kings’ protests

lol Fox

@sludgeslave: “The urban liberal white cockroach feeds on the multicultural dumpster because he disavowed any culture of his own. Whale fall bottom feeders.” The poster is quote tweeting @jacksfilms, who uploaded a picture of himself looking happy at a Mexican restaurant with the caption “when the fajitas come out sizzlin”

this image is a perfect summation of what using Twitter in 2025 is like

I've loved this bird ever since it was invented by Jim Henson in 1977

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Erotic woman – cruel woman – vulgar woman – whore/proletarian woman/Jewish woman (witch?) – aggressive woman – the following is highlighted in yellow by me woman with a penis/with a weapon – castrating/mutilating woman – bloody mass – communism

Started the book Männerphantasien by Klaus Theweleit (Eng.ed. Male Fantasies 1987), a study on the psychology of the members of the proto-fascist paramilitaries that later formed the Nazis & around pg. 100 he lists subconscious fears, he found these men most often had & it checks out. Eng. in alt.

a man stood in front of a whiteboard that is just covered in loads of text because he's solved the 'woman' conspiracy he looks like a meme

idk why the youtube algo fed me this but i can't describe how scary & weird it is being a woman knowing these freaks are doing presentations on how to understand & conquer us like. we are just people. have you tried being fucking normal. i will never get used to society being like this

China tightens grip on rare earths supplies. The stocks involved in this crucial industry are surging Rare earths stocks were jumping Thursday

China tightens grip on rare earths supplies. The stocks involved in this crucial industry are surging

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

#WarRavagedPortland