Saul Shaker

I wonder if they're going to try to do an end around the agency heads again. Because most of the agencies have been trying to bring back at least a fair portion of people cut by DOGE/Vought.

My best bet is this just leads to another attempt to kill CFPB

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

I think about this chart 24/7

Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

An under-the-radar but huge story: in less than 2 weeks, Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows 10 operating system, which is currently used on 42% (!) of all PCs globally. Over 400 million computers will be vulnerable to hacks or destined for the dump if users don't pay up.

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

This is a perfect example of how Donald Trump views the entire federal government, and really the whole country, as a thing that belongs to him personally.

L'État, c'est moi.

The White House is threatening "imminent" mass firings. Down at the ground level though the things you'd expect to see in advance of that simply aren't happening. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/shutd...

in particular, "hahaha we are using the shutdown to enact project 2025 by firing ideologically unwelcome federal employees" and "the dastardly Democrats shut down the government" are not coherent messages

This ransom memo should be as big a deal as the Kimmel suspension. It probably won't be but the stakes are higher for higher ed.

one reason to insist on historically informed political analysis is to avoid the kind of punditry that takes Atlantic articles to be the only relevant context (or an audience that will fall for that)

Manchester synagogue: Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Cracks in the dam, ppl. Cracks in the dam.

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

DHS includes a bunch of false and defamatory statements in their tweet about Kilmar Abrego Garcia as they prepare to send him to Uganda.

Don’t get mad at the muppets for playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival, it’s the only way they can save the theater

No joke: one of the most racist, idiotic, dangerous things I’ve ever read. A stunning inversion of reality, turning segregationists into terrified refugees, while actual victims of segregation are transformed into a kind of invading horde who seized inner cities by force - and should be now removed.

Consumers do in fact say “fuck this I don’t want it” all the time. today might be a real good day to ask somebody at Xbox or Disney about that for example.

Exclusive | Howard Lutnick tells ‘Pod Force One’ ex-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein showed off massage room, made creepy comment during townhouse tour “This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. … That’s how he had money,” Lutnick said on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out Wednesday.

"Lutnick, in a notable break with the DOJ, claimed late pedophile Epstein was 'the greatest blackmailer ever' — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism.

Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness. 

I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.

A reminder about any given Vought declaration about no longer funding X because Woke or because Liberal or whatever is that these are the things the admin is most consistently taking Ls on.

A child playing with Star Trek figures. Guinan: "Oh no! Barclay's depressed! Time for an insightful chat!" Barclay: "Thank you, Guinan! You really helped me put things in perspective!"

FBI Director Kash Patel & @ @FBIDirectorKash X.com James Comey wrote "love letters" to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans. That era is OVER. This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs. FBI Patel cuts ties Comey's FBI made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA criticism That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL, Patel said By Rachel Wolf • Fox News 3:32 PM • 10/1/25 • 758K Views

Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice

Twenty 50-5 messages for the effort of a single quality meme, then let the discourse do the optimization for you. The logic of botfarms slowly consuming media

Ezra Pound brain.

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

The White House abruptly terminated a large share of the council members advising the National Endowment for the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency, retaining only four Trump appointees.