A new geological report shows Musk's Boring Company could cause sinkholes and groundwater contamintion as it burrows through Nashville. A member of the new "Subterranean...Authority" is worried about flooding by the Cumberland River. From @tennesseelookout.com: tennesseelookout.com/2026/10/27/t...
Quest Diagnostics says "personal information and patient records" were stolen during a data breach of its lab testing systems. Quest has a security incident page on its website, but it contains "noindex" code, which hides the page from search results. 🤦♂️
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Pete Hegseth wanted Dwight Eisenhower's globe for his office. His staff broke it.
Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.
NEW: Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker, wife of Governor JB Pritzker, announces she’s sending $500,000 to Amy Acton after Vivek Ramaswamy’s truly vile ad featuring Acton’s estranged mom.
If true, this revolutionary new invention has the potential to quickly kill literally thousands of people in some of the most embarrassing ways imaginable.
U.S. soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike tell the AP the military's medical system failed them: “I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that.”
Get in on the ground floor of the agent everyone is talking about. Here are some of our favorite Z prompts to have a better and more fulfilling life. (This post is #PoweredByZ, proud sponsor of the Tim Heidecker Podcast.)
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"San Diego is the heart of U.S. naval and Marine Corps power, home to more than 115000 active duty service members and a $52.6 billion military economy."
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx has been fined $57,647 for campaign finance violations, the largest such fine in state history.
A hearing officer ruled that the Marx campaign intentionally took illegal contributions, writing: "the scale of the violations are without precedent."
A former church youth leader was convicted of sexually abusing a young boy in a church basement. After one assault, he told the child not to tell anyone and said, “God would want you to do this.”
A horrific abuse of both a child and religious authority.
www.einnews.com/pr_news/9453...
“In some ways, Axon is actually worse than Flock,” EFF's @maassive.bsky.social told @indyweek.bsky.social. “Flock never had mobile license plate cameras, and Axon does. They install them on patrol cars, and that means patrol cars become like roving data vacuums.”
"Mr. Vice President: Peter Thiel played a decisive role in your life. Recently, he suggested that evil is good and called the Pope a 'useful idiot.' How do you respond to these extreme statements from your benefactor? Do you agree with him?"
—Question a DC reporter should ask (but likely won't)
Peter Thiel praises evil.
Peter Thiel hates democracy.
Peter Thiel founded Palantir.
Peter Thiel owns JD Vance.
Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States.
Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.”
Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
The Daily Mail implied Noah’s Ark has been "100% confirmed."
The actual researchers don’t say that.
The evidence doesn’t say that.
Geologists don’t say that.
But the Christian group behind the claim needs $600,000—so congratulations on that miracle.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/scientists...
Measles outbreak in Chicago shelter cost nearly $9 million, CDC estimates
The response was one of the most resource-intensive in the United States since measles was eliminated in 2000.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4hiezvr
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NEWS: The Pentagon is again delaying the timelines for PFAS cleanup at over 200 military sites in the US.
Last time, we found the delays quietly posted online without any public notice. This time, they reached out to tell us the delays were coming.
"Gibney’s basic take on Musk is that he’s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches"
If anyone is interested in seeing the video that inspired Rebecca's drunken display in this week's Ted Lasso, then I have a treat for you. Truly an all-time moment courtesy of Delia Smith www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiC6...
Switching from Flock ALPRs to Axon ALPRs does nothing to address the public’s discontent, EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @newsnation.bsky.social: The “dangers that you were concerned about are still going to be there.”
BREAKING:
Trump just directed Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce" joint military exercises with South Korea — citing his "very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un."
It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch!
Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism.
They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work.
Buy the book:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) about USS Abraham Lincoln:
"What's worse is the Sec. of Defense's response dismissing it like it's no concern at all. I think a fundamental part of leadership is trying to improve the lives of the people you're leading, and he doesn't want there to be any accountability"
Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln
TRUMP: No they're not
Q: Has the deployment gone on too long?
TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.
2/ Judge Sullivan: “I’m here to ensure compliance with the law that Congress passed and the President enacted.”
“The public has a right to know what the hell is going on in this case,” Sullivan said. “The victims have a right to know.”
www.allrisenews.com/p/judge-sull...
"Tyler Boebert, 21, faces five counts in total: three charges of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. All of the charges are felonies and are alleged to have happened in 2024."
www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/08/10/u...
Yikes — “love is not about age”😕
Matt Masters of the Williamson Scene asked Rep Rose about his marriage, which is “scrutinized, including allegations he ‘groomed’ his wife in high school”
Chelsea was in high school when they met. They married 4 years later.
Rose was 45.
I worry that they are moving so fast—and that the media has been so bizarrely silent—that the “new global order” (Pax Silica) will be in place (& impossible to unwind) before the public knows anything about it. Thread. #PaxSilica 1/
😳 Jacob Helberg—who left his position as an advisor at *Palantir* to join the Trump State Dept—spearheads the international “Pax Silica” initiative. In May, he discussed it w/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: “Jacob Helberg on Pax Silica & the New Global Order in the AI Age” 1/