Cynthia Brumfield

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the cyber insights in Anthropic's IPO filing and other critical infosec developments you should know, including --AI agents breach Anthropic’s internal systems, 1/4 www.metacurity.com/anthropics-i...

People seeking addiction treatment were allegedly drugged and held against their will as part of a scheme to bill insurers, federal prosecutors say. The allegations are bringing fresh scrutiny to Southern California’s sober-living industry, already under investigation after Presley Gerber’s death.

I feel like I’m living in some weird fucking Beckett play or a dystopian sequel to Being There where the president of the United States is just increasingly obviously a porridge-brained mental patient and everyone nods and smiles like it’s normal.

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Nothing says you were lying about your devotion to your country quite like leaving it at the first opportunity you get.

Trump's affordability message: "You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. You'll be my guest. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price conscious."

Trump importing undocumented criminals over our southern borders

When Trump says he doesn't "give a damn" about high gas prices because "we're making a fortune" -- he means it literally: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

“.. the latest setback in the Justice Department’s efforts to charge perceived adversaries of the Republican president.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/cass...

NYTimes will do absolutely anything to avoid linking. It’s a fetish, a sickness. They have people whose job includes typing out smarmy statements explaining why previous work published on a subject is not worthy of a link and send it to you with a straight face puck.news/media/2026/1...

Oh look d this won’t be good. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Our media is utterly broken

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Calm

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

Tennessee Republican Brent Taylor, running to flip a House seat his party radically gerrymandered, reportedly sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021. Taylor faces Democrat Justin Pearson for a seat that Trump won 60-39 under the new lines. www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downba...

Scoop from @dawnkopeckinews.bsky.social: Hacking attempts have forced the FEC filing system offline. www.reuters.com/technology/h...

Michigan’s Arab American voters helped deliver a GOP presidential victory. But in a competitive Senate race, many say Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is the “America First” candidate.

ICE detainee dies at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego

Breaking: Brazil’s Federal Police has canceled Bolsonaro’s passports and are currently searching for him, CNN Brasil reports.

Trump: "We will be officially BANNING the term, 'AI/Artificial Intelligence,' in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Elon Musk says the world should have "sympathy for the poor Russian conscripts" because those "kids have no choice." There are no conscripts fighting in Ukraine. They are all well paid contract soldiers who volunteered and their average age is 38 years old.

Minnesota Star Tribune: Pretti family accuses federal government of ‘shielding Alex’s killers’

Talarico: "If you've seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you've gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon. If you've received a text message saying scary things about me with scary black and white photos. That was Elon too."

People from Oleshky who wish to return to Ukrainian-controlled territory will first be taken to Crimea or Russia, according to FT sources‼️ At this point, we can only brace ourselves for a massive Russian propaganda campaign, legitimized on the international stage by Newsmax's presence.

I’ve been trying to read this for the past half hour and emotionally overwhelmed. You’ve got wonderful what’s wrong what Melanie thinks, if she thinks at all. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

New on the @reuters.com wire: BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO LEFT FOR THE US AFTER ELECTION DEFEAT, SOURCE SAYS bsky.app/profile/raph...

In newspapers around the world, the report that Donald Trump raped Béatrice Keul in an Atlantic City hotel room commands huge headlines. In US corporate media, it isn't reported. Ask yourself why that might be. Here's the front page of today's Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich.

Donald Trump is making it clear: He doesn’t care what the courts say. trib.al/U3xRCsH

The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org

There are credible allegations of rape against the president, and evidence his administration has taken steps to cover up his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile. This story is being covered more aggressively by People Magazine than the NY Times, Wash Post, or Wall St Journal.

Congratulations to Noah Wyle's publicist tomandlorenzo.com/2026/10/noah...

A government watchdog is considering a probe into the Home Office’s use of ChatGPT technology to process asylum claims amid concerns over the tools’ accuracy and secrecy surrounding their use.

No one hates regular Americans more than Trump and Vance

Adopted as a toddler: New York state woman charged with voting illegally says she recently learned she wasn’t a citizen These are the people we are arresting for voter fraud? Really? - The Associated Press apple.news/A6Ggo6XexQxG...

Anne Applebaum: "Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage" www.ft.com/content/f41f...

Trump’s “only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty…It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, black voters, feminists and treasonous white men…” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

Jack Goldsmith explains "why the third effort to get Comey is another loser"--and why Blanche is a shameless, corrupt hack. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

I stopped listening to Nate Silver years ago and so should you.