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Naive at best. Although the Streisand Effect may be useful

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

To be a Luddite is to insist that humans are in charge of humanity, not the iron laws of economics, not the great forces of history, not the uncaring and illusory constellations.

And of course oligarchs love prediction markets, because they're the ones who can rig the odds, say, by placing a bet on a war and then leading the country to that war.

When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

6/ If that’s the case, at least disclosure is required. But my sense is they’re mainly easy marks, perhaps because of obvious but unexplored biases.

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Who does the ocean belong to? I asked Otto Spijkers of Leiden University to explain the law of the sea, from territorial waters and fishing rights to deep-sea resources and international disputes. We also built a glossary to make the key terms easy to follow. ⬇️🌊

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

this thing moves so fast I need a pedo-meter to track it

Starting this book today!

Anyone who is trying to avoid placing blame on the voters who allowed this OBVIOUSLY unfit person to be president doesn't really believe in democracy. The whole point of democracy is that it is the VOTERS who determine who is in power. Voters f**ked up, so Trump is president again. Fact.

Bibi ad in Israel. “We have one chance to win”

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Yet another reason to vote for Democrats!

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Criminal slumlord Jared Kushner’s phone being hacked revealed more proof of what I’ve been saying for years, he’s incredibly corrupt, compromised and insidiously evil. He’s everything fascist republicans falsely accused Hunter Biden of being times a trillion. He needs to be jailed for treason.

Stunning Lula victory in Brazil is another sign of how easily we all let ourselves get psy-op-ed by the right's expressions of confidence into, you know, believing them. We really have to get over that habit!

Reporters should ask him to name his kids. Bet he forgets a few and inadvertently reveals the existence of a few more.

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

Just in today’s news JD Vance was shown to be a spreader of Russian propaganda, argued in favor of a child-rape political ad, and was dissed by his hometown football team.

He’s flat out targeting and murdering civilians. He’s an adjudicated sex predator, who is credibly accused of raping kids, convicted of 30+ felonies, impeached twice, has openly profiteered billions for himself and his family through the presidency.

Maybe this is why Donald Trump is threatening the Alaska Senate race? Maybe Dan Sullivan is already compromised?

That explains why they are so worried about the Alaska senate seat

“How long can we tolerate Elon Musk deciding our elections and foreign policy? How critical is it that investigations immediately begin if and when the Democrats take back power? Should Starlink and SpaceX be nationalized to minimize Musk’s power?” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I'm asking my fellow Jews in Michigan to help elect the first Muslim American to the U.S. Senate—a devoted dad, a scholar, a visionary thinker, and a genuinely good dude. Let's be the people we hope others will be. Islamophobia and antisemitism feed the same beast. Let's starve that MFer.

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

We'll see how far the attempt goes, even if it will clearly fail. But a constitutional system that sees such an attempt by its chief executive and then leaves him in office has already been shattered. Merely trying is betrayal enough and places him outside of constitutional or democratic legitimacy.

Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

“It's like power without accountability." @passantino.bsky.social and I spoke with "Musk" director @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social about making the film, what he learned, and concerns about whether David Ellison will remain committed to distributing the film on HBO. www.status.news/p/elon-musk-...

Take a look at all of the answers and all of the quotes. So many things are getting better.

Still covering Elon Musk as a business mogul and not foregrounding his murderous white nationalist politics is like doing a piece on only the clown career of John Wayne Gacy.

I get why Bill Maher would want to have dinner with Trump again. I don’t get why Trump would want to have dinner with him. Does he think Maher is actually influential?

At some point after the election there'll be a lot of pieces puzzling out how the Republicans got away with being so generously funded by a notorious white nationalist and it wasn't treated as a big, problematic issue. From the same reporters currently not treating it as a big, problematic issue.

Calling him a "longtime confidant" really undersells it. Central cog in BN's and the Israeli right's hold across the institutional apparatus of American Jewry. Quite a statement. www.timesofisrael.com/former-netan...

More than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds.

This is impossible Trump assured us that no one has ever died from climate change, I believe it came up in the context of him discussing changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to "Trump Ocean" Or he might have been talking about famous golfers' penises, I can't remember Something policy-related

Follow up on the growing Norwegian efforts to seize Russian blood money👇 @thomasnilsen.bsky.social @thebarentsobserver.com

The Republican Party supports men who abuse women. Rape, domestic violence, pedophilia. All of it. Their candidates are in the news for it. And, of course, there's the head of the party, who has spoken proudly of assaulting women and has been adjudicated a rapist.