Oh go fuck yourself, Douthat. Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
New York’s next mayor won’t save the Democrats.
Fuckers can't win honestly and want to undermine democracy: bomb threats at polling places in seven NJ towns....
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Bomb threats force closures at some New Jersey polling places; juvenile arrested in North Brunswick
Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said polling sites at School 2 and School 10 in Paterson were shut down after threats were received.
What could possibly go wrong? OpenAI Wants Brands to Allow Their Mascots to Appear in Gen AI Videos https://www.wsj.com/articles/openai-wants-brands-to-allow-their-mascots-to-appear-in-gen-ai-videos-4ef4f80e?st=RkRjDt
OK, so here's a new theory: The Second Amendment is damaging Republican brains.... Target Shooting Could Be Causing Brain Injuries. We Measured the Danger.
Target Shooting Could Be Causing Brain Injuries. We Measured the Danger.
The Times tested the blast waves of several popular civilian guns at an indoor range and found that repeated firing could add up to potentially har...
Campbell Brown starts Forum AI, brimming with right-wingers--Jennings, McCarthy, Ferguson, Kurz, Anderson--to check "appropriate tone, balance, & context, while identifying missing perspectives & hidden bias." There it is: AI cancel cops.
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American Gestapo. That is not hyperbole. That is our reality: people arrested and jailed for their speech. A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/31/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-jail/
Good news from sane(r) Europe: Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders
Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders
A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, le...
Journalists: Protest this! (Start by covering it...) ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour
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ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour
Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
I think there's consensus that we all should call it the Epstein Ballroom. And I propose renaming the rest the Gold House. image
I'm off to Munich to speak at Medientage München. My message: American democracy is dying. American mass media are dead, and deserve to be, as they did not protect democracy. Our only hope in the US is new and independent means for voices to heard. Europe should learn from America only how to avoid our fate.