@cdarwin@c.imHouse Republicans Launch Investigation Into D.C. 'Jury Nullification’
The House committee overseeing local D.C. affairs has launched an investigation into
“politicized jury nullification initiatives by left-wing activist groups,”
Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) announced Tuesday.
The investigation is so far targeting two D.C. organizations,
"Harriet’s Wildest Dreams" and
"Free DC",
which have hosted a series of trainings called…
@jake4480@c.im @cdarwin@c.im @jake4480@c.imRogue reference on one of the recent Simpsons Halloween specials 😂
@cdarwin@c.imOn Friday, August 28, 2026,
people from across the country will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.,
for the March on Washington: Defend the Vote.
Thousands more will take part from their homes and communities by watching the livestream.
Convened by the National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute
and co-chaired by Reverend Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and Arndrea Waters King,
the march will mark the 63rd anniversary of t…
@jake4480@c.imYo, I heard it was Friday or some shit
@cdarwin@c.imThe federal investigation that prompted the search of
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence on Monday
centers on claims that she or her late father may have lied on decades-old immigration paperwork to secure legal status and eventually U.S. citizenship,
three people familiar with the matter said.
Omar — a Minnesota Democrat who was born in Somalia and fled civil war there with her family before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1995
— has repeatedly rej…
@jake4480@c.imGood piece by Sean Goedecke, and I agree-
'Blog about things you don't understand yet': #blogs
@cdarwin@c.im𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬🚨
Hundreds of US military veterans have been detained, deported or had family members who have been!
Tell your friends about this #ICELawlessness!
Talk about the USS Abraham Lincoln where soldiers are attempting to jump overboard because of the appalling treatment by Trump.
🧵
@cdarwin@c.imAfter reading Jill Lepore’s
"The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State", I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one.
I’d set the dial to some night in the late 1970s or ’80s and visit the boyhood rooms of the Silicon Valley titans Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman.
Then I’d confiscate all of their science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein—all of it.
As young people, the future billionaire…
@cdarwin@c.imTHIS is the part of James Talarico’s campaign I really like.
He’s going into deep-red Texas,
talking directly to people about the shit they’re actually dealing with:
housing, utility bills, cost of living, corruption.
And then he LISTENS.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.c
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117434369678374935
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton:
‘We’re creating alien beings … and the reality is we only have a couple of years to adapt to that’
'I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117272739736712051
“A.I. in health should not be driven by the tech industry,”
Dr. Whyte said.
“It should be driven by the clinical community.
And right now, what we have going on is that tech is the tail wagging the dog…
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117095288273513669
Luigi Mangione’s case has drawn extensive global attention
as Thompson’s death spurred intense discussion about the US’s heavily criticized for-profit healthcare system.
The attention has also been fueled by M…
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117096247078382798
It would hardly be surprising that various progressive groups banded together to monitor and oppose Trump’s deportations.
But those activities are protected by the first amendment to the US constitution.
They…
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117091409817363484
The investigations fit patterns in US history of the government targeting leftwing activist and labor organizing.
After 9/11 those powers to spy on communities were greatly expanded.
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats have a strong edge heading into November’s US midterm elections,
polls show. In recent days, election prognosticators have shifted even more races in favor of Democrats.
Still, some races have openings for Republicans to pick off an incumbent Democrat,
or win over voters for open seats.
Republicans are pouring money into these places in hopes of minimizing their losses.
Mid-decade redistricting in red states also may help Republicans knock off some D…
@cdarwin@c.imAs the midterms approach,
Donald Trump is continuing to make strongman moves:
banning reporters from the White House;
trying to remake Washington DC’s architecture in his name;
putting "Dear leader"-style videos on television.
But historian Timothy Snyder tells Kai Wright that
what this really is, is a sign of weakness.
And even as the Democrats seemed poised to win the midterms,
Snyder argues that the Democrats need to take bold, d…
@cdarwin@c.im‘Part of the fascist playbook’: Ilhan Omar condemns Trump DHS raid on her home
US Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday forcefully condemned the
Department of Homeland Security’s raid on her Washington, DC home
as part of a broader effort to weaponize federal law enforcement
against progressives who oppose Donald Trump’s agenda.
“This is part of the fascist playbook
to rile up Trump’s die-hard supporters
and give them a big distraction in advance of the midterm…
@cdarwin@c.imIn newly unearthed audio,
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
Mike Rogers (Michigan)
appears to dismiss voter's concerns over affordability.
In a radio interview from January, Rogers blasted Democrats for highlighting the fact that Americans are facing higher consumer prices on myriad goods and services.
“They [Democrats] say,
‘Trump caused high prices’
— people go nuts, they lose their mind.
I do believe there is this Trump derangement,…
@cdarwin@c.imUS indicts Saudi employee of OpenAI for allegedly bugging its offices
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3mxrwxi77bt24
@cdarwin@c.imLast week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth embellished his ghoulish record of craven violence and cruelty
by announcing that the US will livestream a public execution by firing squad.
The man scheduled to be executed on December 3 is Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in a horrific mass shooting in 2009.
The US has not conducted an execution by firing squad since World War II
or a military execution since 1961.
It has never broadcast a live executio…
@cdarwin@c.imOff the coast of Monterey, California, a team of researchers is gearing up for its first dive of the day into the cold and choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean.
On the back deck of the boat, Ashley Kidd, a co-founder of the non-profit "Sunflower Star Laboratory", gave the divers their final command: “Dive No 1 … stars in the water.”
Kidd’s team is working to restore the sunflower sea star,
a critically endangered marine invertebrate that looks less like a traditional…
@cdarwin@c.imKatie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, made her debut on the podium on Tuesday with all the warmth, wisdom and political dexterity of an AI avatar.
Zacharia was all stilted delivery,
nervous tics and lack of eye contact.
With an eerie lack of emotion, she served up pro-Trump talking points,
took only three questions
and vanished after 14 minutes.
It was like the West Wing had turned into uncanny valley.
The Zachbot’s past is indeed a bi…
@cdarwin@c.imThere is a manic quality to Donald Trump’s desperate dash to do something, anything,
ahead of November’s midterm elections
to convince beleaguered Americans that he can make the pressures his policies have imposed on their livelihoods go away.
The US president offered to lower barriers against beef imports to limit surging meat prices,
only to consider backtracking under pressure from the cow lobby.
He offered to stop diesel exports,
only to find oil comp…
@cdarwin@c.imAnthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon
become “self-replicating”
and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices,
such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.
Once this happens, the company said,
the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters.
Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model.
“A replicator like this would…
@cdarwin@c.imThe BBC is asking a federal judge in Florida to force Donald Trump to sit for a deposition as part of the president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
According to a Tuesday filing, the BBC and Trump’s legal team had agreed for him to be deposed on Friday.
The BBC’s lawyers wrote to the judge that they have spent months trying to secure a location for the deposition from Trump’s team.
On 28 September, Trump’s lawyers told the BBC’s counsel that the …
@cdarwin@c.im“Elections Are Decided In November, But They’re Won In October”
The early vote electoral system is important for Democrats,
who traditionally have more episodic and new voters in our coalition.
This extra time to do GOTV allows us, if we have the money and the volunteers,
to reach down and touch voters less likely to vote than we could in the past,
and this increases our turnout and helps us win
@cdarwin@c.imSotomayor, Gorsuch Criticize ‘Serious Constitutional Problems’ in Denied Immigration Case
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch encouraged the justice system to
“give the Double Jeopardy Clause its full weight and meaning”
if courts are tasked with reviewing cases similar to
Jesus Herrera-Salazar’s.
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch joined forces to issue a statement highlighting the
“constitutional absurdity” of a…
@cdarwin@c.im12 Senators—Half of Them Republican—Tell Trump to End Russia Diesel Deal Now
Six GOP senators joined together with their Democratic colleagues on Tuesday to rebuke Donald Trump’s recently announced diesel deal with Russia.
Senators Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Alan Armstrong, Lisa Murkowski, and John Cornyn
signed a letter along with six other Democrats
in opposition to the deal,
which waives sanctions on Russian diesel sold to the global marke…
@cdarwin@c.imWhite House scrambles over questions on new press secretary’s background
The White House on Tuesday scrambled to answer questions about the legal credentials of Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia,
who made a brief and halting debut in the briefing room
and later said she had passed a bar exam in China,
a country where noncitizens aren’t allowed to practice in courtrooms.
Trump called Zacharia “an attorney” in his Friday announcement of her ap…
@cdarwin@c.imThe top donors in American politics have poured in more than
$1.7 billion to influence this election cycle so far,
and the latest numbers show a last-minute rush of money from benefactors of the GOP, according to a Washington Post analysis of Federal Election Commission data.
Major political donors lean Republican, and cash could prove critical for the GOP to maintain control of Congress in November.
Republican-leaning donors gave $1.07 billion, compared with $450 mil…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump Official Tries to Kill Report on "Perfectly Timed" Oil Trades
The Trump administration ordered federal financial regulators to retract a report flagging suspicious oil trades.
Only 15 minutes before President Trump decided not to strike Iranian power plants on March 23,
a few traders sank 💥billions of dollars into predicting that the S&P 500 would go up and oil prices would fall,
making a hefty profit, Bloomberg reports.
The traders report…
@cdarwin@c.imDid Trump Make Up “Bill Jones” to Justify Costly Overhaul of Navy Ships?
Speaking at a campaign rally in January 2024, Trump told a story about a sailor aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier
who argued on behalf of steam catapults over their more modern electromagnetic counterparts.
Trump had been telling the same story since at least 2019
—but this time he gave his source a name: Bill Jones.
Trump claimed that “Bill Jones” had lamented the shift to el…
@cdarwin@c.imAir Force Maj. Jason Watson
was arrested July 1 on the steps of the US Capitol
after calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
According to his lawyer, he’s now being held
in 👉solitary confinement 24 hours a day
in what some legal experts say could amount to illegal pretrial punishment.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) contains provisions barring officers from engaging in public political activities that are typically protected for …
@cdarwin@c.imMartin County Florida deputies and animal services officers responded to a residence last week at the Hobe Sound Mobile Home Park on Southeast Federal Highway to investigate an animal cruelty case.
Investigators spoke with the homeowner, Alba Chavez, who said she buried at least four cats alive in her yard because she believed they were demons, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
@cdarwin@c.imChris Geidner sez,
Let me fix that:
“I think I gave ICE too much money to hire far too many officers under a president who I knew would insist on deploying them without adequate vetting and training.”
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mxsehm7nl22o
@cdarwin@c.imThe justice department has threatened California over alleged noncitizen voters.
In a letter addressed to the California secretary of state, Shirley Weber, on Tuesday,
the acting deputy attorney general, Trent McCotter, said the justice department gave Los Angeles county officials a
“password-protected thumb drive” with names of people that the federal government “believes are likely noncitzens”, Reuters first reported.
The letter, which gives state officials 48 hours …
@cdarwin@c.imTwo container ships near the strait of Hormuz have sunk
after being struck by missiles,
amid the sharpest rise in Iranian attacks on shipping since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran.
The increase in attacks suggests Iran is trying to fully close the strategic waterway
in an attempt to frustrate Donald Trump’s efforts to bring down fuel prices before the US midterm elections on 3 November.
The Trump administration has been attempting to deflect attention …
@cdarwin@c.imPennsylvania’s post-conviction issues stem from its failure to invest in or set standards for legal defense for poor people.
Crushing Caseloads:
Lawyers hired under a flat-fee structure that’s banned in some states fell months or years behind, stranding dozens of clients in prison.
Infinite Extensions:
While prisoners face strict deadlines, their lawyers can typically take all the time they want. Some kept clients waiting as long as a decade
@cdarwin@c.imTrump howled for years that every charge against him is a hoax,
but the case against Omar is literally a conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
As right-wing-watcher Will Sommer explainedat the Daily Beast,
an anonymous user on a Somali diaspora forum claimed in 2016 that Omar married her brother to get him a green card.
The story became conservative dogma, despite a total lack of evidence that it’s true.
This year AJ Kern, a crank who ran for election in M…
@cdarwin@c.imHow do billionaires accumulate so much wealth?
Much if not most of their wealth is held in stocks and is taxed differently than income.
Consider Mark Zuckerberg. Between 2013 and 2019, his fortune increased by 368 percent,
thanks primarily to the 342 million shares of Meta he owns.
During that period, his declared income
— taxed at a rate of 13.7 percent, similar to that for the average taxpayer
— was much smaller than his net worth and resulted in a tax bi…
@cdarwin@c.imUkraine’s Vulnerability Grows
as Starlink Is Restricted
and Russia Escalates
A huge attack cut power to
600,000 people in Kyiv,
and a Pentagon-funded
satellite internet program
appeared to be curbed
without warning.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imSocial Security Says Retirees Will Get a 3.6% Raise for 2027
The cost of living adjustment, or COLA, for next year
will be the largest since 2023.
Retirees will see the extra money in their benefit checks starting in January
https://www.nytimes.com/202…
@cdarwin@c.imLandmines are a scourge of conflict zones.
Littered across contested territory,
they leave land unusable for years after a war has ended.
Removing them is an expensive and dangerous job.
And the use of long-range drones in Ukraine,
which is often described as the most mine-contaminated country in the world,
is increasing the scale of the problem.
@cdarwin@c.imUS inflation jumped in September,
and by more than expected,
as the soaring cost of motor fuel pushed up the cost of living.
The US Consumer Prices Index roses by 3.7% in the year to September,
up from 3.4% in August.
Economists had forecast a smaller rise, to 3.6%.
Prices rose by 0.6% in Spetember alone.
Gasoline prices jumped by 9.1% in September,
and were 34% higher tha a year ago,
as motorists across America felt the impact of Donald T…
@cdarwin@c.imA strong majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump is profiting illegally or unethically from his presidency, polling finds.
AP-NORC poll results released Tuesday find that 41 percent of U.S. adults say that Trump has acted illegally in personally profiting from his position,
while another 18 percent say that those actions are unethical, for a total of 59 percent.
In contrast, only 18 percent of people say that he has done nothing wrong.
Even a sizable proportio…
@cdarwin@c.imPoland called out SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk for restricting access to Starlink satellite terminals across Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers have had their access to the internet restricted amid Donald Trump’s demands for a halt to long-range strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, according to reports.
The service provided by Elon Musk’s SpaceX provides broadband internet and has been used for government and military communications in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“…
@cdarwin@c.imThe defense secretary puts stunts over substance.
The U.S. should send him on permanent leave.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/14/hegseth-impeachment-testosterone-execution-defense-war-trump/
@cdarwin@c.imGiven the long history of American influence on pretty much all things cultural,
it seems inevitable that Maga’s violent and abusive rhetoric would make its way into Australian politics.
And it’s pretty fair to say the current US president has led the western populist way when it comes to saying out loud the ugly and violent things that might once have remained internal.
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia,
has repeatedly described herself as a lawyer.
But when asked after her inaugural press briefing on Tuesday to name the state where she passed the bar exam, she replied curiously:
“when I moved to China”.
No public record shows she has ever been licensed to practice law in the US states where she resided,
and her answer to reporters’ questions on Tuesday only deepened scrutiny.
Zacharia wasn’t registered i…
@cdarwin@c.imThat guy? That’s me,
Chris Deluzio, in Iraq.
And if you had stopped me on the streets of Iraq on that day and said,
"Hey, Chris ... in a few years the president is going to say you should be arrested and hanged," I'd have said you were nuts.
But knowing Donald Trump, I don't think it's so nuts anymore.
It's kind of par for the course.
This is a president who has repeatedly abused his power to go after political opponents. That w…
@cdarwin@c.imMassive concentrated wealth is driving uneven spending in the midterms.
Elon Musk owns and profits from X,
where disinformation goes viral.
He has ploughed $276 MILLION into the midterms since July
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/us/poli
@cdarwin@c.imFederal authorities investigating the Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar
seized the Democratic lawmaker’s phone
and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas,
including to some of her relatives, according to a person briefed on the inquiry.
The subpoenas were issued for a grand jury collecting evidence in Minnesota
as federal authorities probe potential fraud in Omar’s immigration paperwork,
said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymit…
@cdarwin@c.imElon Musk has suggested that the US government may be behind restrictions on the speed at which some of Ukraine's weapons can travel and stay connected to SpaceX's Starlink internet network.
Starlink is a vital tool allowing Kyiv to guide drones to Russian targets and also protect its own skies,
but on Tuesday night Ukraine said unexpected new speed limits were disrupting its battlefield missions.
An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the restr…
@cdarwin@c.imAs Ukraine reported problems with Starlink satellite internet terminals and US data that warns of Russian ballistic missile attacks,
Kyiv also faced the harsh reality that its European allies cannot offer any ready-made alternatives.
Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday the functioning of Starlink's military-grade service Starshield had been interrupted when terminals were moving at high speed,
hampering Ukrainian drones for attack missions and air defence.
@cdarwin@c.imCalifornia’s ‘No Vigilantes Act’ requiring ID from immigration agents blocked by 9th Circuit
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals permanently barred California from enforcing a state law that required federal immigration agents to display identification while on duty.
The Justice Department sued to block the ID requirement alongside a related attempt to ban masks for federal agents and local police last fall.
More than a dozen other states have pursued similar statutes,
…
@cdarwin@c.imIsrael is refusing to allow a key military outpost project for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to proceed in Gaza, the Guardian has learned.
In early August, the Board of Peace, the international organization authorized in 2025 by the UN and chaired by the US president, issued its first construction contract for Gaza:
Louisiana-based Arkel International would construct a military outpost for 150 international troops that would be the vanguard of an international stabilization force…
@cdarwin@c.imElon Musk’s megaphone propels conspiracy theory about James Talarico
The billionaire has a history of elevating false claims
like the one about the Democratic Senate nominee,
but his control of X gives him outsize influence ahead of the midterms.
https://www.…
@cdarwin@c.imSan Diego looks at using AI to help officers write police reports
Earlier this year, the San Diego Police Department made headlines for a policy that
prohibited officers from using artificial intelligence to produce police reports.
Now the department is opening the door to doing just that.
A request for information issued by the department on July 31 said it was looking for a program
“that utilizes AI technology to assist officers and investigators in writing …
@cdarwin@c.imWhite House says it has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as US ambassador to Greece
Propaganda minister Katie Zacharia said today the administration has asked
Kimberley Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, to resign.
“She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well,” the new spin doctor said at her first media briefing, without providing any further details.
A reminder that Guilfoyle, who was once engaged to Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son, …
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is a
💥“corrupt, senile felon”
whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves
he knows nothing about AI,
said 👉Geoffrey Hinton,
“godfather” of the technology,
in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that
AI models pose an existential threat to humanity
⚠️and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself.
The pioneering computer scientist,
whose work helped lay the foundations of m…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump Has Killed
‘Strategic Ambiguity’ Over Taiwan
It was once unclear how Washington would defend Taipei
—now it’s doubtful it will help at all.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/14/trump-xi-summit-deal-taiw…
@cdarwin@c.imIn what environmental advocates describe as
“another gift to the fossil fuel industry,”
🆘the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas.
🔥Power plants are considered the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and account for about a quarter of the nation’s climate pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In 2024, the EPA under the B…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump on Monday irresposibly rejected calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence,
dismissing concerns about its risks as a “hoax”
and warning the United States remains locked in a fierce technological race with China.
The president’s position has put him at odds with a growing chorus of industry leaders and bipartisan lawmakers
warning that AI could soon advance beyond human control.
Top executives from three of the country’s leading AI companies
@cdarwin@c.imDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said.
The Trump administration has ramped up its investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.
Noncitize…
@cdarwin@c.imBefore the facility was shuttered, detainees at Florida’s
“Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration jail
were frequently locked in outside metal cages no bigger than a phone booth,
according to a damning government watchdog report that said the practice
“does not align with standards for humane treatment”.
The findings from the office of the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
were published on its website
– and offer rare c…
@cdarwin@c.imUkraine will only halt attacks on Russian energy targets if the enemy does likewise and the US guarantees it,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The announcement came after Donald Trump’s uncorroborated claim that both sides have agreed to such a ceasefire.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia had said so at time of writing.
The US president regularly claims to have brokered what turn out to be nonexistent or extremely shortlived deals between foreign adversaries or with his o…
@cdarwin@c.imOn the heels of the hottest summer ever recorded in the US,
the Trump administration has said it will 🔥erase any limits on emissions from coal and gas plants
that are dangerously heating up our planet.
🆘 The US Environmental Protection Agency said it will strip itself of its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions coming from power plants under the Clean Air Act, removing a key tool to address the climate crisis.
❌By erasing any limits on such emissions from coal…
@cdarwin@c.imDown a short gravel track in a largely nondescript corner of Louisiana sits a gas processing facility, operated by a company whose chief executive is a major donor to Donald Trump.
It may be the largest emitter of methane in the US.
The Energy Transfer site, located near the city of Shreveport, is named as the biggest single “super emitter” in new rankings of US oil and gas operations for the largest releases of methane,
a powerful greenhouse gas that is rapidly overheating…
@cdarwin@c.imSenate Majority Leader John Thune’s political action committee dropped a massive
$53.9 million investment into the Texas Senate race, according to a Federal Election Commission filingsubmitted Monday.
The investment from Texas PAC, a committee associated with Thune’s Senate Leadership Fund, divided the media spending push:
Nearly $27 million will be used to support Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general,
while $27 million is set to oppose Democratic …
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is accelerating efforts to make artificial intelligence an integral part of medical care in the United States,
throwing the resources and support of the federal government into projects that deploy A.I. agents to diagnose and prescribe treatments to patients.
The multifront effort at the Department of Health and Human Services has raised concerns among some officials over the past few months that change is moving too quickly,
with inadequate evidenc…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Supreme Court on Monday blocked a Trump administration plan to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail in the lead-up to the midterm elections,
a major loss for Trump, who has long claimed without evidence that fraud is rampant in mail voting.
The ruling was a resounding win for Democratic-led states and voting rights groups, which had argued that the plan was unconstitutional and an existential threat to the democratic process.
The Trump administration’s efforts…
@cdarwin@c.imScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’s leaders sign independence pact
SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin leaders sign pact to pressure Downing Street into holding independence referendums
‘Burnham will be the last PM of the UK’
https://www.independent.co.uk…
@cdarwin@c.imAI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers
in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a
“complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imTrump sounds like a carny salesman, not a president.
That’s because he is a carny salesman.
He’s shilling hard because the Republican Party he is selling for the midterms is about as appetizing as his patented explosive diarrhea lettuce.
Republican polling is currently hitting impressive new lows.
Trump’s approval is hovering around 36 percent in the FiftyPlusOne aggregate,
and the same site’s Senate forecast just hit a new high of a 61 percent likelihood of …
@cdarwin@c.imFrom Florida to Washington state,
local governments across the country are canceling their contracts with Flock,
the company behind the controversial AI-enabled license plate readers,
in response to public outcry.
But ending the contracts doesn’t necessarily mean the cameras will come down immediately
— or that the information they’ve gathered will be deleted anytime soon
@cdarwin@c.imA Trump loyalist heading a “grand conspiracy” investigation into some of Trump’s grievances
signed a subpoena seeking testimony from former CIA director John Brennan just before his resignation from the Justice Department last week.
On Sept. 9, Joe diGenova signed the document aimed at Brennan for testimony before a federal grand jury sitting in Fort Pierce, Fla.,
Brennan attorney Ken Wainstein reached out to diGenova after he accepted the subpoena on Sept. 10, diGenova wr…
@cdarwin@c.imWith most of the votes counted, Sweden’s national election remained too close to call on Sunday night,
with left-wing parties holding a lead of just a single seat according to a partial tally by the election authority.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imAttorneys for Wynnie Savageford,
a woman who watched in real time as immigration agents shot Alex Pretti to death in Minneapolis this January,
revealed that she has met with the investigators from the FBI and Justice Department for a witness interview.
It’s been a hard road to this moment, her attorney James Cook told HuffPost on Friday.
Negotiations for the interview were in the works for weeks as Cook secured immunity for Savageford so she could testify freely an…
@cdarwin@c.imAs social media networks filled with posts from journalists
“deeply saddened” to reveal they were part of McClatchy’s latest round of “gutting” layoffs this week,
newspaper staffers and the unions that represent them highlighted
“how local coverage will suffer” because over 90 workers were fired by the hedge fund-controlled publisher.
“I’m part of this bloodbath. After dodging layoffs for my entire 19-year career, I finally caught a stray as the Idaho Statesman gutted…
@cdarwin@c.imToday’s battle lines are not simply between people who struggle to survive under increasingly degraded and costly conditions
and an oligarch class thinking of ever more ludicrous ways to waste their wealth.
They are more cosmological than that.
On one side are those of us who have no escape plan, no bunker in the sky or underground,
and who therefore are committed to staying right here, in the complexity of our earthbound reality, with one another.
We know we ne…
@cdarwin@c.imA train carrying Boris Johnson and the former CIA chief David Petraeus
may have been the target of a Russian drone strike
that hit a train engine near the Poland-Ukraine border, according to Ukrainian Railways.
Ukraine’s foreign ministerAndrii Sybiha described the attack as
“Putin’s terror knocking directly on the doors of the EU and Nato”.
Overnight attacks across Ukraine involving more than 450 Russian drones and missiles killed at least six people and injured…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his controversial pledge to give US adults a $5,000 “dividend”
if his Republican party keeps control of Congress after November’s midterm elections.
The plan has been greeted with expressions of incredulity across the US political spectrum
as well as outraged accusations of seeking to bribe voters.
The plan – which would cost more than a trillion dollars – also comes amid huge concern over the US national debt, which topped $40…
@cdarwin@c.imThis week, I heard something that shocked me.
In a federal appeals court, lawyers for Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense,
argued that military retirees were subject to freedom of speech restrictions because of their connection to the military,
and that if they didn’t like those restrictions, retirees could forfeit their pension and benefits.
The Trump administration expects the people who have put their lives on the line for America to cede one of their basic ri…
@cdarwin@c.imThe idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality
is as old as western political thought.
In Aristotle’s Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to act independently of human direction, concluding:
“If every tool could perform its own work when ordered, or by seeing what to do in advance …
if thus shuttles wove and quills played harps of themselves,
master-craftsmen wou…
@cdarwin@c.imAttorneys for James “Fergie” Chambers,
the US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects worldwide
who is currently imprisoned in Madrid and sought in extradition, have submitted a brief ahead of a decisive government meeting on the case.
Meanwhile, Chambers’ partner, the actor and activist Stella Schnabel,
met last week with multiple members of the Spanish parliament to assert his innocence.
The legal team’s arguments include that the US go…
@cdarwin@c.imCentral bankers in economies including the US, Japan and the UK will face a moment of truth this week,
as surging inflation raises the prospect of higher interest rates.
Policymakers in all three countries will set rates in the next seven days
against the backdrop of turbulent global bond markets.
In particular, investors will be watching closely to see if Kevin Warsh, the new chair of the US Federal Reserve,
can face down Donald Trump’s demands for rate cuts an…
@cdarwin@c.imA passenger train travelling from Kyiv to Warsaw
was hit by a Russian drone
two kilometres from the Polish border
in an attack that Ukraine’s foreign minister described as
“Putin’s terror knocking directly on the doors of the EU and Nato”.
Overnight attacks across Ukraine involving more than 450 Russian drones and missiles killed at least six people and injured more than 40.
Ukraine’s air force said it had intercepted 405 drones and four missiles.
We…
@cdarwin@c.imHe was called ‘MAGA’s Man’ in Latin America.
Now he’s charged with hiring hitmen to murder his girlfriend
Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo helped fuel the rise of right-wing politicians in South and Central America.
Cerimedo now sits in a Bolivian maximum security prison, accused of ordering hitmen to murder his pregnant mistress, lawyer and activist Nadia Beller.
The brazen shooting, captured on security cameras, has taken on the color of gripping t…
@cdarwin@c.imSaudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for export if it doesn’t restart a drone-damaged major pipeline to the Red Sea within days,
leading to the loss of up to 4% of global supply, Saudi oil buyers and traders said.
Satellite photos released on Sunday night appeared to show a pumping station on the key 1,200km (745-mile) Saudi east-west pipeline charred and badly damaged, after drone attacks on Friday.
A further decline in oil flow from Saudi Arabia, the world largest oi…
@cdarwin@c.imToday in America, tired, desperate sailors are jumping off aircraft carriers,
masked government agents armed with guns and cattle prods are murdering and caging innocent people,
proverbial and real wrecking balls are battering our government offices and landmarks;
our national parks are being mauled by bulldozers, our air and water is intentionally being poisoned, and our endangered wildlife is being slaughtered;
life-saving vaccines are being shelved, while measl…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Democratic field for president is still wide open and unsettled.
The very early list includes former presidential candidates, governors, senators, House members and celebrities.
While no one on this list has officially declared, some candidates have been more open than others about wanting to run.
Ahead of November’s midterm elections, the field is starting to take shape as a major debate roils the party:
--- Is the surging progressive movement helping or hurti…
@cdarwin@c.imMichigan voters are sharply divided between Republican Mike Rogers
and Democratic nominee
Abdul El-Sayed,
according to a Fox News poll that finds significant challenges for both candidates
in a race considered critical for control of the Senate.
The first survey since last week’s primaries finds Rogers with a narrow
51 percent to 47 percent edge among registered voters,
within the survey’s three-percentage-point margin of error,
which estimates…
@cdarwin@c.imAbout 1.5 million dozen white and brown cage-free eggs
recalled for potential salmonella contamination
have been upgraded to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s highest-risk warning.
The agency reclassified the recall of Midwest Poultry Services eggs to Class I
due to the reasonable possibility that exposure to the product would cause serious health issues or death
@cdarwin@c.imShip $1 billion of Chinese goods straight to an American port, and the duty can run to several hundred million dollars.
Send the identical goods through Vietnam, Malaysia or Thailand, and most of that bill disappears.
Send them through Mexico wearing U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement paperwork that they have not earned, and the bill can disappear entirely.
@cdarwin@c.imWyoming Primary:
One of the most conservative states has a legislature divided between a hard-right House and a merely right Senate.
Ultraconservatives want a complete takeover in the Aug. 18 primaries
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/elec…
@cdarwin@c.imRoughly a quarter of legislators on Capitol Hill have traded individual stocks this term,
with some buying and selling millions of dollars in shares.
Since the start of this term in January 2025, members and their families have collectively traded $160 million to $664 million in individual stocks,
according to a New York Times analysis of data collected from members’ required financial filings by 2iQ Research, an analytics firm.
Members are required to disclose their…
