Tootfinder

Titans to simplify offense for Ward, sources say https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46643119/titans-expected-simplify-offense-cam-ward-sources-say

In case you were wondering. (Since the mediators mostly can't be bothered to let you know.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/18/what-did-jimmy-kimmel-say-said-comments-about-charlie-kirk?CMP=share_bt…

He's not good, but he can draw.
He Lied? Say It Ain’t So! – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2025/07/19/he-lied-say-it-aint-so/

Reviews for GPT5 are coming in!
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-20/say-farewell-to-the-ai-bubble-and-get-ready-for-the-crash

SoftBank's Vision Fund plans layoffs; sources say ~20% of staff will be impacted as SoftBank shifts resources to Masayoshi Son's large-scale AI bets in the US (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-

Zelensky says Trump didn’t say no to Tomahawk missiles: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/zelensky-says-trump-didnt-say.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/wildfire-smoke-far-more-dangerous-than-thought-say-scientists
The USA continuing to massively subsidize climate change acceleration via favors to coal and oil and …

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
The Environmental Protection Agency has 💥ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all efforts to publish research,
according to two agency employees familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week
⚠️and instru…

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Womack Sisters:
🎵 I Just Don't Want You (To Say Goodbye)
#TheWomackSisters
https://thewomacksisters.bandcamp.com/track/i-just-dont-want-you-to-say-goodbye
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ErQ0WHfj8aToHxYhSKiRI

Interesting and fulsome interview on exactly how NORAD reacted to the plane hijacking in Victoria/Vancouver on Tuesday. They speak to the commander of NORAD, currently a Canadian.
I appreciated the last section most though:
“It's the only bi-national command in the world; it's been a strong bi-national command since 1958, and nothing has changed.
We don't ever talk politics at work. It's not something that we do, nor does it affect what we do.
I would say that we are as tight, and probably tighter than we've ever been. As the world around us gets to be more dangerous, I would say that NORAD is even closer than it's ever been.
But one last thing — we have the watch. That's the slogan here for NORAD.
To give you a great example, all of the assessors, we all live on-base in homes that actually have a safe, we call it the SCIF. It's basically a classified room that has all of our systems. The days that you're on duty, you're either at work or in your house. Because the timelines are so small for answering the phone, you don't walk the dog; you don't do all these other things, and someone covers for you when you're going between work and home.
That's how important this mission is to us down here. It's really important for everybody in Canada to know that at NORAD, we have the watch”
#canpoli #norad #cf18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750

At least I know he comes to me for wisdom, when he hits the important questions of adolescence

In Africa, heat waves are hotter and longer than 40 years ago, researchers say #Africa

In Africa, heat waves are hotter and longer than 40 years ago, researchers say
Heat waves—prolonged periods of abnormally hot weather—influence egg prices, energy bills and even public transit. And they're becoming more common as temperatures increase.

I don’t know what more to say. Don’t look away. Our governments must act right now to stop this genocide. https://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/115050792327341929

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Falle Nioke:
🎵 Say Say Say
#FalleNioke
https://fallenioke.bandcamp.com/track/say-say-say
https://open.spotify.com/track/0P43Ok4ZDVSO8t48g1BFwJ

Dolphins' Tua Tagovailoa, Mike McDaniel say 'no moral victories' despite improved effort in loss to Bills

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphi…

Republicans keep voting for bills they say they don't like
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-keep-voting-bills-say-dont-like-rcna219353

Karoline Leavitt Can't Cover Up the Truth. Trump's Cankles and Hand Makeup Say It All (Joanna Coles/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-cant-cover-up-the-truth-trumps-cankles-and-hand-makeup-say-it-all/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p54#a250817p54

Slow Radiolysis of Amino Acids in Mars-Like Permafrost Conditions - Applications to the Search for Extant Life on Mars: #Mars? Check the ice, researchers say: https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/are-there-living-microbes-mars-check-ice-researchers-say - intact biomolecules from dormant microbes degrade far slower in pure water ice than mixed soil samples.

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
Yanming Xiu, Joshua Chilukuri, Shunav Sen, Maria Gorlatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12498

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
As augmented reality (AR) applications increasingly require 3D content, generative pipelines driven by natural input such as speech offer an alternative to manual asset creation. In this work, we design a modular, edge-assisted architecture that supports both direct text-to-3D and text-image-to-3D pathways, enabling interchangeable integration of state-of-the-art components and systematic comparison of their performance in AR settings. Using this architecture, we implement and evaluate four rep…

Survey: 46% say the news makes them feel informed often or extremely often, while 42% feel angry, 38% feel sad, and 27% feel scared with same frequency (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/how-america…

How Americans say the news they get makes them feel
Nearly half of Americans (46%) say the news they get makes them feel informed extremely often or often.

Cowboys offer no details on Trevon Diggs' concussion; say he might play Week 8 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/19/cowboys-trevon-diggs-concussion-brian-sc…

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
@… on
The majority AI view: spot on I'd say given advances in my field.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

Milwaukee Friends, I will be at Enderis Park on Saturday Sept 20th (tomorrow!) 9am-Noon with my artwork for sale for super-cheap.
And if you say "I'm Anti-Fascist and believe in Free Speech!" you'll get a 50% discount!"
https://www.enderispark.org/events-1/harve

Harvest Fest 2025 | Enderis
Mum and pumpkin sales Art activities for kids New for 2025 - Harvest Fest Maker's Market!

If we do all of •that• to the point where more and more people are engaged, showing up, doing every kind of work you can imagine and many more kinds you can’t imagine, well…
…then yeah, check on the size of the rallies. That’s the top of the baking bread, and it tells you something. Bakers who’ve studied it say golden brown is usually around 3.5%, give or take.
Check on that for a minute, and then get back to work.
/end

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The time is now to end cybersecurity with AI,
--Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled,
--People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems,
--Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/11/25
The time is now to end cybersecurity with AI, Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled, People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems, Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, Online predator groups can kill teens, Crypto ATMs rip off scam victims

Just a few more years before people say podcasting wasn't really a thing in 2025.

they say if u break the gender binary *they* climb out the sign and hunt u down

To be clear, none of this is to say "this is definitely fake evidence." People talk in really strange ways when they're under stress. People are weirder than you think. Reality is weirder than you think. I don't think this is clearly "this is fabricated."
But I don't just trust it by default, especially when it lines up really well with what the administration wants.

An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people are packed into locked rooms
and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.
https://documentedny.com/2025/07/22/26-federal-plaza-ice-manhattan-…

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza
An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.

This collared pika, Ochotona collaris, popped up on a boulder by the path to the Snow Lake overlook and sure seemed like it had something to say
#naturalist #wildlife #photography

For live updates on #NoKings:
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/no-kings-protests-trump-news-10-18-25

Protesters rally against the Trump administration at ‘No Kings’ events across the country
“No Kings” organizers say more than 2,500 demonstrations are planned nationwide today in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration. Follow for live updates.

I am really enjoying these crisp autumn days here in #Vermont ! The cool mornings… the pleasant afternoons and evenings… it’s the perfect example of how much I love late September and early October!!
Wait… what’s that you say??? I need to check the calendar?
(checks calendar)
Ummmm… WHAT is going on??

"Heatwaves caused more than 1,000 deaths in Australia over four-year period, study finds"
#Australia #Heatwave #Climate

"The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000"
This is an area whose population, before the #October7Attack, was 2,226,544. Which is to say, at least one in every five people IN THE WHOLE OF #GAZA has now been killed …

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

“How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype”
https://hidde.blog/ai-hype/
Largely agree. I’m careful about the words I use on when I talk / post about it. I avoid terms that anthropomorphize, imply agency, reasoning, etc. I ask people to clarify *which* technology when they say “AI” (…

Signs that your post about AI helps the hype
If we're not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.

See the common thread in the two articles below?
In both "experts" assured the public that everything is safe and not to worry.
But a 155mm artillery shell exploding over an Interstate highway and a 1400 foot tall building in NYC beginning to drop concrete onto the streets blow are hardly "safe" or something not to be worried about.
The ancient Greeks had a word for the cause: hubris.
"Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines…

Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines Event, California Officials Say
The mishap, during an anniversary celebration for the Marine Corps attended by the vice president and defense secretary, underscores safety concerns that Gov. Gavin Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton.

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site https://www.bl.uk/collection/digitised-manuscripts-archives
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays…

Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.

Wise man say, fuck about with SSHFP DNS records, find out about the "unbound-control flush_zone" command

So we're a long way from an agreement, but Zelenski learned his lesson. 😉
' "By the way, thank you for the map. It's a good map, wonderful. I would even take it with me," Zelensky said. '
(Via @… )
With Trump being pro-'every nice meeting he just had' there ia nothing to say...

Russian spy groups Turla, Gamaredon join forces to hack Ukraine, researchers say https://therecord.media/russian-spy-groups-turla-gamaredon-target-ukraine

Sexy single elk, you say? In MY area? 🤔 https://flipboard.com/@smithsonianmag/smartnews-343feuq8z/-/a-KOOSWUv9Rdic7ZBBD0XB0A:a:2586892611-/0

Amorous Elk Are Looking for Love Across North America in an Annual Spectacle Called the Rut
Fall in North America means colorful foliage, pumpkin spice-flavored goodies, harvest festivals and football. But for elk, autumn is also the most …

Yes, even in Manchester.
Blackberrying from July, early grapes and huge crop in what was a marginal location, apples ripe at least a month early.
Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts | UK weather | The Guardian
https://archive.ph/xiNn5

Remember when you could search for something and when there were no results, the computer on the other end would say “no results” instead of forcing you to scan through a bunch of “results” that aren't actually what you searched for in hopes that maybe your answer is there somewhere (but it's not)?
That was cool.

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign funds frozen by bank. They have been doing very good work to provide support and relieve suffering for many years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/20/two-uk-pro-pa…

I don’t even know what to say about Salah. Bereft of confidence.
Even Gakpo would have hit the woodwork…
#LFC

@… Not the case in Washington, DC, I'm glad to say.

Qualifications for holding a conversation:
* A genuine interest in what your conversation partner has to say (Otherwise it’s a monologue).
There is no #2. Not even sharing a common language, believe it or not.

Environ un quart des Israéliens (24 %) affirment que le changement climatique n'est pas une menace, ce qui représente la plus grande proportion Š adopter cette position dans l'ensemble des pays étudiés.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/08

Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation;
Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials spew the usual BS.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/trump-human-trafficking-programs-…

Maybe this is it: we just need to rebrand Solar as Fusion (alpha testing) 😂 @… https://mastodon.world/@davidho/115400254100213642

David Ho (@davidho@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image At #NewScientistLive, we’re bombarded by ads that say: the climate crisis is terrible; fusion is the answer. Yes, fusion is the answer, but it’s not happening here on Earth but 8.33 minutes away.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

I fear I am living in a crap 70s sitcom.
We are having some building work done next week so we've ordered a skip to be delivered today. Also today our next door neighbours are moving out.
Skip wagon arrives about 11-ish, knocks next door who tell him that no they haven't ordered a skip but they know that next door (i.e. us) is waiting for one. Skippy rings my doorbell, delivers the skip and drives off.
90 minutes later another skip wagon turns up, rings my doorbell and says "there's no room for your skip because you've already got one". Which obviously I do.
Meanwhile the new next door neighbours are starting to move in and say "is that our skip?"
Given they're both 8 yard skips you'd think they could just deliver ours next door but apparently not as it's a different skip company. So he spent 30 minutes shuffling skips between our driveway & next door.

Maybe the model knows that there’s no org named “Antifa” that can be investigated and so gets a bit “psychotic” when forced to do so. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115221901397524747

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits Officials say Claude chatbot usage policies block FBI, Secret Service contractors' work. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/white-house-officials-reportedly-frustrated-by-anthropics-law-enforcement-ai-limits/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…

What will historians of the 2700s say about all these academics and commentators writing about “late stage capitalism?” Will they be seen as akin to the 10th century millenarians?

Encouraging - and important.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/leading-us-economists-urge-peers-to-fight-trumps-attack-on-environment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Encouraging - and important.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/leading-us-economists-urge-peers-to-fight-trumps-attack-on-environment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

enough people have left our row that were able to spread out a bit now and I've been granted the extraordinary ability to rotate in my fucking seat and put my legs to the side
this is a revelation
gotta say the marathon at the music box in chicago is waaaaaay comfier

Dug out a VHS tape with Now That’s What I Call Music 14 and have been playing it for about an hour. The quality varies wildly. Honestly, I can’t say I enjoyed most of the song selections, but I enjoyed the experience of just watching a tape of music. I wish I had more.

Just heard chef Luke Holder say “we have this saying: less time cooking it, more time sourcing it. Trying to find the right type of produce because we’re only middlemen between great producers and great guests.”
I’m gonna be chewing on that for a while, I think.

#ListeningClub
It’s just an itch beneath the skin
I can’t get it out or seal it in
I can't dislodge the need to scratch it
Screaming from its root
It’s an echo inside my head
A need to say what can’t be said
It’s the nerve tattoo
Such a bad rash
Spiteful and divine

Some people say this is Jaime Pressly #JaimePressly
Season 5 Episode 20 "Promised Land"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

@… just FYI this kind of thoughtful thread on anarchism is exactly the kind of thing people would miss if you weren't on here. Please feel free to tell me to shut up and go away if my engagement is unwanted or feels like a burden, but I hope you're in a better headspace now than earlier. You're valuable and worthy as a person regardless of what you post here, but this is something I can point to concretely and say "I appreciate that" so that the beginning of this long sentence isn't just a platitude. ^.^;

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Well, at least we can hide here.
RASHEL: Don't you see?
COSER: I should have known better. A labor-grade slave. You're pathetic.
[Reception chamber]
SERVALAN: Travis, you are pathetic.
TRAVIS: If you say so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/53

Birds when you say something bad about the government.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ivy:
🎵 Say You Will
#Ivy
https://ivy-band.bandcamp.com/track/say-you-will
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qTx09RfTk18uwaJ2hKiVx

Canadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital assets after shutting down TradeOgre crypto exchange, making it the largest Canadian crypto seizure to date. (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/340310/canada-confiscates-56m-bitcoin-xrp-c…

Canada Seizes $56M in Bitcoin, XRP and Other Crypto as It Shutters Exchange TradeOgre
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the exchange failed to comply with money laundering regulations and also confiscated Ethereum and Litecoin, among other digital assets.

Russian Iskander displays in Kaliningrad could be sign of weakness, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/russian-iskander-displays-in-kaliningrad.html

A new, seemingly not yet publicly disclosed U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean
has left survivors for the first time, reports say.
Reuters, citing a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. bombed what they claim is a drug trade-related vessel on Thursday.
However, unlike the military’s previous five strikes, which were publicly disclosed by officials, the attack did not kill all of the people on board, the source said.
Other news outlets confirmed that the strike had …

A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say
News of the strike comes as the US military’s top official for Latin America has suddenly stepped down.

Experts say FCC chair Brendan Carr's threats to broadcasters violate the First Amendment and are an abuse of the FCC's power (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200649/trump-ouster-kimmel-anna-gomez

Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse Than You Think It Is
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, tells TNR that chairman Brendan Carr’s move violates both the First Amendment and the Communications Act. Democrats must extract consequences.

GOP wants to cut waste. Critics say SNAP exemption could do opposite. (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/snap-tax-law-error-rate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p7#a250720p7

'There's Nothing I Can Say!' Trump Melts Down Over Negative Reports On Putin Meeting | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/theres-nothing-i-can-say-trump-melts-down

Sources: Giants sitting Nabers due to back issue https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46001962/giants-wr-malik-nabers-minor-back-issue-sources-say

"Santa Monica's waves have turned a bright pink: How can the dye job improve water quality?"
#SantaMonica #Water #Environment

Santa Monica's waves have turned a bright pink: How can the dye job improve water quality?
Over the next two weeks, surfers and beachgoers in Santa Monica may spot waves that have a pink, fluorescent hue—but officials say not to worry.

If you'd like to know how my day has been, let's just say I had to get a rust app's binary onto someone's 32-bit Debian 7 (wheezy) machine. Kernel 3.2.0. Version of glibc unsupported by any version of rust.
Ended up cross-building it to i686-unknown-linux-musl from a modern amd64 host.

Deadly wildfires rage across Spain as record area of land burnt https://phys.org/news/2025-08-deadly-wildfires-rage-spain-area.html
Spain deploys 500 more troops to battle wildfires during extended heat wave

Deadly wildfires rage across Spain as record area of land burnt
Thousands of firefighters backed by soldiers and water-bombing aircraft on Monday battled over 20 major wildfires raging across western Spain, where officials say a record area of land has already been burned.

Sources: Amazon plans a major revamp of its Fire tablets and is set to release a higher-end Android tablet as soon as 2026, a first after using forked Android (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
El Michels Affair:
🎵 Say Goodbye
#ElMichelsAffair
https://elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com/track/say-goodbye-feat-florence-adooni-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hu11ydLsuHdMChHpqRtUw

Half a dozen lawyers and scholars say President Trump's lawsuit against NYT lacks legal merit and its main purpose is to threaten criticism of the president (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/trump-new-york-times-nyt-lawsuit-meritless-experts…

Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times is meritless, First Amendment experts say
The president’s defamation lawsuit against the Times is frivolous, according to half a dozen lawyers and First Amendment scholars who spoke with CNN. But his chances in court are almost beside the point, some of the experts said.

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines' Celebration, California Officials Say (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/shell-interstate-5-marines-california.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p54#a251019p54

Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/schumer-art

GOP uses AI-generated video in anti-Schumer ad
Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown. The 30-second digital ad from the National Republican Senate Committee features the Democratic New York senator appearing to say on camera about the shutdown, now in its 3rd week, “Every day gets better for us.” …

“Items that I have bought regularly have gone up in price steadily
From hair dye to baby formula,
our grocery list has gotten smaller while our budget has had to increase.
Meats like steak are a no-go for our household.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news…

Tom Hanks, Ken Burns Say PBS 'American Revolution' Counters Trump-Led Erasing Of History
https://deadline.com/2025/09/tom-hanks-ken-burns-american-revolution-trump-1236549033/

Police arrest a man suspected of shooting at Sacramento's ABC affiliate a day after protesters gathered to condemn the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show (Olivia Empson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s

Republican state legislators in California filed suit on Tuesday
to block a mid-year redistricting plan meant to counter Texas’s effort to redraw congressional district lines.
The emergency petition argues that the process being used in the California assembly violates laws requiring a 30-day period between the introduction of legislation and voting on it.

Have Colts quit on Anthony Richardson? They say no, but it feels like it's over for QB in Indy https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6563438/2025/08/20/anthony-richardson-colts-qb-battle/

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air because the Trump administration didn't like what he had to say and threatened his employers until they shut him up (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.htm…

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 (Reuters)
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/tech-and-st

Nvidia's new RTX6000D chip for China finds little favour with major firms, sources say
Nvidia's RTX6000D, its newest artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market, has seen only lukewarm demand with some major tech firms opting not to place orders, two people with knowledge of procurement discussions said.

The head of the British armed forces will tell his American counterparts
the UK is prepared to send troops to defend Ukraine’s skies and seas
but not to the frontline with Russia,
as planning intensifies for a postwar settlement.
Tony Radakin, the chief of the defence staff, will on Wednesday attend meetings at the Pentagon
designed to finalise what 30 different countries are willing to commit to Ukraine’s national security.
Radakin is expected to
co…

Emergency hearing set over potential Trump admin violations
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-drags-trump-admin-into-court-for-emergency-hearing-after-credible-sources-say-layoffs-will-continue-despite-restraining-order/

C.J. Stroud, Texans offense continues to sputter: 'Everybody’s going to talk crazy and say we suck' https://www.nfl.com/news/c-j-stroud-texans-offense-continues-to-sputter-everybody-s-going-to-talk-crazy-and-say-we-suc…

The BBC and UK's other public sector broadcasters call for new regulations to force platforms such as YouTube to give them a fairer deal and more prominence (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep…

Yellowstone hiker survives bloody encounter with a bear, possibly a grizzly
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-19/yellowstone-hiker-survives-bear-attack-grizzly

Bear, possibly a grizzly, attacks hiker in Yellowstone National Park
The bear attacked the hiker after he apparently startled the animal. Experts say that, in these situations, it is best to lie down and play dead.

Spirit Halloween guard kills suspected shoplifter: Cops
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/ill-f-shoot-you-spirit-halloween-security-guard-kills-man-suspected-of-stealing-items-worth-less-than-90-police-say/

A month into the new Trump administration,
on the predawn streets of suburban Maryland,
a high-ranking ICE official stood alongside a Mazda sedan that his officers had just stopped.
The official told a local TV reporter at the scene what was about to happen.
“He can either give us a license,”
he said,
“or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.”
Then, as the driver refused to exit the car, officers broke the glass

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Flores' attorneys say NFL arbiter stalling case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46305741/flores-attorneys-file-reconsideration-arbitration-order

Speaker Johnson should be ashamed of himself.
He should also have gone to one of the rallies in his congressional district
—there appear to have been three of them, and two more right nearby
—and seen for himself the flags
and the “I love my country” signs
and talked to some of the good and decent people from all walks of life who attended.
In Leesville, he might have met people like organizer Bradley Hesson, who told KALB-TV:
“We’re out here to show…

Mike Johnson Understands Nothing About the United States of America
The speaker led a rogues’ gallery of Republicans impugning the patriotism of the No Kings rallygoers. On Saturday, the real Americans had their say.

Judge Zia Faruqui, a former federal prosecutor,
said leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling their deluge of cases.
He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while they evaluate charges.
“It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now,” Faruqui said.
He later added, “There’s no credibility left…

Judge upbraids prosecutors for handling of DC surge cases, saying they have 'no credibility left'
A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. Judge Zia Faruqui said Thursday that leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling the cases. He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail…