In 2019, Zac Brettler mysteriously plunged into the Thames from the balcony of a luxury flat in London. Roughly a year later, the prime suspect in Brettler’s case was found dead in the same apartment.
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In 2019, Zac Brettler mysteriously plunged into the Thames from the balcony of a luxury flat in London. Roughly a year later, the prime suspect in Brettler’s case was found dead in the same apartment.
Nestlé fires CEO over romantic relationship with direct subordinate
The North Korean leader is set to attend a military parade alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
A suspected Russian interference attack targeting Ursula von der Leyen disabled GPS navigation services at a Bulgarian airport and forced the European Commission president’s plane to land using paper maps. www.ft.com/content/3c33...
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
Ponzi.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group. Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. “The assignment was a sham,” one said.
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Electric kettle changed my life, pasta-wise.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
A selection of covers from early (1951-1953) Decca classical long-playing records designed by the legendary graphic artist Erik Nitsche. (1/4)
Living in America is like waking up in the supermarket from the Mist every morning. What new horrific bloodsucker at the window is this?
I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you. Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it. We’re with you.
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Economists warn that tariffs and mass deportations leading to labor shortages could lead to sky-rocketing inflation and growing costs. "The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter...prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year..." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
New from me: Meet the network state tech bro leading the CDC www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Turkiye’s top diplomat said his country has ‘completely’ cut off trade with Israel over its ongoing genocide.
“70% of the model runs led to collapse, while an intermediate level of emissions resulted in collapse in 37% of the models. Even in the case of low future emissions, an Amoc shutdown happened in 25% of the models.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
yo this guy is cooking
Crypto investor Balaji Srinivasan wants to design a new kind of nation state. A troubled development in Malaysia has become a testbed for his ideas bloom.bg/4oTOh5X 📷: Chan Long Hei/Bloomberg
*Rumbling increases*
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
NEW: Inside the meetings and disagreements over vaccine policy that led to Susan Monarez's ouster at CDC — and a series of other agency leaders' resignations www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The U.S. Air Force will provide Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt with military funeral honors, reversing a Biden-era decision that denied her family’s request. thehill.com/policy/defen...
apnews.com/article/geor...
It’s not good. Link: www.cdc.gov/about/media/...
Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying
Scoop - SUSAN MONAREZ, nation’s newly installed CDC director, is being ousted, people familiar tell @lenasun.bsky.social @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + me
There are few if any real barriers left to Donald Trump using the military to seize full political control of an American city and I think that is likely to happen. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-a...
EXCLUSIVE: DHS, ICE and CBP agents — and possibly National Guard troops — would operate from a suburban naval base for much of next month as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to target Chicago, per an email from Navy leadership obtained by CST. They'd be at Naval Station Great Lakes Sept. 2-30.
US covert operations to prepare for seizure of Denmark's territory are setting the stage for attack on our European allies. They are poisonous to the interests of every Conservative and Liberal American.
interesting! www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
A lone cybercriminal used Anthropic's vibe-coding LLM to automate a massive spree that hacked and extorted 17 companies. It did almost everything for him: Scoped out who to hack and how, organized the hacked material, helped him decide how much to ask each company for and wrote his extortion emails.
🇲🇽 VIDEO: Endangered Vallarta mud turtle born in Mexican zoo A zoo in the Mexican city of Guadalajara has welcomed the first captive birth of a Vallarta mud turtle in Mexico. An endangered species, it is thought to be the smallest turtle in the world.
Images of President Trump’s bruised hand have renewed attention to his health in general and his cardiovascular health in particular. www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/t...
Even positive MAGA attention kills brands. Aug 4: Trump posts about Sydney Sweeney ad. Aug 25: American Eagle’s talking “cost cutting”. www.morningstar.com/news/marketw...
This was such a weird campaign. Extremely cybertruck dudebro energy to sell pants to F15-25. Someone pitched “actually, it’s the dads who buy the pants” in a meeting and now no one at AE gets to have Christmas. investors.ae.com/press-releas...
“BofA analysts are casting further doubt on the denim retailer.” www.morningstar.com/news/marketw...
Twitter is not real life. www.marketwatch.com/story/sydney...
Like the Divorced Dads Buying Their Daughters Pants With Cards Saying “Great Jeans, from Your Dad” ain’t gonna support you quarter to quarter. www.marketwatch.com/story/sydney...
Like Jesse Watters doesn’t eat at Cracker Barrel. Jesse Watters has a private chef synched to his Apple Watch calorie count.
Should have kept the old logo and just started using the new one for social platforms. The blowback looks inauthentic but could have been anticipated. Weird situation where brands that have legacy conservative customer bases can’t evolve and risk dying off with that demo. From May 20:
John Cassidy writes about Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab—his effort to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor—and how the President is undermining the institutional foundations of the American economy.
Surprising no one, Musk's man within GSA still works for Tesla at the same time as he works for the government. @autost.bsky.social did you think no one would find out?
The only thing I've seen about this saga that's made any sense was this thread: bsky.app/profile/repo...
For my audio/home recording nerds: this is an absolutely insane deal on good plug-ins. At $3, how could you not give it a shot. Even if you only find one of these that you like, you win!
*institutions
It’s like water and ice seeping into a boulder over time. No matter how big and strong, eventually it’ll break. So if he leaves DC, if he avoids Chicago. It’s temporary. He’ll always be back unless and until he’s completely removed.
Meanwhile Trump chilled in Florida, needling his resort guests, corrupting while golfing, generally being a creep. Then when he got back into power he had a fully corrupted party behind him that he could move at will.
Makes offense more important than defense. Any time he’s fought back, unless broken, he’ll be back. Jan 6 is the best example of that in practice. From 2016-2020 he degraded instructions and broke the Republican Party, Jan 6 ended in a retreat, and the next 4 years his allies planned and regrouped.
(Going to continue in a quote post to the above)
Trump doesn’t do strategy but pathological, and it’s effective. He’s an animal that seeks to corrupt and dominate, and he does that by endlessly, persistently finding and exploiting weaknesses, in people and institutions, and removing that which is incorruptible, leaving behind Miller/etc.
“DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.”
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., says that he will deploy troops to two Alabama cities if he were elected governor as President Donald Trump has in Washington, D.C.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...
www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
The Department of Health and Human Services is terminating a National Institutes of Health grant program that supports students from marginalized backgrounds in the biomedical sciences. www.statnews.com/2025/08/25/n...
Prospective ICE agents are going through a grueling training process, as the agency is under pressure to hire 10,000 new recruits to meet President Trump’s heightened arrests goal on.wsj.com/3HQ3AeX
Always thought most of Adam’s appeal was that he clearly loves the city and had a ball running around, hanging out, going to parties/dinners/clubs, taking bribes. Coulda ran on that, how hard it is to really live the life on a mayor’s salary. Affordability crisis and all that.
He’s learned who will send national guard on call. He’s learned what cities will put up a fight and their tactics. Meanwhile he’s purging the military.
He doesn’t have to achieve a clear goal for the DC occupation to be successful. Trump is always testing weaknesses. Always. When he finds resistance (e.g., Chicago) he’ll move to another target. Along the way he weakens systemic foundations and purges individuals. And he returns to previous targets.
Pentagon's innovation unit chief resigns in latest shake-up reut.rs/4oT02t6
Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, escalating billionaire's tech feud
It’s ok when the socialism is national(ist).
Good lord
Exclusive: Tech executives including VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and the president of OpenAI are putting more than $100 million into a new super-PAC network focused on AI policy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NEW STUDY: Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky: Health 29% Social 25% Physical 23% Life 23% arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 Worth reading--lots of other insights! Lately, I've been sharing our new article on global religious decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Edward Coristine, is the doge guy’s name.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
They built a fortress to protect our data. Meta, they allege, had a master key all along. A bombshell legal filing claims the social media giant lied to advertisers and secretly bypassed Apple’s landmark privacy rules, revealing a desperate struggle for the data that fuels a $100B empire.
A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae. Credit: Sinclair Stammers
Antarctica is in extreme peril. "Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds. grist.org/climate/anta... #Antarctica #Climate #Heat #Sea #Ocean #Ice
August 7: Trump demands Intel fire its' CEO, Lip-Bu Tan August 11: Trump meets with Lip-Bu Tan August 22: Trump announces purchase of 10% of Intel, and that "I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
"A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over. Impersonators for OnlyFans models said their sales quotas are soaring, and once AI improves, they could be out of work." restofworld.org/2025/onlyfan...
Some ominous foreshadowing here
Head of US Defense Intelligence Agency Jeffrey Kruse fired alongside two senior Navy officials in latest purge.
With legal challenges to this law pending, we cannot justify building the expensive required infrastructure. For now, we have made the difficult decision to block access in Mississippi. To learn more, read our blog post:
“The Trump administration has simultaneously purged a number of spy agency heads, whose roles, like the military’s, are supposed to be apolitical. In April, Trump fired the head of the powerful NSA, Gen. Timothy Haugh and his deputy were dismissed after Laura Loomer advocated for their ouster.”
While the internet has been consumed by Chipgate, there was another big City Hall corruption story. Here’s a thread on what you might have missed 🧵
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“Trump has purged one of the CIA’s most senior Russia analysts: The move will have a chilling effect inside American spy agencies. […] The removal of the CIA officer, who oversaw hundreds of analysts and other personnel, prompted alarm among many current and serving intelligence officials.”
Tulsi is systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. Ask yourself why.
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Holy shit.
That’s amazing. ‘Woke’ fully defined as “anything I don’t like.” Completely unpredictable. Unsatisfiable grievance.
The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for FBI agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.
9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/m...
Captain Landon Johnson
I guarantee you someone in the Secret Service advised against this insanely risky stunt. Every terrorist, insurgent group, and cartel is trying to infiltrate people with Russian and Ukrainian fighters to learn about cutting edge drone warfare tactics and technologies. He isn’t a fast runner.
FITCH: “U.S. Consumer Spending Slows Sharply as Labor Market Weakens, Tariffs Raise Inflation” “.. the economy could take a stagflationary turn .. Higher prices expected to hit goods categories first, likely weakening consumer spending ahead of the holiday ..” www.fitchratings.com/research/ins...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmT...
An experimental study investigated how “the effects of psilocybin”—the active ingredient in magic mushrooms—“are experienced and interpreted by religious clergy”. Here’s what they found
NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun - NASA Science https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/artificial-intelligence-model-heliophysics/ (solar flare forecasting) #AI #science
“She said she believed, based on statements by Musk, that the winners would be picked at random. In fact, they were carefully selected to be spokespeople for Musk’s pro-Donald Trump political action committee.”