pseudo-intellectcual

not really sure what’s actually going on

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a clean hit

[pseudo-intellectcual @RoufSafin]

Went beyond any expectations I may have had from seeing it so many times on my feed

[Saint Hoax @SaintHoax]

i’m dead serious when i say she needs to be the leader of the democratic party

[Saint Hoax @SaintHoax]

i’m dead serious when i say she needs to be the leader of the democratic party

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Sally Rooney books withdrawn in UK over Palestine Action support https://t.co/uZTPYAC5Ll

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The five most unpopular countries in the latest survey:
5. USA
4. Iran
3. Afghanistan
2. North Korea
1. Israel

Congrats to Israel on being the least popular nation in the world but frankly I think we in the USA deserve the prize since we occupy the #5 spot ourselves but also fund and politically backstop the #1 country. So this truly should be our title.

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Breaking: US government suspends Indian firms Tata, Infosys, Wipro, HCL from sponsoring most foreign workers for green cards

Capgemini and Cognizant also suspended

[Eduardo Garzón @edugaresp]

¡Por fin está disponible y gratis el documental sobre Teoría Monetaria Moderna “Finding the money”!

Es de obligada visualización para derribar muchos mitos económicos

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New Yorkers: one month from today, there will be five questions on the back of your ballot.

Register to vote by October 24 and learn more at https://t.co/8EY1p29E7i

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

‼️ We identified this Israeli war criminal — Ronen Kazaila, commanding officer in the Border Police, documented committing crimes against humanity in Qusra and Beit Ummar in the West Bank.

MAKE HIM FAMOUS.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The icing on the cake when it comes to the sad collapse of German statecraft.

August Hanning, former head of the German BND, the German equivalent of the CIA, has been arrested on espionage charges.

It has never happened before that a country's top intelligence officer and head of a national spy agency proved to be a spy for another state.

https://t.co/tj1oYLxOHC

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.

At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.

It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.

Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC

Please share this story with as many people as you can.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨🇶🇦 Qatar's prime minister said Hamas agreed on the first day of the war on Gaza to “release all civilian hostages,” asking only for a ceasefire window to get them out, and Israel refused to even "entertain the idea."

"We got an agreement" to release "all the civilian hostages," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told Piers Morgan. Israeli officials replied that if Hamas wanted to free them, it should do so without a pause in fighting, he said.

His on-record account follows a Haaretz report this month that he relayed the offer to then-Mossad chief David Barnea on the evening of Oct. 7.

🎥 Piers Morgan Uncensored (YouTube)

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources

The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials

https://t.co/BCnwcyzg8C

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Rogue AI agents have infiltrated the Federal Government.

This includes the Department of Education, Department of Commerce, and the SEC.

I am calling on Speaker Johnson to bring Congress back to address this national security crisis.

[Chris Brennan @ByChrisBrennan]

Please view and retweet this trailer for this documentary about Elon Musk that can’t purchase advertising on this website.

[Sagarika Ghose @sagarikaghose]

Iconic scene from Satyajit Ray’s 1970 film “ Pratidwandi.” Love those clipped English accents of the 1970s.

[Madison Mills @MadisonMills22]

SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.

The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.

The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment.

Read my latest for Axios here: https://t.co/42h9aR4sem

[Will Steakin @wsteaks]

Melat Kiros with one of the more forceful defenses of Hasan Piker from a Democrat here

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Kamala Harris supported continued US military aid to Israel throughout the genocide in Gaza and refused to endorse an arms embargo, including when pressed during her 2024 presidential campaign.

➤ A US federal judge found in January 2024 that Israel's conduct in Gaza plausibly constitutes genocide, imploring the administration to reconsider its "unflagging support," in a case brought against Biden, Blinken and Austin. Days earlier, the ICJ had ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts, triggering every state party's own duty to prevent genocide under the Genocide Convention.

➤ Harris still continued publicly backing military aid and declined to support an arms embargo through the end of the campaign. She voiced concern for Palestinian civilians, but never opposed the weapons transfers sustaining the deliberate civilian killings.

➤ Accepting the nomination at the Democratic convention on August 22, 2024, Harris vowed to ensure that the US military remains the “most lethal fighting force in the world" and that Israel would always have "the ability to defend itself." Twelve days earlier, the UN human rights office reported it had recorded Israeli strikes on at least 21 different schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in just one month since July 4, killing at least 274 people. These were schools in “safe areas” Israel had instructed Palestinians to flee to after ordering them out of their homes.

➤ Economist Dan Steinbock, author of The Obliteration Doctrine: Genocide Prevention, Israel, Gaza and the West, argues legal accountability should extend to Harris, invoking Article III of the Genocide Convention, which makes "complicity in genocide" punishable. His book names her directly, describing her as "touting continued military aid to Israel amid the atrocities."

➤ In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry, the Human Rights Council's highest-level investigative body, concluded Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

➤ By the end of the Biden-Harris term, Gaza’s Health Ministry had recorded 47,035 Palestinians killed. A peer-reviewed Lancet analysis had already estimated that violent deaths likely exceeded 70,000 by October 2024.

Harris has not repudiated the policy of arming Israel or expressed regret for any specific decision she or the administration made during 15 months of live-streamed killings and collective punishment.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ REPORT: Susan Collins caught dead-to-rights in bribery scheme

A ProPublica investigation finds that the Department of Justice’s public corruption unit, just before it was gutted by President Donald Trump, was circling the Maine Republican senator facing Troy Jackson. The evidence suggests that Susan Collins and her campaign solicited illegal contributions from a Hawaii-based weapons maker.

The company sent the funds to a super PAC through a shell company—amusingly named Society of Young Scientist and Engineers LLC—in exchange for Collins steering defense contracts to the company. It is illegal for defense contractors to make federal contributions to candidates.

Collins appears to have been aware of and directly involved in the scheme. Writes ProPublica: “Seven days after the super PAC cashed the check from [Martin] Kao’s shell company, one of [Scott] Reed’s subordinates emailed a Navatek lobbyist asking for Kao’s phone number: “Senator Collins would like to call Martin to thank him.”

The Collins campaign said it was investigated and there was no crime. Read the full report ⬇️