Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
@mattyglesias God stfu. I’m not a huge fan but he’s still massively popular and it’s a way to bring centrists toward El Sayed for the general. You know this.
You wanting to be an edgelord while there are serious stakes for a lot of people isn’t funny or smart. It’s cynical.
NEW: Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots were thrown out in June's primary — most for arriving too late.
Midterm voting starts TODAY. Don't let your ballot be next. Mail it by Oct. 27 or use a drop-off location.
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BREAKING: DHS contractors are toppling the last of four ancient cottonwoods to build double border walls across the San Rafael Valley.
The wall cuts through the key remaining wildlife corridor for endangered jaguars between Arizona and Sonora, where human border crossings are seldom seen.
A protest camp had occupied and protected this tree for more than 60 days, halting construction. The camp was raided and campers were arrested this morning.
This wall will effectively lock the remaining jaguars in the U.S. into solitary confinement, while permanently marring one of the last remaining wild places along the Arizona border.
The whistleblower who told the FBI that Howard Lutnick was laundering money through Cantor Fitzgerald lost his case against Lutnick in August of this year, and died in September....just weeks later. The court never ruled on whether he was right. Instead, it threw the case out because he filed it too late, and then Lutnick and BGC asked the court to make him pay their legal fees.
His name was Simon Andriesz. He was a managing director at BGC, the Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage Lutnick ran. The FBI filed his money laundering complaint in its Epstein case file, where it sat until the files were released this year.
2015 to 2016: He raised complaints about accounting irregularities. BGC suspended him twice and ordered him to undergo medical exams.
January 2017: BGC fired him.
2019: The CFTC fined BGC $3 million for supervision and recordkeeping failures. He said his tip led to it.
October 2020: He called the FBI and reported money laundering, fraud and Lutnick's links to Epstein. The FBI's complaint form is titled "Alleged Money Laundering by Howard Lutnick via BGC Financial and Cantor Fitzgerald."
November 2020: BGC opened an investigation into its own UK tax adviser and a senior London broker. A UK court later found they stole about £23.5 million, mostly money owed to UK tax authorities, between 2015 and 2020.
January 2025: While Lutnick was being vetted for Commerce Secretary, an FBI memo said the Bureau "did not open an investigation" into his allegations.
2026: He searched the Epstein files for "HWL," Lutnick's initials, and found 2018 emails between Lutnick and Epstein about a company they both invested in. House Oversight used them when it questioned Lutnick in May.
August 11, 2026: A UK tribunal threw out his case against BGC and Lutnick personally because it was filed years after the deadline. He argued that trauma kept him from filing sooner, and the judge rejected that. A hearing was set for November 24 on whether he should pay their legal costs.
Late September 2026: He died at a trauma treatment centre in the UK at 57. People close to him say he took his own life but no coroner's finding has been released.
Simon Andriesz spent nine years telling regulators, the FBI and Congress what he saw inside Lutnick's company. Some of it turned out to be true, some of it was never checked, and the man who could have told us which was which is gone....
@Kekius_Sage These fucking ghouls are so consumed with wanting to be gods they can’t seem to see what the implications are. And those implications would render them either poor or monsters.
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
https://t.co/8fTrQK6Fup
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes
https://t.co/MwH0aJQvSe
If they’re unable to put aside their own anti-woke bias when something works like gangbusters than this is going to be a pretty shitty production company and take massive Ls. The art with most upside surprises and comes from the outsiders. You need them to recover from the flops
Skydance's first move: get rid of the execs who greenlit Sinners, OBAA and Weapons.
The business side of this merger is going to be darkly hilarious
https://t.co/bN31O57tSY
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. https://t.co/iG3Bnlzt2J