PUNCH HARD:
This is the wildest attack ad I’ve ever seen in politics. Andrew Cuomo pulling out all the stops. pic.twitter.com/rPQ77Z3bE7
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) October 23, 2025
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October 24, 2025
THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM: Grassley announces judges’ use of AI leading to court order errors, implementing new policies.
Grassley released responses he received from U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Henry T. Wingate, U.S. District of New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier Neals, and the Administrative Office of the Courts Director Robert Conrad regarding the two judges’ use of generative AI to draft factually inaccurate court orders.
Wingate and Neals admitted to Grassley that their staff used AI to draft orders riddled with errors. The errors included state law that was misquoted, references to people who didn’t appear in the cases, and quotes incorrectly attributed to defendants, among other inaccuracies.
“Honesty is always the best policy. I commend Judges Wingate and Neals for acknowledging their mistakes and I’m glad to hear they’re working to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Grassley said.
“Each federal judge, and the judiciary as an institution, has an obligation to ensure the use of generative AI does not violate litigants’ rights or prevent fair treatment under the law. The judicial branch needs to develop more decisive, meaningful and permanent AI policies and guidelines. We can’t allow laziness, apathy or overreliance on artificial assistance to upend the Judiciary’s commitment to integrity and factual accuracy. As always, my oversight will continue.”
Wingate and Neals have since implemented new policies to verify the accuracy of their court orders.
Neals instituted a written policy that prohibits all law clerks and interns from using AI when drafting opinions or orders, in addition to a multi-level opinion review policy. Wingate is requiring all draft opinions, orders, and memos to be subject to a second independent review and that all cited cases be printed and attached to the final draft.
Shouldn’t that last part have been SOP even before AI?
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
If she weren't running for governor, she'd be redesigning the Cracker Barrel brand and hiring Dylan Mulvaney to promote your favorite beer.
pic.twitter.com/wT5wbCrxpl— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) October 23, 2025
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: Sleazy, Unethical Journalists Ask: Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?
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AUTOMATED RACISM:
What could possibly go wrong? 😳 pic.twitter.com/XH9PTsSfib
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 23, 2025
IT’S AN OVERUSED WORD, AND PROBABLY NOT TECHNICALLY CORRECT, BUT I CAN’T THINK OF A BETTER ONE: Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Graham Platner: The Rise of the New Age Nazis.
ABUSE OF POWER: Grieving Wyoming Mom Faced Retaliation by School Officials. “Her son was gone, and she wanted to understand why. Instead of getting answers from officials who she believed held some responsibility, Kari Cochran found herself standing in a courtroom defending herself against stalking allegations. Her offense? She asked school officials difficult questions and made social media posts critical of their responses.”
October 23, 2025
IT’S LIKE THE AAUP IS JUST A LEFTIST FRONT ORGANIZATION:
It’s been often claimed that conservatives are largely non-existent in academe because they are drawn to money-making careers. Glad to see this canard utterly obliterated by the American Association of University Professors, who admit that conservatives are effectively purged… https://t.co/K8laiCH3Eq
— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) October 22, 2025
HUGH HEWITT AND BEN DOMENECH: How big a story is the NBA-mob scandal? Enormous.
OUR EXPERTS AREN’T EXPERT ENOUGH FOR CLIMATE MODIFICATION: Can we dim the sun to fight climate change? Not without risking weather patterns, scientists suggest.
TRUE:
In the last three days, Donald Trump has done more construction work, just at the White House and has been done in all of Pacific Palisades in nearly a year https://t.co/Og2IUTUiIv
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 22, 2025
FAIRNESS IN ACTION:
Reminder that colleges have been discriminating against Asian students for decades because schools would be "too Asian" If admissions were based solely on merit. https://t.co/iqOtI3okyp
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) October 24, 2025
PETER LEMON MAMDANI:
Zohran Mamdani completely changes the way he talks and how he sounds depending on what country he’s in
Here are clips of him
– In America
– In South Africa
– On a Turkish podcast
– During his hip-hop rapper daysThis is absolutely insane. He’s an actor pic.twitter.com/N0lK5Z5hTQ
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 21, 2025
Classical allusion in headline:
A MERE OBSERVATION: As the hooligans and heartthrobs coagulate ever more thickly until that Glorious Day of Election, we shall be bombarded with all manner of b’legs and emails for money.
OK, Fine.
But without doing any research, I’d bet very good money that no politician of any stripe has ever sent out communications saying:
“STOP! We reached our goal. Don’t send us more money!
Ever. Not even Eugene Debs.
EVERYTHING IS DANGEROUS: The Hidden Risks of Bubble Tea Are More Serious Than You Think.
THE LONELY LIVES OF SCIENTISTS: Scientists Reveal the Surprising Innermost Secrets of Spaghetti.
ANDREW DOYLE: Meltdown at the Oxford Union.
Harold Macmillan once described the Oxford Union as ‘the last bastion of free speech’. Perhaps this remark made sense when it was uttered back in the 1960s, but it reads today more like a mordant quip. The recent furore over George Abaraonye, the president elect, has all but obliterated the union’s credibility.
Everything we know about Abaraonye tells us that he is profoundly unqualified to lead such an institution. He openly celebrated the shooting of Charlie Kirk, posting on his Instagram account: ‘Charlie Kirk got shot loool’. In a WhatsApp group, he wrote: ‘Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s fucking go’, ‘Scoreboard FM’ and ‘It really writes itself, doesn’t it’ in response to a fellow student’s comment that ‘He was pro guns LMFAO’. This was in spite of the fact that Abaraonye had met Kirk in person only a few months previously, shaken his hand, and debated him in the chamber.
Such musteline behaviour tells us that this is not a man of strong character, but more objectionable still are his attempts at back-pedalling. Abaraonye might at least have acknowledged that it was a hot-headed moment in which he was childishly attempting to be edgy for his friends. But unable to muster the courage to take responsibility for his own words, he instead attempted to blame the victim, saying that his reaction was ‘shaped by the context of Mr Kirk’s own rhetoric’ and ‘My words were no less insensitive than his – arguably less so’.
More here: The Oxford Union won’t miss George Abaraonye. “When Abaraonye debated Kirk, Kirk had been civil with him. Abaraonye had perhaps been less so with Kirk. He showed up in sweatpants and slippers, tetchily engaged with his opponent, before sauntering away from the exchange while yawning. That his fellow students could have watched this display and still voted for him as union president a month later is baffling. The Oxford Union will survive this controversy, just as it has survived countless others. What will be harder to recover is its reputation as a training ground for bright young minds, rather than a platform for mean-spirited provocateurs.”
MOLOTOV–RIBBENTROP PACT BINDS INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL SOCIALISTS TO RADIO SILENCE:
There’s a Democrat running for Maine senator who literally had a Nazi tattoo – yet Colbert isn’t touching that story for whatever reason… https://t.co/oMEgH8BrDV
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) October 23, 2025
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COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards.
AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHUCK SCHUMER:
🚨1996: Chuck Schumer explains “the number one reason" illegals come to the US is so they can defraud programs like Social Security — and wants to stop it.
Chuck sounding very DOGE!
“This is an anti-fraud amendment. All over where we go, people say, why can't you stop illegal… pic.twitter.com/k9fBSb0RD9
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 3, 2025
BUT I HAD MY CORN POPPED AND EVERYTHING: Trump calling off plans for federal deployment to SF, mayor says.