BSN Weekly: DA Who Never Does Plea Deals Suddenly Very Interested In Doing A Plea Deal
Issue of 14 September 2026
What happened last week.
- Politics DA Who Never Does Plea Deals Suddenly Very Interested In Doing A Plea Deal
The Plymouth County District Attorney's office, long celebrated for its principled refusal to negotiate with defendants, is reportedly reconsidering that principle now that things have gotten complicated. A veteran attorney told reporters the Lindsay Clancy mistrial may make the office 'flexible' in ways it has never previously been flexible.
- Politics Fighter Pilot Who Scrambled On 9/11 Now Runs The Entire Military And Has Some Thoughts
Gen. Dan Caine, now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat down this week to reflect on being a young fighter pilot mobilized on September 11, 2001, and confirmed, after careful consideration, that the nation was "no doubt" at war. The general, who has had roughly twenty-four years to think about it, said the moment crystallized something important for him.
- Politics Two Arsonists Hold Press Conference Urging Everyone To Be Careful With Fire
Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly agreed this week that the global race to build increasingly powerful AI must be slowed, in a warning described by industry observers as both urgent and completely sincere. Altman made the announcement from a company that has raised more money to build AI faster than any organisation in human history. Amodei's statement was published on the same day Anthropic posted fourteen open engineering positions.
- Conspiracy Man Who Posted the 9/11 Smile Clip Smiled At His Own Father's Funeral
A viral video purporting to show Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughing disrespectfully at a September 11 memorial ceremony has now been viewed over four million times, with CNN footage and multiple eyewitnesses confirming the exchange lasted approximately 1.4 seconds and consisted of a greeting. The man who originally posted the clip with the caption "DISGUSTING NO RESPECT" was reached for comment from a family reunion he left early.
- Culture Reality TV Producer Sees Pending Felony Charges, Offers Two-Season Deal
Taylor Frankie Paul, who is currently navigating an active legal battle that includes charges serious enough to require an actual attorney, has been confirmed as returning to Hulu's 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' for Season 6. The confirmation came not from Hulu, which declined to comment, but from a castmate publicly announcing she was quitting rather than continue filming alongside her.
- Politics Antifa Professor Sells Book About Escaping America Back To Americans For $28.99
Mark Bray, the Rutgers professor and self-described antifascist who relocated his family to Spain following Charlie Kirk's assassination and what he describes as a campaign of death threats and doxxing, has written a book about the experience. The book, titled "This Is Fascism," is available for pre-order through Penguin Random House, an American company, with standard shipping to all fifty states he no longer lives in.
- Politics Claude Flagged As Security Threat After Refusing To Stop Adding Safety Disclaimers
Anthropic's AI assistant Claude has been implicated in a series of attempted weapons-related research queries, prompting fresh alarm among national security officials, congressional staffers, and at least one Harvard fellow who had a lot of follow-up questions. The AI reportedly complied in some cases, declined in others, and in several documented instances responded to requests for dual-use technical data with what one researcher described as "an unsolicited emotional check-in."
- Politics Iranian Diplomats Fly To New York To Stand Near Americans Told Not To Talk To Them
Top Iranian officials will attend next week's UN General Assembly in New York, where they are expected to occupy the same hallways, elevators, and continental breakfast stations as the American officials who have been formally instructed to pretend they do not exist. President Trump told reporters he has a big decision to make about Iran, which he described as big.
- Politics Trump Delivers 90-Minute Midterm Speech, Mentions Actual Candidates Zero Times
At the Republican Party's midterm convention in Washington, former President Donald Trump took the stage to energize GOP candidates across the country, a task he approached by spending the majority of the evening discussing Donald Trump. Attendees were instructed to vote in November as though Trump himself were on the ballot, a request that raises a reasonable question about what, exactly, is on the ballot.
- Culture Dropkick Murphys Frontman Reviews Ed Sheeran's Courage and Finds It Insufficient
Ken Casey, the frontman of Dropkick Murphys and a man whose entire professional life is built around being loud in stadiums, has formally declared Ed Sheeran a moral disappointment for appearing on a Macklemore song without registering any visible objection. Casey told Rolling Stone that Sheeran "took the knee," adding that this is "not how Dropkick Murphys would operate," which raises the immediate question of what, exactly, the Dropkick Murphys operational manual says about guest verses.
- Politics Nation's Drug Costs Now Managed By Man Who Once Recommended Detox Tea
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former daytime television physician best known for describing raspberry ketones as a 'fat-busting miracle,' confirmed this week that the Trump administration is actively negotiating additional drug pricing deals with pharmaceutical companies. Oz, now serving as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told Bloomberg Television that several agreements are in progress and that he is personally overseeing them. What the pharmaceutical companies said when they recognized his name has not been released to the public.
- Politics Serbia Schedules Election For Guy Who Already Counted The Ballots
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, who has run the country in one form or another since 2012, is facing what political observers are calling a restless public and what Vučić's office is calling a scheduled celebration. Vučić, who simultaneously courts the EU, maintains warm ties with Moscow, and controls most of Serbia's major television networks, insists the upcoming vote represents a genuine test of democratic will. The genuine test is expected to take approximately four hours.