Gary Longsine 📱

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The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

More historic heat in SOUTHERN AFRICA Min 29.9 Kariba HOTTEST NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN ZIMBABWE In BOTSWANA Monthly record at Lephepe: Max. 39.7C Tomorrow extreme heat again in Mozambique and Malawi.

The spore-making parts of the fungi weigh more than two kilograms and are much larger than those found in any other sac fungi. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/d-rex-fungus-mushroom-dinosaurs-china

Important, but not unexpected, finding that experts working with AI agents are swayed by the positions of the AI, even if they think they aren't. If your independent judgement matters on a task, you need to be deliberate about when in the process to bring in AI. www.anthropic.com/research/age...

Trump arranges the exfiltration of Flávio Bolsonaro from Brazil to the US after Brazil's Supreme Court orders him not to leave the country in order to stand trial on money laundering charges. He just lost the presidential elections in Brazil in which he was heavily supported by Team Trump.

Yesterday (Oct. 26) marked the 150th consecutive day that the Niño 3.4 sea surface temperature set a new record daily high, at 30.22°C (preliminary). This was more than 1.13°C above the previous record daily high set in 2015, as well as a record 3.49°C above the 1991-2020 baseline.

he did the mash

punkin dunkin

Let's tap into some PUMPKIN POSITIVITY. Also known as: the SQUISHING of the SQUASH. First up, baby Asian elephant (Elephas maximus): Tula (Tula-Tu) & her older brother Samudra playing with a pumpkin at the Oregon Zoo. (📷: Oregon Zoo, @oregonzoo.bsky.social)

You may think that the best evidence the Proof Series revealed Trump's 1990s rapes at the Plaza Hotel a year before Congress—which disclosed it in yesterday's historic report—is my 800-page book PROOF OF DEVILRY (2025). But better evidence is the fact that I released a song about it.... last year.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

This brought to you by your friends in the fossil fuel industry.

this man is a gotdamned patriot

Bank of America just sent out an AI Dumbass Disclaimer to its clients

It would only take about a dozen Republicans with a spine to put an end to the crimes of this traitorous conman. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

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By employing some sophisticated digital tactics, burglars have managed to easily make off with more than $100 million in data center freight during the second half of 2026: arstechnica.visitlink.me/9CGMaA

I hope that you'll consider talking to some of your younger friends, and I mean people between the ages of 18 and 35, who could out-vote the Boomers, but don't reliably show up, about the importance of voting in this midterm election. Help them register. Help them get to the polls.

#OnOneLeg is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; a bird balancing on one leg. A black-crowned night heron. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Obama’s Cheesecake Factory decor joke is going to continue to get far more play in the media, days after it happened, than RFK Jr being openly racist. Draw your own conclusions about the press based on that.

Thread of the Day 🥇

Dog Paw Prints on 4,000-Year-Old Brick Are Adorably Relatable gizmodo.com/dog-paw-prin...

“It used to be really hard to find security vulnerabilities and really hard to fix vulnerabilities, so the scale was balanced. Now it’s really cheap to find vulnerabilities but still really expensive to fix vulnerabilities, so the scales are all messed up.” opensourcesecurity.io/2026/10-emba...

Apparently we need to get our Trump rape coverage from People: people.com/former-miss-...

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

Just spitballing here, but: maybe there would be press coverage of credible rape allegations against the president if we started a rumor that the rape happened at a Cheesecake Factory?

Here’s a very short video I made about our trip to the Basque Country, with a little cameo from Agonized Jesus:

Democratic AG candidates have the momentum to flip seats across the country this November. 🗳️

Today on the pod —big day for the Comey family —Jeanine Pirro will indict Hunter Biden's laptop —DOJ smacked down by 9th Circuit over voter purge —DOJ sues to block certification of Alaska senate race, but only if Peltola wins with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

As I've been saying, our enemies are cowards, and we're going to defeat them 😇

“New weaponry has made this terrorist campaign especially brutal, in particular the mass production of ballistic missiles and a new drone, the Geran 5, equipped with a powerful Chinese rocket engine that Ukrainian air defenses cannot intercept.” www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/putin...

New sensitive breach: German political party AfD suffered a breach last month that resulted in hundreds of thousands of emails and attachments being published, exposing 345k unique email addresses. 47% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/AfD

Putin is destroying Russia, first and foremost.

It’s not a victory for the West (yet) www.kyivpost.com/opinion/88200

SwiftUI’s new onHingeChange() modifier in iOS 27.1 reports the hinge angle as iPhone Duo folds and unfolds, which is great for interactions and visual effects that respond to the folding motion itself. In my new post, I show how we can use it to drive an animation: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Driving...

matthews apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1931

Reagan cut the top tax rate from 70% to 28%. RAND estimates $80 trillion shifted from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. After 42 years, millions still wait for it to trickle down, like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Pathetic #politicalart #editorialcartoon #news #thegreatpumpkin #economics