bjkeefe

One of those moments I'll never forget.

The president of the United States, Leader of the Free World, traveled to Corinth, Mississippi, population 14,622, one week before the midterms to hold a rally in front of a bunch of empty seats and some people who look like they’d leave if some dogs were spotted humping out front. Let that sink in

First two paragraphs of the Executive Summary:

. @bsky.app Just to be sure that you know: there is glitching going on, at least in the desktop/browser version. Details upon request -- assuming you have heard them already. cc @pfrazee.com @alexbenzer.com @joshuajfriedman.com

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Midterms Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/midterms?r...

Happy Monday, everybody! This week, have you considered voting early (if you can) and voting in person (if you can)? It's fun! Try it if you can!

Timeline cleanse!

The world needs a high-quality, truly open language model. I wrote about why it’s necessary and why it’s easier to build than you might think.

Headline of the Day bsky.app/profile/bill...

It's easy to dunk on Bezos, and he deserves all of it, but it's worth pointing out that the @washingtonpost.com reporters who have managed to keep their jobs continue to do solid work. Here is a gift link: wapo.st/3W3WdYo Change is coming. Get fired up!

Trump’s 1300-word Truth Social post about Bill Maher is the kind of thing that gives a bad name to multiple-disc super-extended director’s-cut reissues of movies everybody’s already seen five times.

"Consumer and wholesale price readings for September were firmer than expected, leaving the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge on track to show no further progress toward its 2% goal—a stall that dates to early 2025." All together now, MAGAts: #BidensFault

Great essay by @paulwaldman.bsky.social

"There continues to be substantial increases in AI adoption, but it is overwhelmingly for low-cost AI." Also: using claims of "political opposition" to avoid building new data centers that they don't want to build for financial reasons. Also: Ellison in big trouble: Oracle at junk bond level.

Every day, I get to serve with the real-life Wonder Women transforming our political landscape—in Congress, in New Mexico, and in our communities!

One person does not want you to see this movie. But everyone else does.

It’s not just about who’s with you on stage. It’s about who’s with you backstage. Grateful for her love and partnership yesterday and every day…

As a measure of how sad the MAGAts are about Brazil, and how little they have to talk about here in the US, they're reaching for their old familiar binkie on Twitter. Yup, Fauci is trending, once again.

Don Jr must be the saddest person in the US right now. gift link: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Now that I am no longer middle-aged, I can laugh.

<Susan Collins voice>I think, this time, Bill Maher will learn his lesson. After at least a week of seeing Maher mentioned everywhere as tongue-bathing Trump, this is something that just got posted. (Click through for whole thing, in text.) h/t @bartenderhemry.bsky.social

Read this post if you're worried about securing the midterms from the Trump administration. I'm not saying it will end all your fears, but it will help to contextualize what's real and what's not.

Marissa: Dazzle, please tell me what makes my daughter Mauritania so special and precious to me Dazzle: According to available public records and her name is Marielle. Marissa: Whatever….

Favor request For those who understand Canada's politics, please put Lorne Doerkson's victory as premier of British Columbia in context for someone from the US. Is this like winning a governorship of a large state? A Senate seat that maybe tips the balance? More significant than those? Thanks.

Just a nice pic. Something about those flowers. From the Hints page for today's NYT Spelling Bee, "Courtesy of David F. Gasser". Google AI says that are flowers from a Rainbow Eucalyptus tree, which seems correct, from a look at that page on Wkp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyp...

That's a great pun!

So good. I was going to say, I disabled the link preview because you should see it full-size. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/xxl

Timeline cleanse!

Who started off this morning's blog thus? (hint: WBK) "There’s a remark by the early-twentieth-century Marxist thinker and Italian Communist Party leader Antonio Gramsci, who was imprisoned by Mussolini’s fascist government in 1926 until his death in 1937, that’s been much quoted in recent years:"

"I didn't leave Obama. He left me." One of the Pod Save America bros: x.com/jonfavs/stat... He said this above a quote-tweet of Scott Jennings, but I ain't screenshotting that. You can click the link if you want to see what the wannabe next Trump Press Secretary has to say.