David "S Pumpkins" McBuckeye

Permanent mood.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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.

"i9: The Way Youth Sports Should Be" GFTO with that bull. You banned a kid for being too good? www.i9sports.com/soccer

This is my surprised face.

Today I wrote about Abdul El Sayed's encounter with a Christian fascist named "Tommy," and the fine art of digging up the shameful things fascists bury under their accusations, exposing them for what they are, and then burying their lies in the hole left behind. www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

David Roth on the Ohio gubernatorial race defector.com/vivek-ramasw...

bonjour to all Albertans who voted to stay in Canada 🇨🇦! to all who rejected premier Smith’s shenanigans. 👊🏻

True! But he’s not getting any of that from me. This is the most pissed-off vote I have ever cast in my life.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Yes

Chicago Trib editor takes the NYT to task for softpedaling...everything about Trump. Agree with Jacob on all points here. Why use "untethered to truth" when "lie" is one syllable?

In the single biggest breach of professionalism I’ve ever had, I stoped taking notes and all-but-shouted “MY BOY MERCUTIO LITERALLY GOT KNIFED IN GANG VIOLENCE SO TWO TEENS COULD HAVE SEX WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” my boss ‘bout fell out of her chair laughing none of the three M4L had read R&J

#6 at my early vote site.

How can you name your company after Anduril, the Blade That Was Broken, and forget Gandalf’s lesson to Frodo in Moria? There are some who live who deserve death, and many who are dead that deserve life. But even the very wise cannot see all ends. Do not be so quick to deal out death in judgment.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING FIVE ALARM FIRE. The President is weaponizing DOJ to go after an opposition leader. It's a massive completely unjustified abuse of power by his secret police to shut down dissent and we won't stand for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Materials/Structural Engineer: When a material is subjected to temperature changes, it exhibits expansion and contraction. Expansion joints, "gaps," are left in structures to prevent warpage and failure.

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

Beautiful and painful.

Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

This looks amazing!

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

Neat! I bet this drove the HPLC team crazy.

[Senator Schmitt rooting for the Cardinals, but it's actuallly a papal conclave] [Schmitt rooting for George Brett, but it's actually George Brent] [Schmitt rooting for the Royals, but it's actually Succession] [Schmitt rooting for the Chiefs, but it's actually the Guardians]

Eric Schmitt would still cheer for the St. Louis Browns (1902-1953) if he weren't afraid that cheering for "browns" would get him out of step with Stephen Miller.

To properly interpret "go Hawks!," you need to know where you are. Atlanta: Basketball Chicago: Hockey Seattle: Football Iowa: College sports (any) This also applies to any of those teams on the road, so be careful out there.

Schmitt is a fucking idiot.

A great reminder - but pedantically (because this is bsky, did you expect anything less?), charcoal is a pigment, not a dye.

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight