Rebecca I. Allen

"#106,491! Pick #106,491, m'lord!"

I look forward to a day when we have no need for gofundme. People can afford whatever healthcare they need. And afford whatever life throws at them.

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW ARE YOU HUNGRY?

Anaheim Library's Indie Author Day includes 25+ tables featuring authors, writers, poets, and comic creators. "Attend workshops and panels facilitated by seasoned indie authors and small press publishing companies such as Lab Press." www.anaheim.net/6272/Indie-A...

🎶"They not like us, they not like us, they not like us🎶

"USPS says it plans to roll out special postmarking procedures at post offices affected by the changes as part of its 'extraordinary measures' policy to boost mail service for federal general elections." Yet still recommends, "voters mail back ballots at least a week before their state's deadline"

Dear registered voters, When was the last time you checked your registration status and verified your current name and address? You can find the links you need to do that at npr.org/vote

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

"A 3 year old soccer standout named Nevada was kicked out of his [i9 Sports] youth league in Winter Park, Florida, and police escorted his family off the field after parents on the opposing team complained that none of their kids could get the ball from him."

The images and footage from across Serbia tonight are genuinely inspirational. A protest movement taking its country back. This is Freedom Square in the city of Novi Sad. 🇷🇸👏 (🎥 192 RS)

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

Denmark to ban mink farming. "A business should not continue just because it has existed for a long time. It should also make sense for society, for the economy and for the animals." www.bbc.com/news/article...

My latest @npr.org story: If you have to use the U.S. Postal Service to return a mail-in ballot, USPS recommends mailing it at least a week before your state's deadline. And if you're mailing close to Election Day, stop by a post office to ask for a postmark to make sure it gets one on the same day

Mike Flanagan will continue as showrunner and executive producer. "I’m incredibly grateful for Stephen’s trust and support in exploring what comes next," he said. Added King, "I can’t wait for audiences to get to see what’s down the road for Carrie White."

Anaheim Library's Indie Author Day includes 25+ tables featuring authors, writers, poets, and comic creators. "Attend workshops and panels facilitated by seasoned indie authors and small press publishing companies such as Lab Press." www.anaheim.net/6272/Indie-A...

For Carrie Frances: 🎂 ❤️

"In Meta’s upcoming terms on Oct. 30, 2026 (as below), if any enterprise has any type of presence on Facebook or Instagram, then Meta and their cronies—and their AI bots—have a right to scrape away that business’s content published outside of Meta and sell or use it in competing business products"

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

“Do you think that Trump is attempting to overthrow democracy?” I asked. “Because I do, and think it’s obvious that he is. And I think that the fact that mainstream media won't say it makes it more likely that it’s going to happen.”

“If [the 250 billionaires in California] paid this tax, they would be worth the same as they were on Labor Day of this year. That’s the speed at which their wealth is growing. The tax would raise about $100bn, 90% of it for healthcare.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The letter states Omar and her lawyers weren’t given a copy of the warrant prior to the search, as had been required by the judge. It says she made numerous efforts to contact counsel at the start of the search, but the agents prevented her from doing so for more than an hour." 🎁🔗

The eternal question.

I just can't stress enough that it's not a coincidence, and it's not even just a personality type. It is an active agenda and an ideological imperative. The physical and sexual abuse of women and children is as much a plank in the right's platform as tax cuts for billionaires. They work hard at it.

Wrote a thing about how it doesn't really matter whether Zuck shut down the No Kings Insta on purpose or if it was an accident. The problem is relying on him in the first place. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/a...

The Ultra-Rich Are Spending One Million Dollars a Day Fighting California’s Proposed Billionaire Tax "Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The Ultra-Rich Are Spending One Million Dollars a Day Fighting California’s Proposed Billionaire Tax "Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

TODAY (Monday, Oct. 19) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: - ALABAMA - PENNSYLVANIA - SOUTH DAKOTA And coming up next: Sat, 10/24 — MASSACHUSETTS - NEW YORK More at npr.org/vote

In case you missed it, read our reporting here:

The increase in frequency of editorials like this and the "Liberal women need to settle for dating Conservative men or face a life of loneliness" is entirely because the tactics are working. Social pressure coming from the enforced loneliness is breaking MAGA and they are desperate to stop the loss.

While a protester wearing a shirt calling for the Epstein files' release was attacked at an Ohio Trump rally, one image showing a punch is fake. ❌ Here's how we know. 👇 www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

"The timing of these actions, just weeks before the midterm elections, is no accident. These tactics seek to silence immigrant communities, suppress civic participation and divide our neighborhoods." CHIRLA, immigration advocates No paywall: archive.ph/YFfdd Paywall:

Vlad's effective leadership training. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...

yep. we're using MapQuest again you never forget your first

The MapQuest Renaissance Continues as the Platform Adds Flock Camera Locations https://gizmodo.com/the-mapquest-renaissance-continues-as-the-platform-adds-flock-camera-locations-2000827015

“Israel’s failure to ensure accountability is emboldening those who attack journalists, while the international community’s continued silence sends a dangerous message that these violations can continue unchecked,” said Sara Qudah, CPJ MENA regional director. cpj.org/2026/10/amer...

These are all photos by Heidi Levine, the @washingtonpost.com photojournalist assaulted by Israeli attackers today in the West Bank. She was covering Palestinian families picking their autumn olive harvest. Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop the violence. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

Israeli settlers attacked American journalist and Washington Post contributor Heidi Levine on Friday, wounding her while she was covering the olive harvest in Abu Fallah, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. cpj.org/2026/10/amer...

away. The only thing to do is take this to the bitter end, so that no one can say that when things became difficult, I ran away.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The Times comes up with stories that document Trump’s deep corruption and cruelty. Yet it flinches at its duty to connect those dots and warn the public that Trump and his Republican co-conspirators are building a dictatorship."

The military wants you to commit to it but it won't commit to you. That's how the idea of voluntary service dies and nations turn to forced conscription when they need cannon fodder.

Two residents were arrested by Santa Ana police officers while they were tracking and observing ICE agents Wednesday raising renewed concerns about the department’s attitude towards cooperating with federal agents.

I think if you vote early there should be some way to make you exempt from campaign ads

"They pick whoever they want" I believe that's called an election?

"AI psychosis, which is not a clinical term, doesn't have a set definition, but it's often referred to as when repeated AI use deepens a user's delusions." No paywall: archive.ph/EXEze