Matt

Walking away from Omelas, are you? On our nice walkable infrastructure, mind you. Anywhere else you'd have to drive away from, but not Omelas. There's also an accessible shuttle every 15 minutes, but nooooooo, don't let me slow you down, you've got an Omelas to walk away from, Mr. Ethical.

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

I meeeeeeaaaan

I mean

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.

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

1% of a crowd (if that's what we're calling 300 people in a "big arena) having answered a political poll is WAY more than you'd expect. If Johnson were telling the truth (LOL, I know) then it would mean the polls are massively skewed towards dead-ender Republicans.

I have a friend who is a social worker doing the same work as this social worker. She has also told me stories of women like Amy Acton's mother.

Trump: "Those are the best jobs too. Manufacturing jobs. The best jobs. They're real jobs."

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

Imagine thinking “My billion dollar idea is ruining the concept of dogs.”

a message from the future

OVERHEARD STUDENT: she's just doing it for the 'gram ME [nodding sagely]: they're talking about Marie Curie traveling to the United States in 1921 to receive a gram of radium from President Harding

It's not the point but I am enthralled by the Likely Voter Who Will Not Vote. Who is this mysterious creature?

he's got us there

Alberta's separation referendum has failed, in what can only be a massive relief for fans of Selena Sturmay's squad of perennial Scotties contenders. 🥌🇨🇦

D-R turnout gap swing is everywhere, including key Black Belt counties, the huge vote blocks in Wake and Mecklenburg, and almost all of Western NC. The breadth of these numbers are so strong that I think the NCGA House is in play.

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

I don't think Colom will win in the end, but unlike a lot of Mississippi Democrats in recent elections it won't be because he didn't put in an excellent effort.

Cashing out my index funds and investing in commodities as an inflation hedge.

"By the end of this baseball season, Ms. Strub had attended games with about 30 strangers and found that the people she connected with needed her as much as she needed them." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

the store had it on reserve for me, I apologize for any inconvenience to Ms. Clarkson

Oh this is magnificent. Yet another example of incompetence trumping malevolence.

The "Ukraine took out Russian trollbots" story isn't what it's cracked up to be. But then Ukraine is trying to win a war and while the average Russian doesn't care about some German neo-Nazi winning a local election, they do care if their debit cards stop working, which is what's actually happening.

I really object to dragging the cocaine trade into this. The cocaine trade supplies its consumers with wanted cocaine! There's no comparison!

I'll do it for free

When Edward Teller was chair of the early AEC Reactor Safeguards Committee, he was considered extremely conservative in his safety demands. His reasoning was that even one catastrophic accident could destroy all public enthusiasm for a technology he believed was important.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

Okay, so in this war that is very serious and very necessary and which is still ongoing even though we have already declared victory fifty times, we are unilaterally disarming for a month and telling our adversary, in public, in writing, that it's because of domestic political weakness. Whew!

Every generation reinvents the Capitol Steps.