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Unofficial official 2026 Iditarod thread starts now. All the teams are out of Willow after the official restart. We have 34 real teams and 3 "expedition" mushers who I probably won't be talking a lot about after today, but we'll see. #mushersky #Iditarod54 1/

From 3 days ago, but…

Citing rate is off the charts. 44.9% have voted as of 2pm. In 2022 it was 38.9%. This is the highest mid-day reported voting rate ever. They highest on record until now was 1973 when they began reporting and that was 41.4%. We’re in high 70% (or more) territory at this pace.

Media reports that the voting rate is the highest it’s been since 1981. At 10 am we were at 16.68% compared to 15.9% in 2022. No definitive answer as to who it favors but my hunch is that the liberal camp. Remember that Israel is a single voting district so you can only drill down so much.

Polls opened 25m ago and were headed with the kids to vote. אל תגידו יום יבוא, הביאו את היום!

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Elizabeth Holmes is not the face of motherhood for incarcerated women. Jazmin Valentine wailed in agony for 6 hours in labor while staff and nurses LAUGHED at her. She had to resort to sliding her amniotic sac under her cell door to prove she was in labor.

Tail end of an insightful thread on the upcoming Israeli elections Scroll up to the top from here, then read down:

Flash here! Woke up feeling full of myself and more fit than I really am- took Ham for his first canicross. A+ no notes. The runner on the other hand 🪦☠️ These legs and lungs were not prepared for 6:25 pace.

When your velcro dog believes the purpose of a leash is to keep you from escaping her

I am planning to be at the Talarico rally in Lubbock on Tuesday. TX (like many states) is a mosaic of blue urban counties and red rural ones. Little purple anywhere. Lubbock is a (rare) red urban county. The key to Senate wins is not carrying Trumpy counties. It's moving their margins to 60-40.

Evenings like this are how I fill my heart with joy!!

This has always been the case. Having grown up in an agricultural economy, I have spent most of my life in awe of their ability to take pride in being independent and wanting the government out of their lives while also complaining when their subsidy checks were late or grazing fees increased.

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They are SUNK

If this does indeed happen, then Congress holds a whole lot of special committee investigations and hauls these people in to testify (they can't plead the 5th if there is no threat of prosecution) and send them to jail if they don't testify, or for perjury where appropriate.

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Let me be real clear here: If you're in a public restroom and you spend *any* time at all concerned or even contemplating what's going on between the legs of the person in the stall next to you when you should be peeing, you're the one who's a little bit sick in the head. Find a therapist.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

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Almost anything technology related, medicine and medical treatments (although not necessarily the health care system), access to information (even if the quality is sometimes suspect), cars, and homes to name just a few.

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This is terrifying. A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a mink farm for months. Experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. And officials are refusing to act. What a story from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

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And finally keeping at it, year-in, year-out demands not ironic detachment but sincere, even 'cringe,' commitment - of the kind that feels like vulnerability. It is not enough to be angry all the time, you must also be grieved and sorrowful and even sometimes joyous too.

Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

Kanter wanted to walk out into the crowd surrounded by security, so he could look like a martyr or the cause. And the WNBA and the Dream said. "Or you can sit in this room all by yourself."

So, somebody in the Atlanta Falcons organization thought they should have a special logo for the upcoming game in Germany. I'm guessing this wasn't entirely intentional but wow, is it ... umm ... problematic.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

i am on a plane sitting next to a lady who looks 40ish and has informed me that this is her first time flying she is visibly excited. she asked the flight attendant how much a soda costs and was happy to learn that drinks are free on airplanes. she's taking lots of pictures. i love this for her

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‼️AHEM. Y'all. We're less than two weeks away from the Nov. 3 election. Do you have a voting plan? Does that include voting absentee? Well! In Idaho, you MUST request your absentee ballot by 5 p.m. local time Friday. (THIS FRIDAY. OCT. 23!) Get after it!‼️ #idpol #idleg

Okay I get the pun here (but no one outside of Idaho will), but this is very dramatic. We have not “fallen.” 🙄 People deliver babies here safely every day, including me in 2024. Is it less safe than it used to be? Yes. But we don’t do anyone a service by acting like the state is beyond hope.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

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I got done with my errands in town early so stopped on my way home to take some pictures of the beautiful Beaverhead mountains on the continental divide - Idaho/Montana border. Enjoy! #IdahoEscape

"Idaho is the only state in this election cycle where voters could reverse an #abortion ban." "But Idaho’s campaign has drawn little national attention or funding. Almost all of its backing has come from inside Idaho..." #idpol #idleg 19thnews.org/2026/10/idah...

Even the headlines are similar lol

You guysssss!!! I met baby Boo for the first time ever 7 years ago today! #uglydogs

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Been listening to these knuckleheads in early morning dark for a few weeks - their hoof prints are everywhere. This group, upwards of fifteen at times, is starting to show up when it's light. #elk #wildlife

Not much mystery, the article itself lays out why — not enough of a charging network; too expensive; no trucks. Also the latest spike in gas prices hasn’t lasted long enough to change the cars we buy. Why would I buy a different car based on something we all hope is temporary?

Yes, the cruelty, the grift, the racism, the fascism, the violence committed, and the lawlessness all matter far more than this -- but good lord, sometimes the pure stupidity just overwhelms all of it and, for a minute, I just want somebody who doesn't sound like an idiot to be President.