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“We got a thousand points of light For the homeless man We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand”

"Trump is offering pardons to any comer w/cash — incl. in what one watchdog group defines as three specific types: “reward pardons,” “corrupt pardons” aka political loyalty pardons, & “brokered pardons.” The going-rate for these pardons appears to run from $300,000 up to an astounding $50 million."

Hard to beat this headline & lead graph just below the fold in the Concord Monitor today.

Sheer perfection

Really well done.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Heads up, NH!! No time to get complacent! www.cnn.com/2026/10/18/p...

Saw an ad on my phone from Turning Point Action offering free rides to the polls in #NH New Hampshire. Maybe liberals should book slots/take ride to see if drivers try to influence your vote. Or see if they refuse to even take your reservation at all because you're not registered Republican/MAGA.

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

We need to talk about rampant white nationalism a lot more.

This took me out ☠️ 😭

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

This is the way.

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Seems like the Trump White House agrees with everyone who says the Trump White House had committed countless crimes

🔥 OBAMA: “Trump should be on HGTV. He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory…. He’s clearly not focused on lowering prices for you.”

This guy has the scared bravado of an absolute booger eater who’s gotten in with the school bully. He’s been told to brazen it out, and is only half convinced that it’ll work, as the current strategy depends on selling child rape as a character flaw for the child.

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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JFC! Justice Dept. Moves to Block Certification of Alaska Senate Race Results if Republican Loses The Justice Department argued in a highly unusual court filing that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

👀 ‼️ "...the revelations over Google’s misconduct have prompted public concern over what these deals mean for nearby communities, energy prices for Finnish households and Finland’s natural environment, a national source of pride."

Ummm…RAGBRAI? The best-known & longest mass bicycling event in the world. That and innumerable other cycling events/activities make Iowa a bicycling powerhouse that delivers a woke $1.4B annually to Iowa’s economy (motorcycling = $773M)

This is an overt threat. Full stop.

According to Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Robert F. Kennedy described George McGovern to him as "the most decent man in the Senate." Kennedy added, "in hyperbolic afterthought," said Schlesinger, "the *only* decent man in the Senate." (See Schlesinger's "Robert F. Kennedy and His Times," page 681).

Two thoughts: This false, despicable ad is proof that Vivek Ramaswamy knows he is about to lose to Amy Acton. No mother who loves her daughter would do this. Her complicity reveals her.

I've seen a lot of disgusting political commercials, and I am almost numb to the lies and gross misrepresentations at this point, but the Vivek Ramaswamy commercial with Amy Acton's mother is the worst thing I've ever seen.

Jesus weeps

"Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics." George McGovern, who died OTD in 2012 rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-...

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Apparently someone used the term shylock last night in a blatantly anti-Semitic way at a political rally but the ADL doesn’t want to say who it was. For some reason.

"Musk, a private citizen, has acquired the power, and the permission, to significantly affect the outcome of the war for Ukraine, incl. possibly causing military and civilian casualties. No civilian should ever hold that much power." by @thedanrather.bsky.social steady.substack.com/p/the-rekind...

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.” Arthur Rimbaud, born on this day in 1854

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

just one hoof

This may be the most outrageous, disgusting, offensive thing Trump has ever said. If not, it is tied for the honor. Russia has been fine on Ukraine. It makes me want to puke.

Cranberry harvest on today's walk

Just your normal fall weekend in Middlebury. "The Middlebury Police Department and #Vermont Fish and Game are asking that the public to give the bears lots of space." BEARS SPOTTED: Police ask public to avoid downtown Middlebury via @wcax.bsky.social www.wcax.com/2026/10/18/b...

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Vote for peace. Vote for democracy. Vote early. Vote them out. #nokings #peace #nowar #vote #voteblue #savedemocracy #handmaids #humansofbluesky

Come January, Democrats should target Space Caligula’s government contracts and his security clearances for aiding the enemy. Hit him where it hurts most.