EvOutWest, prepping for Thunderdome

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval skeletons. A thread… 🧵 💀

We wanted to understand how working-class Americans in the midwest will vote next Tuesday. So we talked to three Free Press staffers at a Cheesecake Factory in Glendale.

Dog Paw Prints on 4,000-Year-Old Brick Are Adorably Relatable gizmodo.com/dog-paw-prin...

Oh, geez. deadline.com/2026/10/judi...

Perhaps the UAE's candidate for UN Secretary-General Lana Nusseibeh "could begin by explaining why her own government has been repeatedly implicated in helping fuel the genocidal catastrophe in Sudan." My latest piece for Zeteo on a potentially awful decision coming from the UN Security Council:

One of the many products we have available to us today where your initial instinct that "this is fake and a scam and I refuse to take it seriously" is the correct thought.

Aw, hell. Loved the roles she took. #RIP

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

SWEET.

So...when I find women in STEM on bluesky, I hit that follow button so hard...

All of this. Back in 2015, I started telling people that if donald won, it would be very difficult if impossible to get him out of office. Of course, I was the "hysterical" one. Then 1/6 happened and I sure didn't hear anything from all those people. So now he's trying to fuck us again.

It's tempting to see Trump's Alaskan adventure as more electoral skullduggery. But it's a dangerous escalation of his attacks on democracy. He's not trying to suppress votes, he's trying to steal votes that have already been cast. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

holy SHIT

Trump wants to ban Norwegians from the U.S., all because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. trib.al/m49pt4A

Shocking, but not surprising.

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

fuck these assholes.

Fucksake. Now Skydance. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Aw, geez. #RIP Ensign Checkov.

I'm old enough to remember when this was passed and I thought at the time, "this is a very bad idea." www.readtpa.com/p/the-patrio...

Wow.

Ab-so-fucking-lute-ly. 👇👇👇

Y'all. Definitely won't be trusting @springernature.com in the future if human expert peer reviewers won't be tasked with actually reading and assessing a manuscript's content. Instead, they'll just be letting AI paraphrase and summarize for them! Wheeee! jfc

I am the book reviews editor at the Journal of International Business Studies, and I'm just putting my hand up to say that we never use AI in our peer review process.

Isn't that the point of voting? Also, what weird noises did he make in this ramble?

I'm going to point out that Jesse Singal has a very public track record of being intensely, specifically cruel to individuals, specifically the trans people who criticize him, whom he has hounded to their workplaces, harassed online, and (at times) successfully gotten fired from their jobs

The race to replace Ken Paxton as attorney general of Texas is a contest that has way bigger stakes than you might assume from the outside www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

fuck #google sideways with all those trees they cut down. These greedy sociopathic motherfuckers.

Our First Amendment is under attack and librarians are leading the charge in protecting our communities' Freedom to Read. Join them in the fight by ensuring you vote all the way down your ballot this election season and by sharing THE LIBRARIANS. Protect the Freedom to Read with your vote!

the corruption never ends. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

I usually check out as many games as possible in Next Fest, but the tidal wave of AI trash has beaten me Non-AI indie devs please post your games below and I'll check em out instead Also @steampowered.com PLEASE add an option to filter out AI games in searches. It's killing discoverability #gaming

lordie, this dude is a fucking douche. Just another corporate shill eating from the same trough that repubs do. abcnews4.com/news/nation-...

These motherfuckers are using the TX approach. Here's the ad you run in UT in response: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt_I...

next time you have impostor syndrome just remember someone pays this guy to make words fall outta his mouth hole

jfc the UK govt is out of control re: trans people. www.wearequeeraf.com/it-may-lead-...

What did he get in return for this pardon? This dude is beyond sleazy.

asshole CO governor #JaredPolis pardoned this heinous woman and now she's been colluding with the WH to fuck shit up in the elections. americanoversight.org/newsletter/t...

"But we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else" "What they *don't* want is a population full of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people" George Carlin was a visionary www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQe...

Fuck, YES!!!!!!!

BREAKING: Amazon has scrapped a plan to build data centers in Northern Virginia after widespread opposition to the project from residents, per WaPo

As data centers expand across Alaska, some of the richest technology companies in the world are exploiting loopholes and special deals that drain revenue from the state and local services communities depend on and drive up costs. RSVP for our October 29th event in Fairbanks here:

Britt McHenry is no longer in her role as a press advisor for Trump’s Department of State following a viral video that showed her throwing a drink at a Wizards game, FOS reports She had just joined the admin last month