Jagyth LOVE IS AN ACTION! It demands you to ACT with love!

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

27 October 1918 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Tonny Segal, was born in Kristiania (today Oslo). She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War. Meanwhile, Trump himself owns up to $81 million in oil and gas stocks — which have increased in value by 43% since the end of 2025. When Trump says "we're making a freaking fortune," understand who he is really talking about.

The percentage of working-age adults without health insurance has increased in the past two years, largely because many people can no longer afford Obamacare coverage after Congress allowed federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/26/r...

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.

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Sorrow will have its seasons and its reasons, but let us leave a window open for joy. Some days, simply carrying on asks more of us than anyone can see. Keep going gently. The effort matters because the life you are tending is your own.

🚨BREAKING: Democratic candidate Mary Peltola and her party asked a federal court in Alaska to throw out DOJ's unprecedented lawsuit that seeks to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican incumbent loses. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The #SaveMassEffect movement has picked up even more steam after videos from both Commander Shepard actors – and even posts from the Destiny community – helped its petition reach 200,000 signatures. https://bit.ly/4z9oN98

Schools Wrestle With Exploding Health Costs: ‘Medical Inflation Is Crushing Us’ by Mark Lieberman www.edweek.org/leadership/s...

26 October 1908 | Norwegian Jew, Jacob Scharff, was born in Oslo. A violinist. In #Auschwiz from 1 December 1942. No. 79213 He perished in the camp the same month. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

It's our turn coming up America. Let's vote against this grifting corrupt family that has turned our Government into a illegal money making scam to enrich themselves. I don't care if you voted for him before. Witness his corruption and vote for yourself. No more Trumpism. He broke every promise.

26 October 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Emanuel de Bruin, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Ohio again spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers during latest fiscal year ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/19/o...

this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

The first three paragraphs. And it just gets more jaw-dropping. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Blanche lies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Multiple polls show Trump’s approval at record lows, but I think what’s happening runs deeper than this. Something very dramatic is occurring. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/exposed

The price health insurance companies charge for employer-sponsored plans increased again this year, as did the deductible people must pay before those plans begin covering most healthcare costs, nonpartisan health organization KFF said in a new survey ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/22/r...

Poverty is a policy decision. Concentrated wealth is a policy decision. Inequality is a policy decision. Remember this.

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Utah voters, a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking to obtain the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling puts the department at 0-27 in its sweeping legal effort for access to states' voter data.

Now prosecute him‼️ Resignation is not accountability. #JusticeForKohenWiley

wait SpaceX is canceling the Falcon 9? what the fuck?? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

23 October 1943 | A transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection 149 men & 47 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 839 people were murdered in gas chambers. Mario, Mara Cesira & Sandro Sonnino among them.

NEW: Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice is looking into launching more California-style lawsuits to block “a number of states” from counting ballots for the midterm election. Under the Constitution, states — not the president — run elections, including counting ballots.

Europe is building its own capability to reach, land and operate on the Moon. Bringing together expertise from across Europe, Argonaut will deliver cargo and technology to the lunar surface, starting with its first mission from 2030.

There are several disturbing aspects to this story.

Minnesota law enforcement officials say the federal government is again refusing to share evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during Operation Metro Surge.

A solution to America’s aluminum crunch is hiding in our landfills [via @canarymedia.com]

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

You can always count on your Republican congressman … to try to take credit for something they voted against.

Must -Read LA Times Story on DOJ’s Despicable Conduct in Its Los Angeles Voter Fraud Arrests electionlawblog.org/2026/must-re...

Navigating changes to Medicaid and SNAP shouldn't mean navigating a maze to get help. Today, we're launching HART, a new outreach team helping New Yorkers keep their health coverage, food benefits and get support on everything from housing assistance to eviction prevention.

20 October 1895 | A Polish Jew. Paweł Angres. was born in Pawłowice. In #Auschwitz from 7 November 1941. No. 22524 He perished in the camp on 14 November 1941. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

20 October 1905 | Dutch Jew, Hijman Sanders, was born at The Hague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in 1942. He perished in the camp on 30 September 1942. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Trump pardoned a foreign billionaire indicted for bribery. Months earlier, the billionaire’s daughter donated $1.5M to Trump’s super PAC and pledged $2.5M to his ballroom project. Could Trump’s pay-to-pardon scheme get any more corrupt? https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=icf49apE-up1x1xV

whoa... the current map of "No Kings: Vote Early" events planned for tomorrow, sat oct 17: www.nokings.org

Meanwhile on Threads, someone is warming up a bot brigade attack on my book. So far it’s low-follower fake accounts repeating the same AI-generated scripts, expressing mild disappointment in my (highly-reviewed NYT-bestselling) book. Pretty low budget attack (mildly disappointed bots) so far. 🍿

There's a secret reason your electric bill is going up — and not enough people are talking about it. Here's what you should know about investor-owned utility companies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98f...

No Amount Of Training Could Have Prepared Cat For First Experience Seeing Mouse In Real Life http://theonion.com/no-amount-of-training-could-have-prepared-cat-for-first-1845689325/

moments after saying leakers should be shot, Trump points at reporters covering his rally and says "they're almost as bad as a leaker"

Extremely exciting news: In The Know is back.

NO KINGS IS THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17! And this time, it’s about more than showing up and making noise. It’s about or organizing and GETTING OUT THE VOTE! Register voters. Know your voting rights. Make a plan to vote early. Get your neighbors to the polls. #VoteEarlyForNoKings

In the course of a single election cycle, the backlash against data centers has grown from an issue at local planning commission and city council meetings to become a flashpoint in state and federal races across the country. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/13/r...

Trump's corruption and lawlessness are beyond anything this country has ever seen. If we want to end his self-dealing and abuse of power, we must elect candidates in the midterms who support these 10 Commandments for a Better Government.