Joe Vilas

There are multiple unconfirmed reports that Bolsonaro fils has fled Brazil and may be in Argentina on his way to the US. The facts remain unknown but it figures that Trump's America would be a refuge for election losers facing money laundering charges. colombiaone.com/2026/10/27/f...

Trump and Republicans are restarting their voter fraud misinformation machine ahead of the midterms. When I checked, Republican candidates were implicated in voter fraud at up to 38,000x the public’s rate. If they were actually worried about voter fraud, they’d start with their own candidates.

Nearly 2 weeks into early voting, Rs are finally turning out at a rate higher than 2022 as of EV Day 13 ncearly.peark.es

Keep me posted if you see anything relevant - especially related to tech policy and strategy work around civilian drones, aid, investigating war crimes, and remote sensing. (I’m more of a policy/research wonk than anything else, but I can wear many hats and have a lot of technical experience).

So far, remarkably high turnout by young Black voters in Georgia. Eye-popping chart.

When Donald Trump launched his campaign, he was caught hiring paid actors to pad the audience. (I also happened to be the one that busted him doing so). www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Today I spotted the elusive RV corgi breed @darthbluesky.bsky.social. Ruby is 9 months old, and she naps in the front seat, hoping nobody wishes for her to take the wheel. Every stop is a rest stop.

Fukin' ham-faced mofo

Sweater Weather by gingerrickey 1.5 oz apple cider 1.5 oz bourbon .5 oz fresh lemon juice .5 oz orgeat .5 oz Palo Cortado Sherry Orange twist, for garnish Grated cinnamon, for garnish From @robertsimonson.bsky.social Bourbon and Rye Cocktails – The History of American Whiskey in 73 Recipes

they sure are good at makin up new kinds of shapes down there

Hey Mohammed bin Salman! Still got the bone saws lying around? I have an idea for you.

Here's another one MBS bsky.app/profile/theb...

The AirBnB people whining about the incredibly postmature rules changes are hilarious. Hey, here's an idea, if you don't want to pay someone to clean up after guests don't run a fucking lodging business!

Dollar General has fired back and we have updated the article: "We have engaged cooperatively with the Commission, producing more than 200,000 documents and over 350 gigabytes of data and making several Company representatives available to provide sworn testimony on relatively short notice."

Protester to Trump: “Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!”

Bracket the bigotry for a second. We currently have U.S. troops deployed in Arab states engaged in an offensive war against Iran that has repeatedly triggered retaliation against those countries (with further escalation imminent in both directions). Has RFK ever said thank you?

This news may be “old” in some ways, and it’s a huge deal to air an allegation of a violent rape by the man now president—who is litigious and on the warpath toward any accountability media. But it’s still big news, esp if a prior NYT source who said she wasn’t talking due to threats IS now talking

The Times included an account from Béatrice Keul in their big Dec 2025 piece on Trump’s often nonconsensual relations with women in association with Epstein. At the time, she told them directly she wasn’t revealing the whole story of what he did due to threats www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

dude, you got yourself kicked out of two boarding schools, your Harvard application is rumored to have consisted of two words - "Harvard" and "Kennedy" -, your peers there say you were a dealer in college, your roommate reportedly wrote your senior thesis for you, and you failed the NY bar twice

We need to put an end to lame duck sessions.

Do I know any Slovak historians (esp. late 18th/early 29thC) who might be willing to look at a short (4500 word) chapter? It follows some German racial ideas as they're adapted and repurposed in early 19thC Hungary as part of a pro-Slav/anti-Magyar polemic.

When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

Someone want to tell Bobby where algebra comes from?

Something else I want to mention here: The two MH-60R on this ship have scheduled inspections which require shore basing to complete. The det and squadron are probably burning through message traffic managing all of the one-time exceptions to various requirements.

Did this person have her face sandblasted? If so, I'm glad she was able to get her eyes, nose, & mouth put back on so well

Hide your Republican beliefs girl you're comms director for the MO Senate Republican caucus

have they ever fucked up in the opposite direction, quoting some guy they say is a rando but is actually a dem operative? why is it always republicans?

Add “between my legs” to a movie title The Witches of Eastwick Between My Legs

A slowly-dying Far Right party.

Trump is hanging onto the lectern in Mississippi like it’s a young girl’s ass.

Île Saint-Louis / La Cité - 1909 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105222

The conservative Cato Institute looked at the Trump Admin's claims that illegal immigrants are costing taxpayer money by using services. They concluded that immigrants have CONTRIBUTED (not cost) $1.7 trillion. www.cato.org/blog/white-h...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission and 20 states sued Dollar General for chronically charging customers more than the shelf prices for food and other necessities. This was the subject of our December 2025 investigation in @theguardian.com, and the lawsuit quoted directly from our article.

Trump is so low, he'll trick priests into doing a promotion/prayer for him.

that food you can’t afford? you don’t need it anyway, fatty. and the gas you can’t afford? walk that fat ass to work! wait why aren’t you voting for us

Remains possibly the worst spokesperson for anything, at any time

Finally, I’m also (equally god help me) beginning to consider getting back into journalism jobs. I have a lot of highly technical OSINT and data journalism skills and investigative reporting experience, and some people with questionable taste seem to think I’m funny, hit me up….?

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

a bark as old as the sun dial, the alphabet, and the spoked wheel

Microsoft PM meeting where they fight over rebranding their product Copilot.