Jonathan Earle

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.

In Louisiana, the unofficial state slogan is Thank God for Mississippi

Cornel West sucks

it feels truly insane that it’s not

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

lol reminder that betting markets are extremely accurate measures of conventional wisdom

Two more elections to go

President Trump on high gas prices: “I don’t give a damn...we’re making a freakin’ fortune.”

Tech bros have always been sexual harassers and abusers • Zuck invented “The Facebook” to rank and compare his female classmates at Harvard • Jawed Karim’s idea for YouTube stemmed from his difficulty finding online video of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction” • Elon Musk…is…Elon Musk…

“You were not made free merely to be allowed to vote, but in order to enjoy an equality of opportunity in the race of life, and to stand equal before the law.” ~Presidential candidate James A. Garfield to a group of Black veterans of the Civil War (photo) OTD in 1880. Image: National Park Service.

Trump: "I will be a dictator on day one!" MAGA: "Why can't you take a joke?" Obama: "The White House looks like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheese Cake Factory." MAGA: "Arrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!"

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

This is taxpayer-funded research data and info that belongs to the public and is not this administration’s to erase.

Just a periodic, friendly reminder that we could actually avoid all this by not caring who’s attracted to, who’s having sex with who, who’s marrying who, let alone believing any of it should matter in public policy. We could just all mind our own business and all have rights. ✨

Prediction: This will anger people more than defending her daughter’s rapist does.

Also, can we please bring back discussing how weird these dudes are?

I didn't think my opinion of this guy could be any worse, but then I read this article.

🧊✈️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 😲 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) with over 150 chained captives aboard arrives to Dakar, Senegal early Friday morning for a refueling stop. It is expected to make visits to several African nations. 👉 Meanwhile, a Journey Aviation G5 (N588AT) flies south over Angola towards Eswatini 👀

AKA JD Dumbass!

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An explainer on Court packing/expansion/unpacking: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/clearin...

Storm brewing on Glastonbury Tor with a little bit of rainbow magic at sunrise today.

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

WSJ reports that Elon Musk took a break from pouring in hundreds of millions of dollars to help Ken Paxton's campaign to order a the slowdown of Starlink that tripped up Ukraine. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Are Somali-Americans not welcome to buy luxury vehicles? Also, what?

Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill, study finds PBS News https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/marine-life-dramatically-declined-in-gulf-of-mexico-in-years-after-bp-oil-spill-study-finds Support →

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

Wheat Field with Cornflowers - 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/15593

It's really not that hard 👇

Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

OTD in 1973, the "Saturday Night Massacre" took place during the Watergate scandal. President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox; Richardson refused & resigned. Nixon then ordered Deputy Att'y Gen. William Ruckelshaus to 1/2

Why is major US corporate media unwilling to press Republicans who run on Elon Musk's money about Musk's unabashed racism, his fascist ideology, and his embrace of Nazi eugenics like the Lebensborn program? Jamelle Bouie goes there.

Happy 4th anniversary to the night in Svalbard when my phone took this unedited photo of a giant lunar halo over the glaciers of Svalbard to which the only response was to fall into hysterical laughter, serially taken up by each shipmate, how else to respond to such outlandish, annihilating beauty

“International students, full-time faculty and part-time faculty in particular—we were all feeling very vulnerable,” said Hank Kalet, a journalism lecturer and vice president of the adjunct faculty union. “So these protections became a central focus for a lot of our members.” #academicfreedom

Abdul El-Sayed is not, in fact, "from that part of the world." He was born in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He's an American, no matter how much it makes the bigots cry

“Germany, frankly, has been fine on Poland.” — Churchill “Iraq, frankly, has been fine on Kuwait.” — Bush 41 bsky.app/profile/theb...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

New book available in early 2027 by Lee Mordechai on "The Worst Year to Be Alive:" 536 CE, Environmental Catastrophe, and Presentism global.oup.com/academic/pro.... It analyzes the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice, but more importantly puts it into its contemporary intellectual history.

Reyes, before she wraps up golf course hearing, says her family has been texting her, "freaking out" over CNN report about death threats bc of this case. "A federal judge is getting death threats over a golf course. I really don’t think that’s what the founders envisioned."

📣 SHEAR (The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) is inviting proposals for its annual conference next year, to be held in Richmond, Virginia, on July 15-18, 2027. Deadline to submit is 1 December 2026 See more details below ⬇️ shear.org/annual-meeti...

Dear all the college kids, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, All your professors