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Europe is warming at double the global rate. To become truly climate resilient, we need to adjust and learn along the way.

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country." ~Fmr. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918. Roosevelt was born OTD in 1858. Image: NPS/Sagamore Hill collection.

Here's the original photo. Almost everyone there looks unhappy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

If only there were a Nobel Prize for heckling

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

The prediction market has hired a former FBI official to make sure political insiders don't use the platform for profit from confidential election information. n.pr/47N8Yci

Trump’s DOJ has charged James Comey AGAIN, this time under the Espionage Act over a 2016 New York Times story. In DOJ’s own words, Comey had staff talk to a reporter to “correct misinformation” in a Reuters article.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Pete Hegseth is looking for a career change. The disgraced Secretary of Defense is reportedly pushing Sen. Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to her Tennessee Senate seat if she wins the governor’s race. www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

Reading thru an ex-Google exec's deposition unsealed last night, these excerpts stopped me cold. Brings questions of IAB's independence, especially given its silence on Google's antitrust violations. And little hope it'll speak up about Meta's sweeping new commercial terms. 1/2

A little boy dressed up as James Talarico 💙

Seen in FL. I recently heard a lady say that a movement isn't a movement until it moves without you. Thanks to all of you supporting Leaving MAGA, our movement is the strongest it's ever been.

More on the refouling of Ukrainians through Poland. Since this published in March, I have recorded three additional ICE flights to southern Poland (five total, not including the one expected shortly). www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

If you haven’t yet had a chance to see or read Barack Obama’s speech in Cleveland Saturday night, please do both. And then share it as widely as you can. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/wise-and-important-words

Thomas Phillips, longtime Republican chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, announces he's backing Democrat James Talarico for Senate. "Paxton’s longstanding reputation will embarrass Texas in ways our state simply cannot afford." www.beaumontenterprise.com/opinions/art...

The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.

October 25, 2026

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

President Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday, portraying him as a threat to national security and questioning his loyalty to the United States. n.pr/3UgeaCc

A federal judge struck down a Trump administration ban on issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, but immigrants continue to be stuck in their countries. Attorneys say the federal government is slow-walking the processing of visas on purpose. n.pr/4i89mYP

President Trump is planning to open up some of the nation's last pristine forests to road building and timber companies. But those who work in the woods say it won't do enough to revive the industry. n.pr/4yAumMJ

The next 10 days will test our democracy. Trump hasn’t been able to suppress votes systemically like he wanted to & now there's a lot going on, especially in courts. Get caught up on what you need to know now, like recent developments in California and Alaska. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

The Acton campaign immediately went to work to monetize Vivek’s blunder through texting and email solicitations. Great to see that it paid off.

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

PM Benjamin Netanyahu posted an AI image of an atomic bomb exploding over Tel Aviv, warning that Israelis could face a “second Holocaust” if he loses Tuesday’s election.

wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

One of my favourite things about designing knitwear? Chatting with other designers and learning how designing works for them.  Here's a lovely chat I had with Thea Colman in 2024: https://youtube.com/live/jOWR1fHJPyQ Who would you love to see Stolen Stitches collaborate with? 👀

Seems fairly obvious this is a must do when you read the sentence aloud, “Lawmakers in the U.S. from both parties have called for a formal probe into Musk and SpaceX over alleged unilateral changes the company made to its services in Ukraine.”

President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

dad's telling us to grow up

10/24 Maine Congressional candidate Paul LePage did submit his financial disclosure five months late. It shows all his money is in banks in Florida, not Maine. #maine #MEpolitics

A Russian subsidiary of Germany’s Metro AG transferred 1 billion rubles to the Russian military without the company’s approval. Metro AG says it did not authorize the donations. On Sept. 28, Putin placed the subsidiary under Kremlin control.

Mississippi State Senator Joel Carter held a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, the country club where Trump enjoyed partying with Jeffrey Epstein

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Mar-a-Lago fashionistas

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits China, South Korean news agency reports

Like caring for a profane toddler.

Like Senator @reverendwarnock.bsky.social said, it's time to leave it all on the field.

Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7, and for as many as 5 million seniors, it will be important to log on and pick a new plan. n.pr/4sp3qya

"Right now, we’re living in Trump’s world, in Vance’s world, in Hegseth’s world. .. This is what a world without empathy looks like. It’s a world of constant othering, of constant rage .. But nothing flourishes in that world." This is very well articulated A fascinating read:

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

⚡ Zelenskyy: “We don’t cry, and we don’t scream, but this is very important. I am just trying to say that every missile matters.” united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Vote, vote, vote.

This is the kind of deal the Democrats need to investigate immediately if they take Congress. An oil deal in Alaska which actually might be a gift to the Russians with Trump involvement. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...