Lowering the Bar

Yes, he said “Islams.”

And he’s live-tweeting it!

He seems to be blaming Islam, but it’s garbage either way, see previous post and any relevant history book. And of course RFK Jr. criticizing anyone for supposedly not understanding science is just beyond irony.

Garbage. They don’t list Nobel laureates by race or religion, of course, but <5 minutes of looking turned up Omar Yaghi (Chemistry, 2025), Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry, 1999), Naguib Mahfouz (Literature, 1988), and Mohammad Abdus Salam (Physics 1979) plus multiple Peace Prize winners.

Norway.

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.

If someone has more than a billion dollars, anything beyond that should just be confiscated. It threatens democracy because it gives one person far too much power and it’s probably mostly stolen anyway. If they complain, you can just say, “you still have a billion dollars.”

OBAMA: The big trade war he's starting now is with that well-known evil empire: Canada. These are the people who gave us maple syrup and Martin Short.

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

It has been 10 years since Russia’s campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. @juliacurlee.bsky.social explains how this foreign intervention has advanced Moscow’s objectives since 2016. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Or: “At a meeting on Friday, Corleone suggested that guys returning from Sicily could stop over at Barzini’s on their way back, his latest suggestion of taking an interventionist approach to the nearby family.”

“At a rally in Berlin on Friday, Chancellor Hitler suggested that German troops returning from East Prussia could stop over in Poland on their way back, his latest suggestion of taking an interventionist approach to the nearby country.”

Leave the birds alone, please.

Keep pushing. Do not stop. This is the job. It's so good to see someone doing the work.

Today in design patents: D115043 issued for a food product. Pretty sure I ate the prior art when I was a teenager. #DesignPatents

My new podcast launches tomorrow. We're starting with what I think is a banger of a first episode about a mostly overlooked incident that really ought to be a factor in one of the major midterm races.

Elon Musk has also said people will be living on Mars within a few years, something he’s been saying for maybe 20 years now. He’s lying about that too.

On Saturday, US citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was reportedly hit by an unmarked federal vehicle, tased twice by ICE agents and then handcuffed while face down in the gutter screaming that his arm was broken. Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/ice-assaulte...

Yet another reason you should be opting out of Face Recognition at airports. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Any lawyer who “approves” the boat-strike murders should be disbarred as soon as sanity returns (if not sooner).

Of all the things that never happened, this is the thing that never happened the most. #16DaysUntilTheBeginningOfTheEND-IfYouVOTE 🗳️ ✅

Katie Zacharia was in the middle of an interview with WSJ when she was ousted. She was telling The Journal about her plans for the role. Then Jason Miller knocked on her door. 'JD wanted to chat with us real quick.' Zacharia never returned — to the interview, or the job.

They need to find a much better liar.

Do it not, for it shall avail thee nothing.

We've lost track of how very un-ordinary ICE's current reign of terror is. We’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable and shocking to us just a short time ago. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

1. Did he bother to ask Greenland? 2. Will the exploration involve bombs?

With this administration, instead of “unprecedented” use ”bullshit.”

GOP launches investigation into the 1st, 5th, and 6th amendments

Please don’t encourage it

@loweringthebar.bsky.social Yet another water escape www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

He can’t cancel, he has to go get instructions.

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

We are witnessing levels of passive voice cop language unprecedented in modern times

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

You know what’s dangerous and incites hostility, Markwayne? The bullets your thugs shoot into people.

I’m sorry, WHAT? Claude IS NOT REAL AND DOES NOT HAVE FEELINGS. They know this. Seriously, fuck these people and their lies. And fuck you too, Claude.

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. https://cnn.it/4rRrZU0

Another thing not to use generative AI for: “digital regeneration” of a decedent so “he” can testify post-mortem.

“longtime aversion” He doesn’t have beliefs in the way that suggests. There is only what benefits him at any given time. If that changes of course his “position” will change, because he never really had one.

trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”

They were doing the nuclear in the same factory where they were doing the drug. Doing the drug and the nuclear. Or it was a school. Is what they were doing. A drug and nuclear school factory. Whatever. Anyway, I bombed it

“thinking”

I cannot get my head wrapped around how terrible an idea protecting individual headnotes is. If a headnote is not extremely similar - not just substantially, extremely - to the language it relates to, it is literally worse than useless. Protecting them is utterly bonkers.