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[eating a Trump steak] she put her name on some paper

According to VPAP, twice as many Virginians have voted early at this point in the midterms than 2022. TWICE as many. www.vpap.org/elections/ea...

"'Claude has never been in that specific area, has never been on that route, and has never been in the outdoors—do your own research and gain your own knowledge of the area and supplement it with training and navigation.'"

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

This is what he said. He says “small price to pay” twice. The first time is clearly about gas prices, which suggests that the second one as well. Obviously he is not speaking coherently but I believe that is what he meant.👇👇

This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"

Humpback Swimming in the Milky Way with Red Caribou Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.

'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'

At 5:30am on 6 October exactly, state and right-wing paramilitary forces began their assault on the compound This personal testimony from Thongchai Winichakul, who was a protest leader and would later go on to become the doyen of Thai Studies in the US, explains it better than I ever could

Holy shit.

🇺🇦👀 62% of Ukrainians are ready to endure the war as long as necessary, — KIIS ‼️ Also, 79% of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine will win the war.

Page One in Philly:

NYT: ‘No Help’: Aid Arrived Too Late as Ebola Spread in a Congolese Town By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Photographs by Arlette Bashizi Graphics by Adina Renner Excellent reporting, photos, graphics. nyti.ms/4hHhvCe

Doing my part to relieve your separation anxiety on this Quebec election night. brigittepellerin.substack.com/p/si-la-tend...

If Bolsonaro wins, the Brazilian people lose, and Trump wins. He gets the continent he’s been shaping in the background.

Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.

A dagger fly trapped in Baltic amber. We hope to raise money for a museum microscope so kids can examine insect specimens like this one!

""Last week, Mamdani was offering an antidote to globe-spanning distemper. To restore faith in institutions, you must begin from the bottom up, starting with things as simple as potholes. Politics, as he put it, “has to translate to the pavement.”"" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/o...

"Musk’s worldview...is an explicitly antihuman one. [But it]... may come to be seen as the presiding pathology in our time of monsters." @markoconnell.bsky.social in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on new book by @quinnslobodian.com @bentarnoff.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

Beano #1265, October 15, 1966

Unlike most trolls, Wendall has been gifted with a remarkably beautiful singing voice (Terry Dykstra, for AD&D adventure “Song of the Fens” by J Bradley Schell, Dungeon 40, TSR, March/April 1993) oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8291935...

"The average household in the top 0.1% holds over 3,000 times as much wealth as a bottom-half household does." www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

I think of Schlichter as the would be L Ron Hubbard of white nationalism. But a shittier writer.

6/ “Palantir told Bloomberg it ‘is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies’ and that no evidence exists that its software was at fault.” www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

They cited nobody, and I wondered what kind of a monstrous sociopath would welcome this. Folks,

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

OK, Washington Post, enlighten me. What is the bright side of being a Nazi?

In 1991, a former KKK “grand wizard” repeated the “great replacement theory” while debating Christopher Hitchens. He was concerned about a “third world invasion” that’s “robbing & stripping” the “Euro-American” of “everything he’s got.” This is the Republican Party’s position today. Same position.

amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"

Having just finished this, I would recommend it as a very interesting look at an underappreciated part of Canadian history from a variety of perspectives. Like any collection of shorter papers it sometimes leaves me wishing things were covered in more depth, but it’s an excellent starting point.

The Belleville synagogue shooter was an antisemitic COVID conspiracist discharged from the army for refusing vaccines. It's wild that commentary on this shooting IMMEDIATELY went to anti-immigrant, Islamophobic bigotry. But THIS is the extremism that sent me an antisemitic death threat in 2022.

New YouGov. The Reform decline continues. Third place soon. Lab 23 (n/c), Reform 21 (-2), Con 21 (+1), Green 14 (+3), Lib Dem 12 (-1)

I hope Bhattacharya is having a change of heart. If true, his next step might include taking personal responsibility & publicly apologizing for the harm he enabled at NIH & to the people his disinformation hurt during COVID. Then, he would need to take dedicated action toward repairing the harm.

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Hungary's prime minister is planning legislation to roll back Orban's restrictions on LGBT rights, including restrictions on adoption by same-sex couples. www.reuters.com/world/hungar...

I predicted a month ago that Trump was going to say exactly this. I said he was going to try and blame Ukraine for diesel prices and tell Zelenskyy to stop. And here it is. bsky.app/profile/atru...