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“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

October 23, 2026

This was oddly cathartic. AI economics for dummies, by @andrewsingleton.bsky.social at @mcsweeneys.net: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Vital anthropological research substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

Liz Oyer has something to tell us. Listen up. #USDemocracy

We went from sanctioning Russian oil to buying it in three weeks. Instead of ending his disastrous war in Iran, Trump is now funding Russia's war in Ukraine. We used to hold dictators and autocrats accountable. Now our president negotiated a deal to fund Putin's unjust war.

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

This is clearly not acceptable

October 7, 2026

Indeed: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

From Laurie Lipton drawings: The POTUS is making around 2billion dollars a year. That's $41.13 million dollars a day. I repeat: $41 million dollars a day. And we are struggling to afford food, gas, housing & medical care.

The Yule Cat cards have been so popular, I've had to reorder from the printer and it's not even mid October! Yay and also thank you! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/yule...

chrishedges.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.

OHIO! These 3 races are ⭐️TOSS-UPS & FLIP OPPORTUNITIES. Please follow & support👇🏼 SHERROD BROWN, Senate @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social www.sherrodbrown.com BRIAN POINDEXTER, OH-07 @poindexterforcongress.com poindexterforcongress.com AMY ACTON, Gov @amyactonoh.bsky.social actonforgovernor.com 1/4

Now let’s resume talking about Epstein.

**NEW WILLERBY STORY** The Fields. Part 2. Jess is back. willerby.substack.com/p/the-fields-2

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Every news story must address this. And in 6 weeks, “we can be the adults in the room. We can perform an intervention. We can state loudly & clearly there’s a psychiatric emergency and we need responsible leaders who will use their power to lessen the danger.” www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

THIS 👇 HERE.......

A little bear carved from amber some 6,000+ years ago! 🐻❤️ A hole through the torso suggests it was worn or suspended from a cord. National Museum in Szczecin, Poland 📷 by me #Archaeology

If voters return Republicans to the majority in the midterms they will get exactly what they have right now - Congress doing nothing month after month, out of session refusing to do their jobs while Trump rules like an autocrat with no checks or balances. An Imperial Presidency.

Try this at your job tomorrow. Show up to your shift at the restaurant on a packed Friday night, tell the manager your section “has done its work,” and

Home heating oil is unaffordable. How are families supposed to survive the winter? • New Jersey: ~$5.70 • Massachusetts: ~$5.74 • New York: ~$5.75 • Pennsylvania/Maine: ~$5.76 • Connecticut/New Hampshire/ Maryland: ~$5.80 • Vermont: ~$5.88

Londoners say NO to Ray-Ban pervert glasses

Started fermented sauerkraut today with cabbage and a couple of small shredded beets from the garden. It will turn surprisingly pink when it ferments!

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

I did the math on my gas and grocery receipts last week and wanted to scream. Amy Acton has done that math too, standing in the same lines as the rest of Ohio. She's running to cut middle class taxes and gut the rigging keeping billionaires comfy. I’m in! #BlueWaveIn60Days #Pinks

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... 2/

Heather Cox Richardson provides context on our current mess. Please read about the ballroom and how they are trying to take our votes away. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

Figured it might be time to repost this.

pentagon hasn’t been able to pass an audit in at least 9 years. Which means the organization is rife with fraud, graft, malfeasance and incompetence. Yet, Congress keeps give them Billions. Guess why? The donor class fills the pockets of MOC. Until we take Money out of politics nothing will change.

Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/

#cucumbers #gardening This has been a late harvest because of early intense heat, but finally we have green beans and cucumbers. For some reason, lots of them. This is this morning's harvest.

@thesteadystate.org includes "former" analysts from throughout the IC - CIA, DIA, DoS, FBI. We took those skills and applied "analytic tradecraft" and looked at America. What we found was terrifying -- but don't take our word for it -- read it: steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerati... #holdfast

#Gardening This is the year of raccoons. We have a (very cute) family of them who visit the vegetable garden every night. Early on, they kept slugs in check. Now it's basically a nightly raid. Defensive measures needed. The fence has vulnerabilities we have to patch. But they're tenacious

Today, I'm introducing the first-ever Data Center Bill of Rights. Communities deserve the right to reject data centers, protect their water, keep electricity bills down, and prevent states from shoving data centers down their throats.