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Now this is a good idea. James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, wrote a whole tract on witch-hunting: Daemonology. It’s chillingly rational: rather than being full of overheated fantasies like some such works, it’s coolly consistent. 1/7 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

This is why it was a good line, because yes there are Americans who think of The Cheesecake Factory as a special occasion restaurant but Trump is not one of them. So thank you very much Donald for taking the bait.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

If you happen to be at Denver's airport anytime soon, there are two signed copies of Kaiju Preservation Society at the C Gates Tattered Cover Bookstore

*knocks on door* Me: Hi, do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, Dom DeLuise?

Brilliant

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

A Bakshi Halloween painting from the archives

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Streets of São Paulo partying tonite for Lula’s victory

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic, saying it trained its AI models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without permission, accusing it of copyright infringement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/a...

watching these election results like

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

Not even 5% of votes have been counted. Let’s calm down…it will be a long night especially after so much voter suppression in Salvador, São Paulo and other Lula-supporting areas.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Tension so think in São Paulo right now that you could cut it with a knife

Thread - if Bolsonaro wins, very legitimate reason to ask if the widespread voter suppression happening now played a role. bsky.app/profile/rafi...

BREAKING: Lula calls for arrests of Mayors, who shut off bus service on election day in key Brazilian strongholds. Voting has been extended two hours till 7 PM paydayreport.com/breaking-lul...

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

Been to Astoria several times and my wife has a "Sloth ❤️ Chunk" bumper sticker on her motorcycle helmet. I say "Mikey, where's the rich stuff?" when donations are made to the archives in which I work. And yeah. We are not doing this.

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

What happens to these criminals will determine whether, at some point in the near future, some not-huge number of years down the line, this country is a liberal democracy or else has a consolidated authoritarian regime and/or collapses into civil conflict. That's not hyperbole, it's what's at stake.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

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.

My first 5 TTRPGs, In the order I played them: 1. Dungeons and Dragons (TSR 1981) basic set 2. Champions (1984 edition) 3. MERP (Ice 1984) 4. Runequest (1983) 5. Car Wars (1983)

This is one of the great images ever. Look at them eyes. Look at that toy.

Give this a listen. It’s becoming par for the course. And Democratic candidates - especially female candidates - now get it from both sides of the political spectrum.

I was robbed while reporting on the Brazilian Election. Im trying to hire a veteran Brazilian reporter full time to help out on security and film in last few days. Pass the hat & help out if you can!

hey this sucks, help out if you can

Poland’s Foreign Ministry Sikorski not only reminds Elon Musk that the USA haven’t been paying a cent to Ukraine in almost two years and in fact even benefited from the arms sales, but also schooled him that he is only damaging his brands when meddling in foreign countries.

As those who follow me know, I'm *constantly* reminding folks that when you donate to a campaign via my Blue26.org pages, 96% goes *directly* to the campaigns, 4% goes to the cc processing fees, and nothing goes anywhere else...not even me, unless a donor chooses to throw a tip my way afterwards.

The moral rot is top-to-bottom in the GOP. But let’s focus on the more specific issue here: Trump and his party like rape. Whether it’s child abuse or campus sexual assault, they think rape is ok. Maybe they even think it’s funny.

Telling a woman to shut up when she’s asking about the attack ad you’ve backed calling a pedophilia victim a loser is like a turducken pf misogyny

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

There's a scenario in which the Supreme Court gets this case in December and three justices involved in Bush v. Gore on behalf of Bush will be asked whether confusion is grounds to reject election results.

"A growing body of analysts now warns that AI data center debt increasingly resembles the subprime mortgages that triggered the 2008 financial crisis. .. Bloomberg estimates more than $500 billion in outstanding AI data center debt, with roughly $200 billion.." www.techradar.com/pro/subprime...

In his defense of Ramaswamy’s vile ad, Trump called Amy Acton a “defective” candidate. As a former rape crisis counselor who has worked with countless survivors of childhood sexual assault, I want to speak a bit about how profoundly damaging that is. 🧵

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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. ✨