Fete Piedler

Halloween Candy is up 15% from last year. A 100 piece bag of candy is 71% more expensive than it was 5 years ago and most chocolate companies have been moving towards lab grown ingredients. The product is getting worse AND more expensive. Happy Halloween, everyone.

Dad is in the hospital. He seems pretty sick.

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NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

This brutal Obama-Trump supercut side by side from @meidastouch.com helps explain why Trump is losing it tonight 👇🏽

This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

“Ramaswamy’s ad embraces a woman who enabled sexual abuse—and uses the language of ‘parental estrangement’ to mobilize MAGA voters who can’t understand why their children won’t take their calls. But they know the reason. They just don’t want to accept it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Trump's waiver of energy sanctions on Russia has an even darker, more corrupt, side that initially thought. Trump is planning to allow a Russian energy giant to control a big chunk of energy exports from Alaska. Trump and his cronies profit; America loses. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

For 8 years and more, Trump has routinely incited violence against his critics during campaign rallies. This is well documented. And NYT has studiously failed to report any of it. Until today, apparently.

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

This doesn't seem very American.

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.

Trump arriving in Fort Myers today.

The cover-up continues. First they lied about what we could see with our own eyes & called Alex Pretti & Renee Good ‘domestic terrorists.’ Now they’re back to hiding evidence from MN state investigators. MN investigators must be given access to ALL evidence. This impunity must end.

In 2027 he will be back blaming Biden….

Who knew the 2026 midterms would come down to which side supports child rape? Strange times, indeed.

🚨 NEW: The mother featured in Vivek Ramaswamy’s $4 MILLION attack ad against Amy Acton was found “not credible” by a court in an animal neglect case involving newborn kittens left in a 120°F car. Two kittens died. The disturbing details Ramaswamy’s ad leaves out:

It begins.

Vivek Ramaswamy weaponized child rape to further his political ambition. I suppose you can get lower, but the gutter doesn't really go too much deeper.

Trump: "If you elected a Republican House and Senate on November 3, you're gonna get $5,000. And if we lose, you get nothing. You're gonna get nothing! If we lose, you get nothing. Make it a lot easier vote."

On April 23, Donald Trump announced the Lincoln Reflecting Pool would be completely renovated in one to two weeks. Six months later, he’s still going back to this debacle on TruthOptional. He desperately needs new material.

Vivek Ramaswamy seems like a real dirtbag.

Two thoughts: This false, despicable ad is proof that Vivek Ramaswamy knows he is about to lose to Amy Acton. No mother who loves her daughter would do this. Her complicity reveals her.

🖕EX-MAGA REP UNLOADS: “People are sick and tired of the bullshit” Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Trump White House of “pretending” to deport Ilhan Omar to distract from their numerous lies and failures

A vote for a Republican on November 3 is a vote against your local public school…

Translation: they will do absolutely nothing about an American journalist getting brutally attacked. They don’t care. They probably enjoyed it. @marcorubio is a bad joke.

Tell ‘em boss!!! #LoveThisMan www.commondreams.org/news/this-is...

WELKER: What do you say to voters who say they're struggling & want change? BESSENT: Well, why don't we revisit the Biden-era policies W: Trump has been in office for 636 days, & inflation was at 3% when he took office, it's 3.7% now. At what point does the administration take responsibility?

Welker: "Is the president siding with Russia?" Bessent: "No, that's a false binary." Welker: "Is Ukraine an ally of the U.S.?" Bessent: *doesn't answer* Welker: "Does the U.S. see Ukraine as an ally?" Bessent: "I am not the Secretary of State. I am not the president."

GOP is the MSM these days.

Baiting bears with doughnuts and bacon grease, then shooting them at close range. That’s what the Trump administration is bringing back to Alaska’s national preserves.

Putin commanded it. Trump/Musk obeyed without hesitation.

The map posted by Trump this morning versus the blurred image on his desk in Katie Zacharia's post. (The White House responded to questions about whether the blurred image was a map of East Potomac by spewing invective.)

No country should trust the U.S. as an ally as long as treacherous, greedy authoritarians are in charge of the U.S. government. The U.S. should be treated as a pariah by all democratic nations.

Am I the only person who thinks it's a sign of a weakness of intellect and sound judgement in financial institutions that investors would put money INTO Tesla on the announcement of the "Rocket Roadster".

Watching Vance light his 2028 prospects on fire in real time is something

It is a mystery to me why some people dubbed Marco Rubio as the one sane, thoughtful and reasonable person in the Trump admin despite not a shred of demonstrable objective evidence to support that position since the day he has been in office.

No Kings Seattle. No Kings America.

I’m alarmed that more people aren’t alarmed by Trump targeting Somali Americans and labeling them “garbage” and “crooks” who “contribute nothing.” Most of them are U.S. citizens, yet Trump says, “I don’t want them in our country.” If you know history, you know the horror this can lead to.

Taylor: He has turned the presidency into a side hustle. He has turned the White House into a deposit box for bribes, and he has turned your government into, forgive my words, a fucking ATM machine. So no, we don't want his name on the buildings.

New in PN: Who wants to visit an authoritarian America? "Data shows the US on its way to being as unpopular a tourist destination as Russia, & for roughly the same reasons. In both countries, a tourist who runs afoul of the govt might spend months in a freezing warehouse without no legal counsel."

It’s so weird living in a country where the top levels of government are criminals, rapists and mentally impaired