Regorama!

it is odd in retrospect how easy it was for the “but trump ended his friendship with epstein” narrative to be accepted as fact

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

The Department of Justice invented a new way to lose in court today.

Just to make this concrete: if I picked a grain of sand somewhere on the earth’s surface, and you went to a random location on the planet with a pair of tweezers and by sheer luck picked up that very grain of sand first try, that would be MORE statistically likely than Trump not being a rapist.

Just a little back of the envelope math: Most research finds the rate of SA reports determined to be false after investigation to be 4-6 percent. Many can’t be conclusively proven or disproven, so let’s even imagine it might be as high as 12%. Applying that rate to Trump…

But culturally, they need a world in which sexual assault claims are presumptively false. Because if you acknowledge that the great majority are true, it becomes pretty much impossible to maintain that the dozens of accusations against Trump are all fabrications.

As many have noted, the Acton ad was a massive political own-goal from which even many Republicans recoiled in disgust. You can’t really explain Trump & Vance doubling down as any kind of rational electoral strategy.

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

…the odds of 25 independent sexual assault allegations all being false is about 1 in 105 sextillion.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

One of the most important financial stories out there if you want to know how and why the same five evil guys wind up owning everything.

In Rowling's telling, the movement for trans equality isn't about trans people wanting to live comfortably and authentically post-transition, whether that means using men's spaces, gender-neutral spaces, or women's spaces. Instead it's about interlopers seeking to penetrate women's spaces only.

In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize. Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

New Epstein report from the House Judiciary Committee and a reminder that Blanche and Trump are still withholding a TON of information that is almost certainly damning on them, and definitely not exculpatory. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

But whatever you do, try not to start your day on social media. Get the news first and form your own opinions. Then talk about it with like-minded souls and share in a way that breaks algorithms, not feeds them, if you’re going to bother with X or Meta this week.

replying "stop" on regular texts to see if that works on them too

Telling everyone you can that you got called a loser is peak loser behavior- you love to see it

the primary benefit of AI is to weaponize Nerd Reichers' butt hurt It tracks

Immediately thought about this classic twitter thread x.com/MaxKriegerVG...

nobody is walking in there thinking "wow this place is so elegant and the decor makes so much sense". they're thinking damn it looks crazy in here but that's not going to keep me from my skinnylicious margarita

A podcast just told me to “click here to subscribe”. Click where‽ The dishes I’m washing??

Mary Chapin Carpenter walked [away] so that Paris Palmer could run [away].

I have a few: 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(1)(E). www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/... Very sorry to hear this Lovely guy and a great actor When you worked with him and looked into his eyes, there was joy dancing like a flame RIP

I used to think, if we could get everyone to see the *patterns* in reactionary lies & manipulations, the way they're always the same, we'd be better at guarding against them. But I've lost that faith. On some level people *want* to shut their frontal cortexes down & wallow in monkey-brain shit.

Remember, everyone:

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska