Rob Fardon

To quote a friend, “The stupidity itself is demoralizing.”

One week

everyone should start loading up a lot of sleep to get thru the night on November 3

Former Federal Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch New Organization to Ensure Criminal Accountability for Public Officials in the United States ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

In Brazil, it appears that voters who opted for eliminated first-round candidates roughly broke even in the runoff (even if the candidates leaned right). But the big difference was: Millions of voters who cast 'null' or 'blank' ballots in the first round then voted for Lula.

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

South Carolina's former governors Jim Hodges, a Democrat, and David Beasley, a Republican, shoot a joint 60-second ad endorsing Annie Andrews for Senate. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ5...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Trying not to absorb too much hope radiation from Brazil, and man, it’s difficult

Straight from the playbook

Kate Starbird is a *highly* recommended follow

We saw reports of "machines switching votes" in TN & TX. These are typically real issues — a calibration problem w/ older touchscreen machines — but not intentional efforts to rig the vote. Always good for voters to check that their vote is being recorded correctly. www.cip.uw.edu/2026/10/22/e...

Another good thread by Values. It's about more than the war in Iran and gas prices

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

“Abdul El-Sayed’s middle name is Mohammed… Why doesn’t he share his real name?” “What’s Mike Rogers’ middle name?” “🤷🏼‍♀️”

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Great piece on wooing rural voters in TX on data centers, among other things. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/23/t...

In a week of huge news pieces outlining Trump's ties to Russia Russia Russia, this one's a doozy

It is this simple

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Trump called one reporter a “dummy,” another “a stupid person” and a third “a sick person.”

Any other geeks out there suffer from FONKS? That's ‟Fear Of Not Knowing Something.” It's my brand of FOMO

Read some classic spooky stories for October book club and belatedly realized that the film Ex Machina is straight gothic horror, except better lit.

Here's the thing about tipping blue, even if it's one perfect storm election. This would mean that a cohort of Repubs dislike Paxton enough to vote D for the first time. As someone who voted straight R until '16, I can tell you that breaking the taboo is a watershed for the rest of your voting life.

seeing Elon go on a multi-day crashout about Talarico has really highlighted how psychologically devastating it would be to Republicans if they lost Texas. So much of their self-identity is tied to repping Texas as the anti-California and would be shattered if the state even tipped blue.

Another NIH scientist going public in support of those opposing RFK Jr.

Thread about the damage being done by RFK Jr. at NIH

"This is the story again and again as Trump tours the redder parts of the country: The venues are smaller, the crowds are less excited, and the man at the podium is weirder" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Heads up

Trump has a new scheme to bribe farmers in swing states with welfare checks of taxpayer money because fuel has gone up so much because of his war. But only money for them, not for anyone else in the country. No, we have to keep paying higher prices AND we pay Trump’s voters.

This is a reminder of the ways in which you can influence betting markets with fake scams, at a time where big news outlets like CBS News are incorporating these markets into their coverage and graphics.

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

"Realism" is an empty doctrine - and "realists" are just mimicking Moscow talking points, says @EdwardGLuce giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Huh

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Dammit. Three quarters of websites run on PHP. The vulnerabilities allow remote code execution. Hope like hell every poor sysadmin in the world fixes this today

Serious heads up everyone