Seldon Crisis Log

Illegal alien admits to sabotaging U.S. ally fighting former Soviet communists. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Grassley and Johnson want to keep spreading Russian propaganda so they charge the informed public servants that warned them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Americans were upset about inflation, so they threw out the leaders who oversaw slowing inflation, opted for a candidate promising to raise prices faster, and got what they voted for.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Man, Hegseth's Department of War is even more buffoonish than everything else. Kinda amazed how the US military didn't just have some basic war plans they could activate. Their lack of preparedness is astonishing. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

we need you to rename rent to $500/ month and gas to $2/ gallon

Curious timing with the rest of the world readying to end their Starlink dependence or even ban it outright in response to Musk/Trump using it to knife Ukraine in the back.

If there’s anyone who deserves to say “told you so” it’s HRC.

Holy shit. Every single Democrat: This is the message. This right here. This is the whole ass pitch the voters in the weeks before the election.

Good questions, and more importantly *unanswered questions,* because it sure looks as if republicans support Putin.

I hope people are learning some things with what Musk and Zuckerberg are doing here. They’re enabling and helping facists. Get off Twitter and Facebook and Instagram.

Can't get numb to this: it’s still absolutely shocking, if totally unsurprising, that Trump is actively helping Russia and harming Ukraine.

This what-a-weak-loser scoffing seems like a smart, effective response to JD Vance’s attempts at insults. At least if you can pull it off with a smooth confidence like El-Sayed does here.

Looks like Trump’s setting up a pretext to seize control of the USPS’s ballot handling.

Here we go again with this bullshit… Just weeks before midterms, Trump is laying the groundwork to delegitimize our results. Trump & his allies have targeted CA for years, with investigations repeatedly failing to uncover noncitizen voting. It won’t work, California is ready! #TrumpsAbuseOfPower

Here’s to hoping Ukraine’s steel birds destroy the remainder of Russia’s data centers that run their bot farms.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing.

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

Musk is desperately spinning the dials on his X control panel to keep the Talarico smear viral.

The Saudis are learning what every contractor who's ever worked for Trump knows: He does not honor his deals or pay his bills.

Iran war advocates got exactly what they wanted. It just didn't work out how they imagined. For years, the argument for the US attacking Iran was that the regime was brittle, on the verge of collapse, and bombing would put them over the edge. That assumption was core to the case against JCPOA too.

Evil.

I think tearing down Trump's monstrosities, and scraping all that gold crap off the walls, would be healthy symbolism about recovering the country. In addition, fire all his appointees. He's the guy who wanted Schedule F - the next Dem POTUS should use it, then cancel Schedule F. But use it first.

Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.

You cannot spoil a dog enough: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

My recent piece with @juliacurlee.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cia-di...

The cuts of meat aren’t fresh sirloins, rib-eyes, or filets. They’re lean beef trimmings that will be added to fattier American cuts to make ground beef. They’re small chunks of frozen meat that could have been kept in cold storage overseas for years. Enjoy! www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

MSNOW aired the part of the Talarico interview that Fox isn’t showing: REPORTER: …you said ‘there are 6 biological sexes.’ Do you still believe that? TALARICO: I think the reason that politicians… across the street want to talk about 6 sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel.

The Republican Party makes false promises and creates fake culture war distractions because they don’t want you to pay attention to things like this.

Why would we not want Europes help? Are we… protecting someone? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

This is what Americans chose to be, a national led by a thug.

Someone else said it for him. Love him. Miss him.

If Biden had made that tweet he’d have been impeached, convicted, and forcibly removed within 24hrs. On Fox News heads would have exploded. Hunter would have been arrested and still in prison. But this tweet won’t even affect Trump’s approval number.

Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.

“The problem is not truly that the media environment is full of conflict, lies, and racist conspiracy theories. The problem is that our epistemic and financial elite spend all day exposing themselves to an environment that cooks brains until they are well-done Bircher burgers.”

Probably just another empty nuclear threat but the timing with Ratcliff’s Moscow trip is a bit disturbing. If Putin nukes Ukraine then jealousy would motivate Trump to do likewise in Iran. As a malignant narcissist he’s always lusted for thrill of wreaking nuclear death and destruction.

Retired Navy Commander Bobby Jones on the part of Doris Miller’s story too many Americans were never taught: His heroism at Pearl Harbor should have earned him the Medal of Honor. Why didn’t it? “I’ll give you one guess. He was a Black man.” Now they want to take his name off an aircraft carrier

Court docs vs Tate lies

I’m keeping an eye on how hard NYT, WaPo, WSJ and AP are avoiding writing about Jon Ossoff’s compelling, fact-based, hugely popular critique of Trump’s corruption, ineptitude, and venality. So far: Very hard. (Next, they’ll Mamdani him.)