Steve Leatherman

Pumpkins get from the fields to our homes for #Halloween Jack-o'-lanterns thanks to the labor of farm workers like these Moorpark CA farm workers who load each pumpkin by hand into the large cardboard box before shipping to cities ahead of Halloween. #WeFeedYou

Trump is going to slap a tariff on foreign cheesecake and claim he's protecting cheesecake factory jobs in the US.

It's good to remind people of how bad the air and water was before the advent of environmental laws.

This man needs to be deported!

This grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but the one friend who never abandoned him—and whom he never forgot—was his little cat. Original post

Always remember that it might not be as bad if it wasn't for this idiot. #USDemocracy

The rights we gained are being slowly eroded every single day under the gop "leadership".

The White House Council of Economic Advisers claims mass deportation pays for itself because illegal immigrants impose such huge fiscal costs. What are these costs? It doesn't say, so I figured out what CEA did to invent them... www.cato.org/blog/white-h...

Bingo

The sad reality is that most of the Republicans who end up voting against Vivek will do so because he’s Indian and Hindu, not because he’s a serial liar who weaponized child sexual abuse to try and win an election.

The fact that Amy Acton was removed from her mother’s care and went on to obtain an MD and flourish in public health makes her even more of a hero in my eyes. This type of trauma never really goes away. Yet when there was a fork in the road, she chose the one where she helps others. Hero.

Absolutely. 👇

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There is no reason why schools, theaters, places of worship and all our other common places should be obligated to invest in security and miiltary-level hardening just so that some emotionally fragile dude can cosplay as GI Joe.

So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?

Happy genocide in the name of Christianity day! (Tomorrow.)

Photographic postcard of James J. Jeffries staggering away from Jack Johnson https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.36.1.3

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It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.

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deport musk

The French are fighting harder for an education than Americans are against outright tyranny. We have become a nation of subservient men.

Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved handle in the shape of a horse! 🐴 ❤️ New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

I’d love a president who didn’t openly call people slurs on a regular basis 🫠

As a longtime Chicago journalist I want to say that if you fail to put Hastert's serial CHILD SEX ABUSE in the headlines about his death, you are doing it wrong. So far, this is the only headline I've seen that has been crystal clear about what the Illinois pol did to kids. Credit @reuters.com.

Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

Someone pointed out that any time a Republican accuses Dems of sexual deviancy, you know what they’re going to get caught doing themselves, which makes me think people should keep Tuberville away from any college football mascots. And just to be safe, Gritty.

Joe Walsh Is Right......

Mood.. 😅

Legislation proposed to dismantle DHS, divert funding

ICE = a jobs program for thugs.

Minai Beaker with Seated Princes https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.977

One of the biggest mistakes of Unionism was to shift health care costs to employers. Now employers control workers with that leverage.

“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.

You think this regime can't get any more cartoonishly evil, but then it finds a way. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...

The Guardian is doing a terrific job covering both politics and culture.

If your business requires me to create an account, verify my email, accept seventeen cookies, download an app, and solve a captcha just to buy one thing, I no longer want the thing.

Get this - a guy at my college reunion has no social media presence. None. No BSKY, insta, twitter, not even LinkedIn. He's completely off the grid. I asked him how people would know what he's up to and he said they could call him and talk. As if.

Promoting a Fox and Friends weekend host to lead the Pentagon was not a good idea.

Erroneous charge to my bank account from "X Money", Twitter. Haven't been there in years. Beware of scams going around.