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For folks who do not want to see my Avalanche Hockey posts (weird, but ok😉) I put every game into its own thread and every post or quote post in that thread has a ::GoAvsGo:: hashtag in it. Just filter that tag and voila! No hockey posts! Your loss though…🤨

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

Since January, ICE has unlawfully held a mentally ill U.S. citizen and attempted to deport him, even though his mother and public records confirm he was born in the United States.

This startup’s “idiotic” plan to illuminate Earth would “end the night sky as we know it”

Amendment 3 would ban abortion again in Missouri as politicians try to trick voters into overturning their 2024 vote enshrining constitutional protections for abortion, prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, and more. A NO vote would stop the ban and protect abortion access.

Blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI scraping, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists and researchers. Learn more 👇 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback

No one should underestimate Collins's ability to defy the odds. And yet, the vibes do feel different this time. A group of Mainers who voted for Joe Biden and Susan Collins in 2020 tells us why. The latest edition of The Focus Group from @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

Just released: a new Nobel Prize lesson to share with your students. It's a deep dive into the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, which turned a giant block of ice in the south pole into a detector for mysterious particles from space. Use the Nobel Prize lesson in the classroom: https://bit.ly/4sB3oDp

Americans’ growing frustration over high prices has defined many political campaigns ahead of November’s midterm elections. Average monthly grocery prices in Colorado are at $1,160, which is $100 more than the national figure. From @stateline.org

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.

This tracks. RFK Jr says he wants to remove Black kids from their families & "reparent them" in rural camps. He rages against immigrants, falsely blaming them for being disease vectors. He says "only sick kids should die of measles" (in fact NO kid should die of measles). Racism & eugenics. Ugh.

Regardless of what this headlines say, you need to go out and vote. The only way to ensure a decisive outcome is to turn out in numbers too large to be disputed by these fascists.

Musk’s comments come after SpaceX imposed a restriction preventing Ukraine from using the satellite technology on drones flying above certain speeds: arstechnica.visitlink.me/LOYa1F

"This is the HULK SMASH Kaiju Tsunami version of the wave in which all of those margin-of-error states are in the process of swinging towards Democrats and the polls are directionally correct, but haven’t caught up to reality." We can dream.

if you are in new york i'm going to be talking about citizenship and the 250th at an event at NYU. register if you're interested!

SCOOP: New records show David Flippo’s firing as a financial adviser was more serious than he let on. The documents show that the Nevada Republican was terminated after being accused of “willful misrepresentations and/or omissions of material fact.”

Abortion access saved Heather's life. She's now rallying Virginia voters to protect reproductive freedom in the state constitution. Question 1 would make sure that every Virginian can make their own personal medical decisions without politicians interfering.

In Nairobi, a city prone to floods, workers in the "Green Army" are making preparations to prevent disaster when El Niño arrives. n.pr/47K4Tpe

I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

Authorities in Utah are holding a news conference Tuesday to pin another decades-old homicide on serial killer Ted Bundy.

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regardless of whether you think the polls are right, the polls are wrong in favor of republicans, the polls are wrong in favor of democrats, or you just want all of us to shut up about polls, I hope we can all agree on one thing show up and vote to put these dipshits in an electoral dumpster

Capital & Main reports on an anti-ICE protester who lost an eye after being shot with a less-lethal round by a federal agent:

Halloween enthusiasts are seeking real scares at a former psychiatric hospital and funeral home.

We have a second new @brennancenter.org analysis out this morning, from @eepetry.bsky.social: How megadonors are shaping the most competitive governor races. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Our findings show the limitations of Hegseth’s alpha male preening. But if there is a silver lining for the ex–weekend talk show cohost, it’s that he fared only *second*-worst among the nine men from politics, sports, and Hollywood we asked about.

From strengthening Congress’s oversight of presidential emergency powers to ending presidential immunity, here are seven solutions to rein in executive overreach. bit.ly/4BoERWk

New records obtained by EFF expose more problems with Medicare’s AI-driven prior authorization program and show why we need stronger legal limits around government use of automated decision-making.

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval skeletons. A thread… 🧵 💀

Tennessee governor candidate Jerri Green just CALLED OUT Marsha Blackburn for avoiding a debate. “This is a job interview and everybody is seeing her for the COWARD that she is.” “Show a little backbone if she has one left and stop running into elevators, stop running from press and the airports.”

Your company is spending so much money on AI that it doesn’t have money to pay you is how AI will steal your jobs.

Republicans are spending millions on the midterms, and they still may not win districts drawn to favor them. And, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term in a stunning political comeback. n.pr/4zXvbk4

Add "Between My Legs" to a movie title. Jaws Between My Legs

Add "Between My Legs" to a movie title. Revenge of the Sith Between My Legs

Ok #AvsFam - I missed the last blowout and this game has not started well for the good guys. Let’s see if the boys can play well enough against Avs East to pull out a win Going with the Makar Bros for #AvsPsychic and the long shot #GoAvsGo

Reports coming in that, in the city of Salvador, a far-right politician - the actual mayor - has reduced the fleets of available buses so that Lula voters can't get to the polling stations.

In the run-up to this year’s midterm elections, one of the defining campaign issues is the elections themselves. Listen to this special episode of Reveal about the ongoing fight over who gets to vote in America.

AG Todd Blanche suggests Corey Lewandowski may not be under investigation after all

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Welker: "El-Sayed has denounced the Muslim Brotherhood." Mike Rogers: "No, he has not." Welker: "He did in an interview with me." Rogers: "I get you guys want to defend this guy, but I think it's unbelievable you would not hold him accountable for his beliefs."

BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

Public Health Success Is Fragile - The Return Of Measles Is Proof www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

A new study shows that more than 80 percent of voters want prediction markets to be more tightly regulated or even banned outright. bit.ly/4yC9uVB

So as I headed to Ingram for the first time in March, I wanted to know who the local faces of the national immigration crackdown were. Who was driving the black Dodge Charger? www.propublica.org/article/depo...