Thomas Finan, PhD, FSA

Government takeover for strategic and security purposes. This is ridiculous.

What a disgrace to have a traitorous U.S. president who blames democratic Ukraine for his problems while Ukraine is engaged in a life-and-death struggle for its sovereignty against the murderous invasion of Putin’s Russia. And worse, he is strengthening the enemy’s position.

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Reminder Missouri you can start voting tomorrow.

@2xaught7.ing

Remember Tommy, who asked El-Sayed if he disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood? He worked for Hawley until February 2026, then became Political Director for failed Kansas GOP candidate Philip Sarnecki. His father, Timmy Teepell, is a longtime GOP strategist who worked for Jindal and Hawley.

When it was NASA, we did own it. It was all of ours. We paid for it. We enjoyed the success.

This is Inna Maryukhna and her 1-year-old daughter, Anhelina. ​Russia killed them on October 19 when a drone struck a local park in Nova Vodolaha where families were resting. Inna was a primary school teacher at Nova Vodolaha Lyceum No. 1. The lyceum shared the news on their FB

getting older is realizing that candy corn, in fact, is good

Sacraments such as confession are central to Catholicism—but for the past year, the Trump administration has been making it harder for Catholics at migrant-detention centers to have those encounters with God, Luis Parrales reports:

NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...

According to Reuters it was the Trump White House that ordered Ukraine's Starlink disabled, so Republicans were lying when they denied that. Trump and the GOP work for Russia. It's so embarrassing to be an American these days. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This 👇

I stay off social media except for quick doses…and miss the passing of a great colleague @justrena.bsky.social She was a great scholar and sharp whit. She will be missed.

This 👇

Over at the bad place I made a post about the administration and their “Domestic Errorism”,,, the crowd coming after me for spelling or typos without understanding a good play on words 🤣🫠🤔

Time for excommications and interdict.

Pope Leo XIV has posted on his official X account that the Catholic Church holds the death penalty to be “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Two individuals who enjoyed solid Jesuit educations and basically slept through courses on the common good, ethics and morality.

@schiff.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov you should each be reading this transcripts on the floor of the senate and at each campaign stop for the next month and longer.

First Lady Natalie Harp sits next to her man in Marine One as they return to the White House last night, then reenters the building after another day of traveling together #TravelWithNatalie (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)

To all my students who listened to me go on about the 14th century and the plague, and different forms of plague…remember when I said “see? Im prepping you for when the shit hits the fan?”

🇺🇸 Rep. Ted Lieu says there is “ample evidence” in the full Epstein files alleging Donald Trump raped children. “This is all on videotape.”

Holy shit.

The Regime snatched $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation in 2026, which they plan to use “to invest in agency priorities that are aligned with broader administration initiatives.” In other words, to force a political agenda through by repurposing funds for bullshit like chemtrails.

Pay teachers a fair wage. Pay paraprofessionals who help support our kids a fair wage. Make sure our schools are safe, clean, warm, and dry.

just saying. How are we monitoring this? You have to sort of accept that science works to monitor this…

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.

Truth 👇

A plague case has been linked to a lab worker’s death in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are now under observation after the lab worker died from plague. Because apparently “deadly plague at a Russian lab” wasn’t ominous enough. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...

Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…

What Ann Wagner has actually done for farmers: 1) Stood by while USAID was “fed into the wood chipper” destroying one of our largest soybean export vehicles 2) Stood by while Trump imported 300k metric tons of bad beef in the middle of calf sales undermining sales for the 3rd largest beef state

Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end"

Why does he need donations?

The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/QewniBV

@schiff.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov You guys good with this? Just curious.

Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…

RFK Jr. alleges that he wants to focus on chronic disease and sideline infectious disease research, but the big dummy doesn’t care about the interplay between the two. A new study estimates that 12% of all cancer cases in 2024 were caused by infections, including H. pylori, HPV, HBV, and EBV.