This is a slow build but it's worth sticking around to the end because it's absolutely chock full of good advice and wit.

Pointy

Mavis’s Halloween costume is ordered. She’s going to be Sake Nigiri 🍣 and she’s very excited.

Here we go. 🙄

Still can't get over the time Shaun King fundraised to climb the 14 highest peaks in the world and then came to WA state to get a practice run on a hill before he left for Everest or wherever and gave up after a 45 min hike on the main trail because it was too difficult

JUST IN: Judge Mehta threatens contempt and bar sanctions for attorney Carolyn Stewart — who has repped numerous Jan. 6 defendants and pardon recipients — over filing a motion with “fabricated” citations to local rules and refusing to correct it.

The dog walker took the bear to the puggle woods. He had a blast!

No splitting transcripts.

I need to find some good lentil recipes. I need to eat more lentils.

Fave bakery has a new sandwich on the menu. The quack madame, a croque madame made with a duck egg. 🤣

My 🚨new pub🚨 in SS&M with Brian Tuohy argues that pretrial surveillance is a structural determinant of health, as it leads to stress, restricted medical access, and increased use of ER. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

Tomorrow I’m gonna deep six my pride and integrity and go to Panera to pick up a bowl of autumn squash soup. It is so good but it is overpriced and their service is infuriating but I want the stupid soup.

This story, of a woman denied treatment for an ectopic pregnancy IN ILLINOIS is horrifying. In conclusion, subscribe to @jessicavalenti.bsky.social's newsletter, Abortion Every Day.

I'm really tired and it's been raining for hours. So shweepy.

I dont think enough Americans realize Republicans are gearing up for permanent rule. I dont know if we will get to midterm elections. Even if we do, with gerrymandering, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and violent intimidation, they'll rig the elections for minority rule. All hands on deck.

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Three victims of sex trafficking ring GirlsDoPorn brought a complaint against multiple companies that processed payments for the criminal organization, claiming that without their payment services, GirlsDoPorn would never have existed. 🔗 www.404media.co/girlsdoporn-...

Grumpy Cat (represented by Nixon Peabody LLP) gets a warning: "[T]he Court recognizes that past experience in this district, including before this Court, may have created a false sense that such allegations are acceptable. They are not." No. 1:25-cv-09451 (N.D. Ill.) (Daniel, J.)

Looks like things are NOT going well for US Attorney Jeanine Pirro in the trial of Sydney Lori Reid for allegedly assaulting federal officers while interfering with a ICE custody transfer at the DC jail. Recall: Grand juries declined to indict Reid 3x so Pirro's office charged a misdemeanor instead.

The U.S. Capitol Police was called about an American flag altered to include a swastika and displayed inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio). An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

@thejenlife.bsky.social did you figure out whether we’re back on shrimp now or are they still radioactive?

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Charles: What's all that commotion in London this week Camilla: They're holding a No Kings rally apparently Charles *sweating*: They're holding WHAT

Taking a 79 year old woman to three places doesn’t sound like a lot but I am bone weary. Lord. But we got all her stuff done and she had a nice fish sandwich from Culver’s so she’s happy.

Apartment Reset Day is upon us once again! Taking 79 to the DMV, the doctor, and the bank today while the housekeeper does some deep cleaning that sometimes makes 79 anxious. Bruno had sweety green beans for breakfast and is off to day care.

Insurance rates up $2000. Food benefits cut off. Farmers unable to sell their crops. Skyrocketing national debt. $40 billion to Argentina. America First!

Every day, I remind myself that I'm as young as I'll ever be. I don't waste time thinking about what "could have been." Whatever it is...it wasn't. I focus on the fact that I've got as much spring in my step as I'm ever going to have...and I milk it for every damn drop I can get. #Fight

This isn't good at all. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I’m sorry I said your baby girl looks like Eddie Munster.

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

The transcript for today's alarming argument about the Voting Rights Act at SCOTUS is now available: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

He loved his time with the dog walker today. She took this picture of him. 🥹

BREAKING: HHS official says in a court filing: "As a result of data discrepancies and processing errors, RIF notices were issued on October 10, 2025, to approximately 1,760 employees instead of to the 982 employees who were intended to receive RIF notices.” 1/3

lmao

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Do you even have the money to not care about your health? Do you have the money for the premiums, the prescriptions, the insurance, the copays, the deductibles? The specialists? The treatments? Do you know many things arent even covered by your insurance?

A $20 box of KN95s can keep you and your family off of GoFundMe trying to pass around a collection plate to pay for your $75,000 ventilator that your insurance doesn’t cover and the weeklong hospital stay that will bankrupt your entire family

It is definitely snoot in the blanket nap weather.

Pro tip: if you're gonna post images of a federal court filing don't crop off the top where the docket number is visible. Thanks.

A US judge in San Francisco will hear arguments today on whether to grant a temp. restraining order halting shutdown layoffs. Per filings last night, govt says ~4100 employees got RIF notices so far, confirms add'l 778 employees at HHS got notices in error buff.ly/v9aosKs Prev: buff.ly/atRVpau

[abruptly stops my nunchuck routine] I do.

TIL that #ScheduleA plaintiffs have asked for--and gotten--injunctions against marks THEY DIDN'T EVEN SUE OVER.

You couldn’t torture this information out of me.

The crunching!

I found my BK library card! 💕

A little motion drafting treat. Ichiran is so delicious.