just in time for haunting season. “I don’t believe in death, because I always think that when someone dies, they actually go uptown. They go to Bloomingdale’s, and they take a little longer getting back.” ~ warhol

"Benevolence is essential to our survival as a species, yet increasingly, 'people find unsettling ways to justify their unkind actions towards others.'”

Antifa, like Steely Dan, is not really a group.

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

well that will solve the problem, won't it.

People need to know what he just voted down.

so tired of hearing about how "history won't be kind" to these grifting, power-hungry traitors. they need to face accountability in life, not just in the pages of some books.

always up for a diversion from scrolling thru the chaos of current events, and it is nearly halloween. 🙂

so good! "I cannot make peace with the world such as it is ... I cannot anesthetize myself into acceptance ... The world needs walking, talking fire alarms ... It needs people who will invite others to be curious ... until they can defy themselves enough to smell smoke, taste ash, and scream no."

You need to fix this @cnn.com.

I hard co-sign this one.

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Friends — I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-national-trauma

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Yes, processing the past is important in trauma recovery-- but so is developing our future. Not enough recovery resources discuss this. We're not metabolizing the past for its own sake. We're doing it because we have sh*t to do from here on out that has zero to do w/ the past.

Such a lovely story 👇

Couldn’t be happier to be home in Maine this weekend. On Monday, we SHOULD be in Washington—but Speaker Johnson is keeping the House locked. Why? Likely to avoid swearing in Rep. Grijalva, the 218th signer forcing a vote on the Epstein Files. We owe this to the victims. Disgraceful.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

seven-year-old: “who’s voice is that” me: “Bob Dylan” 7yo: “is that yr friend” me: “no a singer” 7yo: “not a very good singer”

so wild!

Walked up to the gas station to get breakfast tacos from the food truck & passed a man in his 70's walking a grey-muzzled mutt, both moving slow. A little boy, probably 5-6, was shouting to him in Spanish about a bug he found and for a moment, the world seemed like a bright & wonderful place.

Know what would be great counterprotesting on Thursday when Kash wants a perp walk? Adelita Grijalva and some Epstein survivors talking about the lengths Trump is going to cover up the Epstein files.

Trump is lying about this shutdown. He’s hiding the jobs report. And he’s hiding the Epstein files. Enough.

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My wife was brutal with this year’s Halloween graveyard decorations. Brutally honest. Painfully so.

I told the FC I’d fixed the error code on her PC that had frustrated her She looked impressed. I said, “It was an ID ten T error.” Looking perplexed, I said write it down so she wrote it down… ID10T. The look on her face said it all 😳 Apparently, no treatos for me

i could be happy there

Yes indeed! What do you do when you're covering a lying, bloviating politician who revels in attention, good or bad? Ignoring him or covering him neutrally or even covering him critically doesn't work. You've got to try something different! Clip and save this chart:

does he get 15 more minutes of fame with each incident, or does that run concurrently? three strikes he's out, right?

jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts

Well-played, @merriam-webster.com ✊

talk is cheap

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

yowsa! 65 years!

🤗💕 annie's words paint sensory gems: "With haymaking comes another scent – coumarin. Its effects are alchemical. It is aromatic magic – light yet powerful perfumes of sugar and wine and Genoise sponge cake, and perhaps the delicate fragrance of a new born baby’s head – is transformative."

Hey Pittsburgh/SWPA parents: I'm working on a story and looking to talk to people who have encouraged their children to NOT play tackle football. (Whether or not your kid followed your advice.) Bonus points if you DID play tackle football. Please retweet this so it gets out into Pittsburgh-sky!

Here's Nigel Max Edge and Thomas Jacob Sanford. Both committed mass shootings within 24 hours of one another. Two more cases of White on White crime. Is it the fatherlessness in the White community? Are they Inherently violent because of their race? Or, is it the guns? Sip it slowly. 🔥☕️

And I don't know what the mantis is praying for But [s]he's probably just thanking the Lord That [s]he don't live in a home And [s]he don't got a phone And [s]he don't sit around all angry and bored -JW #prayingmantis #mantis #adaptivegrazing #grazing #sheepfarming #pasture #insect #farmwithnature

imagine that! first clue was the flag-festooned back end of the pickup he used to ram into the front of the church.

The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine

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321 mass shootings in 271 days so far this year. north carolina, michigan, texas, louisiana yesterday. this is the only mention of the ones in eagle pass and new orleans that i've seen. north carolina shooting was an aside to the michigan one. how many more????

Power woman Annie Lennox, 70 years old, performing live, for Gaza 🙏 wow... www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Rk...