“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein…took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”

fun detail: that header image of Lon Chaney is from the lost 1927 film London After Midnight - his character was a heavy visual inspiration for the look of the Babadook

“Arizona is considering suing for taxation without representation if you don’t seat Adelita Grijalva.” Speaker Johnson: *continues to cover for Pesophiles*

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

BIG BOAT STUCK

"Somehow, the creature returned."

If Trump can cause as much mayhem and suffering as he’s doing every day, I can at least keep writing and talking about how horrific he is, every day. After all, I’m 10 days younger than him. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-aging-trumps-aging

Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)

ICYMI — PELOSI: “Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?” (The unserious questioner is Alison Steinberg, who works for Mike Lindell — the my pillow guy)

When Big Balls got beat up by 15-year-olds they said DC should prosecute 14-year-olds as adults.

Trump is playing golf and Republicans are on vacation while hard-working Americans are without pay.

"Pegged" in the Victorian sense of the word😒.

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

Had to re-re-read the intro because it is very much more like a "Wait, WHAT THE F***!?"

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“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

You’re a hard soul to save

"Good leaders also serve those who voted against them." --King Gilgamesh, probably.

Came across this today; sounds fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCoC...

This. Anyone with eyes can see it coming. This is not a "call to arms". It is simply an observation that Trump thinks that chaos on the streets works to his favor and he and his admin are doing everything they can to provoke it. Humans, being what we are, means someone will eventually take the bait.

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

It's 1971, with an Oompa Loopa and most any male porn star.

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

You need to watch this!!! It is a great criticism on the failures of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ third season and how these flaws appearing in these latest episodes are connected to the real-life policies of the country the series was made in, the US.

Would need an unhealthy dose of Pym particles.

So far the Israeli military has only said the group "approached its soldiers." People walking towards you is not a reason to shoot them.

Why I never joined AARP. www.axios.com/2025/10/10/u...

Major airports are refusing to air Kristi Noem’s propaganda video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, and there’s a reason: it violates the Hatch Act You can’t use taxpayer resources for partisan attacks. Period.

The print subscriber base for @motherjones.com is 2.5 times as high. 🙀

Hey @MarshaBlackburn — you gonna speak up about this, happening in your neighborhood? Or do you only care about “protecting women’s sports” when you can attack trans kids? 🤼 nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/13/r...

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So my mom passed away in March. She had dementia. She was given a cognitive test once a week and you know what they always told her ? Take a guess ? They always told her she had a perfect score and that she did fantastic .

14 Oct 1977, anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" in the face by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. Bryant, who was already well-known as a singer, led Save Our Children, a homophobic campaigning group which successfully overturned legal protections for LGBT+ people in Dade County, Florida.

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement. At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

🇨🇦 The Trump admin is buying into Canadian critical mineral companies — giving Washington a stake in our clean-energy future. CBC reports Ottawa can still block the deal under national security laws. This is why we need a strong public broadcaster — facts, not spin. 🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

#subpost Journalists can report stories about SpaceX without doing PR for the company or for Elon Musk.

ICE agents blocked ambulance from transferring an injured protester to the hospital, even going as far as to threaten to arrest and shoot the driver. This crosses so many lines. EMS and first responders need to be free to help whoever needs it. Delays cost lives.

Much like those "abortion crisis centers", people who deny vaccination (caveat: who can be vx'd, not im-comp) should have to watch a video about what the disease can do to bodies if they do indeed *survive the infection*. Signed, an assistant NBC (nuke-bio-chem) NCO who got to watch too many videos.

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Holy crap. This is terrible. The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

“Trump gave Argentina a $20B bailout and is now building Qatari military facility in Idaho…” @briantylercohen.bsky.social “So this is what Qatar/Hamas got in exchange for releasing the hostages…” @andreachalupa.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bria... bsky.app/profile/andr... bsky.app/profile/ifin...

I am very tired of this, but a quick review. In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county. How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

I once had my identity stolen; they were crying when the gave it back the next day😕.

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.