ObPeriodicReminder: If you were born before 1982 and don't have conclusive, *documented* proof of getting 2 doses of MMR, get another dose unless it's counterindicated. The second dose wasn't added to the schedule until later and a lot of us never got the catchup dose.

Really really encourage everyone to give even a small donation to their food banks this month. The situation is dire.

Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated. Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

What's interesting is we know how this ends. AlphaGo was/is an AI that beat a top level Go player by coming up with a novel strategy. It was hailed as a new intelligence. Fast forward and it's routinely beaten by players. They adapted to that strategy and know what Alpha is going to do.

He said, "When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One" He lied But what's worse-he didn't even TRY to lower prices Instead, almost as soon he got into office, he started hitting people with tariffs-making things infinitely worse

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

One acquaintance and I were talking about how much she loves FDR. But she's full on MAGA and loves JD Vance. People are weird.

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

The demonym for resident of Connecticut is Connecticuter. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Stagflation The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.

6x7 = 42, which is the answer to life, the universe and everything. Maybe the kids are on to something...

Pretty sure this is the plot of 28 Days Later no? I mean bring it on honestly.

I have an Uncle Brian, an Uncle LeGrande, an Uncle Vern and an Uncle Bob among many others. One is my uncle, one is my father's cousin, one is my mother's uncle and one is my grandmother's cousin. Heck I have an Uncle Alan who is just a family friend of my parents! They are Uncle to my kids too 😂

Who the hell cares what she has to say?

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

They aren't avoiding the idea that they're brown shirts... (For those who don't know, they were Hitler's paramilitary group who sped chaos in the name of protecting the German people)

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Ominous.

When will we get a break from nonstop nonsense?

Ah! I love pointing out that it's the emblem on the hat in this gif.

He's also a history buff. No way he didn't know what it was.

Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

The White House does need a new ballroom (the current one is tiny, seating only about 150 people). But these kinds of decisions are normally very thought through so as not to destroy history. Even the Rose Garden renovations aren't permanent (the space can be changed again).

I find it very hard to believe that no one in 18 years saw Platner's tattoo, recognized it, and didn't tell him what it was. Or that he didn't realize it himself. The fact that he never thought to remove or change it is telling. And, confronted with what it is, his first instinct was to defend it!

This is the thing. He's NOT the only candidate! This is a primary and I'm sure there are other burly mustached white male progressives in Maine WITHOUT a Nazi deaths head tattoo.

I really liked what he was saying. But if there's any way to recover from "hey man you have a fucking SS Nazi tattoo on your tiddy and thought it was OK to have one," he did not find that path, and it's not puritanical or exclusionary to say so, and its ridiculous to even have to explain this.

Lmao ok.

He wants to be king and they're letting him be one. This guy.

Boy he's going all in on the king thing huh?

This is not an easy thing to do. Respect.

Iconic idea. The cop was being a dick.

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Disgusting. Americans through history have found the idea of being ruled by a king abhorrent. The idea of #nokings should be embraced by 100% of Americans.

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Southbury CT #nokings

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

"We identified a registered child sex offender currently participating in a local homeschool group. They are a lifetime member of the HSLDA as well as a lifetime member of the national sex offender registry for forcible sexual abuse of a seven-year-old."

Is using the military to intimidate and cow your political opponents fascism? I'm pretty sure it's fascism.

None of this seems good for our country

They also invented the cellular phone system, both the original analog and the 2g digital system. Fun fact, it's still there in New Providence, NJ. You can visit and tour parts of it. www.nokia.com/bell-labs/ (I shot an interview there this summer with Jesse Russel, father of digital cellular).

Well yeah. Duh. When costs go up the first thing to go is nonessential spending. If wages kept up this wouldn't be an issue.

Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout. China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina. Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers. The Art of the Deal…

‼️ This is a very dangerous situation. Nothing like this has ever happened before. This nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe. Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has been under Russian occupation since March 2022, has been disconnected from the power supply for more than a week⤵️

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Trump’s political prosecutions require members of the public—specifically jurors—to go along with him. Every time Trump wants to prosecute one of his political enemies, the people should say: no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As a reminder, all of this madness would stop if Congress wanted it too.