A month after the Charlie Kirk shooting, I came to Utah Valley University looking for signs of healing. What I found instead was a campus full of harrowing stories—and fears about what happens next. apple.news/Aid5dH3zESxS...

We should have punished the Confederates.

Remember folks, JD Vance was on food stamps as a child

Holy shit, the NOAA hurricane hunters flying over Jamaica in Kermit are working without pay God, I love scientists #noaa #hurricane #melissa

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️ Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you. Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No. 1/2

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Great news! Way to go #Ireland

This is incredibly deep and I am tearing up. Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams are the worst of us. Mamdani is one of the best. When you vote in this election, whatever your faith, you are making a moral decision that will reflect on your character and your soul forever.

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment

I agree with this 100%. The time is now to create the party and future we've been wanting. "This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future."- R. Reich

YES!

First the The Rose Garden, then The East Wing... Add Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the list of beautiful things Trump is going to intentionally destroy.

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

It’s not cringe.

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation. But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

This is quite the story and I’m sure the case is going to be a giant clusterf*ck just like the messages.

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

‘It’s a disaster’ is right. The entire premise is absurd. ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits - The Atlantic apple.news/A0W9NfMb-RtG...

Billions of dollars to fund ICE, Venezuela, and luxury jets but none for sick kids. They deserve so much better than what they’re getting. #LongCovid Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation - Rolling Stone apple.news/A4wFDaAbHRmu...

Stay safe everyone and give them Hell! #NOKINGSPROTEST

Name and ages of the "kids" in the young republican group chat - Peter Giunta, 31 - Joe Maligno, 35 - Annie Kaykaty, 28 - Alex Dwyer, 29 - William Hendrix, 24 - Luke Mosiman, 24 - Samuel Douglass, 27 - Rachel Hope, 27 www.rawstory.com/vance-young-...

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

This #YoungRepublicans racist, rapey, pro-hitler chat should cook them all but it wont. What a disgusting group of ppl. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Came across a pair of Trumpeter Swans and they put on quite a show for me. #BirdScrolling

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Canada vs. America

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

Cruelty may be the point but there is no humanity in what this administration is doing. I knew it would be bad, just not this bad. apple.news/ATO5W69OsSFO...

This morning’s moss walk. I found some spectacular types, learning them all is going to be a fun challenge. #GatheringMoss

The end of a Bruce Peninsula day.

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, originally founded by her father in 1947, to fight what it calls Trump’s “coordinated campaign” against free expression. Over 550 supporters, including top entertainers, back the effort. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

A MAGA nutjob owns CNN and CBS and is getting control of TikTok. Twitter and Facebook are controlled by wingnuts, as are the WaPo and LAT and a majority of local tv and radio stations. And yet this reality rarely comes up in discussions of the Dems’ messaging problems or lack of popularity.

If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”

‘The idea we should be in the kitchen serving our men is enraging’: singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan on her long fight for women’s voices apple.news/A_mxde-lzSKG...

Im not speaking for other canadians but this canadian ain’t going back. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.

GOP: We protect kids! So—ban child labor? GOP: No Ban child marriages? GOP: No Ban children from carrying guns? GOP: No Ban gun sales w/o background checks? GOP: No Then how exactly do protect kids?🤔 GOP: We ban books, discussions on racism, drag, free school lunch, & Tylenol.

well that escalated quickly

Nexstar, the largest TV broadcaster, needs Donald Trump's approval for a $6 billion deal. If approved, Nexstar would control TV stations reaching 80% of households — violating the cap set by Congress to protect against monopolies. This censorship of Kimmel reeks of corruption.

Kimmel is back, but many Americans won’t be able to watch. Two companies — Nexstar and Sinclair — control hundreds of local TV stations and have business deals pending Donald Trump’s approval. They won’t air Kimmel tonight. I’m pressing for answers on potential corruption.

Moving to the middle of nowhere isn’t as easy as I expected but it sure is as beautiful as I had hoped.

Moving day is finally here! Good riddance city living & hello to morning forest walks