The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

OpenAI news: 1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing. 2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely. Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

“You may be grieving at first, but, believe me, you’ll be smiling when you see how much less you’re shelling out every month,” said President Donald Trump

Members of Congress are elected to serve their constituents, not to do ‘whatever the president wants.’

$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace" $10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $135M for Trump's golf outings The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Reading “the Street Lawyer” and this is how they described my neighborhood. Fort Totten is really nice, guys!!! And there’s a cool civil war fort!

“If the midterms were today, the Dems would win!” Ok but they’re not. They are a year away. There are no ads up yet. Voters’ memories are very short. Once the ads about the furries (or whatever irrelevant wedge issue the GOP picks) go up, the numbers will tighten again.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Yes, the cashier on their feet full-time should be able to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare with their paycheck. And the custodian. And the fry cook. And the waitress. And and and.

Jared Golden won’t seek re election in my district, ME02. To all the chronically online leftists saying “now we can get a progressive!” No we can’t. Trump won this district by 9 points.

NBC News: Voters in Maine have rejected a voter ID proposal.

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time

I have lived in Maine 10 years.

I think his scientists should experiment on him…

New rule: unless you have a solid win/loss record and won actual elections (either as a campaign staffer or a candidate) I don’t want to hear your plan for how the Dems can win elections. Show me as actual record of winning elections and then we can talk.

Hey, Fox: Sales of Hamburger Helper on the rise is a flashing recession indicator.

Anyone whose Nazi tattoo and Reddit post explanations, however sincere, wind up sucking up this much time and energy should probably reflect privately about past choices instead of taking us along their personal growth journey. Look, I was hoping for someone cool, too, but this ain’t it.

So interesting to me that there is a distinct whiff of misogyny coming from so many “progressive”candidates. From Bernie saying “we can’t agree on everything” after campaigning a pro-life candidate to now Graham Platner saying that women need to “act like an adult” to avoid getting r*ped.

California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January. The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens. Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Not really surprising

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. --- #StephenKing #Quotations

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value. This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025. Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment. Be warned.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

Happy Italian American Heritage Month! From the fishermen and vineyard pioneers of Northern California, to the Central Valley ranchers, to the SoCal trailblazers in entertainment, food, and more — the Golden State celebrates the contributions of Italian Americans to our story.

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You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

go off Chester

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953