Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

This is a friend of my good friend and she needs only a modest amount to get back on her feet. I would love to see us get her there. Utah is cold and getting colder! Any little bit helps, any shares help.

Should be wearing a Greinke jersey as a show of solidarity between guys who got a 9-figure deal in LA after abandoning the Royals

🍷 youtu.be/7lyiTJ6LlX4

BREAKING: A federal judge says L.A.-based US attorney Bill ESSAYLI has been acting in the role unlawfully since July, declaring him disqualified from the position. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sunday morning sunrise above Borrego Springs (Photo: Sicco Rood).

(To a bug) … so it went 18 and, if it’s a blowout tonight, they may not even play the bottom of the ninth. Isn’t that something?

Yard’s kind of a lost cause for the moment but there are more roses from the recent rains 🙏

what a fucking loser

Toe-licking demon, circa 1921. One of many demonic entities found lurking in a Persian manuscript on magic and astrology from Isfahan, Iran. See our highlights here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino arrives at the Federal Building in Chicago's Loop this morning. #OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Quite a game, I may have nodded off but ... wow. Also, hey, art bots! :)

The Scream 1893 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25035

make modern history a liar

(To a bird) Some call it the “Fall Classic,” youtu.be/puq5D17SRyI

Also, note that the person making all these decisions is not Secretary Noem; it's Corey Lewandowski, who is still a "special government employee" (and by many reports sleeping with Noem and running the agency while she does mostly TV), as well as Gregory Bovino himself.

The grape harvest is ending in this Kern County CA vineyard. Tractors are beginning to work to clear the middle section. As soon as they are done here farm workers will begin pruning the vines. #WeFeedYou

someone posted after 2016 something like "i just dont know how to convince you that you should care about other people" and i think about that a lot

To many of us, it is difficult to not Do It To Em, given our natural tendency to Know We Had To,

PLACES/GGBR.GIF

The Liar Bovino in court again … will he even appear 🤔 youtu.be/tQXy2az5_LA

Friday night

“The video of the incident does not show protesters throwing rocks or fireworks at agents, nor can agents be heard warning protesters before Bovino throws the canister at the crowd.”

Conditions were more favorable in the desert this evening for viewing C/2025 A6 (comet Lemmon). Seen here about to set behind San Ysidro Mountain at 7:44 pm (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

The senate has approved four of this guy’s federal court appointees in the past 3 days. One of them got more than a dozen Democratic votes that weren’t even needed for confirmation.

I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024. Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's new mini-documentary about Vought 👇 THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...

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Foul whisp’rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

as this goes on while i grow older, i am very much feeling like a creature of another time. obviously things have always been more or less this way my entire life but as the last vestiges of truth, shared obligations, a loose moral framework get sheared away, i feel increasingly out of place

California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model. It will be announced today.

Left: Veteran and U.S. citizen George Retes, pinned by immigration officers in Camarillo, CA in July, before he disappeared for days Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible

A stiff drink, you say

C/2025 A6 (comet Lemmon) just above the clouds at 19:40 this evening. While not as cloudy as yesterday, conditions are windy this evening above Anza-Borrego causing some camera shake as shown by the squiggly line from a passing satellite (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Mike Johnson not knowing any of the details with Yakety Sax

rolling chair, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978

Prepare to protect our neighbors! What can you do- Attend the @bayresistance.bsky.social call tonight at 6pm for ways to fight back against ICE www.bayresistance.org/get-ready Familiarize yourself with the SF Rapid Response Network to report ICE/DHS in your communities: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

This rapid response guide for reporting ICE is specific to San Francisco. For the other counties in the bay area, the second post on this thread links to a list of hotlines and resources. To read more: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

Pedophile Destroys Historic Landmark

has anyone pointed out to the local contractors demolishing the warehouse he's 1000% going to stiff them on the bill

Vaguely remember some posts when the ballroom thing first got mentioned along the lines of, “well this is actually good because there’ll finally be a place for proper State dinners!”

It's official! 🏛️ 🎉 The SF Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge. Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...

the comic strip that the internet lives in denial of

🥃 youtu.be/dXJPvDQxXCo

#birdbot

Probably safe if the tattoo artist calls your choice “boring” but then again 🙃

ill be honest i was ready to assume that whatever graham platner did was not all that bad in the context of this political moment because admit it you guys can be awfully fussy. but i’ll be damned that sumbitch literally has a nazi tattoo lmao

Tesh looking (& the band sounding) great ☕ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fheI...