Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta? Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

It’s not racial profiling, it’s reasonable suspicion, we simply think anyone with darker skin tones is suspicious and that this belief is reasonable, so it’s not racial profiling, how dare you.

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli

Does anyone ever ask what is the difference between a "Democrat" program and a "Republican" program?

A judge blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for two weeks, finding no substantial evidence of a “danger of rebellion"

BREAKING: Federal judge issues TRO following a second day of hearings, blocking the Trump administration from “ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois” from now through Oct. 23. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(Podcast) Ottawa residents plan 12 month ‘fireworks and honking’ festival outside Freedom Convoy Leaders’ homes

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

If you ever get a chance to ask Mike Johnson a question by calling into C-SPAN, please ask him "Do you know that Jesus can see you when you're lying?"

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Damn straight! This is the right approach to take with governments led by science denialists. www.euronews.com/business/202...

It looks like Trump's EPA is stonewalling the release of a major scientific report on the health effects of "forever chemicals" in our drinking water. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

When will the climate change coastal property bubble pop? A significant acceleration in coastal flooding from a lunar orbit shift (mid-2030s) will significantly stress the market. My 2024 post: "When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?" yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/when...

Imagine when climate change starts really hitting key food crops. globalnews.ca/news/1146297...

So where are all the Conservative "nobody wants to work" bros? www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Naturally. 🤡 @reuters.com $TSLA www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

“.. Foreclosure rates have surged across the country and are up almost 20% from this time last year.” www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

Why?

“.. it's every day, some new excuse why he won't sign, right? Look at the core. He knows that, that is the deciding signature on the discharge petition," Gallego added. @nbcnews.com #AZ07 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats that intensified after...Turning Point USA ...accused him of being “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Energy and foreign policy. #Poland www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Gold being up +52% this year is currently my biggest recession indicator.

JPM DESK: “.. the US budget deficit has not shrunk despite the tariff revenue. “.. if tariffs are not being used to pay down debt or in some cases as a bailout (e.g., soybean farmers ..) at what point does the bond market react negatively?” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"involuntary immobility" is probably one of the scarier issues of climate change. Countries put up barriers to immigrants during tough economic times, which are compounded by climate change -- so poor people are going to be stuck where they are. The tragedy will be huge. phys.org/news/2025-10...

"Lutnick also said Canada should “come second” to the U.S. on autos." If the U.S. is going to insist that Canada stay in 2nd place in major industries, it seems the best path forward for Canada to grow its economy in a more stable manner is to become more independent. www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

abcnews.go.com/Internationa... Colombian president says US military struck Colombian boat, killed his citizens - ABC News

Cartoonist: Dave Whamond

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax (This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

Alberta launched its border patrol last year to help stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across what Premier Smith called the “leaky” U.S. border. But the Interdiction Patrol Team has so far made only a handful of arrests, according to data released through an access to information request.

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

NEW: A company that bills itself as meme-SaaS wants to be the go-to platform for culture warriors and gov agencies like DHS. (Its founder has also been calling me the R word over on X dot com. Great people!) www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

Your regulare reminder that the Alberta government has manufactured this budget constraint. See previous skeet. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

You can buy China's Unitree G1 Robot from Walmart in the US. Meanwhile, no American robotics company has a working commercial product.

PM Carney announces Charter of Rights to be renamed Charter of Optional Ideas

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Oh this is not great

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it? MJ: Again, it's a distraction

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Waiting on those $1000 tariff rebate checks. 🤡

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."