Don’t miss the video, at the bottom.

Excerpt: “I’m not making any of this up. I drove two hours to get here, and I have done nothing but support everyone on the Republican side, and this is how I get treated? I cannot believe the disrespect that I was just given…”

Trump & the Republicans are evil and insane and building toward World War III and the destruction of everything good America has always pretended to be. That’s kind of important.

Whether a flock of the most kiss-ass reporters have a room in the White House or must huddle across the street is not important at all.

Excerpt: In all likelihood, the Department of Justice knows its lawsuit against California will fail. This case has all the hallmarks of a “zombie lawsuit,” deliberately filed close to Election Day, intended not to influence voting, but as a legal placeholder to try to overturn results if the election doesn’t go the way the plaintiffs want.

Love the article’s naïve perspective, that this could never happen…

Nothing new here, but it’s a fairly complete list, and in audio form for those who’d like to prepare dinner accompanied by dread.

If anyone actually files reports, I assume they’ll be about the Trump regime’s corruption.

Excerpt: But with rare exception, the response from the mainstream media’s pundit class has been largely muted, with the vast bulk of the coverage coming in the form of he said/she said, down-the-middle reporting. This is in stark contrast with how elite opinion-shapers responded with uniform outrage in the days after Trump’s also dubious raid on John Bolton, his former national security adviser and a neoconservative commentator, in August 2025. Both are part of a consistent pattern of Trump weaponizing the Department of Justice to attack his perceived enemies, yet only the latter solicited widespread media condemnation.

… The reasons for this glaring discrepancy are likely many: Omar is Black and Muslim, Bolton is white and not. Omar is a woman, Bolton is a man. Omar is considered “far left,” Bolton is squarely in the center-right of elite Washington consensus. Omar is a harsh critic of Israel, and Bolton is among its most overtly and bloodthirsty champions. The reality is it’s almost certainly a combination of all these factors. Writ large, Bolton is a member of The Club, and Omar isn’t.

Excerpt: For a decade and a half, Orbán and his far-right Fidesz party operated a sprawling pro-government media empire that bolstered their narratives, smeared opponents and controlled what an independent analysis found was around 80% of Hungary’s media market.

Me again: Could something like that happen here in America?

Bari Weiss pushed CBS reporters to cover the untrue news that James Talarico was in a mental hospital, and that Abdul El-Sayed is a member or former member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Chances are you’re not scum, so you might not know what “remigration” is: “Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations…”

The ADL, of course, is on it

Republicans always seem to side with the rapists.

Excerpt: “It makes you seriously question who are they protecting? Because it’s not the victims. It’s not the victims. Not my sister,” said Sky Roberts.

Here’s the ad that has Florida Republicans going the prior-restraint route

Is there even a word for this crime? By order of the richest man in the world, Ukraine’s ability to defend itself in war was dialed back. Undoubtedly, people died as a result.

And on a less important but more obvious note, why would anyone anywhere purchase any product from a megalomaniac who might push a button to restrict its use at any time?

Excerpt: In a stunning, morally corrupt move, Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown told the Columbus Dispatch on October 12th he “would not support an impeachment of Trump. There’s just simply no reason for that, no matter what happens in the midterms.”

What planet is he on?

Near as I can make sense of it, “bitcoin mining” is a 100% bullshit term, to make it sound like people are doing actual work and something productive is happening. It’s a data center.

A new Hawaiian restaurant has opened on my regular bus ride, right at a stop, so it would be easy to hop off, order dinner top go, and bring it home on the next bus. Their sign is clearly and obviously AI, as are the smaller signs in the window. I’ll just never eat there. Lost my appetite, sorry.

Excerpt: A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales that Americans told themselves, like ghost stories around a campfire. But this alliance now exists.

Excerpt: “To understand whether these are really technical problems at SpaceX, or whether it is some kind of operation or agreement to restrict us, to disconnect us, to prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people… we sent a couple of cars with Starlink to the territory of European Union countries, and they drove at speeds of over 180 km/h where permitted. Starlink works. We have the corresponding records and the corresponding evidence.”

‘Settlers’ means, “We’ll settle for nothing less than killing all of you.”

Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.” Even that’s almost certainly bullshit; Tunick is a Stop Cop City activist, which makes him a ‘terrorist’ from cops’ perspective, but he’s never been arrested or charged for anything ‘terror’-related.

Excerpt: “To walk on Union Avenue feels like you’re about to be killed,” she said. “You have to navigate people turning in and out of businesses. If you have to cross the street, good luck finding a place to do that because the crosswalks are so far apart.”

Around Seattle, we have several of these, all run by good guys. Some have free woodshops, tool libraries, sewing sessions, etc.

That ain’t happening.