Karen Schymanski

Your annual reminder that US streets and vehicles are generally not designed to keep pedestrians, especially small ones, safe.

So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs.

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This bottle of wine tastes like I’m going to spill my secrets on the internet

A bunny on a gray, rainy day looks down a storm drain, where a clown bunny with a red nose and ears looks out at him from below. It is a bunny Pennywise, from the Stephen King novel, and it offers the other bunny a red balloon through the grate on the drain

Daily bunny no.3124 offers you a balloon

Cute light beige dog dressed as a Halloween ghost.

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

The largest war ship in the world has been moved to the Caribbean, along with other ships, bombers, amphibious vehicles and more.

That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.

It looks a lot more like preparation for war.

Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.

These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

Survivors — and family of survivors — of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse are urging Mike Johnson to swear-in Adelita Grijalva:

"Every day you stall is another day survivors are denied justice, and the American people are denied the truth. Swear in Representative Grijalva and let democracy speak."

is this good

remember when elon musk was still in government and DOGE still active and they pretended for like a week rampent social security fraud was happening, and then it turned out they just didn’t understand that databases would include people who passed away and we never heard about this “fraud” again lol

A color photo of two Reeses cups with a diagram of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis superimposed over one, and an image of the Crab Nebula superimposed on the other. "History and Fate of the Universe" cut-out image credit: CPEP / DOE / LBNL / NASA Crab Nebula image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)

Parents, PLEASE check your kids’ Halloween candy this year. I just found atoms in this candy bar that were formed during BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, and many more that were the result of earlier generations of stars exploding as POWERFUL SUPERNOVA. Parents need to know about this dangerous trend!!

A Coal-Processing Plant Closed. Local E.R. Visits Dropped Sharply. As President Trump tries to revive the United States coal industry, research has found that closing a coal facility can improve local health.

Back to the mines isn't it
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Julia Tilley: I know we have a lot of people on the livestream, and my big only question is, are you all ready? Are you ready to fight for our healthcare over billionaires??

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Spooky Lake Superior: The SS Kamloops | Great Lakes Now Just in time for Halloween, learn about the SS Kamloops — an eerie story about a shipwreck in Lake Superior, and “Old Whitey” who seems to follow divers around the wreck.

Just in time for Halloween, learn about the SS Kamloops — an eerie story about a shipwreck in Lake Superior, and “Old Whitey” who seems to follow divers around the wreck.

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Huge thank you to the comedians, musicians, artists and writers who are just as mad and bewildered as the rest of us but are still doing their best to make life worth living for everyone.

Sam Eagle as Spock on the bridge of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series

star trek muppetized: thread

Going as Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and staying in bed all day tomorrow.

AMERICA: why are we giving food stamps to people. they should work

ALSO AMERICA: let’s fire everyone and replace them with AI

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

“a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute.”

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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a 'grueling hell on earth.' The inside story of how the celebrated startup AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.

This is an absolutly wild of a story!

A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’

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#KY #Farm #Farming #Workers #Unions #Story

Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love ...

My entry in the Trump ballroom discourse.

It’s a monument to Trump’s insecurities, a symbol of our descent into authoritarianism, and a gaudy bribery palace all in one. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

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There’s nothing too crazy for these folks

Demand for Trump's Social Security Chief Bisignano to Resign After $30 Billion Implosion of Former Company | Common Dreams The former CEO of Fiserv has been accused of causing chaos, with the company's stock plummeting by 40% and $30 billion in market value erased. Should we trust him with our hard-earned Social Security ...

Frank Bisignano ran Fiserv into the ground.

How can we trust him to run our Social Security system?

imagine having the power to stop unimaginable suffering and being like “nah”

4 days until #OreCup!

We’re testing automated posting of links for the practice vote / predict-the-winner poll. If all goes well, it’ll go live at 00:00 GMT October 31.

You really have to hand it to the people who came up with the concept of “cancel culture” — it’s a tremendously flexible tool usable by everybody. Why, here it is being used to explain why an organization nominally about values can’t reject overt antisemites.

"Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family, brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage," say her brother Skye and sister-in-law Amanda. "Virginia Roberts Giuffre, our sister, a child when she was sexually assaulted by Andrew, never stopped fighting for accountability for what had happened to her and to countless other survivors like her. "Today, she declares victory. We, her family, along with her survivor sisters, continue Virginia's battle and will not rest until the same accountability applies to all of the abusers and abettors connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell."

Giuffre family statement basically saying “We’re coming for you, fucko”

Prince Andrew to lose 'prince' title and move out of Royal Lodge

If justice can start to catch up with a prince, it can also bring down a “king”.