SylveeKay

Absolutely appalling EPA statement on canceling $20 million that would have helped protect these communities.

$$ context: we could have done this 1000 times with the $20 billion US taxpayer dollars bailing out Argentina.

Good overview of what's happening in Alaska: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Why Trump loves 'Evita,' and what it says about his presidency A look at President Donald Trump's love of Evita, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

How much of Trump's interest in Argentina comes from being an Evita super fan? I'm not even kidding.

Pritzker and Democrat governors need to authorize their law enforcement to hold ICE accountable for unlawful use of force. They absolutely have the right.

How much more terror do people have to experience at the hands of Trump's Gestapo?

Swifties fuel $2.1M sea otter fundraiser Demand for a vintage T-shirt design worn by Taylor Swift was so grand the aquarium had to create a back order system.

Taylor Swift fans raise more than $2 million for sea otter, ocean conservation

Andrew is a pedophile, but because he's a white, wealthy man of privilege, he still lives like a king.

Prince Andrew gives up royal titles amid Jeffrey Epstein controversy
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...

-Today, Prince Andrew gave up his royal title because of his ties with the child-rapist, Jeffrey Epstein.

-Tomorrow, millions will be protesting against a slobbery, abhorrent man with ties to Epstein, who Republicans think should be king.

MEMPHIS: “Shelby County @mayorleeharris is declaring a State of Emergency in response to (The Trump/Lee occupying force)…. Harris claims the presence has placed a strain on the Shelby County’s financial resources…” www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/17/s...

Supreme Court gets first chance to weigh Trump’s bid to deploy National Guard The administration filed an emergency appeal over lower-court orders that have blocked the deployment of the guard in Illinois.

NEW: One day after a federal appeals court skewered Trump's claims of an ongoing "rebellion" in Illinois, the president goes to the Supreme Court to regain the power to put National Guard troops on the street in Illinois to quiet protests & unrest www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Funny, how the "No Kings" protesters were "elderly white hippies" in August (per Stephen Miller), but are "pro-Hamas terrorists and violent criminals" in October (per Karoline Leavitt).

It's *almost* as if this regime makes its shameless lies up as it goes along . . .

US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean, AP sources say The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer.

The US Navy is holding living witnesses to Trump and Hegseth’s murders captive in one of its vessels. apnews.com/article/vene...

So, I have to say — as members of Congress go, Adam Smith is about as run of the mill as there is (used to be). He’s sensible, compromises, believes in bipartisan work, believes evidence, thoroughly studies material for his committee work.

Seeing quotes like this from him is… deeply unnerving. /1

Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis Members of white supremacist ‘active clubs’ spearheaded a US expansion of a Russian fighting group that has raised money for the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine

Fantastic reporting by Wiley D Cope and the @us.theguardian.com staff on ties between a Russian street fighting organization and neo-Nazis in Tennessee. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Plus ça change …

I bet this more candid and direct calling out of GOP liars by Jeffries is why cowardly Mike “I Don’t Know Nothing About Anything So Can’t Comment” Johnson has announced he’s backing out of their debate.

A tweet from Barchart reads: “U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history” followed by two siren emojis. Below the text is a chart titled “U.S. Home Price History: 1890 to 2025,” showing inflation-adjusted home prices over time. The line graph tracks steady or moderate fluctuations from 1890 through the 1990s, then a steep rise leading to the 2006 housing bubble, a sharp drop afterward, and a dramatic spike again reaching a new peak labeled “2025 Bubble.” The chart indicates that 2025 marks the highest inflation-adjusted home price index in recorded history.

I know! Let’s raise tariffs and healthcare costs, too! That should help make things affordable! 🙄

BREAKING: Prince Andrew is giving up all royal titles, including the 'Earl of Inverness' after discussion with the King

It comes days before the publication of a book by Andrew’s late alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

Spanberger and Sherrill With Sturdy Leads in NJ/VA, Southcom Commander Resigns, Rep. Adam Gray (CA-13) Joins Us, No Kings!!!!!!!!! We have a gathering point for Hopium community members going to the No Kings event near the Capitol - excited to meet folks tomorrow!

From Hopium:
- Sherrill, Spanberger with sturdy leads in NJ and VA
- Southcom Commander resigns, AZ AG Mayes sues Mike Johnson
- New intv with Rep. Adam Gray CA-13
- Good luck tomorrow everyone #NoKings!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/spanberger...

California is keeping our promise to provide affordable insulin for all who need it.

Come Jan. 1, you'll be able to buy CalRx insulin at 11 bucks a pen.

FLORIDA — “Are you Haitian?”

A self-identified off-duty ICE agent snuck in some racism as he was busted for driving drunk with his kids in the car (and resisted arrest)

Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtV...

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Should have happened a long time ago.

Justice for Virginia Giuffre.

Happening now: A hearing with Judge Ellis about body worn cameras for ICE and CPB in Chicago over the government's emergency motion attempting to offer a different expert to testify in a hearing Monday. 1/

You will be safe at protests. If you are nervous, go/leave early, stay away from people getting tense.

There will be kids, and dogs, and signs, and probably a lot of frog motifs.

French police has prevented an assassination attempt against Vladimir Osechkin,a journalist,human rights activist, founder of Gulagu. net -Le Parisien

The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has arrester 4 men aged 26 to 38.Three of them are from Russian Dagestan

A vintage black-and-white illustration from the January 1963 issue of Popular Science shows a method for disposing of used engine oil. In the image, a hand is seen pouring dark, used engine oil from a rectangular container into a hole in the ground that has been filled with fine gravel. The oil flows into the center of the gravel-filled hole. An inset diagram in the bottom-right corner of the image provides a top-down view labeled "HOLE FILLED WITH GRAVEL." Below the illustration is a caption with instructions: "Disposing of used engine oil can be a problem. Solution: Dig a hole in the ground with a posthole digger and fill it with fine gravel. Then pour in the oil. It will be absorbed into the ground before your next change. Cover the spot with soil."

I'm dismayed that many proposals for CO₂ removal involve digging a hole and burying organic matter. But I guess that's how we've always treated waste.

Can We Bury Enough Wood to Slow Climate Change? Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year—and some companies are already trying it

Probably not.

660,000 Californians will be priced out of health insurance and many more will have to make a decision between paying rent, buying groceries, and having health insurance. It’s not okay.

I talked about the urgency of extending the ACA tax credits with Paging America.

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

He’ll fucking NO!