Carolyn Fiddler

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

a man wearing a green shirt is making a sad face . ALT: a man wearing a green shirt is making a sad face .

Perspective check from a friend:

Her: Remember how excited you were the day that @nicklutsko.bsky.social's Ends dropped?

Me: Hell yup

Her: That's how excited normal people are about Taylor Swift's album release today

Me: OhhHHHhhhh

Damage from Trump's $8B energy hit list would spill into GOP districts The department targeted 16 blue states when canceling financial awards for 223 energy projects. But both parties will feel the impact.

Yesterday Trump and Vought announced they'll cancel infrastructure projects in states with Dem Senators. This is deeply corrupt.

Trump and Vought will raise electricity prices for millions of Americans and kill jobs including in districts represented by Republicans.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Before the 2024 election, immigration was Trump's strongest issue so it was good campaign strategy to tie everything to it no matter how tenuous the relationship. Now people hate what Trump's actually done, so the connection will not magically turn people around to support Republicans

Sticker that reads "the pedo president funded pedo island"

Spotted on the Orange Line this morning

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment and US citizens were among those detained for hours. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

[[LOLs in IR major]]

FCC chairman leads “cruel” vote to take Wi-Fi access away from school kids FCC Republicans kill funding for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and Wi-Fi on school buses.

Here's some more about the Trump FCC's decision on Monday to kill two popular programs that helped bring free Wi-Fi to poor rural school kids (at no additional cost to taxpayers):

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Checking in on a friend tonight: "As long as I'm happy living in a gray void, I'm good"

what a time to be alive

Yup, It’s Spooky Time

It's October! Happy @nicklutsko.bsky.social season to all who observe
open.spotify.com/playlist/08u...

Yes I am bad and should feel bad

More like Passé Comitatus amirite

Yes because Democrats are definitely the party with majority control of federal government rn

This morning we announced our new Economic Justice Section & Working Families Unit in presentations to the Senate Committee on Labor & Business and House Committee on Commerce & Consumer Protection.

This move will double our capacity to protect against scams & predatory practices. #orpol

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

This is, quite simply, a lie. Government shutdowns have never triggered layoffs before because government shutdowns have nothing to do with layoffs.

Threatening Duolingo email

This is a threat

Voters Elected Her to Congress. Mike Johnson Is Making Her Wait. “At this point, I can’t hire staff. We don’t have an office. I can’t get around without being escorted,” Arizona’s incoming House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, said Tuesday.

Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort

I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol

More on her limbo status here:
www.notus.org/congress/ade...

Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?

Solar and wind power have finally become important sources of energy in recent years. But the reason they have grown rapidly while coal has declined isn’t that the chardonnay set considers coal unfashionable. It’s the simple fact that coal is no longer cost-competitive, while wind and solar are.

Former NCGOP official to oversee state elections boards after GOP legislature’s power play Dallas Woodhouse led the North Carolina state Republican Party for years.

"A former director of the North Carolina Republican Party — who resigned amid election fraud and corruption scandals — has been appointed to a new role overseeing North Carolina's state and local election officials..."

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Please note that, unlike the president, the deputy chief of staff does not have immunity from prosecution for official acts per Trump v. United States

gibbering insanity

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

Knew what this was going to be before hitting play. Was not disappointed.

I'd be lying if I said I was angry about him getting fired (what he tried to get away with was truly moronic trash) but I'd also be lying if I said I'm angry he's back

When you read 1984 as an aspirational tale instead of a cautionary one:

When Trump tries to indict his political enemies on pretextual grounds, grand jurors have the option of refusing to indict. When prosecutors ask for a conviction, jurors can refuse to convict. The Trump administration can treat this government of the people as his own mob enforcers, but the people need not acquiesce. When Trump abuses his power to settle political scores, the people can choose to nullify.

Trump’s political prosecutions require members of the public—specifically jurors—to go along with him. Every time Trump wants to prosecute one of his political enemies, the people should say: no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nice of him to make it CRYSTAL CLEAR that Trump & the Republican Majority will own a shutdown, period.