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When an administration is built on lies, truth becomes poisonous, & sharing it is a fireable offense.

Garland was fecklessness personified, but Biden chose him for a role he was utterly unprepared to fulfill. As autocracy continues its steady destruction of our democratic institutions, Biden looks more like a 21st century James Buchanan every day.

A wooden farm fence with metal gate; large fall-colored trees in the background, ornamental grasses and chrysanthemums in the foreground (lavender, yellow, and brick red).

Today's walk on the farm: ornamental grasses, colored leaves, and hardy mums (volunteers from last year).
#gardening #chrysanthemums #🌱

two men are talking and one of them says " you 've got to remember that these are just simple farmers ... " Alt: Famous “Blazing Saddles” scene where Gene Wilder as Jim explains hateful racism to Cleavon Little as Bart

Me neither, but you’ve got to remember that these are just real Americans. These are people of the land. The common clay of the 21st century. You know….

Corruption, illustrated. In any administration of the past 80 years - even during Trump I - this would be a massive, alarms-blaring, headline-making scandal. Now it’s just standard operating procedure, evidently.

the video being projected behind all the performers on stage

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

If Democrats brush off a Nazi tattoo as an innocent mistake, they're abandoning the ability to make effective arguments against Nazis across the aisle. It'd be an unforced error that would taint the party for generations, and rightly so.

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Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

In this time of racial division and threats to our nation's core values, voting Yes on Prop 50 is critical to farm workers and our communities. Be the voice for those who need it the most. #YesOnProp50

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Milky Wax

A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back

Good environmental news for a change: gotta take the wins wherever & whenever we find `em - we need all we can get! [gift link]

Dependency

Evergreen wisdom from Randall Munroe at @xkcd.com

Here is the long and short of it.

Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Photo of vintage adidas Pro Model high-top basketball shoes

We got adidas Pro Model high-tops for high school varsity hoops. I used Testors model paint to paint my black stripes white, then used black bootlaces instead of standard-issue white shoelaces for the full custom effect.

Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong

“You’re not coming in and out,” he says. Is there a mechanism to EVER get out, or are these just slave labor reeducation camps?

Sure, but that would be a “culture of permissiveness” - in Utah, evidently, no price is too high to enforce strict punitive notions of material wealth signifying moral worth.

A plea to all networks: Please make your picture look as good as NBC Last week, the NBA re-debuted on NBC to generally rave reviews thanks in part to a superior picture quality that makes other networks look like dog water.

Why does NBC seem to have superior picture quality compared to other networks? There is actually science behind it.

awfulannouncing.com/nbc/picture-...

Truth stranger than fiction, as ever!

In our conventional political discourse “elite” must NEVER refer to economic elites, the owner/donor rentseeking class.

He’s like Fetterman in flannel, trying to ride a similar wave of progressive & anti-establishment cultural signifiers into office. Now that unsavory aspects of his personal history are coming to light, he’s trying to DARVO his way through it. Empty barrels make the loudest noise.

Platner is not a victim of opposition research. This is what happens when you run for federal office. People scrutinize everything you’ve ever done. Every word and every action. Accountability does not exist in playing the victim of your own behavior.

ah, this guy was taken alive, unharmed, and there hasn't been an all-hands-on-deck freakout about What It Means. Guess the demographic!

How long before he blows it off, I wonder - this week? Next? Because you just know the fascists will be happy to get in a procedural pissing contest with a noncompliant judge.

Quaint notions of “truth” mean absolutely nothing to this authoritarian faction. We’re now fighting over the nature of reality itself, and AI slop is the fascists’ media napalm.

Opinion | Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming America

It’s clear to anyone who’s not deep in denial that “…the rising frequency of these [insider betting] scandals, and the public’s fading trust, points to an industry rotting from the inside — one that rewards corruption, punishes transparency and treats addiction as a business model.” [gift link]