Bardswan Brenda

We have had an influx of gnats lately too

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?

Unlike in Missouri and other states, if North Carolina Republicans redistrict, there is nothing Democrats can do about it. The only hope of stopping this is through protests and phone calls…and then if it passes, organizing in such a way that we overcome the new maps.

Ready

Those are harrowing numbers

CA, CO, MD, NJ & NM are all retooling and expanding existing supplemental financial subsidy programs, while IL, WA and even AR are each newly embracing full-bore "Premium Alignment" pricing strategies to maximize the remaining federal tax credits, and NV has a 2-part plan to cut down gross premiums.

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

"Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, is reported to have fled...On Saturday, some Capsat soldiers had posted a video...: “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Rather than it being a “hate-America” rally, Saturday’s No Kings rally is an opportunity for all of us who love America to express our determination that our nation’s ideals not be crushed by the Trump regime. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/theyre-calling-it-a-hate-america

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king:
“He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto wallet was created Friday.

It literally started shorting the market, with Bitcoin & Etherum shorts, JUST BEFORE Trump posted about tariffs.

It last short was placed at 4:49 PM EST.

Trump posted at 4:50PM EST.

It made nearly $200 million in profits.

Unusual.

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

The Guardian: Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/meta-ai-adviser-robby-starbuck

#meta #AI #LLMs #Facebook #disinformation

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

Angry elf reveals who is truly behind the cruel immigration enforcement. Will Trump care that Miller is openly taking credit for it? Or is his dementia that far gone?

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

This is beyond disgusting and totally toxic. These states need serious psychiatric help. Unfuckingreal

#USDemocracy

The film "NO" about the plebiscite that took down Pinochet has definitely influenced my advocacy. The lesson was, if you seem fun and upbeat, even in very serious times, the public is much more likely to stand with you.

These folks are doing it right!

WTAF?

GOP Rep Says Rural Areas Will Just Have to Deal With Hospitals Closing Representative Mike Flood isn’t worried about the fact that Donald Trump’s bill will force hospitals to close.

GOP Rep Says Rural Areas Will Just Have to Deal With Hospitals Closing

newrepublic.com/post/201546/...

Republicans said NO to our military getting paid

FUN FACT:

Our military is not being paid,

but the ICE gremlins are.

Make that make sense.

Bernie and AOC

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are doing a Town Hall on CNN this Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 9:00 PM (Eastern Time)

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

The horrific South Carolina abortion ban that lawmakers held a hearing on last week would also consider it “aiding and abetting” an abortion to host or maintain a website that informs women and pregnant people how to obtain an abortion. First Amendment attacks on abortion are coming

Russ Vought v @russvought The RIFs have begun. 12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.