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On the ballot today:

-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50

This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.

October 18, 2025 Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...

October 18, 2025

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

PA voters will cast their ballots in one of the most consequential elections of the year: the state Supreme Court race. With three Democratic justices up for retention, the outcome of this contest could flip control of a court that decides election laws. https://bit.ly/3JeB3Ax

Tylenol and autism: What parents deserve to know Nuance and empowerment instead of underestimation.

7/ If you’d like to read a more in depth breakdown of this or read about the studies referenced, click here
👉 yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/tylenol-an...

Love,
The YLE Team

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

“Everyone’s smiling in cities with troops.” Oh good, we finally nailed the North Korea aesthetic.

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

The #TrumpShutdown in 36 seconds 👏🏼

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

I didn’t know this was happening.

That’s a problem. But it is!

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Dear @apnews.com

The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

Fix your headline.

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Europe 'no longer at peace' with Russia, Germany's Merz says "Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance ... we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sept. 29.

⚡️Europe 'no longer at peace' with Russia, Germany's Merz says.

"Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance ... we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sept. 29.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies.

It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check.

Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous.

Or a boat full of fishermen.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

Noah catalogued every living animal in pairs and was hyperfocused on boats.

Don’t tell me autism started with Tylenol.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

In case you missed it ... Jimmy Kimmel's return.

youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

The most important thing to know about Trump’s acetaminophen announcement is that the GOP is still hiding the Epstein files

So many coverups.

Release the Epstein files.

Release the Homan tapes.

Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

I’m literally going to take some Tylenol for the headache he just gave me.

GOP lawmaker makes blockbuster claim: FBI has at least 20 names of suspected Epstein clients “We know these people exist in the FBI files, the files that you control.”

The Epstein Files.

www.miamiherald.com/article31214...

"Vaccines are safe. They are life-saving, and I would encourage any parent who is concerned about whether or not their child should get a vaccine to talk to their pediatrician to understand the benefits of these life-saving medical products..."

— Former CDC director Susan Monarez

Goddamn. You can’t even have principles and make ice cream because people are too afraid of Trump

YouTube video by Let's Do Some Effing Good The 14 Traits of All Fascist Governments

People are still adamantly defensive when you bring up the possibility that trump and co. could be fascists. Fortunately for us, the work of identifying fascism wherever it turns up has already been done. We just have to check off a list. youtu.be/Z0s6lEm7HbM