Steve Elworth

Scott is refusing to play the game and exposing the entire "philanthropy" scam. The main thing I want you to remember is that her gifts are a threat to a multi-billion dollar complex funded by the world's richest people. People with big PR teams and virtually unlimited resources at their disposal.

Well hell yeah

Thank you Rep. Katie Porter for everything you have done to protect Medicare and for your incredible advocacy for mental health legislation in Congress. I can’t wait to see what you do next! 🙏💜

If you have had enough, tell all your followers on BlueSky that it's time to #EndGunViolenceNow!

Our kids deserve to grow up safe and free from gun violence. It's time to put their lives ahead of guns. We can build a future where no parent has to bury their child due to senseless gun violence.

Remember, Tulsi Gabbard claimed Assad didn’t use chemical weapons, it was “the rebels.”

Her confirmation hearing will be brutal, if she even makes it to there

I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.

Antidoping Agency Froze Out Investigators Who Warned About China The World Anti-Doping Agency’s investigative unit highlighted intelligence about Chinese athletes possibly using a banned medication, but were kept out of the loop when 23 swimmers tested positive for...

Breaking News: Top leaders at the World Anti-Doping Agency froze out their own investigators after they flagged concerns about doping among Chinese athletes.

100% accurate.

do I have this right? Joe Biden is expected to run a letter-perfect presidency and Kamala Harris was expected to run a flawless campaign, but Donald Trump is allowed to shit all over everything we hold dear, and the press can't even be bothered to take notice? what in the actual fuck

You, me and Bartelby

Yes. I know them
Both.

if Hunter Biden failing to pay his taxes on time has you outraged, wait until you hear about the guy who tried to overthrow his own government because he was mad about being a big fucking loser, and then stole classified docs and stashed them in his golf motel AND THEN GOT AWAY WITH ALL OF IT

Whatever you are for I am against it. And the football game between Huxley and Darwin
Swordfish. Thelma Todd

Horse Feathers

Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

She was at the conference with her husband & children, and "irritated" Hegseth when she asked him to stop harassing other women. She “didn’t remember anything until she was in Hegseth’s hotel room... her memory of 6 to 9 hours 'was very hazy'... her husband was searching for her." wapo.st/4eumAu1

Peak shutting the barn door after the horse bolted, but this is a crappy day and this is genuinely good news that will make it easier for us to get judicial confirmations.

Call your senators, call the White House. No breaks, every vacancy gets a nominee, every nominee gets a vote.

Next time you're applying for a job, tell your prospective employer you'd prefer they not do a background check.

Let's see how that goes.

Garry Kasparov tweet: “The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.”

Keep this in mind for the road ahead:

The cover of a small pamphlet called The Adventures of Mr Tom Plump. Printed on Nassau Street in NYC. The cover depicts a large grinning man in a hat and a waistcoat with watch chain, holding a walking stick.

The first two pages, each with six panels and a caption below each. Tom’s early life and his decision to leave for California.

Stumbled upon this while looking for protocomics in our Historical Collection of Children’s Literature (aka HCCL or HISTCHIL).
Published in 1850, right here in NYC. Eight years after Töpffer debuts in the US.
A tragic tale of the Gold Rush and obesity.
In Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Seconded, with feeling.

Lots there that were new to me, and that is not a common occurrence.

Senate Poised to Advance Ukraine Bill as G.O.P. Splinters Pressure from hard-liners, including former President Donald J. Trump, has not swayed a coalition of Republican senators that has broken with the party to back the bill.

A bipartisan coalition of senators was on track Monday to push a $95 billion foreign aid package to the brink of passage. Pressure from hard-liners, including Donald Trump, has not swayed a group of GOP senators that has broken with the party to back it.

A bit of a digression, but Scientific American has been one of the biggest supporters of trans existence and trans rights of any major media org that exists and props to them for that.

The Moms for Liberty agenda is extreme. And most voters are rejecting it | Katrina vanden Heuvel The failure of rightwing ideologues to take over local school boards shows that voters simply won’t get behind them

A little happy news. These book banning choades lost a whopping 70% of their school board races across the country.

IOW, it will be a window into the daily, routine, insular culture of white evangelicalism. Something too many people have refused to see has been entwined in GOP politics, even when pols pretend to just be a regular guy/gal.

On sickness and conspiracy I woke up this morning on, October the fifth in the year of our lord 2023, and was not a zombie. This is notable for reasons which will shortly become clear. Because I am not a zombie, this means that...

Today on the blog I wrote about our tendancy to say medieval people were uniquely stupid while living alongside people who think the cellphone is gonna give you 5g zombie virus:
going-medieval.com/2023/10/05/o...