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Hanging with the happy couple at their welcome party last night. We’re so excited to celebrate the wedding of our niece Kelly and our soon-to-be nephew Josh!

Flying to Atlanta, so of course I had to wear my @puddlespityparty.bsky.social t-shirt!

12 Polling Places Move Before Mississippi Special Elections, 4 Close County election officials in Mississippi have moved 12 polling places and closed four since 2024, an MFP investigation finds.

County election officials in Mississippi have moved 12 polling places and closed four since 2024, an MFP investigation finds. Voters in 18 counties are headed to the polls for Mississippi’s 10 legislative special elections on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Did online retailers stop putting receipts in packages to discourage returns?

More cute dogs of Santa Cruz!

B and I went downtown to see the festivities and ended up judging a dog costume contest! Yes, it was as cute as you would imagine. Pupdemonium! The Charlotte‘s Web pair & Bob Ross were some of our favorites, but they were all winners. #WholesomeHalloween #dogs #halloween #SantaCruz

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Great framing.

I truly LOATHE the iOS 26 changes. Why, Apple , why??

... severed economic aid to Colombia in a tantrum, threatened to crack down on NYC, announced drug prices would be coming down "500 percent," claimed Pete Buttigieg tried to fix the air traffic system with "glass wire," and committed probably a dozen other crimes we've already forgotten about.

... called several African American politicians "low IQ," called all Democrats terrorists, insisted the 7 million Americans who protested his regime were all paid, showed a video of him flying a jet and dropping shit all over them, sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up a fellow dipshit tyrant ...

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Absolutely!

I went to Recchiuti Confections today and bought 16 Konas and a box of Force Noir. I may have gotten carried away. #chocolate #happiness @jackyrecchiuti.bsky.social

It’s raining today. Such a stark contrast to our sunny and relaxing water taxi ride in the yacht harbor yesterday. #SantaCruz

Eggnog, peppermint, and pumpkin ice cream, oh my! I ❤️ them all! #icecream

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

We just spotted our neighbors’ sweet cat wearing this new tag. He would like us all to know that it’s not true. The indignity.

Now that this is settled, just release the Epstein files.

Église de la Sainte-Famile in Ha’apiti, Moorea #NoFilter

a small brown dog leaps up from behind a pile of crunchy brown leaves. her eyes and mouth are open wide, and her big floppy ears are extended out like wings to either side.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

It’s easy to take democracy for granted. It’s easy to assume that the Constitution is in stone. It’s not.

This is a moment when your courage and your activism are most needed.

My husband and I were out of town and sorry to have missed you. Hope to see you on your next visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz. 🤞🏻

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

Justice Eddins went even further in a concurrence joined by two other justices. He flamed the U.S. Supreme Court for choosing to "steamroll" the First Amendment's separation of church and state by mandating government support of religion. He wrote: The federal wall cracks. The Supreme Court's recent religious clause cases wreck the relationship between free exercise and non-establishment.... The Roberts Court casually dismisses the lessons of American and world history, the warnings of prominent early Americans, and the judiciary's storied legal minds. Bad things happen unless government and religion are completely separated. Justice Eddins also wrote about something you and I have been talking about for a long time, which is the conservative supermajority making up facts. He called out Kennedy v. Bremerton, the notorious "praying coach" case, writing: "As it often does, the Court repackaged and whitewashed facts to achieve a desired outcome." This is the same point that Sherrilyn Ifill has made on the show about how the record in that case, and so many others, is ignored.

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court.

He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

At the beach in Moorea today, when this sweet piggy waded right by me & then strolled onto the sand. No one knew where she had come from.

Bought this rhum agricole beauty at Pari Pari Distillery.

Flashdance Finny!!!

Pointe Venus Lighthouse, the first lighthouse of the South Pacific. It was designed by Thomas Stevenson, father of Robert Louis Stevenson.