Who’s This “We?”

Saw a witch. Followed the witch. Then two, three, four, a dozen more witches.. so followed some more.. until finally, at last, we found all of the witches. #HappyHalloween 🎃

J’ai stole le Joconde et maintenant elle est ma femme

Hon hon hon joyeaux ween de hallo

Read up-🧵for context. (summary: 3 degrees C of global warming is NOT benign.)

Daniel’s observation — that wealthy / tech meisters are probably just as divorced from the complexity of Earth’s systems as they appear — is not reassuring.

Unclothed emperors will be Earth’s doom.

I would love for someone to write a book on this precise thing. Some offerings:
-half of ICE is HSI: Homeland Security Investigations, detectives instead of beat cops, have traditionally been a big force against being too aggro. That culture filters up to leadership and back down to ERO.

One Jays fan: “should go to bed but what if i just stared into the void some more”

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

“…the more wealth is accumulated in a few hands, the more responsibility for the climate crisis is concentrated among a small number of powerful individuals, who use their money and influence to deny, delay and distract from emissions reductions.” (via 💩 they💰.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Those aren’t pumpkins, they‘re abominations. Naturally, kids love ‘em.

Trump is or is becoming the Leviathan And it's really not good

This is the most-read post on my Rhetorical Tricks substack. I hope it helps. It's where I explain my unified theory of how to understand and predict Trump's actions in his second term.
jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-o...

Stephen and I, Justin. Stephen and I. (the annoying ghost of your old English teacher.)

Confusing bluntness and authenticity is like accepting the WWA as the proper context for governance.

The U.S. is enroute to structural Federal nihilism + kleptocracy, enforced by autocratic thuggishness. How state & local governments deal with this permanent change will be interesting.

It’s best to not be Terminally Online, especially since now and then, someone will translate and summarize the joke, like the way you can tune into a soap opera twice a year without missing much plot or character development.

Snapshot from one current hurricane model prediction depicting highly extreme rainfall occurring over portions of Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba. Uncertainly is high, but the risk of catastrophic flooding is growing.

Snapshot from one current hurricane model prediction depicting highly extreme rainfall occurring over portions of Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba. Uncertainly is high, but the risk of catastrophic flooding is growing.

Snapshot from one current hurricane model prediction depicting highly extreme rainfall occurring over portions of Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba. Uncertainly is high, but the risk of catastrophic flooding is growing.

Latest model projections regarding #Melissa are painting an increasingly dire scenario for Jamaica and possibly western Hispaniola (esp. Haiti) in terms of widespread risk of catastrophic flooding from exceptional rainfall amounts--possibly exceeding 3-4 feet (30-40+ inches).

Testing her/his skills using pepper spray in a light wind. Also showing off the glamorous seasonal weight gain.

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

Yikes! I knew this would be a big number, but I didn't imagine it would be THAT big--over one-third of GDP growth since 2000 is recovering from and preparing for disasters. This seems unsustainable. Maybe we should change some things?

I’d bake half a dozen, stash them in the fridge, and toss one in my bag for lunch, like an apple. Toppings-shmoppings.

Spud Drive In Update: Hope in moving forward The Spud Drive-In Theatre has the potential of still making it through the legalities of the building process and to be under construction this summer.

Till the screen blew over in 2022, you could order Spud Buds, watch movies, and stay in a cabin at The Spud Drive-In near Driggs, ID. Up with The Spud. 🥔 www.tetonvalleynews.net/community/sp...

Supreme Court ruling: "This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

levernews.com/book

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... both? Canadian pilot recreates Blue Jays logo on flight path On Tuesday morning, a pilot left Halifax International Airport at 11:27 a.m. Atlantic Daylight Time headed to Debert, a small farming town just north of the capital city of Nova Scotia.

Attaboys, Blue Jays and pilot: www.mlb.com/news/canadia...

See, Toronto must win tonight to keep Seattle earthquake-free. 🧢

“I born for this.” 🧢

Highway of Death Locals call for change on US 212, called the Highway of Death in Southeastern Montana.

A new University of Montana J-School documentary about 140 lethal miles of U.S. Highway 212 that pass through the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations, southeast Montana. #CarViolence watch.montanapbs.org/video/highwa...

The West's power grid could be stitched together — if red and blue states buy in • Source New Mexico For years, leaders in 11 Western states have debated the creation of a regional energy market: a coordinated grid to pool solar power in Arizona, wind in Wyoming, hydro in Washington and battery stora...

“We could be drawing on the solar resources from the Southwest during the day, and then in the evening the wind resources in Montana and Wyoming ...We have a lot of hydro resources, and we can help make sure the regional grid stays balanced when those are needed.”

sourcenm.com/2025/10/13/r...

To an unmannered U.S. tourist, this video is highly entertaining in several ways. (Our local version: the bagpiper whose practice sessions under the bridge set off neighborhood car alarms.

Before their reincarnation as The Paddleheads🫎⚾️, The Missoula Ospreys’ slogan was “So much fun you’ll drop your fish.” Maybe Humpy got carried to and dropped in Lake Pend Oreille, and the rest is history.

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds 😡😡😡

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Your Halloween soundtrack: wfmu.org/playlists/IS

Laughter is medicine. G’night all

What did Frank and Deborah Popper get right and wrong about the Great Plains in their famous Buffalo Commons paper?

(I have thoughts - also interviewed them recently - but curious about others)

knrc.org/Files/MtNRC/...

“It's really not, bc private investors will tolerate vast amounts of authoritarianism/corruption (see: investment in 🇨🇳 etc. over the last 30 years) & bc baseline growth prospects in 🇪🇺/🇯🇵/etc. were far below 🇺🇸 in January 2025, & because there is nowhere else to go at scale:”

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