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I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.

lol

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The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

i don't think its expressed enough that we don't really have *a* government anymore. nationally policy is being directed and created by like roughly half a dozen factions (and maybe like 50 to 100 total individuals) on a totally incomprehensible and erratic basis

…which reminds me I need to finish a bunch of books I started and got distracted.

I mean when you hear the authors (Keri Blakinger, Piper Kerman, Matthew Cole, David McCloskey, etc) talk about their book and some of the stories that didn’t make it in the book due to lack of time, page count, whatever, it BLOWS my mind.

Argh. The struggle. And order on-line from independent bookstores or get in-person.

I can't tell who's having a theory of mind failure here but the idea Dort is presenting seems to be that people consider the GWOT to be a noble, worthwhile conflict rather than a pointless waste of blood and treasure where those people died and were maimed for nothing, is absurd to me

Stunned by some of the revelations in @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Aaron Davis’s book, “Injustice.” They report that AG Merrick Garland’s team was blindsided by the bombshell testimony of Meadows’s aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the Jan. 6 Committee. open.substack.com/pub/jimacosta/…

I'm sorry, the United States senator is a "guardian" of what country?

I feel like there's one correct answer here, and if that answer isn't "the United States," then we have an issue.

dang. Gonna have to miss a book signing because of work. Though, kinda brought it on myself since this is a natural outcome of a project, but arghh.

UPS Jet Lost an Engine Just Before Takeoff in Louisville, Official Said The aircraft’s left engine detached as the plane rolled toward takeoff, according to safety investigators. At least 11 people died after the plane plunged to the ground.

Breaking News: An engine fell off the UPS plane that crashed after takeoff in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, resulting in at least 11 deaths, officials said.

Coons on Oct. 29: Trump is "operating outside our framework, our system, where Congress declares war."

Coons today: Votes for Trump's agenda again.

BREAKING: The FAA will cut air traffic by 10% at 40 airports across the country starting Friday if shutdown continues. https://cnn.it/3Xfbhzs

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

Khan will get the headlines, but Torres Springer is pretty awesome

Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think New York’s next mayor won’t save the Democrats.

When Adams wins 700k votes he's the "Future of the Democratic Party" but when Zohran wins more than a million votes its nbd

How Israel is using ‘no war, no peace’ Lebanonisation model in Gaza Since a 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel has attacked Lebanon almost daily. Now, the pattern is repeating in Gaza.

Israel is using a 'no war, no peace' Lebanonisation model in Gaza, analysts say.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Appreciate him articulating this explicitly although people will continue to rationalize bsky.app/profile/atru...

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*

Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

Court conservatives suddenly worried about the expansion of executive power for the first time this century.

How sedated is he this morning

ah well, it was fun while it lasted

Voters in New Jersey and Virginia who said the economy was their number 1 issue voted 63-35 for Democrats last night.

That’s a sharp reversal from 2024, when Trump won economy voters by 60 points

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.