Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino was walking in Waukegan, Illinois, when residents followed and shouted, “You’re a bitch!”

Every Supreme Court verdict should require written majority & minority opinions of a minimum length, signed, in order to be considered binding. The use of the shadow docket to cloak cowardice in darkness must end. There's no emergency so pressing that a judge can't dash off a freaking paragraph.

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is.

Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right?

If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS.

No one should have that much.

Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."

Not now, carnivorous death ball

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”

Ellis turns to the testimony of U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. How he denied using force against a man he tackled and said he didn't see the Rev. David Black hit by pepperballs.

"More telling," she says, "defendant Bovino admitted that he lied."

Ellis: "The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion."

Ellis: "This is the Chicagoland I see. From Aurora to Cicero, and Chicago to Evanston to Waukegan. This is a vibrant place, brimming with vitality and hope. Striving to move forward from its complicated history."

Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

this is like that time I put on a Kraftwerk cd and my friend's mom came running in like "oh! did you get the printer fixed?!!"

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

This person took this when they called the race

Five guys with the f and the E light off

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

(Non-derogatory! Really enjoying Bird School!)

I’m listening to Bird School now, so I have to wonder if that’s a parody or a brilliant double bluff.

Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?"

Two Illinois Guardsmen claim to have sworn an oath over orders, stating that they will not turn on their city

In a major victory, a court ruled the Trump administration must use emergency funds to provide food stamps to Americans.
 
No one should choose between paying bills and buying groceries.
 
We'll continue our lawsuit to fight for our families and the services they deserve.

That a federal judge had to block the Trump administration from pushing millions of Americans into hunger says everything about this President and the party he leads.

Grateful to our Attorney General for being on the frontlines of this fight.

Worth remembering…

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

Wall at Philbrook Museum in Tulsa displaying examples of Joe Brainard’s work, giving some context to his “presence” in The (Tulsa-centric) Lowdown.

I’ve developed a weird love for Tulsa, too. I visited Philbrook last weekend and was chuffed to see a wall of Joe Brainard/Lowdown-related stuff there.

Post something random or you’ll have an awful November.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."