🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃

Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless Powerful men often proclaim baseless accusations to be a ‘witch hunt.’ But American witch trials have always targeted a persecuted minority: women.

Too rich. Too poor. Too many kids. Childless. There were many reasons a woman might find herself accused of being a witch in early America. #Halloween

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Theme Park Apologizes After “Human Centipede” Sculpture Horrifies Visitors Turns out some fairy tales really do end in the digestive tract.

LIJIANG, China — A theme park has apologized after several of its “family-friendly” sculptures were described by horrified visitors as “something Guillermo del Toro would delete from his nightmares for being too much.” Read more below...

#China #grotesque #NIGHTMARE #scary #themepark #OddNews

This is exactly the kind of forward thinking we need right now, exquisite work

Surprise surprise.

Plus ça change …

When the new CBA was signed and included:

-50% of revenue goes to players
-Rosters of 14
-Rest days mandated
-Retirement $ + health care
-Referee pay and training ☝️
-More staff - trainers, medical, nutrition, coaches
-Required facility & travel standards
-More maternity protections & family support

By rebranding genocidal rhetoric and violent misogyny as “edgy jokes,” JD Vance provides a permission structure for extremism. And he’s signaling to the next generation of Republican leaders that this language is not a career-ender but an acceptable way to signal loyalty to the MAGA base.

Exhibit A:

While I'm glad to see so many GOP groups condemn this rhetoric, it's still not lost that after 2016 they won't condemn similar rhetoric coming from their party's president or president's proxies, where it's either ignored or rationalized away.

Bravo for that extremely niche-level reference. 👏👏

Not gonna lie toddlers absolutely nailed it with naps, buttered noodles, and rejecting authority

It's really a great, almost perfect movie.

These guys destroyed USAID (budget $28bn) causing a potential 14m preventable deaths by 2030 because the deficit but can find $40bn to bail out their buddies who stand to lose money in an Argentinian crash.

And the kid is also pretty turned off to Democrats after the Israeli-Gaza war.

I've spent a *lot* of time explaining to my 16yo that everything got a lot more terrible right around the same time that he was 7 or so. The kids about to go to college have no conception of what it meant to be a Bush/McCain/Romney Republican. I've had to show historical interviews (=YouTube clips).

All right they did a good job of making it entertaining for the older Millennials with lots of jokes and references to the 90s.

And (Secret World of) Alex Mack is the mom.

And the dog Dude obviously reminds us all of Wishbone.

Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton indicted by DoJ Move is latest by justice department against US president’s critics

Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton indicted by DoJ on.ft.com/496KE6U

Trump proposed cutting WIC for low-income families The Trump administration said it will use tariff revenue to cover WIC during the government shutdown. But President Donald Trump’s budget proposal includes a nearly $300 million cut for WIC.

The Trump administration said it will use tariff revenue to cover WIC during the government shutdown. But President Donald Trump’s budget proposal includes a nearly $300 million cut for WIC.

White House releases plan to broaden access to IVF, fertility drugs President Donald Trump announced guidance encouraging employers to offer fertility benefits and a plan to cut the cost of fertility drugs.

Breaking news: President Trump announced two initiatives that he said would make IVF more accessible and affordable: encouraging employers to offer fertility benefits and reducing the cost of Gonal-F, a fertility medication.

Public service announcement for all who celebrate:

Meeting Trump in Budapest is perfect. That's where we promised never to invade Ukraine in the first place.

On the plus side... maybe this is how we'll eventually get to LCARS in the Federation?

(Or maybe another step toward the Eugenics Wars first?)

#StarTrek

Me on BlueSky: Recognizing this vital point we should all agree on doesn't require full agreement with everything else you say.

BlueSky: But it does though.

DOJ Will Ask Grand Jury to Indict Trump Critic Bolton Thursday The Justice Department will ask a grand jury Thursday afternoon in Greenbelt, Md., to indict John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who became one of his fiercest critics, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department will ask a grand jury Thursday afternoon in Greenbelt, Md., to indict John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who became one of his fiercest critics, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Una terapia experimental salva la vida de más de medio centenar de niños con una enfermedad letal El tratamiento, que se administra una sola vez y listo, ha permitido que la niña Eliana Nachem, encerrada en su casa para evitar infecciones, salga al mundo

Y hoy, en Viva la ciencia:

Una terapia experimental salva la vida de más de medio centenar de niños con una enfermedad letal
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Erin Hanson (American, b.1981)
"Texan Sky," 2013
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 in
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

Rewatching HBO’s Rome. Seems appropriate. Just finished the episode where (SPOILER) Cassius and Brutus die.

RIP Ray Stevenson.

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you