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I do like October

This movie. Good grief. Yes, you should see it. No, you may not love it. And also, the car chase.

Actual footage of me sending in my absentee Virginia ballot 🇺🇸

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Stephen Miller's Shadow Military: The Quantico Warning How a MAGA ideologue built a parallel command system to direct military strikes, purge resistant officers, and prepare troops for domestic deployment

This is what you need to read to get what happened at Quantico …

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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

I had one of those right-place-right-time moments a few years back and got to spend a morning with her with a small group, discussing her work and her thoughts about it, the world, human nature … I think about it often.

What a remarkable person.

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Apparently not

President Trump was met by silence as he began his Quantico address, a contrast from the rousing applause he expects at his speeches.

“I’ve never walked into a room so silent before,” Trump said. “If you want to applaud, you applaud.” wapo.st/4mGmnYI

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Amelia Earhart. 😂

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Last week on #TheWeekUnspun, @farzanabaduel.bsky.social, @tbonegallagher.bsky.social and Doug Downs, broke down the Week’s news stories wearing their PR hats.

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YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

Don’t worry: it’s administration-compliant humor.

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We are remembering two different Charlie Kirks The way we see Charlie Kirk, his life and death, and indeed, nearly everything, is determined less by the facts than by our personal paradigms. Less by the truth than by our algorithms. This past w…

Saw this from a friend who teaches history at Baylor University and I think I will post it every time someone starts telling me who Charlie Kirk was.

It’s not short and you’ll probably have to read a part or two that irritates you before getting it … h/t EC

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I suddenly get it. My high school English teacher assigned a lot of dystopian fiction.

She was sent back in time to warn me!

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From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times: From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK
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My grandmother gave me this book 50+ years ago and it’s terrifying.

No wonder I’m so weird.

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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages.

That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI

London scenes

I think I disagree, at least in part. He looked terrible, sounded terrible and time is not on his side. He may have kicked the can down the road for a week or two, but he didn’t fully bat away the kicked-the-can rumour, either.