Pardon the Corruption Trump’s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren’t only about settling scores from past elections. They’re about laying the groundwork to subvert future ones.

"But the true message—the prospective message—is that pardons will be available to everyone who joins him in election subversion in 2026 and 2028. This wave of preemptive pardons is a permission slip, an encouragement for election subversion in the future."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?

Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

MAGA lifeguard

LOTR - everyone bands together, despite millenia of infighting, grudges & hatred amongst themselves, to defeat the powermad tryant determined to enslave the world & destroy the environment.

I don't think the wingnuts read the same book as the rest of us.

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With all due respect, you're not going to get past "internal recriminations" unless and until the current congressional leadership steps aside.

This echoes the conservative counterargument to union rights a century ago, the so-called "liberty of contract."

As FDR's Interior Secretary Harold Ickes noted, that kind of "liberty" merely gave helpless individuals the freedom to "drive a bargain with a great corporation."

Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

London's High Court slams oligarchs Kolomoisky and Boholiubov with a $3 billion bill for looting Ukraine's biggest bank through sham loans that drained $5.5 billion, nearly toppling the system. #Corruption

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Based on everything I’ve seen of Sim’s, I’m not surprised. Hugely disappointed, but not surprised.

Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.

#photography #picoftheday
#nature #fall #together #curious

Never hurts to ask

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Doubling Canada’s non-U.S. exports is actually easy

Doubling non-U.S. exports over the coming decade is easier than you might think. But truly boosting our economy requires much more.

My latest for @TheHubCanada on the PM's speech last week: thehub.ca/2025/10/30/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Budget 2025 Homepage — Part of Budget 2025.

Canada's 2025 Federal Budget is now out. All documents are available here: budget.canada.ca/2025/home-a... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation Yes, tariffs are hurting us. No, Trump wasn’t right.

So today's Substack about the impact of tariffs concluded:

"in many ways the level of the tariffs is less important than the huge uncertainty Trump’s policies have created. And that uncertainty hasn’t abated at all."

Ya don't say. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Burchett is Burchetting again.

Photo taken from a high-rise roof looking down shows a massive crowd of people in and around Fountain Square in Evanston, IL for the No Kings protest on Oct. 18, 2025.

No Kings protest today at Fountain Square in Evanston, IL, taken from the Rotary Building by Jean Saunders -- Evanston showed up 👀

HAPPY PRIDE ORLANDO!!! And shoutout to everyone who attended No Kings right before. Our biggest pride yet. We proudly believe in justice for the LGBTQ+ & Immigrant community. No to authoritarians scapegoating our people in order to consolidate power and make money. No ICE in the sunshine state 🙅🏾‍♂️

Over 7 million people went to No Kings today.

Most states don’t have 7 million people in them.

Organizers of No Kings report official turnout today at nearly 7 million, 2 million more than the first No Kings.

The movement is growing. You'd better give up, Cankles McTaco Tits. We won't stop until the Epstein files are released and you're removed from power.

The three largest protests in American history all happened under Trump:

No Kings – October 18, 2025
No Kings – June 14, 2025
Women’s March – January 21, 2017

Now, more than ever, the Declaration of Independence is putting us to the test.

In addition to the No Kings parade, there were marching bands from 55 high schools across California having a percussion competition and parade. 🥁

Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king

Initial estimate for No Kings Twin Cities at 100,000! So many Minnesotans SHOWED UP to protect our communities, our country and our democracy that the 1+ mile march route looped back and found thousands hadn’t even left the starting point! 👏❌👑

Someone in Sacramento made these great 'Protest Cookies' for the No Kings rally

No Kings protests held across U.S., overseas to demonstrate against Trump administration

Nearly 90,000 join Seattle’s ‘No Kings’ march Rep. Pramila Jayapal called the moment a test of whether America can keep its republic.

1/ We need to have a chat about Seattle Police and how they're handling the No Kings protests. They've been really… good. It's a marked departure in both tone and tactics from SPD's approach to protests in the past, and I think it could be a model for police forces nationwide.
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No Kings protest - Portland