Mercenary Apothecary

I win

I'm just from the Midwest, not Chicago, and even I know that...

We can hope, but I wouldn't expect it. He gets to stay in power until a majority of the Democratic senators demand otherwise, and I've yet to hear a single Democratic senator explicitly call for new leadership in the wake of this epic collapse.

I give up.

It is just shocking to see how far they have fallen.

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

Rome every time.

The Louvre has been robbed the same week the new pope has talked about shutting down Opus Dei. Have the police interviewed Dan Brown yet? 🤔

#ETTD

Guessing you were at Farm Aid too... and yes, Dylan was completely incomprehensible. Most of the time, I honestly wasn't even sure he was singing in English.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Reporter wants Trump analysis

@mattwisnefske.bsky.social So true.....

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

I haven't checked prices around here yet, but if they are anything like this in my neck of the woods, Halloween may not be a thing this year. These prices are insane.

This, honestly, had not even occurred to me as a reason for his post.... that would be phenomenally disturbing.

I think this is the correct interpretation. There's probably room for these numbers to drop a little more (5-10%), but the floor on Trump support is likely in the 30-35% range.

That Kavanaugh Stop did not go as planned.

#ETTD

Discovery is gonna be wild...

Now, today, this time, for everyone at the UN wondering about what they just saw there 👉
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in Wisconsin, said he was told the grant was apparently flagged bc of the words "transition" (as in, transitioning from childhood to adulthood) and "privilege" (one parent said it was a privilege to work with the program's staff).

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If professors can be fired for discussing topics not explicitly mentioned in the course description and/or not toeing the ideological line of elected political leaders, there is no academic freedom in Texas.

Lemme speak with directness and a sense of urgency about our most important economic threats, and what history teaches us about moments like this.

It's classic monarchical behavior. By definition the King is never wrong, so anything that goes badly must be because of the advisors around the King.