Malevolently Curious

Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad targeting Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse backfired. It prompted Ohio’s largest newspaper, The Plain Dealer, to reverse its policy on political endorsements and endorse Acton for governor.

Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has defeated right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff to secure a fourth non-consecutive term.

“Nothing bad happens in the puppy box.” More than a million people have watched “Puppy Live,” a round-the-clock livestream of newborn puppies in Finland. The cameras will roll until the pups go to their permanent homes in December. nyti.ms/4zgQxZB

The vaccine is personalized to a patient’s tumor, and results from the Phase 3 trial are yet another example of the promise of mRNA vaccines in treating cancer.

Everyone from Virginia Woolf to Joan Didion has something to say about Wuthering Heights.

Trump made the most bizarre noise mid-sentence at his rally in South Carolina

I remember when media did a whole bunch of stories about Joe Biden’s shoes to emphasize that he was old. But Trump can randomly blurt out random noises, fall asleep constantly in meetings, and walk like a drunk failing a sobriety test, and we get almost nothing.

The Starlink system used by Ukraine’s military was suffering from low speeds limits early on Friday, despite President Trump saying that SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk had restored the service.

So the new Bond Villains look interesting...

The Ebola epidemic that began in the DRC earlier this year has achieved a grim new milestone, turning up in a third region of the African continent, the widest footprint of any Ebola outbreak to date. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/h...

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The US is now an ally with Russia versus NATO and the West...helped by Much and Thiel and other technofascists...the rest of theworld has to think what that means...new allainces and trade, stop buying weapons US controls..a new world order of the Rational

A life-sized statue of #climate denier Florida governor Ron DeSantis unveiled and promptly began melting. The structure was cast from solid gallium, a metal that melts at 85.6F (29.8C). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Zali Steggall unloads on Pauline Hanson’s disgraceful finger-pointing and politicisation following the attack on Helen Haines. says she has a long history of spreading hate in the country “sells & pushes hate & division non stop” “Helen is the complete opposite”💯 Yup.

Code for AI will destroy your kid's chances of getting a job...and it is already happening

Trump's policies raised costs for all but the top 1%, report says

Trailer for Musk doco...y'know before he helps Russia kill more Ukrainians.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

"The candidate no longer labels herself “ULTRA MAGA” on social media. She removed a “Trump Endorsed” banner from her website and took down a photo of herself and Trump. Her yard signs no longer proclaim Trump’s endorsement or mention her party affiliation..." www.texastribune.org/2026/10/14/t...

Damn Elon Musk to Hell for cutting off Ukraine’s access to StarLink just because they blew up the Russian bot farms liking his racist posts.

Even Trump who has no empathy knows how bad it looks to shoot a paraplegic on TV...well now we have the line...look in the mirror America...

Never has a President known less about anything despite thousands of people ready with any information and the fucking security briefing he gfets every morning which would say Russia attacked Ukraine again!!!!

This El Niño may reach heights by the end of the year that have never been observed before. Here’s how: https://wapo.st/4xv4wcU

Completely insane

Deters also paid $200,000 to Donald Trump Jr. and $100,000 to Eric Trump.

The age of leftist vs right wing governance is practically dead; what we have left is democracy vs kleptocracy; the common good vs greed and violence. We all need to adapt and redraw the lines and define (or redefine) who we all are as nations, as allies, and as a people.

Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.

I don’t think Kid Rock should continue to call himself Kid when he looks 102 years old

A24's incredible merch collection now includes a Robert Pattinson Nesting Doll set.

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)

My leading theory is that with his complete lack of emotional intelligence and clear neurodivergence, he just thinks everybody is stupid and he's doing some Giradian mind trick on us.

This, constantly.

Trump told Tucker: “In the end, we all die anyway. So it doesn’t matter.”

Record heat again on the Mount Hotham,AUSTRALIA Warmest September night on record re-broken with a Minimum Temperature of 8.6C.

same day 😬

quite enjoying this

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The American age of global dominance that followed World War II was bound to end eventually, Phillips Payson O’Brien writes—“What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived”:

Think about what Fox hosts are now defending: A president who says that he will borrow $1.2 trillion more dollars to give everyone a check, which future generations will have to pay back, but only if his political party wins the next election. If they don’t win, you get nothing.

A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill.

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

I enforced OGE rules professionally and it is flat illegal for a civil servant to even buy coffee for another of the same title who has a slightly smaller base salary because they started a year apart

NEW: Meta published hundreds of AI child abuse ads after its filters failed to catch them. Some included images of real children, a teenage member of a European royal family among them. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/meta-f...

"Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on America without a single Iranian soldier firing a rifle. Hegseth obsessing over soldiers’ physical fitness in 2026 is like a European general fixating on his troops’ horsemanship in 1940."

Did they ask if he was the genius who scheduled it on opening night of the NFL when the two teams on TV are playing a rematch of the Super Bowl? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Hey remember when we just murdered Ecuadorian fishermen because they somehow had drugs but now we don't give a shit though we will completely arm a narcostate

I don’t know how many members of the military will receive the message but it simply could not be clearer that this administration doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone it’s putting in harm’s way