Calming Influence

“Foster’s body camera footage makes clear that he positioned himself in front of the vehicle, aimed his gun at the car, and fired the fatal shot into the passenger side window after the car was moving past him and posed no threat.” theintercept.com/2026/10/23/k...

It's time to defund Elon. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

Rachel Maddow: Trump Sets Bad Policy Time Bomb for After Midterms: ‘Politically Insane’ #blogpost

and his people ... studying very dilapidated golf course. ... AL: "Burgum and people" -- that refers to you? GW: don't know. AL: you see others? you said someone identified on left who was part of President's staff. who was it? GW: natalie harp. AL: post says work will begin 9/1 GW: yes. /75

“Your Honor, I read the Bible and I never saw this Jesus fellow in there.” “Did you read the whole book?” “No, I did not.”

At 10am Judge Ana Reyes will begin an evidentiary hearing in the golf course case at 10am. I'll try to live-blog from the US Courthouse media room for @lawfaremedia.org . This is a case to stop Trump from converting a historic public golf course, open to all, to a Trump style championship course.

Find an adjective with no moral overtones whatsoever: “Nimble.”

Republicans have run Georgia's governor's office since 2003 and the legislature since 2005. This is their record. ❌ 2nd highest uninsured rate in America: 1.3 million people. One of 10 states refusing full Medicaid expansion

Why are racists refusing to do the jobs they clawed back from immigrants?

Just look at the Epstein Files. Trump was saved by a system that puts white wealthy men above the law. If other white wealthy men put Trump in jail, their own criminal acts and degenerate lives are at risk, so they protect each other. This goes beyond party lines.

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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This is life under Republican party rule. And I say Republican because THEY'RE in on it. I swear to Christ, if anyone here is encouraging others not to vote in the midterms, FUCK YOU. And ESPECIALLY don't take advice from foreigners. Why would you do that????

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The war will end, I am sure people will return. I do not know what percentage will return. It will depend on what I said: education, on parents who did not allow their children to forget Ukraine — in their hearts, in their minds, in everything.

Gas prices in Mountain West and other state where people think nothing of driving a few hundred miles for say a high school football game would seem to be a particularly big X factor

While top officials publicly spar over whether Pennsylvanians are dying of measles, a midwife in Amish country believes the outbreak is so bad she wants to be able to carry the MMR vaccine herself.

PeaceHealth, one of Whatcom County’s largest employers, is laying off 17 local employees and 150 systemwide as it outsources its IT services to a company in India.

They could tell you the mission, but then they'd have to kill you. Psych! They're going to kill you anyway.

“To play in venues that silence anyone advocating for Free Palestine is simply not an option for us… most of the audience supported @macklemore… the real enemy is the Zionist lobby. Up the workers. Free Palestine.” @edsheeran’s band Beoga reminding us what moral clarity is

They keep this up a 56-44 senate could happen 😳🤞🏻

If only the Minneapolis charter commission was still alive to see what they've done.

Might be a reason that the Constitution requires congressional authorization—which would be accompanied by public debate and deliberation—before going to war.

James Talarico: I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m. I wish our government would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish our government would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars.

Patel cast doubt on the pro-victim storyline because the same rules changes allow for people who have stolen from their employers to be considered for the FBI.Is it only people who've stolen from their human trafficker employers? Are human traffickers employers?

We get all of the "advice" for our spending, the little we have to spend, while billionaires ride on private jets to pedophilia islands and hang out on yachts.

The Hunter Biden cryptocurrency story is ridiculous. The corruption in this country has to end, no matter who it is. It’s out of control.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is facing sharp criticism after suggesting that federal agents could be deployed to polling stations during elections, a move that many experts warn would violate federal law....

The most dangerous person is the moron who thinks he knows everything with the ability to wreck the fortunes of a country and harm its people. We’ve had many bad presidents, but there was just nobody close to this bad.

Rob Sand: "I think I'm the better choice to be your next governor, and I'll start with this — I don't think you're gonna get a full-time governor out of a part-time Iowan…So I feel pretty comfortable saying he's a part-time Iowan."

OSC closed The Steady State’s Hatch Act complaint against Secretary Pete Hegseth just one day after receiving it. Our FOIA request found no records showing how OSC reached that decision. No investigative notes, legal analysis, or case-opening/closing documents. We’re appealing: zurl.co/5RXX5

From all that has been said and unearthed and agreed on regarding Epstein This Ar$ewipe has been front and centre from the get-go It was his money that started Epstein on the path to infamy www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

pedo-bot money is now in at least 15 midterm contests Musk spends his dirty money in key midterm races www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

He wished it on a whole bunch of anyones. He just didn’t think he’d wind up being one of the anyones.

The USPS whistleblower letter raises a whole sort of overarching problem with all of Trump's illegal plots and schemes. Even if they don't come to fruition, they create the prospect for chaos come election, which is his ultimate hole card. I did a longer youtube on this youtu.be/-37uKOQw88E

Alarm Bells Go Off: #TrumpElectionSabotage Escalates, Johnson Moves to Dodge #EpsteinVote, #Iran Strikes Resume, Apple Caves aaronparnas.substack.com/p/alarm-bell...

Make MapQuest Great Again

Video is also 9:25 long...

Perfect image of Trump’s disinformation strategy.

Had he lived, Patrick Depailler would be turning 82 today. But, like too many in his era of #F1, he was killed in action, testing an Alfa at Hockenheim in ’80. Even so, let’s enjoy this famous pic of his & Ronnie Peterson’s 12-wheeled Tyrrell drift at Interlagos in ’77.

JAMES BOND (ejecting Friendly Fires CD from 2008 Prius CD player): Bollocks

i love being a stupid american watching a crime show set in London. The showrunners are like "We're going to show you the GRIT and the SEEDY UNDERBELLY of this TEEMING METROPOLIS... 2000 YEARS OF SHIT GOING DOWN" and I'm like "yay :) london :) rainy :) double decker bus :) :)"