Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman

Live by conspiracy theories, die by conspiracy theories.

After all the drama abt this “new ad” Cenk Uyghur’s group was dropping in Michigan and how it was tied to Netanyahu starting Iran War … he just grabbed & tried to get more mileage from an ad he made for his failed 2024 prez run when he was blaming egg prices on Israel. See the date of the tweet.

The EU is fighting Elon Musk's Starlink on at least five fronts. From blocking access and boosting rivals to drafting new rules aimed at undermining the tech mogul's growing dominance in the space business.

Cartoonist: Jimmy Margulies

Anwar Sadat (President of Egypt) won a Nobel Peace Prize. You know who didn’t.

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Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Note: Comey accepted a job in the private sector on Dec. 20, 2025, and her backpay will be calculated from her firing through that date.

Oct. 26, 1926: A tiger named El Tex at the Houston zoo attacks an out-of-town zookeeper who had been invited to enter the big cat’s enclosure for an inspection. Visitor C.A. Wilson from Minot, N.D., suffers a bite on the shoulder and a clawed face before El Tex’s keeper shoots and kills the tiger.

Underrated but so important! boltsmag.org/your-state-b...

local12.com/news/local/q... the Ramaswamy ad includes "a few shots of the woman's husband Vernon Edwards, who was convicted of gross sexual imposition in 2006 for molesting several of his nieces under the age of 13." at least they're consistent?

This is a near perfect article whose only defect is the fact that it refers to them as Dan Sullivans rather than the correct Dans Sullivan. www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan...

Kiss of death

3.6 points is actually lower than the average historical error on vote margin of second-round polls in Brazil

So far no sign of a response from Trump on Truth Social. Should be epic when it happens. 😜

David Jolly: "The problem in this environment is not that I used to be a Republican. It's that Byron Donalds still is one."

"Why can't a Tyrannosaurus Rex play basketball?" "Because he's dead."

It's interesting that Musk has replaced the Koch Bros as the big political funder the left hates, while Soros has not really been replaced as the right's hate figure. In any case, all these guys lose many battles. Money isn't everything in politics.

If you’re just catching up, an appeals court heard arguments on Sunday in the Trump administration’s case against California. It did not go (and should not have gone) well for DOJ. That and more at Law Dork:

Also, the D.C. Cheesecake Factory-to-National Media pipline is real, having produced me, Ashley Parker of the Atlantic and Lynsea Garrison of the NYT. Kids, go wait tables or sling drinks at a bar for a summer or a year. It's a great bit of life experience with transferable skills. Not even kidding.

In Brazil, it appears that voters who opted for eliminated first-round candidates roughly broke even in the runoff (even if the candidates leaned right). But the big difference was: Millions of voters who cast 'null' or 'blank' ballots in the first round then voted for Lula.

TODAY'S QUESTION: Was Lula's win in Brazil a Trump Administration intelligence failure – as in, Trump told his agencies to help Bolsonaro win and Bolsonaro didn't win?

THESIS: The United States (as the Executive) lacks standing to bring its election case against Alaska. As the state has resolved concerns about possible confusion to its own satisfaction, any ensuing concerns would be for the Senate to resolve. #Sullivan storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Whatever the election outcome in Brazil, Reuters' timestamp on this story is confusing: Stamped ~18 hours ago, but saying it was updated 3 minutes ago. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Judge Sanchez questioning DOJ figuring out who is noncitizens from envelopes: "My name is Gabriel Sanchez. I guarantee you there are many Gabriel Sanchezes in Los Angeles County."

THESIS: The United States (as the Executive) lacks standing to bring its election case against Alaska. As the state has resolved concerns about possible confusion to its own satisfaction, any ensuing concerns would be for the Senate to resolve. #Sullivan storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The "and even" is making me laugh. Never change, TNR.

NIXON: When the President does it, that means it's not illegal. TRUMP: When the President says it's unfair, that means it's illegal. (NB: Trump's is an addendum)

A common experiment in phishing research is testing which personality types are resilient to phishing. It turns out every test gets different results, because everyone is vulnerable to emails crafted tor their personality. It's dangerous to trust someone who knows you and is trying to trick you.

Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’ zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...

Earlier I meant to share the NYT version of the story about Trump stealing Alaska's natural gas and giving it to Russia. Here's that story, the same story as FT. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

In a moment of candor, a MAGA legal commentator argues that it’s acceptable (even savvy) for the Trump administration to abuse the legal process with a meritless lawsuit to flood the zone with partisan electoral talking points he agrees with. Cynical, but honest.

Oct. 24, 1926: Y.A. Tittle, a sturdy quarterback who played 17 NFL seasons and led the New York Giants to three championship games in a late-career surge, is born (as Yelberton Abraham) in Marshall, Texas. A classic 1964 photo of him, dazed and bleeding from a hit, captured him as an aging warrior.

Trump said he had to takeover Greenland to keep China and Russia out. And then he snuck Russia onto the North Slope. Literally just ... inviting them in. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

But how do they get the vegans to feed them? phys.org/news/2026-10...

A bunch of people talked about the letter Davey Hearn's lawyers sent to DOJ IG, a follow-up re DOJ IG's refusal to do an investigation. But the earlier letter they sent described an abuse that wasn't public before: Pirro mobbing their defense expert. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Time segments, as determined by the Trump White House: The Scaramucci — 11 days The Zacharia — 5 days The McHenry — < 1 day pagesix.com/2026/10/23/s...

One thing I've been trying to do is to RT Colin McDonald's weekly "here are all the low-level frauds by brown people we magnified this week" by listing Trump's frauds. It's HARD!!! For example I missed Lindsey's bribery. And a Ken Paxton fraud. Gonna have to start crowd-sourcing this...

6/ Price said the state’s policy not to monitor workers is meant to allow farmers to decide whether to contact the health dept, rather than “forcing it on them.” “If we started seeing people actively dying from this, obviously that would change how we respond to this,” she said.