Haunted Haus

Vote, vote, vote. My wife and I filled out mail ballots and dropped them in a dropbox at the county building as soon as we could. Vote, vote, vote. It's so important this year. We can lose the rest of our Constitution if it's not a big blue wave. Make it too big to rig.

that food you can’t afford? you don’t need it anyway, fatty. and the gas you can’t afford? walk that fat ass to work! wait why aren’t you voting for us

Heartbreaking news on Instagram. #RIP

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation...

So the dumber gender lost today

A rare little serotonin surge tonight. Serbia, Brazil...

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

I've seen enough. It's a Lulapalooza!

From the story: "Is Vivek one of those 'really good people' that's on the ticket?," we asked the governor. After a long pause, DeWine said he wasn't referring to Ramaswamy.

Feeling left out of the discourse because I had no idea what a Cheesecake Factory is.

Changing my name to Dan Sullivan just for engagement

President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The most succinct Vivek/Trump/Vance commentary.

I loved and miss my iPod.

Solid story but crap headline ("It's Not Just Inflation") and lede ("Your parents may talk about how they scrimped in their 20s" in the 1980s). Of course it's inflation, that's the point of the story. And *I* was in my 20s in the 1980s. Am I not supposed to read this? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tomorrow, a 2,000-word Truth Social post doubling down on the word JAIIIIIIT very powerfully

Always and forever, J.D. Vance is Grover Dill.

He heard the word “pool” and thought that’s what it meant.

I've been noticing more news stories lately interpreting Trump statements with "by which he probably meant..." or "most likely referring to..." or some variant. Because he's too much of an idiot and too lazy to know or research what the fuck he's talking about ever.

Trump’s closing message to voters: Republican men are sizzlin hot.

Every Beatles Song 1968-70 Paul: Sad Clarissa Carter of the Circus Acrobats George: The Holy Light of Sol Invictus Shines through All Creation as our Ego Dies Ringo: SpongeBob’s Bubbly Bounce House John: I’m Starving and this Needle’s Stuck in my Arm, Aaaaaa

Oct. 18, 1926: Chuck Berry, the rock ’n’ roll pioneer who embodied the genre’s rebellious spirit with his rapid-fire guitar, showmanship and songs of teen life, is born in St. Louis. After such ’50s classics as “Johnny B. Goode” and “Roll Over Beethoven” he recorded one No. 1 hit, “My Ding-a-Ling.”

“They’re weird” has escalated to “they’re creepy.” Old Weird Donald and his hyenas just make your skin crawl.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

Me old home town.

Scaramuccinfreude

One door closes, another opens: You have to drop "attorney" from your job resumé, you get to add "White House press secretary (October 2026-October 2026)."

I remember this guy! Specifically, news coverage of the 1972 movie about him, which made quite a sensation. He was genuinely famous for 15 minutes. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/m...

Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland," one of comics' greatest graphic masterpieces—often still astonishing even after more than a century—first appeared on October 15, 1905. Here’s the debut:

Not shocking, but still somehow shocking.

The dog ate my assignment

Maybe it’s not a great idea to spread stupid rage-bait posts to dunk on them?

We're planning a public execution. We only admit white "refugees" from a former apartheid state. Our domestic security service uses white nationalist messaging. And the president routinely appears to encourage or endorse violence against his opponents & the media. Nothing subtle or complicated here.

If Trump doesn’t understand it, it’s rigged.

Interesting engagement contrast: this innocuous little thing, posted Monday night here and on Threads, has so far gotten around 1,500 likes and 162 comments over there. I have 52 Threads followers. Here, zilch. Not complaining; still prefer this place for politics, history, smarts. But interesting

President Neville Chamberlain, with Zelensky as Beneš.

Ruin a group name with a slight change Kings of Leno

So will we sanction ourselves for buying Russian diesel fuel?

Memories of 1960s school days that no one under 60 will relate to: sniffing the always fragrant blue ink on freshly mimeographed paper.