Benjamin Willard, River Guide

Trump and the GOP are doing 100 wildly illegal things daily, and NYT is all “BREAKING” over Peltola’s advisers doing something sneaky but legal and common.

The racist attacks on AES seem pretty clearly to be dual purpose, 1. Try to rile up the base and get them to turn out, and 2. Run cover for Jared Kushner’s slush fund thing.

Ted Cruz, noted passionate porn supporter.

The Google/Gemini thing with the 2020 election is concerning not only because the billionaires are manipulating the truth to harm us, but because it appears the super duper intelligence we’re all spending trillions on is easily fooled.

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

The Meidas reporting on the calamitous lack of preparation and its consequences to US service members and their families at Middle East bases is pretty incredible. Hegseth will either be fired or he’ll be impeached and resign. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Shot: Chaser:

Team, is it good if the judge requires all participating attorneys to refile and sign an existing filing for Rule 11 purposes?

The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

Traitor.

No, BBC, we don’t call them moose here. Or stags.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

I love it when Bama, Georgia and Texas all lose.

He is a traitor, obviously. Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Legislation www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Aside from this being an old act, the closer we get to election day, the more desperate the lies will get. We’re already at free money of various kinds, trans surgery in schools, prices are really lower not higher, all Dems are communists, high interest rates are good, and more.

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

I mean, this was their explicit threat in 2022 and 2024. Trump has openly weaponized the executive branch against his political opponents and bitches that his minions aren’t doing enough.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Having the distinct feeling this morning that as the consequences for the fascists become clearer, they’ll go to ever more desperate lengths to stay in power. Not a great feeling.

Three days: sanctioning the international criminal court, announcing that the firing-squad execution of NH will be live-streamed, investigating the WH press on bogus antitrust charges, searching IO’s home on transparently pretextual immigration charges, financing Putin, jettisoning Zelensky.

I get effectively zero engagement with my own posts. Wondering what is the point.

I have reached the “wide awake at 4:30 am so I may as well get up, every morning” stage of being over 60.

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."

Really hate having to cheer for IU to get its shit together so NU keeps that quality loss.

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

The GOP attracts the absolute worst people to elected office, especially in the MAGA era. Frauds, sex pests, crooks, bigots, philanderers, batterers, you name it.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

We’ll see, but it’s looking like “it’s the economy, stupid” also applied to fascists.

These MAGA “conferences” seem to just be opportunities for the rubes to see lesser tier right wing celebrities throw red meat at them. There’s no actual policy discussion. Just the grifters and those from whom they grift.

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

Unmentioned is the $100MM/week cost of the naval blockade, the skyrocketing insurance cost for transiting the strait, and the much higher cost of overland transportation.

Ow fuck my eyes rolled out of my head

This has been obvious for a year. GOP voters are not switching, but staying home. I’ve been saying it. Turns out it’s not enough just to allow folks to let out their inner racist. You have to not intentionally make their everyday lives worse. Who knew. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

Imagine being Michael Dell and waking up in the middle of the night and seeing those eyebrows up close.

Today in entirety unsurprising events.

Toddler Economics. So childish and stupid.

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

Man who wants to make big decisions incapable of making decisions.

Biased, but ranking Pitt ahead of Northwestern is crap.

Huskies got fucked on that PI call.

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie

The right wing scare ads during football games today are really gross. Anti-trans, anti-immigrant. These people have no actual ideas to make people’s lives better. It’s all scapegoating and grievance.

Good morning and rank Northwestern.