San Francisco, a beautiful & eff'ed up place. - As always, GFY Musk

Psst - quit railing on Speaker MAGA Mike. It won't do any good, he's a fanatic.

Start hanging him around the neck of the Republicans in Biden districts.

#Politics #CoSoPolitics

Real #GunControlNow
Relatives, Army Reserve friends, told authorities Card was deteriorating mentally and had access to firearms. #Maine Massacre
Gift link:
https://wapo.st/3MoRed7

The IRS is building a free digital tax filing system so you won't have to pay for TurboTax etc. The GOP's offsets for the Israel war funds strips funding for it.
#IRS #Israel

In case you missed it, the USA and NATO winning the Cold War was all for nothing.
https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1718734283815211350

Youngkin ‘purge’ removed nearly 3,400 legal Virginia voters from rolls
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More on Gov. Youngkin's purge of legal voters, which is belatedly being corrected 5 weeks after early voting for General Assembly elections began.

This follows delaying processing of about 256,000 "motor voter" registrations, in 2022, and pulling Virginia out of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

#Politics #Virginia #GlennYoungkin #ElectionShenanigans

"Gift" Washington Post
https://wapo.st/477NaG2

Earlier today, videos went viral of a mob of people in Makhachkala, Dagestan, hunting for Jews at the airport. The mob stormed the airport because of a rumor about a plane from Tel Aviv, Israel, touching down.

The anti-Jewish narratives we have seen since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel are absolute poison.

In the Middle Ages, rumors spread about Jews like "blood libel," the idea that Jews engaged in ritualistic murder. This blood libel myth lived on and was a popular talking point in Der Stürmer, a major Nazi-affiliated tabloid. Some of this blood libel narrative continues to spread in conspiracy theory groups online.

Delisting species due to extinction is a ‘‘wake-up call on the importance of conserving imperiled species before it’s too late’’

21 Species Removed From The Endangered Species Act Due To Extinction | USFWS CenterForBiologicalDiversity

by @grrlscientist

#SciComm #ESA #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/10/17/twenty-one-species-removed-from-the-endangered-species-act-due-to-extinction/

CNN reports Justice Alito’s Rome trip, following his decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was funded by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative – a group that supported the Roe overturn.
#SCOTUS
https://www.rawstory.com/justice-samuel-alito/

Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/28/politics/pence-suspends-campaign-for-president

The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.

#GOP

Robert Card found dead.

Per my friend who is a cop in Maine.

#Russia

Speaker Mike Johnson tonight: “Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.”
#RadicalSpeaker

https://twitter.com/i/status/1717718043525099743

The attempted assassination of former #Ukrainian MP and Russian collaborator and propagandist Oleh Tsaryov in the annexed Crimea was a special operation of the Security Service of #Ukraine . His condition is critical, a source in the SBU told hromadske.

Doctors are allegedly fighting for Tsaryov's life, but "there is a good chance that he will [not survive]."

A little something about that thing we euphemistically call Climate Change...

Quote: “A nightmare scenario is unfolding.”

Those are not words you want to hear from the National Hurricane Center. Otis was supposed to hit Acapulco, Mexico, as a tropical storm, but when it made landfall on Wednesday, it was a Category 5 hurricane—stunning the scientists who had been tracking it.

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Number of mass shootings this year:

Canada: 4
Australia: 1
United Kingdom: 1
USA : 560+. FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY!

Next time you're chanting. "USA, USA" ; you should consider chanting "please don't shoot, please don't shoot"

Disclosure: I'm a gun owner.

Personally, I don't think it's a violation of shit to remove someone's access to guns if they threaten to shoot up their workplace and are experiencing a diagnosed mental health crisis.

Screw up your credit once and it's perfectly legal for businesses to charge you usury rates for seven years.

We do more to protect money than people.