The Economist is endorsing Kamala Harris. By making Donald Trump leader of the free world, Americans would gamble with the economy, the rule of law and international peace. Voters who minimise the risks are deluding themselves

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/10/31/a-second-trump-term-comes-with-unacceptable-risks

Mike Johnson says one of Trump’s top priorities will be to repeal the Affordable Care Act and rip away health care from tens of millions of Americans: “No Obamacare”

Trump also has plans to cut Medicare and end Medicare price negotiations for drugs.

@JanetZumba_FalPals

I began at age 15. I stopped drinking coffee regularly 4 years ago.

FTC and DOJ File Comment with the U.S. Copyright Office Supporting Renewal and Expansion of Exemptions Facilitating Consumers’ and Businesses’ Right to Repair Their Own Products

Biden FTC allows businesses to fix their own equipment. Finally, McDonald's franchises can repair their own shake machines rather than waiting for the manufacturer to get around to doing it :)

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/03/ftc-doj-file-comment-us-copyright-office-supporting-renewal-expansion-exemptions-facilitating

Imports from China surge 11% as companies stockpile supplies in anticipation of possible Trump tariffs.

Let me state the obvious: Businesses wouldn't do this if they thought China is who would be paying the tariffs.

@sheseala

A basement step structure, or footing, helps distribute the weight of a building's walls across a larger area to prevent damage from concentrated pressure points. Footings are an essential part of a building's foundation and are usually installed inside a hole dug into the ground

@Opusworks

1. They are lying by misrepresenting a comment about a racist commedian at a hate rally.

2. Trump has called Americans garbage and scum literally dozens of times, not just a single racist commedian.

This is your periodic reminder that the Republican House of Representatives left without extending the PDA (Presidential Drawdown Authority), leaving the DoD unable to access 5.8 billion in previously approved funding for Ukraine military assistance.

Trump calling Americans "Garbage":

PA Dems suing Erie County for somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 mail ballots still undelivered.

‘I was the director of the Michigan Republican Party. I will vote for Kamala Harris.’

https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/i-was-the-director-of-the-michigan-republican-party-i-will-vote-for-kamala-harris,115386#google_vignette

Investment growth

Biden 9.4%
Trump: 3.9%

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"As it turns out, watching your ex pistol whip a muderous psychopath to death gives your ex PTSD, not a raging lady boner". -- Miles, Guns Akimbo.

Ohio Supreme Court finds attorney general erred in rejecting voting amendment based on title

Republican fuckery in Ohio ...

https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-amendment-ohio-court-56b7efe0df824780f89e445f1b72a037

On Wired, but it has a paywall :(

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

This is your reminder that the House left without extending the PDA (Presidential Drawdown Authority), so there's no way for DoD to use the remaining 5.8 billion previously approved by the House.

Which leaves DoD looking under the proverbial couch cusions to find funds they can use for Ukraine.

Neat trick by House Republicans, right?

I don't believe in racism because it's unscientific bullshit.

I do, however, believe in racists because they actually exist.