I can never think of a decent spooky-halloween variation on my name.

If there was room I'd just put "Roy 'candy corn or some shit' Pardee".

That is some grade-A top quality choice flameage right there.

Got-DAMN

Whooo! 🔥 🔥 🔥
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/alito-supreme-court-texas-abortion/620339/

My DW and I are leisurely going through Ted Lasso (just got appletv like a month ago--we're like 5 eps in) and I am trying really hard not to learn whatever this blockbuster thing that happens at the end of season 2.

That's via @JulianCastro on the bird site.

well, this is fucking horrifying.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2021/10/06/a-dallas-paramedic-had-a-history-of-disciplinary-problems-then-he-kicked-a-homeless-man-in-the-face/

WaPo opinion page firing on all cylinders today

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/im-no-democrat-im-voting-exclusively-democrats-save-our-democracy/

A-fucking-men

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/media-are-finally-waking-up-rolling-coup-they-must-take-side-democracy/

Have we done this one already? Once again--prepare to be shocked
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-boogaloo-boy-admits-court-123000681.html

Schiff: Republican Party “is now an autocratic cult around Donald Trump.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/schiff-republican-party-autocratic-cult-donald-trump.html

TODO: read this
It's Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda. - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/disinformation-propaganda-amplification-ampliganda/620334/

Frances Haugen wasn’t the first whistleblower at Facebook - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/08/facebook-whistleblowers-public-integrity-haugen/

Donnie Darko holds up, if anybody was wondering.

Excellent read
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/10/08/portland-oregon-history-political-violence-skinheads-antifa-murder/

Here's hoping...
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/10/latest-revelations-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-house-of-zuckerberg

The Washington Post: Trump’s favorite channel, One America News, was never ‘news’ at all
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/one-america-news-herring-trump-reuters/2021/10/08/b439a2f8-283d-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html

Ugh, a woman from my Indivisible group is running for City Council and I butted in on the campaign to convince them to do text-banking, which I volunteered to head up. Well, it looks like that requires incorporation, and lots of general red tape.

I fear I have just wasted everybody's time & a small bit of money in fees. :(