People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read “Jack and the Beanstalk” are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegseth’s livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.

If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

“But we went ahead and took the government contract.” All these contractors need to be put out of business for going along with this stuff.

This is clearly not acceptable

I just got a response from the National Guard, which says troops “are directed not to monitor or secure polling locations” and is “addressing this specific instance.”

I’m writing more! This was a great read. Only v1 of 3 though!

DON’T YOU ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME, hotel outlet!

But that would be a spoiler!

We are never getting out of the hole that we have dug ourselves without an end to the bipartisan culture of elite impunity that has flourished for decades

I think that one of the most important messages that candidates like Ossoff communicate when they openly condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists is “I’m confident that I can win without the support of people who think I’m out of line here.”