Thankfully I already lack that kind of ego, because I have never felt more aesthetically ugly than after we moved to Portugal. These people are gorgeous. I call my dry cleaner the SuperModel Laundry. The couple who run it are heart-stopping. They are everywhere.

this is categorically insane

destroy Draftkings to save the national economy

Thomas HD@degolierthomas.bsky.social · 12h ago

in the two weeks since online gambling was banned in Brazil, nationwide retail spending rose 6.5% and 10% in the South and in areas of the Southeast.

So to get this straight: You can be an immigrant to America, do everything right, and get arrested right after your court hearing about legal status, OR you can be a shitbag fugitive from justice whose father is already in jail, and get an expedited U.S. visa.

For years, I would, on my birthday, squat my agex10 for one rep. That shit ended when I turned 52, but now that I have access to a gym with a belt squat machine, I can revive the tradition. Turn 65 in two weeks. That is *just* at the limit of the machine, which is 150kg on each side.

This is a breaking news story.

Injuries reported after two trains collide in Spain

This is a breaking news story.

aljazeera.com

I am practically alone in the fact that the last decade has made me more, not less, appreciative of the conventions of mainstream reporting. But the refusal to do more than to acknowledge yesterday's report from the House Judiciary Dems is beyond the pale

I would love to see the graph of horny young men who also decided, "I bet this target of my affection wants to see me naked." Maybe it's a lottalotta higher than I suspect.

Nashville Scene@nashvillescene.com · 23h ago

Republican congressional candidate Brent Taylor asks voters to forgive past sexual advances as "youthful indiscretions."

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

House Democrats Call for Special Counsel to Scrutinize Trump’s Ties to Epstein

The request comes as Democrats are working to paint Republicans as corrupt and highlight their plans to investigate Trump should they win the midterm elections.

nytimes.com

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Maybe the person who replaces Netanyahu is every bit as big a bloodthirsty piece of evil, but if you don't replace Netanyahu, then you never know.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

People voted for this. Let that sink in.

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social · 2d ago

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Losing out to Kane after his media blitz and then losing China. Not the 24 hours the big man had been hoping for.

More of the same. They say stuff that they know isn't true to feed meat to their base, who are cult members so they lap it up. Yes, they could search the interwebs. Would take five seconds. But they don't and won't, and Rs know they won't. And on it goes.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d ago

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

@themlg.bsky.social So did you do a thread on how mind-bendingly stupid "The Diplomat" was and I missed it?

Here is why I think there will not be a Blue Wave: The Republicans are absolute shits, but their voters will turn out for them -- abusers, shitbags, racists, whoever. Dem voters will not. Whatever issue is primary for them, if the candidate doesn't do it right, they don't turn out for them. Done.

if only someone had raised this risk beforehand wapo.st/3W3WdYo

Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning.

Firms that aligned with the president are preparing for a political pendulum swing — and a potential barrage of investigations.

wapo.st

This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

Lula Goes HARD

Alli DeJong@allidejong.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lula closing this election by saying that no sniveling nepo baby who never worked a day in his life was going to stand there and call him Nine Fingers when he lost his finger WORKING and how dare he insult the workers of Brazil… was about the sickest thing I have ever seen in my life

I still can't believe this is real. When I first saw reports my reaction was, "The Onion is really on point with this one." I don't understand any of this. Like, zero. I watched the video, and it's a little tyke wrecking folks.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

From my very own telly just now.

The Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for not putting him in jail when they had the chance. At the very least they should have made it impossible for him to run again. The did nothing and this is where we are now.

The USA’s failure to punish Trump for Jan 6th was just an historic betrayal of global democracy. What a shameful, abject and total failure of institutions and civil society.

Americans are just going to brunch and complaining about any candidate the Dem party offers up as being fatally flawed.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d ago

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Raises eyebrows at Abbott breaking the in-case-of-an-emergency, Sharia-law safety glass.

Abbott says opponent Hinojosa supports Sharia law

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ripped state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee in the Texas gubernatorial race, for an endorsement she received from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)…

thehill.com