Oct 31, 2022
David Waldman and KITM, never a blue checkmark and always passing that savings along to you. You know Elon Musk would never throw capitol willy-nilly at employees like KITM does with me. This weekend Elon’s Twitter employees worked overtime to fire other employees, so that half of them can fire the other half next weekend and so on, until things eventually get back to normal.
Happy Halloween! Finally, a holiday without sober reflection or celebration of higher ideals! Of course, the scariest costume should go to whoever dressed as rainbow fentanyl this year.
Real terror struck South Korea in a deadly crowd surge, and in a suspension bridge collapse in India.
Greg Dworkin delivers his horrifying raft o’ stories. Paul Pelosi attacked by a hammer wielding maniac bent on assassinating his wife is the stuff of which nightmares are made, although Republicans are terrified for different reasons than most. The GQP has been frightening followers with Nancy Pelosi for years, and this assailant is only one of their mob. Now they are frantically throwing every conspiracy, lie, and slur they can think of to escape.
Vanity Fair and ProPublica team up to scare us with Covid BS.
You know what’s really scary? How close the midterm elections have become. It wasn’t supposed to be close. The media looks for safety in old narratives.
Nevada’s secretary of state orders Nye County to halt hand counting of ballots although they might have made it to about a hundred by now. A small-town lawyer faced down election deniers in Georgia, as did a top North Carolina county official, with varying degrees of success. Ron DeSantis will make sure his election suppression sticks the next time.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back to work as President of Brazil, ousting Trump of the Tropics Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro promised he'd stage a coup if he lost and hasn’t gone back on that promise yet. Northern Ireland continues holding elections that solve nothing. The bravest people on earth are in Ukraine... both Ukrainians and Russians.