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Oct 31, 2026

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Happy Halloween, Everybody

💀 🧙‍♀️ 🎃 👻

MAGA:

I decided to teach my kids about socialism, so I let them go trick-or-treating by themselves, and when they got home, I took all their candy away from them. Socialism 101.

Normies:

The socialism part was the community generously pitching in to feed people. The capitalism part was when Daddy stole it all from them.

About Time

I have yet to hear a cogent argument against permanent standard time. It worked just fine for us for several hundred millennia. Why do we feel the need to fuck with it?

And it's not just a matter of "losing" or "gaining" an hour twice a year. For me, it's like losing a whole month twice a year. Instead of a nice relaxed transition, it's abrupt, and it always makes me think I've fallen behind - that I'm not prepared. I hate it.

Why daylight saving time should be eliminated entirely

Here is why sleep experts, doctors and scientists endorse ending Daylight Saving Time

Daylight saving time will end this weekend, much to the dismay of people who dread ending their workday in darkness. Some dislike the change so much that they want to make DST permanent – as legislation that passed the House in July and has President Donald Trump’s support would do.

On the surface, this might sound like a great idea. Who wouldn’t want more afternoon sunlight? But it would be terrible for people’s health, which is why many major medical organizations oppose it, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, American Academy of Neurology and American Medical Association. Instead, they advocate keeping standard time in place year-round.

Notice that with year-round DST, many more Americans would be waking up in the dark and going to school and work before sunrise. That might benefit recreational activities done later in the day, which is why the golf industry is a prominent proponent of making DST permanent. But it goes against human’s natural circadian rhythms, which rely on morning light to set internal clocks and regulate sleep-wake cycles.

In fact, exposure to daylight later in the evening “tends to keep us awake and delay when we wake up the next morning,” said Erik Herzog, a circadian biology researcher at Washington University in St. Louis.

Advocates for permanent DST are not wrong to want to end the biannual time change, which substantially disrupts people’s circadian rhythms. Multiple studies have documented increases in car crashes, heart attacks and workplace accidents, including medical errors, in the days following the time change. The spring transition is particularly disruptive because people lose an hour of sleep, which explains why a 2025 poll found that just 12 percent of Americans favor the current system.

The problem is that year-round DST would further deprive people of morning sunlight, especially during the winter months, when days are already short. A 2026 analysis of the nation’s 100 largest school districts found that if the policy were implemented, students in 94 of them would have to travel to school in darkness. In areas along the western edges of time zones, the sun would not rise until after 9 a.m on some days.

A new study in the journal Cell Biology estimated that year-round DST would result in more than 2 billion additional school commutes before sunrise each year. That’s concerning because children between the ages of 5 and 18 are more than twice as likely to die from pedestrian-vehicle collisions before sunrise as they are after. In fact, the United States already tried permanent DST in 1974 and abandoned it partly due to public outrage over schoolchildren killed while waiting in the dark at bus stops.

A wealth of research has also linked the transition to DST with other health risks, including heart rhythm abnormalities, strokes, obesity, diabetes and seasonal depression. Scientists have even found found higher rates of several cancers, including breast cancer and melanoma, among people living in the western portions of time zones with later sunrises.

“As soon as you switch into the next time zone as you’re moving west, suddenly the people living right next door seem to have lower rates of cancer,” Herzog said.

So what’s the best solution? The consensus among medical experts is that prioritizing daylight in the morning over the afternoon is paramount. That makes permanent standard time the best choice. The next best option would be to retain the twice-yearly clock changes but shorten the time in DST.

“The worst choice is permanent daylight saving time,” said Vishesh Kapur, a sleep medicine physician at University of Washington. That’s because it would create year-round misalignment between our biological clocks and the daylight cycle, he argued.

Arizona, Hawaii and all U.S. territories already observe standard time year-round, as do more than 60 percent of countries worldwide. U.S. lawmakers appear divided. Nineteen states have approved permanent DST, but many state bills also favor standard time. The federal bill that passed the House, the Sunshine Protection Act, has attracted bipartisan support, but so has a competing bill, the Sunshine for Our Kids Act, that would make standard time the national default.

As lawmakers weigh these options, they should consider what’s more important: an extra hour of golf after work, or safer children and a healthier population. As with all public health decisions, science can and should inform the debate, but the ultimate choice comes down to societal values.

The Close

It's looking more and more like a solid win for the Blue - 🤞🏻

So when there's reason to celebrate, let's do that, but even if election day proves to be that big ass blue wave, we've got at least 2 more years to fend off the MAGA fuckery which promises to be even more massive and intense than ever before.

Don't get happy

Don't get cocky

Get together

Get busy

Get shit done

Trump’s chaotic closing arguments are a sight to behold

The president’s fixation on physical appearances is a gift to Democrats in the midterms.

As President Donald Trump urges voters to pretend he is on the ballot while he makes his closing arguments before the midterms, no one has been happier than Democratic candidates.

By all means, they surely thought, please pretend the president with record-low approval ratings is on the ballot. If Trump wasn’t trying to help Democrats with his bizarre public admiration of male body parts, then he must be thoroughly confused, right? Either way, he’s not exactly ballot material at a time when his more-charming self is most needed. Then again, Trump is the most superficial president in American history. His gaudy gold obsession. His cabinet picks straight out of central casting. His manic, ego-driven need to rebuild D.C. in the image of himself.

Rather than help Republican candidates who needed him to deliver a strong closing argument during his last-pitch tour, Trump wallowed in self-amusement. He missed an opportunity to boost turnout on Election Day at a time when several key races are tight, even in some red states. What was he thinking?

Some analysts have noted that Trump equates leadership with masculinity. Instead of talking about candidates’ intellect, policies or accomplishments, he focuses on their physical attributes. Remarking on Ohio Sen. Jon Husted (R) at a recent rally, he said, “I started examining his body because I didn’t know he was a great athlete. … I watched up and down, and I looked at his ass. And then I looked at his hands; look at his hands, he’s got these, like, claws.”

He made a similar pronouncement during the 2024 election, when he spoke of Arnold Palmer’s manhood. “This man was strong and tough,” Trump said about the legendary golfer. “And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there and said, ‘Oh my god. That’s unbelievable.’”

Heavens. Who is this crassness for? And Palmer was such a gentleman.

But now Trump brings up physical appearances while elaborating on other men’s biceps, legs, shoulders, jawlines and faces.

Trump’s lack of self-awareness is well-known, but lately he’s achieved new heights of denial. Or perhaps I should say depths. Either he’s not worried about the impact of his declining approval ratings on the midterms or he’s gratuitously working his base into a lather for giggles.

Indeed, Trump might realize that even if Democrats take the House and Senate, he can veto anything they pass. Congress would need a two-thirds vote in each chamber to override him, which isn’t likely.

On the campaign trail, Trump has warned audiences that if Democrats win, the country will be consumed by an economic depression, open borders and chaos. Trump certainly has bragging rights for reducing illegal immigration, though his heartless methods trouble people on both sides of the aisle. He also claims to have reduced civilian violence by putting immigration agents and the National Guard on city streets, but, again, that offers no comfort to people who know what fascism looks like. As for chaos, Trump has been a longtime fan.

The disorder we’ve seen in the past two years has been the result of draconian Trump policies that have led to the shooting deaths of civilians and the mass incarceration of people who say they were denied due process. That’s chaos for you.

Republicans and independents who plan to vote for Democratic candidates aren’t necessarily endorsing liberal policies but likely are seeking to impose a balance of power and possibly achieve some financial relief. The common theme in Democratic campaigns has been cost-of-living issues affected by Trump’s erratic warmongering and tariff juggling. For the first time in more than a decade, voters trust Democrats more on the economy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. Trump’s approval rating for handling the economy has taken a nosedive.

Smart Republicans in competitive races have tried to distance themselves from Trump and his policies in the final stretch of their campaigns.

But the president is like a bad penny: He keeps showing up, and he’s no help to the GOP’s faltering future. The best thing that could happen to the Republican Party and the country would be for Trump to leave office gracefully when the time comes and for MAGA members of Congress to be defeated — for good, and for the good of all.