Sure, let's just add that to the pile. It's frankly the most impactful timing the union could achieve.

Wannabe tyrant desperate.

Forecasters expected the country's gross domestic product — the total value of goods and services produced in the U.S. — to come in at 2.6% in the three-month period ended in September, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet. The latest GDP figure is down slightly from the second quarter's growth of 3%.

The American economy, the world's biggest, has shown surprising resilience in the face of sharply higher borrowing rates as the Federal Reserve tightened monetary policy in a bid to tame inflation. Despite widespread predictions that the economy would succumb to a recession, however, it has kept growing, with hiring and consumer spending holding steady.

What is happening with editorial boards is not normal. You need to understand this first.

They are not part of the newsroom, so anyone telling you that is lying. What happened at the LAT and WaPo are the beginning. Have you not read history? They come for you. You just think it's more steps away.

More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The Washington Post Co.'s status as a privately held company.

Elections for state supreme courts have finally begun to receive more of the attention they deserve, but thousands of other judicial elections in the United States—which have an enormous impact on how justice is dispensed—remain largely overlooked.

Many of these races are nearly as important as those for supreme courts, particularly elections for intermediate appellate courts. These bodies, which typically sit between the trial courts where disputes are first heard and the supreme courts that hold the power of final review, collectively hear far more cases than supreme courts. In many proceedings, therefore, those intermediate courts wind up having the last word.

This is the craziness we face in Texas in one tidy package. There are a lot of well-meaning public servants below the state level. (And yes, I know this could easily trigger ACAB responses, but I like to reserve those for when someone is actually being a bastard. It's not like we're lacking opportunity.)

[Bexar County {home to San Antonio} Sheriff Javier] Salazar said there have been several minor incidents since early voting started in the county, including a "swatting-type call." He said he wanted to "bring down the tone of what's going on out there."

"Look, nothing here is worth getting hurt for going to jail for. This election is going to happen one way or another," Salazar said. "One side is going to win; one side is going to lose. That's just the nature of things.

"But there's no sense picking up a criminal case, picking up a criminal history -- or injuring or even killing somebody in the name of politics. It just doesn't make any sense."

Mrs. Hedge and I are trying to figure out the best way to psychologically prepare ourselves for a 2nd Trump term . . . any suggestions for this would be greatly appreciated. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I really wish every part of this was somehow surprising.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that NOAA is designating 4,543 square miles of coastal and offshore waters along 116 miles of California’s central coast as America’s 17th national marine sanctuary. Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will conserve the area’s diverse range of marine life and celebrate Indigenous peoples’ connections to the region. It is the third largest sanctuary in the National Marine Sanctuary System.

“The recent decision by commissioner-appointed committee members has outraged not just our community, but the country as a whole,” said Teresa Kenney, a Montgomery County resident and founder of the Village Books store. “Nowhere in the approved policy is it under the committee’s purview to determine whose history is fact or fiction.”

At an Oct. 22 meeting, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court issued a stay against all actions of the citizens reconsideration committee since Oct. 1 and put any future decisions on hold.

The commissioners also created another committee to review and revise library policy, including the rules around the citizens reconsideration group. It will be made up of employees from different commissioners' offices and advised by the county attorney’s office.

I haven't donated money, but I can confirm that the messages are constant and very pleading in tone. Honestly they turn me off from donating at all.

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Climate scientists are in clear agreement that in order to avoid ever-worsening disasters and disruptions to our societies, the world must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The policies put in place over the next few years will determine what the future climate looks like and what threats the world will face. The U.S. is crucial to this effort. And in the 2024 presidential election contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, voters have a choice between diametrically opposed visions of what the country must do. “When it comes to climate change, the contrast between Trump and Harris could not be more stark,” says Leah Stokes, a University of California, Santa Barbara, political scientist who focuses on energy and climate.

To provide a broad look at how potential policies under Harris or Trump would shape future U.S. emissions, Orvis’s team at EI used its Energy Policy Simulator, an open-source computer model. The researchers compared current policies under the Biden-Harris administration with more ambitious policies that achieve a target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and with the policies laid out in Project 2025. They found that the latter scenario “basically stops the progress that’s been made,” Orvis says. And even if current policies aren’t enough to meet international climate goals, any progress that can be made is crucial because “each tenth of a degree [of warming] is more damaging than the previous one.”

I have no words.

A hopeful and unexpected drop in U.S. drug overdose deaths appears to be gaining speed. Fatal overdoses are down 12.7%, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It marks another significant improvement from last month, when surveys showed roughly a 10.6% drop in fatalities from street drugs.