Scary Austin

Remember, every time MAGA is pissed off about something too, the GOP Congress critters fold. It happened with the national parks first in 2025. It happened with Epstein, and to what extent Trump refuses to release the files it damages him. Republicans are breaking ranks on Iran because MAGA is angry about that, too. I've been saying since early 2025 that this is all over once the Republican Congress critters are more afraid of the people than they are of Trump, and that this will happen.

It's already underway. I am in the process of voting, just waiting on a couple of conversations to get some more info on local matters. We can all lock in, vote, help others vote, and get ready to defend the result. As our bridge troll banner says (which we borrowed from other trolls) "MAKE IT STOP - VOTE EARLY!"

@CommonSparrow@mindly.social @michelestrider@mastodon.social Yes! Or maybe Gloria the Wonder Ferret will solve all our problems again. She was amazing.

@FrChazzz@mastodon.social Honestly we kinda are doing this in the protest movement in the US. While my group might not be doing anything illegal or violent, we sure AF piss off the MAGA nutjobs (what few remain) and the ICE agents! Then we go out for ice cream.

All right, I'm gonna cheer myself on. So far I have: -taken out the trash and recycling -gone hiking -filled out most of my absentee ballot -asked my protest buddies a couple things about it -helped my neighbor carry 5 gallon water bottles up to the third floor (I got five of them) and I am about to -shower because I smell, and -GO VOTE MY ASS OFF! HELL YEAH THEY STILL HAVE TO LET WOMEN VOTE! ✊🏼

@michelestrider@mastodon.social I wanted a sonnet. 😢 It looks like that option is losing, so I wrote a pseudo-Shakespearean sonnet for the pies. What shall your pleasure be? On such a day It seems a sparkly headband will not do, Not even if you could use Apple Pay, Or credit cards that should be good as new. No, two for one meat pies are your desire! For as the Ninja Turtle guys stroll by The sun begins to lose his proudest fire And now you search for dinner; you should try...

Many religious groups, notably even the National Association of Evangelicals, are speaking out against public execution, and indeed the death penalty overall. https://religionnews.com/2026/10/09/head-of-u-s-catholic-bishops-conference-condemns-public-execution-plans-as-promoting-a-culture-of-death/

@michelestrider@mastodon.social Perhaps the beef or chicken with some mash! It's two for one! Indeed, the twain you buy For just the price of one. I take but cash, And I am selling them, and only I. Then once you've eaten, you could try your luck By off'ring the other pie to Lady Puck.* *I am a woman whose childhood nickname was Puck so maybe I get a free pie.

@gbargoud@masto.nyc Could be. Every time the Kremlin bot farms suffer a big setback, we get a glimpse of what the internet once was and could be again.

HA! It looked like he had a decent crowd in his Syracuse rally, but look how many were leaving in the middle of his speech. You gotta wonder how many of them were paid to show up. You will not see any of this on national news.

@riggbeck@mastodon.social It's a valid concern, but I don't see that happening. Even MAGA hates Putin and Trump is already losing his grip on them. For the same reason, Trump is not helping Andrew Tate: Trump already gave Ghislaine Maxwell a sweetheart deal and isn't going to help out another child rapist now. Much of MAGA is pissed about Epstein too. Tate would be a bridge too far even for them. These dictators' hold on power is much more fragile than it looks!

Okay, this student's sticker won, and I must say it's way better than I could do as a kid. Heck, it's probably better than I could do now. But my vote would have gone to Suzy. She clearly understands what's going on. https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/laurel-county-student-wins-kentuckys-2026-i-voted-sticker-contest

No matter what other life and death issue you care to mention, it improves if we defeat Putin in Ukraine.

There's certainly a pattern here, and thank you to TNR for being one of the few outlets to write about it. https://newrepublic.com/article/216377/trump-midterm-rallies-panic-republicans

@kentenmakto@mastodon.ie I have waved the Ukrainian flag at dozens of protests in the US in exactly those hopes!

@CommonSparrow@mindly.social @michelestrider@mastodon.social I would like Gloria to turn up in my life. Maybe she could convince all my cats to get along with each other and her.

@Nazani@universeodon.com If they had to live in barracks-like housing, heh, that'd be awesome. THAT'D separate the sheep from the goats. I just object to these people shitting themselves over "DEI ENRICHES US ALL" and taking housing that was meant for military officers. The officers actually earned the right to live there!

Also, I don't see this bailing Trump out. Even if it causes diesel prices to drop in time for the election, which I doubt, everything else is still expensive AF for working people in the US. And now he's publicly doing a deal with the devil. When I talk to soft MAGAs or former MAGAs, one of the issues we agree on most is that Putin sucks. The affordability issue is also causing the scales to fall from a lot more MAGA eyes. It's a Catch-22 for both dictators and I love that for them! 🥰

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange And that's why you have a wife, instead of being an incel like these damn Nazis. 😂

@dabertime@mstdn.social Leggings. I'm wearing *leggings*, not pajamas, I promise!

@thegaffer@hobbitwhispers.social Heh, true, if they even cover it. I looked for media articles on this specific aspect of the strikes and found nothing. It's almost like Fox and other fashy outlets don't want to alert their clueless viewers to the presence of Russian bots at all!

Oh, wow! This is from Allie Phillips, Dem Candidate for Tennessee House District 75. At the beginning of the rally these sections were full, but this still from the video shows those sections at the end. A lot of folks left early. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DeXAgdpxe2M/

@stufromoz@aus.social What she and her husband don't get is that we wouldn't be making fun of her if the two of them weren't Nazis helping Trump destroy democracy and murder everybody. We don't make fun of decent people's appearance. But, true to Nazi form, they think ICE murders and rapes are fine, but Nazi billionaires getting mocked is a tragedy. Tiny violin and all that.

@Npars01@mstdn.social Yes! Obviously I am not enjoying any of this... except for the part where Trump and Putin and the oil oligarchs who've supported them become the world's most effective climate activists. 😂 😭 🤦🏼‍♀️ And they're in for some nasty surprises trying to start WWIII. That too will only hasten their demise.

Yet another #Epstein whistleblower has "committed suicide." Despite the tremendous psychological toll of fighting power as Simon Andriesz so bravely did, I think we can all agree this stinks to high heaven. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/10/05/epstein-whistleblower-simon-andriesz-dies-after-exposing-lutnick-ties-what-to-know/

BTW the crowd in this video was chanting "FUCK DONALD TRUMP!" Natalie Harp can't censor this out of his reality.

@tanyakaroli@expressional.social Of course. I'm disgusted with this too, just trying to think through all the consequences. Fortunately, this is not an unalloyed victory for Putin.

Now this is some reality TV that I would actually watch. 😆 "Hoarders TV Show Finds Disgusting Man in Medina Hoarding Billions of Dollars" https://theneedling.com/2026/10/09/hoarders-tv-show-finds-disgusting-man-in-medina-hoarding-billions-of-dollars/

#Talarico has been out with the flu for almost two weeks. He's back. Normal stuff. It's been hilarious to see Republicans attacking him for this, because they immediately get pummeled for saying nothing about Mitch McConnell or indeed Trump going missing due to obvious ill health/near death experiences. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6140552-james-talarico-returns-flu-absence-campaign/#Texas

I'm sure it's a consideration that they need to avoid sunlight and serve blood, too.

Obviously he should be in prison for life. I would just love to see a Four Seasons Total Landscaping-scale humiliation before we do that.

@count_01@mastodon.social @fesshole@mastodon.social I have heard them called the only animal with no haters. I feel obligated to follow all sorts of resister accounts across the US on several platforms, but I would love nothing more than to look at capybaras all day. I guess it doesn't surprise me that it takes a fascist to be angry about them. My sympathy to the OP.

All these Nazis are going to be begging for "forgiveness" (i.e. a complete lack of consequences) in the not too distant future. Thillis is doing it now, only because Dear Leader threw him under the bus by endorsing a primary challenger. GOP lame ducks like Thillis can say out loud that Trump is going down. But it doesn't make them brave or good people. You won't see me pretending otherwise. https://www.alternet.org/thom-tillis-maga-problem-forgiveness/ https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2026/10/05/thom-tillis-hegseth-kennedy-noem#Trump #MAGA #NorthCarolina #Republicans #GOP

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party It is a cabbage. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/treasure-jade-cabbage-china-taiwan

OMG 🤣 LOOK AT THIS GUY'S FACE DJ Byrnes is an Ohio political blogger who sent a Shrek dick pic to a Nazi politician. The latter crapped his pants and pressed charges. Byrnes could have faced jail time, but fortunately the judge refused to treat this like it's the kind of death threats that MAGAs routinely send to Dem politicians. Byrnes' laughter just says it all. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/09/ohio-political-blogger-found-guilty-in-explicit-shrek-meme-trial/#Ohio #MAGA #Republicans #GOP #FirstAmendment

RE: https://sfba.social/@sccdp/117422890486495161 This kind of action may not feel like it has a point especially if you live in a red district. But it's important now and only going to become even more important. As we take down Trump's mutiny of preverts, the Nazi billionaires will pivot to the Dems they can buy. It's already happening. That is why the primaries were so important. After we take back Congress we're gonna have to be all over (some of) these people like a dirty shirt, or they will waste all our efforts to save the country.

@michelestrider@mastodon.social Yay, a free pie! Thank you!

@malcircuit@thingy.social I love that this is now referred to as "house burping."

@spytfyre@mastodon.scot His skin tone is testament to that.

I feel like I'm being watched. #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

@tiamat271@mastodon.online That's a great Saturday! Go get 'em!