Good morning! Our Rudbeckia went nuts this year. The “Black-eyed Susan” is the state flower of Maryland because it is the colors of the flag of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, who established the colony. His flag was the state’s until the 1904 when they added the secessionist red/white crap.

Bread right out of the oven. jessicainthekitchen.com/no-knead-bre...

Olympic canoeist David Hearn was indicted on a felony count of destruction of property. wapo.st/4vTWJ8l. USAtty Box-O-Wine Pirro accuses him of all sorts of mean, nasty, ugly things (IYKYK), but there's a problem: His actions and arrest were captured on video by bystanders; he didn't do any of it.

I know MAGA Trumpistas like their Red/Blue maps so here is another one: The part of Europe in blue beat the U.S.A. at the World Cup.

From the brilliant and charming historian, @alexchurchill.bsky.social

From the hellsite posted by the Belgian team: #ETTD

This screenshot from today’s @nytimes.com sums up the Trump administration’s actions that are turning the USA into a white-supremest, kleptocracy on a par with Russia.

#ETTD Trump rakes it in while MAGA suffers, so at least it’s not the taxpayers who get stiffed … this time. From the WSJ. (Gift link and alt text.) www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

T-shirt seen at a winery. My problem is, I know too many people who would love this.

I hope Putin’s swan song is a swan dive (accidentally) through a window.

Sunset at the harbor in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

I want one of those kid-peeing fountains for his grave because it will save a lot of people the trouble of doing it themselves.

When I was a kid in Brooklyn, NY (the Greatest City in America™), the Good Humor person had a cooler mounted on two wheels with a bicycle back end. There was minimal kidnapping risk.

That’s too bad.

From Adam Kinzinger's SubStack:

I took the Pew Center's "Political Typology Quiz" (www.pewresearch.org/politics/qui...) and to no one's surprise, I came out as a "Leftward Progressive."

❤️

@wsj.com had a columnist crowing about how the jobs report "beat expectations." BFD. Expectations were "major crap" and the report was just plain crap. Today's report, following the several past months' reports, shows Trump's policies from tariffs to immigration are failures.

I think I saw her off shore this morning. Though, it could have been a loon.

The third quarter 2025 jobs report is out and goods production employment continues to tank under Trump’s crappy policies. In Q3, employment in goods production dropped 143,000. Overall, private employment dropped 159,000. So much winning!!!

Two days ago, same lake.

From FB but I've done some spot checking on the rankings and they hold up.

Read this piece by Adam Kinzinger. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/we-punched...

Trump chickening out, telling aides he's willing to cut and run without reopening the Strait that his war of choice closed. But this time, Trump's #TACO move comes at a cost to U.S. service members who were killed and wounded so he could look tough.

The GOP is now doing double duty: protecting pedophiles and sucking up to Russia: www.newsweek.com/us-lawmakers...