A 27 year-old Vermont man is lucky to be alive after flipping his pickup truck onto the railroad tracks off of State Route 7 in Pownal early Friday – but also kind of unlucky in a way because it happened outside of a very specific window of time that would’ve made him a legend for all of mankind.

Local paper the Bennington Banner reports that Joshua Rand crawled out of the vehicle after it came to a halt on the tracks running parallel to the road in the area, sustaining only minor injuries in the accident. A state police press release fills in the rest: “A southbound train was unable to be contacted by the railroad dispatch. The train failed to stop in time and collided with the unoccupied vehicle. No one was injured as a result of this crash.” So the timing worked out for Joshua.

What would’ve worked so much better is if he had flipped his truck WHILE the train was passing and it landed in an empty open-top car. Seriously how fucking awesome would that have been? Yeah it would be kind of awkward to call 911 and explain what happened. Worse would be if he couldn’t get through and then had to wait until the train stopped God knows where it was headed. Could’ve been in Massachusetts or Connecticut. Still would’ve been worth it just for the story he could tell.

Definitely better than landing on the tracks with the train 200 ft away. That would’ve sucked.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job. https://t.co/N4vCl3lJx0

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 27, 2025

Yes, that’s a bit in media res, so a little background: Riley Gaines is a former University of Kentucky swimmer, a twelve-time NCAA All-American athlete who, in the final event of her collegiate career, competed against trans University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas in the 200-yard freestyle.

Now, since the MAGA media lies by omission, they make it sound like Gaines was cheated out of the national championship because of Thomas’s superior strength and speed, when the reality is that they actually tied for fifth place. Even then Gaines said “I am in full support of [Thomas’s] and full support of her transition and her swimming career…because there’s no doubt that she works hard too, but she’s just abiding by the rules that the NCAA put in place, and that’s the issue.”

Sources tell CNN’s Annie Grayer that a coalition of Dem state attorneys general are planning to file a lawsuit on Tuesday to keep SNAP money flowing to recipients after the Trump Regime said they’re going to sit back and let poor families starve after current funding runs out on Saturday.

Pretty smart politics. The Dem AGs aren’t the Dems in Congress. All the messaging from both the Regime and the Congressional GOP is “THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO FORCE POOR PEOPLE TO STARVE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN!!!111!!” Now Trump’s DOJ will have to stand in front of a judge and explain why they won’t agree to just fund SNAP, every word of that horseshit defense packaged up neatly, attributable to “The Trump Administration” for the D talking points. And, who knows, they might actually get a win with an order to unfuck SNAP.

Almost a fifth of all US air travel – be it domestic or inbound/outbound international traffic – was hit with delays or cancelations on Sunday at 8,700 of around 45,000 flights on the busiest travel day of the week amid the ongoing shutdown caused by the Trump Regime and the supplicant Republican Party in Congress’s refusal to make health insurance more affordable for millions, CBS News reports.

The delayed flights dropped to 3,370 total on Monday, representing about 7.5 percent of typical 42,000-flight volume at the beginning of the work week, but this most likely can be attributed to more slack in the system when it’s a lower traffic level and thus further away from full capacity.

In related news, the Dallas Morning News reports that the FAA on Monday issued a ground delay at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, meaning that any and every flight bound for the city needs to be cleared by the federal government before it can even take off, which fucks up the schedule of those origin airports who have to manage and coordinate runway traffic on a tight schedule.

Because the holidays are coming up and getting a corrupt approval from the Trump Regime for the big Skydance merger is in the rear-view window, Paramount-CBS is laying off 1,000 employees under the tried-and-true imprimatur of “restructuring,” Bloomberg reports. It’s not clear if any of the soon-to-be-jobless were in favor of the Orbanist merger, but hopefully at least a few were.

BREAKING: Judge Gives Kirk Assassin First Legal Victory, Allows Tyler Robinson to Appear in Court in Civilian Clothing – Bans Media From Recording Him Entering/Exiting Courthouse https://t.co/odem7Ub3TT

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 27, 2025

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez on Monday announced her regime had captured a group of alleged mercenaries with ties to the CIA, accusing the Trump regime and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating military exercises, the Miami Herald reports. The communist witch’s statement ranted about a “false-flag operation” being planned from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory, “to generate a full-scale military confrontation” against Venezuela but did not say anything about the number or nationalities of the supposed mercenaries.

Choose your own adventure on which authoritarian regime led by autocrats and their incompetent sycophants you want to believe here. It really could go either way with these fucking clowns.

Without offering much specific information about the content of their complaining – then again it’s pretty predictable – the Virginia Merucry’s Markus Schmidt reports that all five US House Republicans from the Old Dominion State are present at the capital in Richmond to protest the first step of the majority Democratic state legislature’s surprise plan to nuke as many as three of their districts, framing it as “election interference” that, per Schmidt, “undermines the will of voters.”

It’s not clear if any reporters asked where were these guys when the Texas and North Carolina Republicans obeyed convicted felon President Trump’s commands that they gerrymander out six Dem seats between the two states. What is clear is that if they were asked, the response would not be “Well we didn’t expect the Dems in the state legislature to come up with this plan that would affect us. This shit really came out of nowhere,” since that would be the honest and correct answer.

In related news, Politico reports the Trump Regime “has been backing away from campaigning against Democrats’ efforts to redraw California’s House map, appearing largely resigned to the idea it will pass given Democrats’ strong polling advantage. President Donald Trump still thinks he has the upper hand on Gavin Newsom on more salient issues.” Fat fucking baby didn’t even try, lol.

EXCLUSIVE:

Acting IRS Commissioner and US Treasury Secretary @SecScottBessent attended the grand opening of the Embassy of Qatar in DC last week.

It’s perplexing to see Scott Bessent, a fabulously rich Gay man, attend a party at the Embassy of Qatar, given the fact that… https://t.co/M1E8hRvWV0 pic.twitter.com/iMcQLmA87G

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 27, 2025

Untold thousands of pelagic organisms were disturbed and maybe even a few of them killed on Monday when a powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake and a 6.0 aftershock struck the Atlantic Ocean seafloor about 100 miles east of the Carribbean island of Guadalupe, the Associated Press reports.

The tremors, which did not cause any tsunami waves, probably caused some collapses of tiny undersea caverns home to different types of crustaceans and other bottom-dwelling sea life. Or maybe like landslides that buried the poor bastards under tons of silt and rocks and shit. Horrible.

A new Quinnipiac University survey mostly about the NFL finds that just 16 percent of Republican respondents approve of the choice of Latino rapper Bad Bunny to headline the Super Bowl halftime show while 63 percent disapprove, which means absolutely nothing because the NFL isn’t canceling it and it’s just something for MAGAmericans to get upset about that isn’t all the grievous economic abuses being heaped upon them by the party that they vote for without question.

Power to the Players https://t.co/GqNu0qdgmw pic.twitter.com/4Hw6G7i7aW

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 27, 2025

This desecration just barely edged out DHS’s Halo-themed genocidal agitprop:

At the end of a motion from the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee in the bullshit criminal case against long-suffering would-be deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump Regime makes it clear they REALLY don’t want Donald’s criminal defense lawyer/Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to have to testify to Garcia’s attorneys, writing “The United States has already produced significant discovery materials in this matter. Additionally, the Acting United States Attorney – the sole decision maker in bringing this prosecution – will testify at the evidentiary hearing. For all of the reasons stated above, allowing the subpoenas to the subpoenaed parties to stand would be unreasonable, oppressive, and contrary to established federal law.”

“Therefore, the United States respectfully submits that the Court should quash the subpoenas issued to the Deputy Attorney General, Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh, and Counselor to the Deputy Attorney General James McHenry for the Nov 4, 2025 evidentiary hearing.”

As many as half of the estimated “uncontacted tribes” – meaning groups like the Sentinelese on a remote island in the Indian Ocean – face destruction from outside forces if governments don’t do more to treat them like endangered wild animals who live on protected preserves, according to a very splashy new report by London-based indigenous rights group Survival International.

Not among the solutions proposed by the group is a Caucasian mercenary employed by one of the logging or mining concerns to be injured and nursed back to health by a shaman from one of the tribes, undergo a spiritual transformation in which he sees the tribe and forest connected as one, realize the error of his ways, and then lead a violent uprising against his former employers because that would be too on the nose. Best let those things happen on their own rather than have one’s advocacy be accused of simply copying from the plot of Avatar or Ferngully: The Last Rainforest.

Dem gubernatorial candidates New Jersey Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill and her former colleague Virginian Abigail Spanberger maintain their leads over their respective Republican opponents Jack Ciattarelli and Winsome Sears in a new set of polls by A2 Insights, with Sherrill at 51.4 percent to Ciattarelli’s 46.5 and Spanberger at 53.6 to Sears’s 45.5 with eight days to go.

Louisiana taxpayers and tuition-paying students at Louisiana State University have apparently collectively decided to pay $54 million to football coach Brian Kelly to go away after a disappointing loss to Texas A&M over the weekend, NBC News reports on the failing upward of a “gridiron general” who had thus far led the team to a 5-3 record this season of extremely important sportsball.

And if he does have a " plan" it must be illegal like his last one. I urge readers to send him a bar of soap. He desperately needs a bath.

— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) October 27, 2025

A known swinger – as in a married person who, along with his spouse, regularly engages in sexual activity with multiple persons on a plastic tarp or “Twister” game mat laid out to protect the carpeting underneath from stains caused by the emissions of bodily fluids – used social media to badmouth the personal hygiene habits of another man on Monday. Though the swinger was not necessarily incorrect in his assessment given the other man’s unkempt appearance, the swinger’s own lifestyle habits render his heavily implied position of superior and irreproachable hygiene questionable at best, outright hypocritical at worst. Some might even prefer a dishevled alcoholic who showers and does his laundry irregularly as the lesser evil if the other is a clean-shaven human petri dish of venereal microbes that have yet to be even classified by modern medicine.