One person is dead and another 23 were recused, four of them with minor injuries, after a mishap on an elevator going into a tourist trap Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado malfunctioned, strandng the visitors either in the elevator shaft or down in the deep mine for more than six hours on Thursday afternoon into the evening, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports.

No details about the fatality were available, but it would seem that the person who died was on board the elevator. The Gazette’s article specifically mentions that “children were among the first group rescued” from the elevator “and were provided mental health services, according to officials.”

Not really trying to imagine what happened, guess we’ll have to wait for details.

Kamala Harris is on the cover of Vogue. pic.twitter.com/r3j1aYkC2D

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 11, 2024

Wow. Vogue’s probably going to lose like severals, maybe even tens, of subscribers over this blatant case of election interference. Bad October surprise incoming for them, right?

A new set of swing state surveys by the Wall Street Journal finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 47 to 45 percent in Arizona and Michigan and 46 to 45 percent in Georgia and Wisconsin while Trump leads 46 to 45 percent in North Carolina and Pennsylvania and 47 to 42 percent in Nevada… that last one probably being kind of an outlier.

“By 6 percentage points, more voters in Arizona are backing Harris now than supported Biden in a Journal survey in March. Her share of the vote has grown by 5 points in Georgia over Biden’s showing, and by 4 points in North Carolina. By contrast, Trump’s share has changed little in the seven states, compared with March,” the Journal writes about the movement toward Harris.

“The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” says the Nobel Foundation in a Friday announcement confirming that, once again, convicted felon former President Trump has lost its greatest prize.

This one’s definitely gotta sting for the fat bastard, given his efforts to raise awareness of the dangers of “nuclear warming” and that electing Vice President Kamala Harris is guaranteed to bring about a devastating exchange of ICBMs the moment she wins, which makes him basically the world’s leading advocate for anti-proliferation, much more so than some Japanese group that nobody ever heard of… The argument for why he should have won will go something like that.

The defeat is timely as it comes just about 12 hours after Trump whined “If I were named Obama, I would’ve had the Nobel Prize given to me in 10 seconds… He got elected and they announced he was getting the Nobel Prize. Remember? He said, ‘Oh. What did I do?’ He didn’t know what the hell he did. He got the Nobel Prize for doing nothing. For getting elected. But I got elected too,” during his Detroit Economic Forum “speech” on Thursday. The orange-colored asshole took specific issue with how his “Abraham Accords” were ignored by the Nobel committee. “Unprecedented. Nobody thought it was possible. I’m not saying ‘want’ or not, I’m not saying – I’m just saying, if it was anybody else, liberal, Democrat, they would’ve had it before the damn thing was even signed.”

Trump then claimed he wasn’t “looking for” a Nobel for the mostly fake “peace deal” or “politicking for it,” but that he was merely pointing out “there’s a lot of unfairness in this world,” lol.

At least 15 people were killed in Florida Wednesday and Thursday as Hurricane Milton and the tornadoes it spawned tore through the state, ABC News reports on the aftermath.

Asked at the Univision town hall to list three virtues Donald Trump has, Vice President and Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris initially chuckles uncomfortably, then begins by going into the “more unites us” trope that used to be standard among politicians.  She then comments that she dislikes the violent tone of Trump’s rhetoric and how he seeks to divide the nation.

“I think he, um, [pause].  I think Donald Trump loves his family and I think that’s very important,” Harris finally notes.  “I think family is one of the most important things that we can prioritize.  But I don’t really know him, to be honest with you.  I only met him one time, on the debate stage.  I’d never met him before, so I don’t have much to offer you.”

I’m feeling a bit bipolar politically.  Half of me is a nervous wreck, looking at national polls that put Democratic nominee Kamala Harris up by only 3%, and doing mental mathematics to negate the impact of Republican-commissioned polls that tend to infect polls close to elections.  That half is like, “How the fuck can it be this close?  Have they not seen him?”

The other half of me is, “Dude.  Chill.  We got this.”  Even the bad polls show that Trump has already peaked; with the exception of three polls from Republican-aligned interests–remember those mental gymanstics–Donald Trump hasn’t hit 50% in polls frequently since mid-August, even on the skewed-right RealClear sample.  On the other hand, Harris routinely tops 50% on a variety of polls. The legendary “undecideds” aren’t breaking for Trump; they’re either voting for Harris or they’re not voting.  Trump’s hit his ceiling;  Harris hasn’t found hers yet.

The trend holds on the state level as well:  in battleground states Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, Trump infrequently reaches 50% or over.  That was true largely for before Biden left the race as well, prior to his “Return of the Mummy” debate performance. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration–an agency which, contrary to Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s hypothesis, does not control the weather–announced that it had fulfilled the last wish of a long-time NOAA scientist who specialized in cyclone dynamics and dropped his ashes into the eye of Hurricane Milton on Tuesday night, First Coast News reports.

Peter Dodge, an honored 44-year NOAA employee who lived with vision disabilities, died in March 2023 and a research plane observing Milton deposited Dodge’s ashes in the storm’s eye as it peaked as a Category 5 hurricane before it hit Florida, noting the honor in its dispatch.

In a letter signed by mostly House Republicans but a lot of Democrats too, more than 100 Congressmen and women this week asked HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack why the fuck an underage drinking study they appropriated $1.3 million to conduct seems to be going rogue and keeps telling adults not to drink, pointing out that the study’s panel members “were not appropriately vetted for conflicts of interest” since, according to the New York Post, one of the members had a role in a recent WHO report that said no level of alcohol is safe for consumption by humans and another who personally recommends max one drink per day for adult men down from the government’s two max since 1980. So it’s time to pull the plug, per Congress.

If you’ll notice the first link above is to a PDF of the letter. It’s not hosted at a House.gov site though, but WineBusiness.com, making the whole “conflict of interest” charge sound a wee bit hypocritical.

Hell the lobbyists probably even wrote it for them. The Post points out that most of the members are from states with sizable booze industries so there’s the whole protecting people’s jobs aspect to this irrespective of whether the lobbyists are sending them bottles for signing on to the letter.

A really sharp team of CHOP surgeons separated a pair of conjoined twin boys in August after an eight-hour procedure, NBC Philadelphia reported Wednesday, citing a hospital announcement.

The boys, now 15 month-olds Amari and Javar Ruffin, were born joined at the abdomen, sharing a sternum, liver, and diaphragm, making the CHOP shop’s job not just relatively simple but more importantly ensuring the boys have the chance to grow up and live more or less as if they’d never been conjoined in the first place. “Seeing them each in their own beds was an indescribable feeling,” said mom Shaneka Ruffin. “It feels like we are beginning a new journey as a family of six. We are so grateful to CHOP for helping make this day possible and letting us start this next chapter.”

And CHOP stands for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, recognized as worldwide specialists in conjoined twins, having cho- separated 32 pairs since 1957, more than any other in North America.

DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday heard out convicted felon former President Trump’s shitbag lawyers’ request to “consider litigation options” to somehow stop her from unsealing a bunch of evidence against the fat fuck in the post-2020 election coup attempt case and allowed them a seven day stay to find a way to stop her from moving ahead on the unsealing.

It’s not clear what “litigation” Team Orange can actually make happen. But you never know with the Supreme Court being so far in the tank for the degenerate fascist slob these days.

Vice President Harris and former President Trump will not participate in a second presidential debate after the deadline to agree to CNN's debate terms expired. https://t.co/OShXMfj19T

— Axios (@axios) October 10, 2024

“Aight Tha Hill, yo crew can play tha game. That ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene takes fire for sharing remarks about the weather‘ headline you used to describe that fucking freak telling people the Deep State is controlling hurricanes wuz pretty dope. But check it bruh: We wrote ‘Vice President Harris and former President Trump will not participate in a second presidential debate after the deadline to agree to CNN’s debate terms expired,’ in our headline when it was actually Prezident Trump who bitched outta dat debate. Them Libz be FREAKIN when they see that! BOTHSIIIIIIDE 4 LIFE DAWG!”

Maybe should’ve watched You Got Served and 8 Mile before writing this imaginary dialogue between Axios and The Hill just to bone up on dated “urban” movie shittalking. It’s aight tho.

“A New Jersey man pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal hate crime for breaking into the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University (CILRU) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and destroying property.”

“According to court documents, on or about April 10, at approximately 2:39 am, during the Eid- al-Fitr holiday, video surveillance footage showed Jacob Beacher, 24, walking toward the rear door of the CILRU. Soon after, at approximately 2:41 am, an intruder, later determined to be Beacher, forcibly entered the CILRU through its back door. Specifically, Beacher broke a glass pane on the door, pushed through a piece of plexiglass that was affixed to the interior side of the door and then manually opened the door from the inside by reaching through the broken glass to unlatch a deadbolt lock. Once inside the CILRU, Beacher damaged the CILRU’s property, including several religious artifacts, such as Turbah prayer stones and numerous items that contained holy language from the Qur’an, Islam’s sacred scripture. Beacher also stole a Palestinian flag and at least one charity box belonging to the CILRU,” says a Justice Department press release.

What is doesn’t say is that Beacher is a registered Republican. We got that from here.

Based on the bitchy wording of a filing from convicted felon former President Trump’s piece of shit lawyers, it would seem like a public unsealing of evidence against the fat fuck in the DC coup attempt conspiracy case is imminent and very soon, maybe even hours. From the filing:

Last week’s actual filing was a bit underwhelming (a lot of what the media treated as new was actually previously reported). The actual evidence exhibits themselves will absolutely pack more of a punch than Smith’s (necessarily) dry description of it… The other aspect of the filing that NOTUS’s Jose Pagliery flags is that “Donald Trump’s lawyers just warned Judge Chutkan in DC that if she releases Jack Smith’s appendix to his recent report, they’ll consider ‘litigation options.’ Like, suing the judge? Or Smith? Or seeking dismissal of the entire case based on that release? It’s notable that the judge had to order the court clerk to put this on the public docket. Trump’s lawyers were directed to file this under seal. It seems like they did. But the judge must have thought, there’s nothing secret here,” which sounds like he sees this as Team Orange going into desperation mode.

‘Star Wars’ unveils first transgender stormtrooper ‘Sister’ — and fans are divided https://t.co/qW32yD95QN pic.twitter.com/mWewufnEJN

— New York Post (@nypost) October 10, 2024

Two-peat Fat Bear Week winner Grazer sort of avenged the death of her cub, who was killed last summer by her finalist opponent, Chunk, besting the aggressive male by more than 40,000 votes, the Associated Press reports on a symbolic recompense for the loss of Grazer’s offspring.

The murder of Grazer’s cub… which might have been more like a mercy killing since it happened after the youngling had fallen off a waterfall, was unrelated to the murder of Bear 402 by 469 that postponed the beginning of the Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week contest.

An anonymous New York Republican campaign strategist tells Politico they would love for GOP candidates to be using NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ criminal indictments for bribery and other comically inept scams as part of a message to make all Democrats look corrupt and insane buuuuuuut… “Once you start getting to the charges against him and whether they disqualify him for office, the next logical question would be whether Trump should leave the race because of his charges.”

An anonymous House Dem campaign aide said yeah, no shit. The actual quote however was “If this was a winning message, then you’d see the swing-seat Republicans actually making this a thing. They’re not, because they know they’re all supporting a convicted felon for the presidency Republicans are on the ballot with Trump. Democrats aren’t on the ballot with Adams.”

Responding to convicted felon former President Trump unequivocally pussying out of a final debate against Vice President Kamala Harris on CNN or any other network ahead of their noon Thursday deadline to accept the invite for an October 23rd showdown in Atlanta, Brian Stelter reports his employer is now instead proposing the candidates appear at separate town halls on the same night, which the Harris campaign immediately accepted, unconditional on her degenerate opponent’s.

“We continue to believe the American people would benefit from hearing more from the two major candidates for President of the United States and so CNN has extended invitations to both Vice President Harris and President Trump’s campaigns to participate in separate CNN Town Halls on October 23,” said CNN in a statement, per Stelter. Earlier on Thursday the media beat guy had written in his daily newsletter that Harris’s town hall with Univision is set for this evening but Trump had postponed his until the 16th due to Hurricane Milton, meaning nobody should be surprised if and when the fat fuck comes up with some way to wiggle out of that appearance.