I DON’T KNOW ABOUT LITERATURE BUT STORY TELLING IS ALREADY RESCUING ITSELF:  It’s Time To Save Literature From The Woke Publishing Industry.

Unlike Epstein, Trad Pub definitely killed itself.

SERIOUSLY?  DOC axes $5 million contract after workers brought fentanyl, phones to jail.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  New Email Reveals Answer to Establishment’s Efforts to Oust Trump.

LIKE DANIEL IN THE (DITSY) LIONS DEN:  Ted Cruz Says Appearance On The View Was “Ridiculous Fun”.

THERE IS SOMETHING HEINOUS IN LYING TO THE YOUNG WHEN THOSE LIES MAY DESTROY THEM FOREVER:  Reviewing Health and Safety Issues Associated With Puberty Blocking Chemicals.

OH, THE FUN WE WILL HAVE:  New York Supreme Court Reinstates NYC Fired Unvaccinated Employees, Orders Backpay, Tosses Vaccine Mandate.

ALMOST LIKE HAVING A WIDE OPEN BORDER IS A BAD IDEA:  Arizona Border Patrol Finds Over 500,000 Fentanyl Pills in Two Days at One Port of Entry.

FRANKLY HER SILENCE IS ALWAYS A RELIEF:  Jim Crow 2.0? Karine Jean-Pierre Goes Silent When Confronted With Record Early Voting in Georgia.

AT THIS POINT THIS KIND OF PUBLISHING IS JUST A MONEY-LAUNDERING SCHEME:  Squad member got $50,000 advance for book that only sold 729 copies its first week.

I WAIT WITH MORBID FASCINATION:  Will  ‘Democracy Die in Darkness’ After November?

RIGGGED: Google is trying to sway the election by suppressing GOP email and search results (again).

LEFTISTS TALK ABOUT BIGOTRY A LOT BECAUSE THEY LIVE IT:

WELL: Judge tosses NYC COVID vaccine mandate, orders fired city workers’ back pay.

COMMANDER SALAMANDER: OK CNO, now then Break in to Open Revolt to Get the Forces we Need.

DEMOCRATS: The Only Way To Save Democracy Is One-Party Rule.

If Republicans vote, they are killing democracy. If they don’t vote, they are killing democracy. The only way to “save democracy,” writes The Washington Post’s Max Boot, is to empower one-party rule — a position that probably sounds counterintuitive to anyone with a middle-school education. “Now you need to vote to literally save democracy again,” contends President Joe Biden, or we will lose our “fundamental rights and freedoms like the right to choose, the right to privacy, the right to vote — our very democracy.”

Chilling stuff. But it doesn’t end there. You will remember that by failing to “reform” the filibuster, which would entail authorizing the thinnest of fleeting majorities to shove through massive generational “reforms” without any national consensus or debate, we are also killing democracy. This has been the position not only of left-wing pundits and the New York Times editorial board, but also senators tasked with defending their institution. I wonder if they will support this democracy-saving fix next session, as well?

Then again, if we don’t nationalize the economy to avert a climate crisis, we are also killing democracy. “We’ve got to save democracy in order to save our species,” Jamie Raskin explains. And if we don’t empty the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to temporarily keep gas prices low to help Democrats win in 2022, we are killing democracy. “We find ourselves in a situation, where keeping gas prices low is key to preserving and strengthening the future of our democracy,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes says.

We must allow the president to unilaterally create trillion-dollar spending bills and break existing private sector contracts by fiat. For democracy. We must pack the court to “save democracy.” We must create a Ministry of Truth to help with “strengthening democratic institutions.” We must vote for a Pennsylvania candidate who can’t cobble two consecutive coherent sentences together because the “fate of our democracy” is at stake, says our former president.

If you don’t support a partisan congressional investigation that’s circumvented basic due process norms, you probably hate democracy. If you aren’t self-flagellating and holding yourself accountable for the actions of Jan. 6 rioters, you are also bolstering the coming autocracy.

When your leftist rhetoric has lost Susan Sarandon…

BREAKING: PA Senate Debate an UTTER DISASTER for Fetterman.

RIP: Former President Ash Carter Dead at 68.

(Classical reference in headline.)

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ! Fetterman vs. Oz debate: The elephant in the room. “Remember all those reporters who attacked NBC’s [Dasha Burns] for her remarks about her Fetterman interview? YIIIIIIIIIKES.”

UPDATE:

HE’S AS MENTALLY FIT AS THE PRESIDENT!

What a disastrous answer. My gosh.pic.twitter.com/Jnefd75Yxs

— Matt Gorman (@mattsgorman) October 26, 2022

Plus:

And, of course:

All of them. They’re telling us all of the lies.

OPEN THREAD: I lay down the blogging burden, you pick it up.

DEBATE NIGHT: Lee Zeldin Annihilates Kathy Hochul’s Record on Crime.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s spaceplane raises orbit and national funding.

LESLIE EASTMAN: Reviewing Health and Safety Issues Associated With Puberty Blocking Chemicals.

WELL, PAUL KRUGMAN: Paul Krugman Jumps on the Bogus Red-State Murder Problem Bandwagon.

JUST AS I SUSPECTED: Cats Do Hear You When You’re Talking to Them Sweetly (They Just Don’t Care).