Greedy oil companies

High profits, giving money to shareholders instead of reducing prices

Can’t believe I have to say this but giving profits to shareholders is not the same as bringing prices down for American families. https://t.co/Q84NNK9sck
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 28, 2022

Q3 profits for Exxon: $20 billion

Q3 profits for Chevron: $11 billion

Q3 profits for Shell: $9.5 billion

Republicans who voted to stop oil companies from price gouging: 0
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) October 28, 2022

Shell just posted its second-highest quarterly profit ever.

$9.5 BILLION.

Like other oil companies, it’s exploiting the moment to make billions off the backs of working families.

I have the bill to hold Big Oil accountable and lower gas prices immediately. We should pass it.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 28, 2022

Shell will buy back $4 billion worth of shares and increase its dividend by 15% after posting another gigantic quarterly profit thanks to strong oil and gas prices https://t.co/WnrDRHGFGf
— CNN (@CNN) October 27, 2022

Imagine if more of these gains went to relief at the pump, instead of corporate stock buybacks. https://t.co/L8jhtQuva9
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) October 27, 2022

Valero boosted profits by 500% in just one year by price gouging families at the pump. The House passed my bill to hold Big Oil companies accountable for ripping off consumers in May. The Senate needs to act.https://t.co/xssOATcHE7
— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) October 27, 2022

ExxonMobil’s profit set a record for the second straight quarter as oil and gas prices remained high. No. 2 US oil company Chevron also posted much-better-than-expected results. https://t.co/aCDbhVdPHD
— CNN International (@cnni) October 28, 2022

Q3 profits for Exxon: $20 billion

Q3 profits for Chevron: $11 billion

Q3 profits for Shell: $9.5 billion

Republicans who voted to stop oil companies from price gouging: 0
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) October 28, 2022

Another example of bad New York Times coverage

This is a crystal clear example of media bias in political narratives https://t.co/2EFhNqUvZb
— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) October 28, 2022

The “fresh evidence that the Republicans are poised to retake Congress” is that they’re not winning in any of these four polls of “archetypal swing districts,” and they’re losing one by double digits. https://t.co/aJBJfvPUOZ pic.twitter.com/ErCNqVKFl8
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 28, 2022

The NYT just released four new House polls: a GOP-held district, two Dem-held tossups, and one lean Dem district. The polls find Democrats leading in all but one, where the race is tied.

The headline: “Polls in Four Swing Districts Show GOP Strength in Midterms.”

What?
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 28, 2022

More tweets on Trump’s antisemitism

Trump’s long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropeshttps://t.co/BvqDvM7sMl
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 17, 2022

The White House calls Trump's statement about American Jews "antisemitic and insulting both to Jews and to our Israeli allies." Press secretary says Trump has aligned with antisemitic figures for years
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) October 17, 2022

Donald Trump, in a newly released video from 2021, described Persians as "very good salesmen," said Israeli Jews favored him more than Jews in the U.S. and asked whether a filmmaker interviewing him was a "good Jewish character." https://t.co/jMWYQZRrPx
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 19, 2022

Disturbing response to my tweet on Trump’s antisemitism

I was alarmed by the response to my tweet below. I can’t understand why any Jew would support Trump who is clearly a terrible antisemite. As usual, they don’t respond to my concern about the GOP but try to point at Democrats.

Ask @GOP if they have any comments on Trump’s antisemitism.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

Trump is correct. Now comment about this group of Jew haters? Yes, I’m Jewish. I support Israel. pic.twitter.com/0AOtZO75rm
— Carl Gottlieb (@c_cgottlieb) October 17, 2022

Twenty minutes into CNNs 9am hour and no mention of Donald Trump's antisemitic threats.
— Eric Schmeltzer 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@JustSchmeltzer) October 17, 2022

Today is the anniversary of the Nazi-Fascist roundup of Italian Jews from Rome's ghetto. They were deported to extermination camps. Many Italian Jews never thought Mussolini would go after them. A lesson for our times given some US Jews' faith in Trump: https://t.co/1Sz80DoygS
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 16, 2022

The abiding and even encouragement of Hitler-esque anti-Semitism by Trump and the @gop and the silence of @gop Jews in the face of that marks a frightening and rapid escalation. To treat Trump like he “said this before” or Kanye like he’s just a blowhard is profoundly dangerous.
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) October 16, 2022

White grievance, xenophobia, the “great replacement theory” and Confederate idolatry have taken center stage. They are the emotional levers by which Republicans incite their base and draw attention away from their rotten governance.https://t.co/sj8u7wh2PG
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 17, 2022

Trump’s long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropeshttps://t.co/BvqDvM7sMl
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 17, 2022

Good riddance to Larry Hogan

He admits Biden won and doesn’t support the Trump cult member running to replace him. That’s good. He’s still very conservative and anti-Baltimore. I’ll never forgive him for killing the Red Line.

Larry Hogan has vetoed $15 minimum wage and paid family and sick leave legislation for Maryland workers. And pro-immigrant and pro-union bills. Early in his administration, he attempted to rescind a promised 2 percent raise for state workers. https://t.co/wadtjPnDQ1 https://t.co/xMrq6qAsGZ
— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) October 17, 2022

On the day the January 6 committee releases new tapes of the Trump-instigated MAGA insurrection on the Capitol and the remarkable leadership-under-fire of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan “both sides” the extremism threatening American democracy. https://t.co/I7hZamOiFO
— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) October 14, 2022

As Gov Larry Hogan weighs a presidential run, MD Sen Paul Pinsky (D) offers his inside view of Hogan's 2 terms in Maryland–
"..posturing, pandering, and the pursuit of publicity" https://t.co/tZs42cY5qm
— Jayne Miller (@jemillerbalt) October 9, 2022

Finishing school ass Trump https://t.co/ziR9PjUjyb https://t.co/3NCknvDSmf
— District Sentinel (@TheDCSentinel) August 30, 2022

New: As elements of his party feud over the FBI's search of Trump's Florida estate Mar-a-Lago, Maryland's GOP Gov. Larry Hogan is using his final weeks in office to launch a new "tough on crime" offensive https://t.co/7N8nQwoPHo
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) September 7, 2022

After 8 years of mismanagement, @GovLarryHogan is leaving a Purple Line that will cost taxpayers $1.4 billion more than budgeted and start 4 1/2 years later than scheduled and be worse. While he prioritized roads to benefit his own properties. #MDPolitics https://t.co/4kXGB3NhnO
— Our Maryland (@Our_Maryland) August 28, 2022

New: @GovLarryHogan still won't release $3.5 million in funding to train medical professionals to perform abortions, a decision that means the money won't be allocated until July 2023. Lawmakers want him to release the $ early, especially in light of today's SCOTUS decision.
— Maddi O'Neill (@MaddiONeill) June 24, 2022

The White House condemns Trump’s antisemitism. Republicans are quiet

As far as I can tell, the media hasn’t even asked Republicans what they think.

Ask @GOP if they have any comments on Trump’s antisemitism.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

Will the GOP condemn Trump’s latest antisemitic remark? Of course not, @JRubinblogger writes. https://t.co/hE5YHD75oG
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) October 17, 2022

A giant potato Airbnb

This Giant Potato Is Actually An Idaho Airbnb You Can Rent For $200 A Night

Mr. Potato Head

I saw a show on the History Channel on Sunday that included the history of Mr. Potato Head, a popular toy from my childhood. Modern kids probably know him best from the Toy Story films.

Here is some history

More on the GOP lie about litter boxes in schools

How can they believe this crap?

Here's a thread of the 20 politicians who've falsely claimed this year that schools are accommodating who kids identify as cats, putting litter boxes on campus for them
— Tyler Kingkade (@tylerkingkade) October 14, 2022

WATCH: False rumors claiming schools are making accommodations for students who identify as cats are gaining momentum as a GOP talking point.@oneunderscore__ explains what's actually going on for @MSNBC. pic.twitter.com/sxXQpo3j4H
— NBC News Tech (@NBCNewsTech) October 14, 2022

there are no litter buckets in classrooms except in one case where they are there to account for one of the predictable consequences of a society saturated in easily obtained guns. https://t.co/3Vsi55Sc7E pic.twitter.com/M21b1hUAZJ
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 14, 2022

Nuclear war was a big concern in the 1960s

Putin’s threat to use nuclear war reminded me of how much we were concerned about it when I was young. Concerns about nuclear war were exacerbated by the Cuban Missle Crisis. We had drills at school where we hid under desks. With hindsight, I realize we would have probably been fried anyway. People built fallout shelters to hide underground with provisions to live. The Atomic Cafe is a good documentary on the period.

It was prominent in movies such as Fail-Safe (also a popular and gripping novel) and Dr. Strangelove which featured someone riding a bomb. Science fiction and horror films had monsters created through nuclear war.

The Nuclear Monsters That Terrorized the 1950s

List of films about nuclear issues

How to survive fallout, September 1961: pic.twitter.com/hmehvKZx9A
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 18, 2022

Fallout shelter for your family, 1950s: pic.twitter.com/3RAnwxqAU1
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 18, 2022

Underground bunker on Nantucket to which JFK, as President, might have been quickly taken from Hyannis Port in case of nuclear war: pic.twitter.com/kQiKOjPf6W
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 18, 2022

Cold War Civil Defense: pic.twitter.com/IsKYeyc2bo
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 18, 2022

Children in the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis: pic.twitter.com/ZGJ88WkIjg
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 21, 2022

In Cold War 1957, a Redstone missile model was installed in Grand Central Terminal, New York, by US Army and Chrysler to awe New Yorkers, which it did: pic.twitter.com/djNjJVTZDA
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 21, 2022