This thread wraps current affairs pretty well, and therefore makes me feel like driving my car off a cliff. We are fucked. And it's by design.

3.4 Million Chickens, 5,500 Hogs Killed in #Florence's Flooding commondreams.org/views/2018/09/… "This was an unprecedented storm with flooding expected to exceed that from any other storms in recent memory." And millions of animals have already paid the price.

Lagoons of animal shit and piss are going to cause actual shit floods. Reminder that lagoons of shit and piss were a horrible idea in the first place. inhabitat.com/hurricane-flor…

I'm trying to understand why anyone would choose NOT to register to vote, except if they are registered in another state. In those cases there should be a national system in place to block attempts to register in multiple states. My smog test was handled more efficiently.

They Were Seeking Mental Health Care. Instead They Drowned in a Sheriff’s Van. nyti.ms/2Nt4NM7

Is Donald Trump a white nationalist? Former white nationalist @RDerekBlack weighs in: on.cc.com/2NrMs1Y

Maybe, just maybe it's because he's a Holocaust denying white nationalist.

Can we rent a French court for our problem over here?

Reminder that HSBC admitted in writing to money laundering for Mexican drug lords & got fined six weeks profit; no one went to jail. Regulations and laws mean nothing if the regulators are waiting for their cushy jobs in the industry.

Reading a reply to a tweet which was a reply to a retweet which pissed thousands of people off because it declared that US MSM pushes war. Meanwhile, Senate votes for biggest military budget of all human history,93-7. But please shame the retweeter; super important use of energy.

It is revealing that this question: a) comes from quite the colonial mindset of “what value is this territory providing us anyway?” (Do we ask that about Appalachia, etc?) b) implies that PR’s current status is somehow an act of charity - also a sentiment rooted in colonialism

@Ocasio2018 The green is what US companies take from PR in a year. The yellow is what US gives PR in a year. Get the picture?

Rhonda Hart ripped into Ted Cruz. He brags about his A+ NRA rating. She lost her child in a school shooting.

GO @KimsMom3!!!!!

In Beto O'Rourke's own words #TXSenateDebate

I love that slime ball Ted Cruz is posting this because he thinks it's bad to say these things. Because Ted Cruz is a racist who supports racists and uses racist excuses not to answer questions about racism.

Ted Cruz said in the debate last night that he joined the Republican Party because they were the ones that passed the civil rights act blah blah Dixiecrats helped lie lie lie because that's what racists say and ignore that the parties switched BECAUSE of this vote. Lying racist.

Only 6 out of 1,000 rapists go to prison, according to analysis of federal surveys and data from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network lat.ms/2MX0B1L

Rare photo of the Trump brothers before separation. Strangely, doctors elected to give the spine to neither of them.

The fact that I signed up to see all this sweet art content from various accounts and all I got was Trump news for two years has me more than slightly pissed off. Twitter intentionally pissed off the entire population of twitter. Thinking of cancelling my account now. But look: