Amidst the hell scape that is the second President Grievance administration, Tuesday was a good day.

We got the news that that the murdering, torturing bag of meat that was Dick Cheney had died. I’m not going to rehash all of the shitty things he did and how his post-9/11 behavior fucked this country over in a tragic way. I’ll just say that I shed no tears for his death and I’ll leave you with this assessment from Ron Suskind:

As Mr. Trump bombs boats that may or may not be transporting drugs, concocts a pretext to invade Venezuela, constructs loyalty tests and viciously punishes those who fail them and declares vague emergencies and wars to justify his own partisan political ends, he should pause to thank the man who showed America how it could be done.

For all his belatedly discovered democratic principles, Mr. Cheney helped to create the world that Mr. Trump inhabits. The contempt he showed for any constraints on his power paved the way for Mr. Trump and the contempt he now shows for everything but his own naked interest.

Fuck him.

The next good thing on Tuesday was the off year election in Virginia—all of Tuesday’s elections to be honest–but especially in Virginia, mainly because I have had to watch ALL OF THOSE FUCKING ADS. On Tuesday night Jen Psaki said that over half of Winsome Earle-Sears’ campaign ads and those of the groups supporting her were gross anti-trans ads. I can confirm that that it is true. In the middle of a government shutdown where VA is one of the hardest-hit states, Sears thought trying to scare people was still a good idea.

And it wasn’t just something at the top level of state politics. Virginia voters rejected all of the anti-trans bigotry that the VAGOP had been so desperate to tout:

Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.

— Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) 2025-11-05T01:56:29.825Z

Same thing in Loudon County:

Another often overlooked but important election.Loudoun County Public Schools has been ground zero for targeting by the Trump administration over trans students, and chose to protect their students.Pro-trans candidates Chandler and Svenson are winning, and anti-trans Munoz-Melendez is losing.

— Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) 2025-11-05T01:49:54.356Z

I thought this summed up the vibe for this election:

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T00:44:38.237Z

And here is the proof of it in the VA results:

Just a great evening all around. Total destruction of the GOP candidates, and during the longest government shutdown in US history. People hate the president, and if you’re an enabler, you are in trouble.

Finally, today the sandwich throwing guy had his day in court. This case is such a perfect example of the fatuous, stupid, and blind rage that is the MAGA approach to law enforcement. It’s also really funny and we should laugh at these losers as much as we can:

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says."I could smell the onions and mustard."

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T15:32:59.929Z

Part of the defense’s strategy was to show that the feds thought it was all hilarious themselves which doesn’t seem like a winning court strategy in a jury trial:

Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T16:45:08.070Z

In the end the stupid thugs didn’t actually produce any, you know, evidence:

Lairmore said he “could feel it through his ballistic vest” and it “exploded all over” him after the Subway stack hit him. He said he “could smell the onions and mustard” on his uniform, and even had an onion string hanging by his police radio later that night. The fast-food mustard, he said, stained his shirt.

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They also pressed Lairmore on why there are no evidentiary photos of stains on his shirt or of the sandwich after it was thrown, only a video posted to social media platform Instagram from a bystander showing the sandwich mostly intact. Lairmore said the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. took over the investigation after Dunn was detained, and Lairmore said the sandwich appeared at least “bent and out of shape” in its wrapper. 

I am guessing there will soon be another victory to celebrate.

I’ll leave you with this: