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The bobcat came dressed as a bobcat. Nobody tell it that’s a lazy costume. I’m not filling out that incident report. 😂🎃 Photographer Mark Girardeau spent two months capturing wildlife investigating Halloween displays in Southern California’s Santa Ana Mountains. Please enjoy some animals minding their business after an entire morning of humans refusing to. This story and more in today’s Daily Dots on Substack. Report: ABC7. Photography: Mark Girardeau. XPOST | SUBSTACK | INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

Four kids. Mortgage worries. Another early morning waiting for him. Then somebody pretended to steal $10 from him and kept filming. If you’ve ever worked until you were exhausted and still wondered whether it would be enough, you understand why his words hit so fucking hard. People have since rallied around Walt with donations. I hope that help gives him some time with his kids and a chance to breathe. Most of us just don’t have a camera there when we finally fall apart. We are all Walt. 🤍 This story and more in today's Daily Dots on Substack. XPOST | SUBSTACK | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | INSTAGRAM melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

☕️ Gσσԃ Mσɾɳιɳɠ! ☕️ A sheep led police on a food pursuit. GM settled driving-data allegations. A working dad said what too many people are feeling. Also: Iran warnings, ghost students, Voyager and Halloween wildlife. Friday’s Dots👇️️️️️️: https://thedailydots.substack.com/p/red-baron-worker-gm-settlement-iran-warnings?r=5pecuy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 👉 Check your registration. Make a plan. Vote. Whoever you support, don’t let somebody on the internet talk you out of having your say. 👈 XPOST | SUBSTACK | FACEBOOK | TRUTH melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

🌳🌲THE DARK MILE JOURNALS❄️: A king’s man is looking for a house. It’s behind him. Sorcha is trying very hard to let the protection do its job. The First Sanctuary brings The Dark Mile Journals to its final chapter. Come back to the Reach for one last journal entry. 🤍👇️️️️️️ https://sorchasjournals.substack.com/p/chapter-thirty-four-the-first-sanctuary?r=87kb68&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true NEW HERE? START THE JOURNEY AT CHAPTER ONE👇️️️️️️: https://sorchasjournals.substack.com/p/start-here-the-dark-mile-journals XPOST | SUBSTACK | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TRUTH melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

Barry Knew It was an open secret

She’s a little bit of a witch, a big bit of a bad bitch, and a whole lot of magic! ✨

The 2026 midterm elections are now 5 days away. Your voice and your vote matter. Your country, your neighbors, and your kids need you to speak up and cast your ballot. Make a plan to vote. Ask your family and friends to do the same.

Armenia’s parliament broke into a brawl Thursday as governing-party and opposition lawmakers traded punches. Parliament lost its shit. Public service now comes with a referee. This story and more on The Daily Dots Substack Video via Breaking911. Reporting: Zartonk Media. XPOST | SUBSTACK | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

Edinburgh Zoo has three new capybara pups. Mum Luna and the babies are doing well. Older brother Bru is grumpy about losing his only-child status. Then there’s Dad. The zoo revealed that a viral photo of Rodney’s intimate pool encounter was with Cali. Cali is Luna’s sister. Three babies, a jealous older sibling, and Dad in the pool with Auntie. Edinburgh Zoo has accidentally commissioned a soap opera. Rodney. Sir. 🤣 This story and more on The Daily Dots Substack Source: STV News and RZSS Edinburgh Zoo. XPOST | SUBSTACK | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

☕️ Gσσԃ Mσɾɳιɳɠ! ☕️ A middle initial needs a security detail in Alaska, the FTC wants to know how your shopping apps set prices, and Armenia’s parliament would like you to duck. We finish with Milwaukee’s first Brewers championship and three baby capybaras. Their father has been in the pool with their aunt. Rodney. Sir.🤣️️️️️️ Thursday’s Dots are here. ☕ https://thedailydots.substack.com/p/armenia-brawl-alaska-sullivan-ftc-capybara-pups?r=5pecuy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true XPOST | SUBSTACK | FACEBOOK | TRUTH 👉 Check your registration. Make a plan. Vote. Whoever you support, don’t let somebody on the internet talk you out of having your say. 👈 melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

☕️ Gσσԃ Mσɾɳιɳɠ! ☕️ A hacking attempt has disrupted the FEC’s campaign-finance filing system. The political ads, unfortunately, remain fully operational. Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived in Miami, the FBI searched a former Swalwell donor’s Beverly Hills mansion, and someone tried to pet a fucking great white shark. A short Dots with plenty going on. 👇 https://thedailydots.substack.com/p/flavio-miami-fec-outage-swalwell-mansion-search 👉 Check your registration. Make a plan. Vote. Whoever you support, don’t let somebody on the internet talk you out of having your say. 👈 XPOST | SUBSTACK | FACEBOOK | TRUTH melissahallmanwrites.com @DotConnectingAnons

☕️ Gσσԃ Mσɾɳιɳɠ!☕️ Today’s Dots: Dollar General gets sued over checkout prices, and Wedgewood admits faking polls. Receipts and actual voters would’ve been helpful. James Comey faces new charges; Maurene wins a back-pay ruling. Two former FBI officials face added obstruction allegations. Newsom predicts the DSA’s rise, Flávio must surrender his passports, and NYC plea deals draw scrutiny. Trump promises $1 million for voter-fraud tips leading to arrest AND conviction. Neil Young wants $10 million from Trump’s committee. Then: a glowstick salamander study and a hippo demolishing a pumpkin. Finally, competent pumpkin management. Read Tuesday’s Daily Dots 👇 https://thedailydots.substack.com/p/dollar-general-lawsuit-fake-polls-comey-cases?r=5pecuy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 👉 Check your registration. Make a plan. Vote. Whoever you support, don’t let somebody on the internet talk you out of having your say. 👈 XPOST | SUBSTACK | FACEBOOK | TRUTH melissahallmanwrites.com

A lot of folks are out there saying things like "Trump can fire who he wants," claiming the judge in the case is leftist or "crooked," saying Maurene Comey "botched" cases, and similar reactionary, ignorant nonsense. Here's some truth based in facts: Some people serve at the leisure of the president, but for others they are employees of the federal government, and there's a legal process for how you fire someone from one of those jobs. Trump didn't fire Maurene Comey. Bondi fired her, and DOJ argued in the case that Blanche essentially ratified that firing later on. Maurene Comey wasn't fired for cause, and that's a big problem. According to the CVRA, Article II, statutory law, and SCOTUS, her firing was unlawful. The judge didn't go rogue or crooked or anything like that. He went by the LAW, and he explains ALL OF THIS on pages 16 thru 45 of his order and opinion. As for the claims that Maurene Comey "botched cases." That is not what anyone within DOJ who reviewed her work, who promoted her, or who worked with her ever said about her. They said the opposite, and her record affirms their review. Just a glance at her most recent high-profile cases shows that she DOES NOT "botch" cases. Her case against Epstein was so good he killed himself rather than face trial. She successfully prosecuted Maxwell and, something few people even appreciate, worked extremely hard to keep the low-credibility victims away from that case and convinced the high-credibility ones to testify against Maxwell. Maurene saved that case during the trial when one of the most important witnesses began falling apart on the stand. Maxwell has decades left to serve on her sentence. She successfully prosecuted Sen. Menendez (a powerful senator who had already survived a previous prosecution), his wife Nadine, and his co-conspirators. They are all in prison right now. She successfully prosecuted Diddy, though she didn't get a conviction on all of the charges. The jury simply didn't buy that those girls didn't know what they were getting into when they hooked up with Diddy. Maybe Maurene overcharged or shouldn't have made it a RICO case. Oh well, Diddy is still in prison. So, maybe the people telling you "Trump can fire who he wants," who are claiming the judge in the case is "crooked," who are saying Maurene Comey "botched" cases, and similar reactionary, ignorant nonsense... Don't know what the fuck they are talking about.

Big win for former AUSA Maurene Comey this morning. Court rules in favor of her claims that her firing in July 2025 was unlawful and grants her reinstatement with back pay through December 20, 2025. Court also grants her requests for DOJ to acknowledge violations of law and her rights. I know it’s an extremely unpopular take in my corner of politics, but damn the politics of it—this lady never deserved the hate she got. On the contrary, she deserved a lot of credit and heaps of praise for her successful prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as for other successful prosecutions. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.649409/gov.uscourts.nysd.649409.96.0.pdf