Andy Berry 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻

Bloomberg spent his money, as always, on useless ads, way too late, to avoid accidentally building any institutions. I'd bet Elon is spending a billion on all the things we'll never find out about. And he's spending it on everything, including a ton of disinfo + a ton of voter contact.

I just received an email from Bill Nye, as in Bill Nye, science guy. I learned that science is in the Constitution. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 gives Congress the job “to promote the Progress of Science.” I did not know that. Also, Bill Nye ENDORSES ABDUL EL-SAYED! YESSSSSS!

O is for Obelisk is one of the entries so beautifully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, available worldwide. Some felt the monuments were shamelessly phallic and pagan; others fancied them as giant crystals set on end in a mineral cabinet.

It is, today, not the 13th anniversary of the publication of Steven Morrissey’s autobiography (it had been out for ten days) but something much better: the 13th anniversary of the Sunday Times publishing A. A. Gill’s merciless mauling of it—a review which went on to win Hatchet Job of the Year

Overnight, DOJ rolled out a new (draft) complaint against Nikki Floris and Brad Benavides, the FBI agents Jeanine Pirro claims lied to cover up their knowledge of Hunter Biden investigation. It reveals the FBI had misrepresented a key witness' knowledge of the Hunter Biden investigation.

So to cover up that misrepresentation, Pirro 1) swapped FBI agents 2) added an obstruction charge to excuse the new affidavit. Basically, Pirro is charging the FBI agents with obstruction to cover up her cover up. 😳

As Marcy has been repeating, this case is about the government even being able to conduct counterintelligence against (Russian) disinformation. It's clownish yet so important.

Also, I don’t even know why I’m talking about the “Arab world” because this ignorant motherfucker isn’t even limiting his racism to specific countries. He’s saying that people who are Arab, in general, don’t “produce science.” WHAT IN THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN

What in the ever loving racist incorrect mouth dropping is this??? The Arab world “produces” plenty of “science”… which is all the more impressive since the West periodically bombs all their shit.

“The nonprofit that helped get Cornel West on presidential ballots in 2024 received all of its funding that year through a conservative political network that has been bankrolled by Elon Musk, tax records reviewed by Sludge show.” 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/s1Keh9Qx6ZDV...

I've already seen some effort to bury this as "there's not a lot new here." As if, "What's one more rape victim?" is sound editorial judgment. Republicans kept the Benghazi story going for years on nothing new, but that didn't stop to press from covering every nothing burger they served up.

Alaska authorities strongly oppose the Trump DOJ’s attempted “interference” in the election. This is significant because there were concerns the state—which sought to DQ the second Sullivan—would take the same side. But it didn’t. Quite the contrary. buff.ly/EJHtDpX

"Specialists" are gonna focus on how we fought the algorithm, but a huge part of it was actually about people being on the streets educating others and changing their opinions. News media refused to tell people about the crimes and intentions of the bolsonaro family, so we did that ourselves.

if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices

The most beautiful sentence I ever wrote is being housed in a fireproof box underground. Everyone who ever read it spontaneously combusted in a blaze of glee. I couldn't get prose insurance for years after that.

Not mutually exclusive categories, for sure.

Menu à la carte: you can order one or more dishes from a menu Menu à Descartes: you question every dish on a menu

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Listen, when I said the tent was big enough for all of us, this is not what the fuck I meant. Thanks for the publicity or whatever, but Neo-nazis need not apply.

Chris Pratt is the cranberries of actors. STOP PUTTING THAT SHIT IN EVERYTHING IT'S NOT THAT GOOD!

Besides the whole saving the knowledge of antiquity and the numerals and the science and the exquisite art, it's pretty easy to google Arab Nobel prize winners

The guy should read a book now and again. Maybe the worm ate the part of his brain that had some history in it.

Pretty sure Mark Twain could teach Olabamiji Oluwatobilobacan a thing or two about self-promotion.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge extends court-ordered block on Trump's renovation plans for historic public golf course in Washington.

Wait. Wait. Wait. You're telling me the Toronto Maple Leafs had 48 hours of everyone blowing smoke up their behinds, and responded by no-showing their next game against a bad team? No. I refuse to believe it. That doesn't sound like them at all.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Mississippi schools would come in 4th if it was only compared against one other state.

Trump claims that thanks to Republicans, Mississippi's schools are "among the best ranked in the nation"

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

I believe that DOJ has 30 days to get a grand jury indictment after charging on information unless Comey waived his right to a grand jury indictment, which I kind of doubt. That 30 days would expire 11/4. Is that correct @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social @rparloff.bsky.social ?

“James Comey charged for a third time by the Trump administration” NBC reports that the case has played out under seal in DC since Oct, 5–and Comey hasn’t been indicted there. buff.ly/BypEFNv

It also has his ox suddenly joined by a horse *also* pulling the plough, apparently by magic, because neither of them is wearing a yoke.

Literally the first shot of this "historically accurate" Odyssey movie shows a boat that A) Has no steering oar. B) Is under full sail *and* full rowers while entering a cave, presumably to dock inside.

1/ If we need another sign the U.S. is going backward in health, here it is. Measles cases in the U.S. have now topped 4,500 this year, which is the highest annual case count since 1991. Cases are still climbing, so let's break down what’s happening and what comes next. 🧵

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

If the real priority was actually protecting girls from actual men who pose a risk to them in sports, it would make much more sense to advocate for banning male coaches and male doctors. And I’ve never, ever ever heard that suggestion, because that’s not really what this is about.

‘We, the people’—not we, the white people—not we, the citizens or the legal voters—not we, the privileged class, and excluding all other classes but we, the people; not we, the horses and cattle, but we the people.” —Frederick Douglass, 1857 www.americaamerica.news/p/showing-tr...

MUST read: It's the policy... and the dark money subtefuge

"If Christian nationalists are allowed to define America as a Christian country in which Muslims are viewed as alien outsiders, it won’t be long until Jews, Catholics, atheists, and anyone expressing political dissent will also be labeled as alien outsiders."

"Whatever dark power Trump has that has enabled him to become president twice while being quite literally one of the most morally despicable human beings on Earth, it’s not easily duplicated by your average Republican candidate for Senate, House, or governor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

I was listening to this livestream while grocery shopping yesterday and making "oh no" faces in the canned goods aisle as the DOJ lawyer spoke

What’s due Wednesday is worse: every threat assessment and the rules for when agents can show up where people vote. Full story: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-foug...