Asha Rangappa

I have an announcement to make — I’m writing a book!

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Obviously this is racist and gross, but it's also shockingly historically illiterate? No one who has taken a single high school world history course would deny that Arab culture has produced incredible science and literature. This is why we need basic humanities education.

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...

I guess he doesn’t disagree about the Saddam Hussein part?

Great thread, especially the math at the end

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

My second essay on how under Trump we’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable to us just years ago. Today: The corruption of the Justice Dept and *EIGHT* scandals on par with Watergate: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

Telling headline in the WSJ: “clings to power?” He won the election by more than 3% and with more than 50% of the vote - how about just “prevails” or “wins re-election?” @wsj.com

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led protests. nyti.ms/4zegOaY

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic, saying it trained its AI models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without permission, accusing it of copyright infringement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/a...

Roberts *explicitly* stated that POTUS has immunity even for directing a “sham” prosecution or one with an improper purpose or motivation. He can also promise to pardon anyone who follows his orders. As AG says, what’s the downside, for anyone?

Why wouldn’t he admit it? The Supreme Court immunized this kind of stuff. It’s why Jack Smith had to take the Jeffrey Clark/DOJ/Trump conspiracy out of his Jan 6 indictment.

wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

1. I am very tired of being asked to be stupid. I know that is not the most important thing right now. There are many more serious consequences to electing a criminal president who is burning up the economy.

In MAGA, parental estrangement is a big issue — and parents are held out as blameless victims. I suspect that's one reason why Vivek Ramaswamy ran an ad celebrating Amy Acton's vile mother. And why MAGA — including Vance and Trump — are backing him. www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

this answer about what issues matter to him from a college student waiting in line at the Trump rally wasn't what the Fox correspondent expected to hear. She moved on with swiftness

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Remember, Republicans made George Soros an international boogeyman when he was giving Democrats a *tenth* of this Now... {crickets}

“Departures from these practices should never be countenanced because they risk allowing prosecutors to impact national elections.” -Todd Blanche on DOJ’s 60-day rule, September 2024

literally illegal

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

It's so weird how 99% of the things JD Vance refuses to apologize for involve his political allies embracing bigots. www.axios.com/2026/10/22/v...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

It's extremely clear at this point that Todd Blanche has opened this probe for one reason: to block or subvert the real criminal investigation now underway headed by Raúl Torres, the attorney general of New Mexico. The technical term for what Blanche is doing is perverting the course of justice.

NEW: Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker, wife of Governor JB Pritzker, announces she’s sending $500,000 to Amy Acton after Vivek Ramaswamy’s truly vile ad featuring Acton’s estranged mom.

Let us recall the last time JD Vance said something sensible. I think this was it.

😬 they almost all ignore him (in his home state)

As Ramaswamy doubles down on his new ad featuring a woman who chose her pedophile rapist husband over her own daughter, his victim, let me remind you that this story happened literally one week ago. They really, really, really want to lock up the pedophile vote.

Am I the only one who had no idea W had a brother named Neil

The ICC has outstanding arrest warrants against two national leaders for war crimes. One of whom the Trump administration just lauded as a "humanitarian" and the other one President Trump endorsed for reelection. And of course the Trump administration is trying to destroy the ICC.

vivek has some of the worst political instincts i've seen. back in the spring, an older conservative voter questioned his hindu faith. instead of appealing to our founding commitment to religious freedom (e.g., citing constitution), he tries to litigate theology with this man. kind of hilarious.

The Republican speaker of the Ohio House is calling out JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy for their morally depraved closing arguments attacking the Democratic candidate for governor based on the fact that she was raped by her stepfather.

Girls! Girls! You're *both* right! Bask in the novelty.

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

The White House official accounts are posting Down Syndrome slurs to attack journalists. These people are disgusting and morally depraved.

Forbes has been tracking Trump's wealth since the early 80s. They described Trump's first year back in office as "the most lucrative year of [Trump's] life." And it's not even close. Trump is earning hundreds of millions more than he ever has.

Oh, well that can be the first line of questioning in Jan. when they haul him up there.

"If I have to create stories... then that's what I'm going to do" was how he defended the lying hate speech about Haitians eating their neighbors' pets (In Ohio, as it happens). It is no surprise at all that this doesn't bother him.