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As the midterms approach, I would just remind everyone that US politics has become increasingly parliamentary and that what matters most is the *number* of Ds or Rs, not the idiosyncrasies or ideological quirks of individual candidates. If you want D outcomes, vote D up & down the ticket.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Even under Nixon, the DOJ never acted like a criminal syndicate. Now, however, that's exactly what it is. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/just-in...

Okay fine I wrote about the Cheesecake Factory bullshit www.findinggravity.net/more-women-h...

This is his Oppositional Defiance Disorder talking. Someone said that it's bad to say this so he reacts by saying "Oh yeah? Fuck you. I'll say it over and over againand there's nothing you can do about it." He knows his rally cultists are just there for the hate ritual and w/cheer anything he says.

This is mostly true. I was in shock and said if the FBI was going to come arrest me then fucking do it already. Ben was the one who held my hand and told that lawyer to fuck off. But YES. We LOVE the NLG. They found me my lawyers and I will owe all of them my life.

Last year today was one of the scariest days of my life. We initially called a lawyer who wanted to work with feds to arrange a perp walk. Kat told that guy to fuck himself. Thank God for the National Lawyer's Guild, who Kat called right after. They were ready to fight the bullshit on zero notice.

If you see Flavio Bolsonaro call ICE so agents can beat him up!.

Fun fact: it takes fewer votes to impeach and remove the president than to override a veto.

Surprising exactly zero people, "forgive my youthful indescretions committed at age 53" guy recently sponsored a law to get 15-year-olds tried as adults. nashvillebanner.com/2024/07/15/n...

Welp. #WelcomeToMarALago

I think what’s going on here is that Trump is sending lists of names that sound immigranty to state election officials and claiming - with no evidence - they’re non-citizens as a pretext to seize ballots.

New from me: Why didn't yesterday's report make a bigger impact? Because we already know Trump is a predator. The good news is that in one week we can vote his fellow predators and enablers out of office. www.altrightdelete.news/p/vote-out-t...

Today: We’ve got @mingemi.bsky.social comin in hot with her take on the WNBA Finals Game 6 timing debacle. Why is this happening? “So men aren’t inconvenienced.” www.coyotemedia.org/valkyries-fi...

does this guy have any friends who are not fraudsters i am just asking

Trump renamed the DoD to Dept. of War. I've been thinking he should follow through and just rename DoJ to the Dept of Crime. But maybe that's too on-the-nose even for him.

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

can you confirm receipt @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social?

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

while Republicans are out here defending the honor of Cheesecake Factory, let's take a moment to remember how they're actually spending their time--and our money 👇🏾 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

From the Dems House Judiciary report:

USPS workers’ greatest concern about Trump’s mail voting plan was a requirement that they reject ballots for an array of reasons. “That’s not what we do. We deliver mail. We don’t decide what goes and what doesn’t.”

they could've moved the Atlanta Hawks vs Cleveland Cavs regular season game to accommodate what could be THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME OF THE FINALS but no... www.nbcnews.com/sports/wnba/...

WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

And now the Denver B-Gates Tattered Cover Bookstore has signed copies of When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Redshirts, and Old Man's War. Go get them!

Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

Okay, I deleted the original post because people didn't check the link at all and mistook my typo of "young men" seriously. I clearly meant young women. Not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but I read this entire report today. It's gutting. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

It's another day, so let's talk about this. First of all, Lula didn't win the election alone. He won because more than half of the country FREAKED THE FUCK OUT and built a popular movement that organized several actions both irl and online.

Good morning with good news: Solar & batteries cut 2026 summer wholesale prices by 51% in California & by 42% in Texas, compared to 2021! CA saved $2.5 Billion & TX saved $3.55B. Retail generation cost within total retail bill fell by 10% in CA & 4% in TX. seia.org/media/18501/... #energysky

Charleston remains the ONLY North American city to run a uniform, stamped-metal badge system for urban slave labor. These copper badges reveal a larger truth: Charleston licensed, numbered, monitored, and taxed Black labor. Again I ask: Who knew?🤔 I didn't. #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In 19th-century Charleston, SC, urban slavery gave rise to a unique and chilling tool of control: Charleston Slave Badges. Who knew? 🤔 Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory relicrecord.com/blog/charles...

RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

🚨 We are suing ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection in federal court to force the agencies to publicly disclose all the people in their custody. Read more: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/20/i...

Kinda like Chik-fil-a ads on WNBA reminding me they’re anti-womens rights and it’s good to keep boycotting them.

Here's the topline of my analysis on this afternoon's 2-1 Ninth Circuit ruling in the California ballot case:

Trump depends on the fake credulity of disgraceful hacks like Bumatay who will characterize Trump’s systematic assaults on democracy as attempts to protect it. And Bumatay complies again and again He knows exactly what he’s doing. Shame. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

This is to het up the blood of his cretin brigades so they disrupt polling places. No one is ever getting a million bucks out of him.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

Anthropic's IPO filing includes some unusual risk factors, like possibly wiping out humanity, which seems bad. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...