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and in between all that i want them to start smashing and destroying as much rightwing shit they can since they have spent decades telling everyone in the base that it is easier to destroy than build! lots of rightwing stuff that should be destroyed.

Politics is the art of forcing the votes "there." You do that by ratcheting up the pressure through relentless accountability.

Moreover, not one international partner can or should trust us until we demonstrate we can keep this from happening again bsky.app/profile/anja...

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump."

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

like, this obsession with Winning Back Men Even At the Cost of Our Beliefs, stop. We're the Girls Gays and Theys coalition, get over it!!!

Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

I tracked the content of Rowling’s tweets for five months, posting occasional updates until she blocked me. bsky.app/profile/bill...

Chuck Schumer's horrifying silence about Ilhan Omar talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chuck-s...

The media narrative detailing a massive split among Michigan Democratic voters is undermined by actual polls that find that 95% of Democrats say they’re voting for El-Sayed, while only 4% say they will vote for Rogers.

If they actually want to get thru the next two years, there’s not really another choice

100% Gotta set the terms of the conversation rather than always responding to theirs

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

jfc

West Bank…

once again bsky.app/profile/polp...

did you know the IRS hasn't actually measured tax evasion in over a decade? due to lack of budget and workforce, the IRS is incapable of performing the random audits necessary to estimate tax evasion they've been forced to reuse the same numbers from 2016

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Ugh. Bad for all the reasons. But Spiegelman, of all people?!?! So disappointing

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Also, studies show that when we improve a space or system for the disabled, the benefits actually spread to everyone. You’re not just helping yourself later; you’re helping yourself right now.

When the Dems return to power. they must say no to impunity.We need a moral and legalreckoning.

And so trying to separate the Affordability Agenda from the Accountability Agenda is dumb. Our economy is being wrecked by the Unitary Executive.

Something I wish more people would realize.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

This is solid gold, y'all. "A.i." in education is privatized, predatory bullshit pushed by people who don't actually support public education. Thank you @naomiaklein.bsky.social and Arundhati Roy! www.instagram.com/reel/De4IE6H...

Toby has been so forceful in making this important point: look at what's happened to trans rights in the UK, and you see the end result of where moral compromise in the US will inevitably lead:

The fun trick here is that merely existing as a trans person and wanting to use the bathroom in public makes you an "activist" in their minds. it's a very fungible and transferrable category.

“We must finally confront and uproot the core of the U.S.’s anti-immigrant underbelly, which is largely reflected in the racially motivated notion of criminalization.” - Laura Hernandez in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/cli...

the notion that there was an epidemic of people getting fired for honest pronoun mistakes is so divorced from reality it's difficult to know where to start with it

Really? There's nothing remotely "nasty" about El-Sayed's campaign, which offers a positive, upbeat, inclusive message. The nastiness resides entirely within the campaign of Mike Rogers. Indeed, "nastiness" isn't the word—it's brutal racism.

This feels right

You can skip the gender metaphysics debate entirely if you say, "I don't care about that. I care about the material consequences trans people experience for living the way they want to," and then hammer the point home that no amount of gender metaphysics can ever justify transfemicide.

I do think that a major failure point of a lot of mainstream trans activism is the focus on responding to attacks on trans people in the same arena that those attacks are being made, i.e., indulging the notion that this is a philosophical debate over gender metaphysics and trying to win that one.

there's a kind of vague received wisdom that counterculture is associated with the left, but a whole lot of it is just conspiratorial, anti-participatory, low-trust, and anti-institutional, and that applies especially to 60s through 90s counterculture whose descendants are the green party and maha

A new data analysis shows that delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country. The rates of primary ballots rejected for arriving late has doubled or tripled in some areas compared to 2022.

I said that this was a Russian trope at the time in testimony to Congress and am glad to see this excellent documentation of Russia’s use of Vance’s vocal chords.

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.