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This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

you're goddamn right you guys did

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

this is so fucking bleak

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.

ah, so that's why Trump is getting bent out of shape about the Alaska Senate race:

A federal judge has denied Oscar Belgal's request for release, finding he's gotten adequate medical care in the two weeks he's spent at MDC. Belgal was shot in the neck by an ICE agent and his attorneys say the bullet is still lodged in his neck. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/23/j...

The poet in the trenches. The author battling depression and addiction. The sketch - I'm literally watching a documentary about it at this minute! - drawn by a soldier *as his ship was sinking* to serve as a record of his comrades and their heroism.

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

The enslaved person in the fields who sang the songs their mother brought from a homeland they would never see. The political prisoner who smuggled in writing materials to tell their story to the world. The unhoused artist leaving their mark on the urban landscape specifically built to exclude them.

I will not accept an argument that art and creativity have been uniquely democratised in the last few years since the invention of genAI. What a disservice to human history. How little regard you must have for the billions of souls that struggled through unimaginable suffering to express themselves.

I don't even really understand how you just take a fundamental human activity like creating stuff and talk about it as if it's something that is typically reserved for an elite, or indeed typically *anything*.

Tell me you've never made a single fucking piece of art in your life without saying you've never made a single fucking piece of art in your life.

Please don’t trust the polls, y’all. They have been inaccurate AF way too often. Vote like we are 3% down in every race and we need every single vote to pull out a win. Bc I fear that may be more accurate. Vote like your life + liberty depend on it. Come hell or high water, get to the ballot box.

That Republicans have chosen this hill to die on tells you exactly who they are.

I once witnessed up close a man try to murder protesting children with his car in broad daylight. The expression of cold, determined rage is still haunting. You don’t do something like this by accident but our passive language around car violence allows the perpetrator and media to play dumb.

What happens when that company goes bankrupt after the tariffs are rule illegal again? Do they sell that private data to other companies? Incorporate their AI into some other AI? Every item you purchase from overseas is going to become part of that black box, and who knows who that data goes to?

Everyone seems not to know about it. It's crazy. Like do you really want to get entered into an AI black box along with photos of all your purchases? By some unknown 3rd part for profit company? That works hand-in-hand with the government? Red flag after red flag here, and everyone is sleepwalking.

The US seems to be funneling ALL international parcels through a handful of 3rd party AI apps that you have to pay to use. It feels very scammy, and I wonder if citizens know that everything they order online is now required to be photographed and fed into LLMs... It's a huge red flag.

Ohio Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is so desperate for power that he's willing to exploit a family tragedy in which his opponent was raped as a child.

ironically, a program seemingly designed to just give money to the regime's friends and allies is textbook fraud

rioting and looting let other proles know you're serious, that you're actually about fighting for something real. Yes, middle class ppl and non-profit activists will be very upset and will very loudly scold you for ruining the movement, which is to say, the movement they can control and profit from

The only reason folks are talking about the French uprisings, ongoing for over a month, is because they escalated to rioting. The idea that that rioting and property destruction are bad for movement perception is just false, even if your goal is something as impoverished as media attention

Reminder: during the most riotous parts of the George Floyd Uprising the movement was at its most popular, with the destroying of the 3rd precinct polling much higher than either presidential candidate, and it was only after months and years of revision that ppl talk like they werent

Employment-tied Health Insurance is effectively a form of modern debt peonage and we should only talk about it in those terms.

Everyone deserves to live and die with dignity. Not spend the last few weeks on their deathbed hoping they die faster so they don't keep running up the bill for their loved ones.

The American healthcare system is a choice. Anyone who tries to rationalize it in any conceivable way is either a fucking idiot or making money off of it. I hope they one day have to deal with the choices they have made for the rest of us.

My mom was diagnosed with cancer and it killed her within 2 months. It took every single member of my family to spend nearly every cent we had just to make sure my step father wasn't left homeless after everything was said and done. This was *with* insurance.

i am a one-issue kinda guy, in terms of my historic and current political support, and that issue is besieging and sacking Constantinople. not out of any enmity with its people, or even government, but because that city was MADE to be encircled with trebuchets and cannon. Just LOOK at it.

yes, if the noble Crusaders hadn't sacked Constantinople and murdered their fellow Christians where would the world be right now?

We also pay way more for private healthcare than they pay for public. But God forbid someone get something they didn't pay for. Nose, face, spite.

conservatives always act like europeans are taxed to death, when in reality they just don’t have to pay the upkeep on the american war, police, and prison machines

a norwegian on Threads posted this and i just don’t know how much more clearly we can emphasize how much Americans are being ripped off by our system which is built to concentrate wealth at the top

People like Tommy are the white Christian equivalent of the Taliban. They are domestic terrorists and should be dealt with accordingly.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

They shouldn't have to do this. I don't want people to say this is a 'feel good' story. It isn't. It is people dealing with racist bs when they shouldn't have to.

this, children, is what a Journalist looks like plenty at her former employer should read this while they tell themselves everything is fine

Mike Rogers’ wife Kristi is handing out $10 gas cards in Michigan, in an attempt to buy votes for him. Fun fact: Mike Rogers actually voted to raise gas taxes as a state senator. Consider it a partial refund. VERY partial.

torn between shock and disgust and amusement imagining the DoD getting orders to execute the same-day invasion of a major ally

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

If you have a nice old piece of furniture and its not painted... don't paint it. Also, wtf contact paper is the worst.

I wore a May Day Cafe shirt at work today, no one knew what it was but loved the Dragon.