Gretchen Strauch

RANDOM POSTER WHOSE OPINION I HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST: A result like this in NV-03 would be seismic. That’s deep Blortles country. It was Vinkum +8 in ‘24 ME DURING ELECTION SEASON: totally. i just need to look at 9000 more of these

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

What I don't understand is that Trump seems to think he can do the strongman thing *without* actually offering any bread in the traditional bread and circuses package. Bread is like $7.99 now and Trump is taking your park and your White House and your grandpa www.porchpartynews.com/p/voters-bet...

well, on the one hand AI has made things significantly worse for everyone in almost every capacity that it has touched. But on the other hand, the dumbest guy you know can send emails nobody reads really fast now. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not

Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Morning work out Original post

Not for nothing but PBS does election night coverage and we work really really really hard on it. Union shop as well!

Let’s just recall that she is talking about a twelve-year-old.

i am on a plane sitting next to a lady who looks 40ish and has informed me that this is her first time flying she is visibly excited. she asked the flight attendant how much a soda costs and was happy to learn that drinks are free on airplanes. she's taking lots of pictures. i love this for her

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

dudes rock

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

Agree, he's very good here:

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

Good thread. As @volts.wtf points out, the only way for Dems to deal with this is to just plow through it. As I suggest in the piece, Ossoff and El-Sayed seem to understand this. They don't get knocked off course by fake MAGA outrage or media's tendency to launder it. They just run right through it.

This is a simply astonishing video. Americans should watch it for decades as they try to understand this historical period.

He should not be allowed to have any government contracts--he is operating like a rogue state.

Is Pete Hegseth's Bold Pledge To 'Kill Everyone' By 2028 An Unrealistic Pipe Dream?

It's too embarrassing to admit you're a powerless stooge, I guess, so you have to stick with "man I'll tell you what this outcome that was predicted by literally every other person on Earth just completely blindsided me"

he almost got away with it

Minimalistic but effective Halloween decorations Original post

fuck i just realized my wife has never disavowed the muslim brotherhood

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

ymmv on whether you believe the opening thrust of this piece, but its largely unexamined premise is a chief of staff who has so little rapport with the president that she can only enact personnel changes by manipulating what he sees on his television at night www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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.

Next Wednesday, October 21st, we’ll be celebrating the 175th anniversary of Moby-Dick with @tinhouse.bsky.social, @hesterblum.bsky.social, and @mattkish.bsky.social, whose cult classic Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page was just rereleased by Tin House. Register here: buff.ly/OQj8pIN

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

don't vote for the Measles Parties party

White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary theonion.com/white-house-...

For those playing at home, a "Zacharia" is roughly 1/2 a "Scaramucci." .45 if you want to get technical.

No Kings is TOMORROW! AFT members are joining communities nationwide to turn people power into voter power. Vote early where available or make a plan for Nov. 3. Find an event near you: go.aft.org/nokings

4:04 sleep not found

The flu has come early to the Pacific Northwest this year. In King County, six people — all of them adults — have already died in this wave of the flu, and that number will rise as more deaths get investigated and counted.

"In February 2024, Blanche & his partner Emil Bove — now Judge Bove — insisted that 'a fair trial cannot be conducted this year.' And yet, 22 days before the midterms, with early voting already underway in MN, Blanche’s DOJ searched a candidate’s home over paperwork a dead man filed 3 decades ago."

This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it

The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.

Trump “was troubled that Guilfoyle was making money off his presidency,” the WSJ informs us, with the journalistic equivalent of a straight face.

you quite simply love to see it

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

Trump lies on behalf of Putin and Xi. The weakest American president ever.

I hope the take about how this is the moment to get beyond "affordability" is correct. I mean, consumer costs matter; I'm feeling it. But we're murdering people on the open seas with no review. We're kidnapping citizens and legal immigrants. The President lies about everything. Surely that matters?

ah, the return of merit