jonathan friedman

Ban dark money Ban unlimited political spending Ban AI video and deep-fakes in political ads Ban gerrymandering

me, reading the headline: well, he’s a public figure and actual malice is a hard standard to reach me, reading the article: ohhhhhhh

Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. apnews.com/article/braz...

The circular funding model continues apace www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/n...

This is the party that’s saying Obama making a joke referencing the Cheesecake Factory re: Trump’s poor taste shows *Dems* are out of touch

The opposition can form a govt w the Arab bloc or the Bibi bloc They can choose coexistence and a path back to global good graces or a different version of the same We’ll see…

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

Yair smartly telling us all to take a breath

Israeli turnout now at 74.3% as of 8pm — up 8% on 2022 and the second highest ever recorded in Israeli history. There are still two hours left of voting from this time.

Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

it is odd in retrospect how easy it was for the “but trump ended his friendship with epstein” narrative to be accepted as fact

No one hates regular Americans more than Trump and Vance

you went to yale law school asshole

If you are too young to really remember the Obama years, conservatives were like this every single day. He really did just break their brains.

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

Best thing on god’s internet in ages

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

It's hard to believe but Democrats ran for decades against the "Bush tax cuts" and then made most of them permanent. Then ran against the "Trump tax cuts" and then didn't repeal them either.

the ADL is more mad about Zohran calling a neighborhood Eastern European than Elon giving a Nazi salute Zohran derangement syndrome is real

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

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

This is why Dems are the only party interested in curtailing massive political spending by the wealthiest people

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

+1 @teddyschleifer.bsky.social

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voter turnout in israel at highest by midday since 1977 normally a good thing. for netanyahu, high arab turnout is an ‘emergency’ (…and an excuse to claim election was stolen, of course)

The Elmo Lorne Michaels impression is incredible

“The streaming giant last week rolled back its projections for advertising revenue, calling for $2.7 billion instead of $3 billion by the end of 2026”

christ

"Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." apnews.com/article/trum...

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

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...

Instagram adding long-form video *should* scare YouTube more than Netflix tbh The product isn’t there yet (need background viewing, PIP while scrolling, continue watching, dedicated watch history, much more) but clips as direct promos for full video is smart and would (will?) be huge for podcasts

Idk might be notable that, in multiple races across the country, Republicans keep endorsing Democrats

Equis found that the share of Latinos reporting their social circles were mostly supporting Trump went from 19 percent in 2016 to 30 percent in 2020 to 42 percent in 2024. Now? Just 22 percent of Latinos' social circles say they are supporting the GOP. ¡Dios Mio! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“He pays attention,” says Hussien Salama, the lead video producer for the Jon Ossoff campaign in 2021. “There are some candidates who I work with who don’t watch their things or aren’t aware of what their social does. Jon cares about how he’s being presented to the world.”

Last-minute CA ballot advice for procrastinators like me: "no" on Prop 45. More targeted CEQA reform for renewables and housing could be good, but the Chamber of Commerce's shotgun approach will promote sprawl and freeway expansion. Not the way. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/prop-45-vote

in ohio this is basically like being shunned

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

whoa www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...