Martin McDonald

Poisoning our air to make even more money for his oil and gas industry paymasters

Wait a minute the most powerful people in the country are all deranged fraudsters

I'm starting to question meritocracy

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

Oh this is absolutely glorious from Judge Reyes in the 'Golf Course' case, the opening and closing remarks alone are legendary: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Judge Reyes is fresh outta fucks this day. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I muted them already but the best response to this BY FAR was someone telling me to go to nytimes dot com for further coverage

don't worry the NYT had 320 entire words on it

OK, RENT 30th Anniversary Concert time. TTYL.

“Filing a placeholder charge the defendant can’t be tried on, on the last possible day, under seal, in the third case against the same man, is not routine or ‘widely recognized.’ It is exactly what it appears to be: vindictive.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

NEW: Transgender Texas Student Union has retained counsel in response to the Travis County filing related to the fake transgender mailers. It's Chris Hilton, who previously worked for Ken Paxton at the Texas Attorney General's office and left temporarily to defend Paxton in his impeachment trial.

Restore Britain have a new policy: no new British citizens from abroad at all, except by marriage. Catherine Blaicklock, founder of the Brexit Party, is among those on X who think this policy is too open/liberal.

JD Vance: "Today, the Dept of Agriculture is announcing millions of dollars in new grants toward 10 meatpacking facilities right here in the state of Kansas"

Yes. @iaindale.bsky.social wrote a piece and had a phone in on LBC today about the potential for an election in December which would be frankly suicidal in the current circumstances.

One thing people are missing from the new Jim Comey charges. They came 2 days after Aakash Singh was promoted to PADAG. Comey has been arguing that Trump keeps hiring people for the primary purpose to prosecute him, and this is consistent with that. emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...

decent Budget rabbit www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

JUST IN: In Trump admin's attack on California midterm elections, 9th Circuit in 2-1 decision dismisses Trump DOJ's appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction. Case goes back to Judge Carter for hearing tomorrow. www.courtlistener.com/docket/75011...

I think Richarlson is the only member of the Brazilian national team who came out against Bolsonaro (or for Lula).

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

Looks like MN is in the bag for Dems then:

Trump: "Let's all get behind Michele Tafoya in MN. She's running a great race. Don't allow them to play with the Votes after the race is over. The Federal Govt will be watching closely. The only way she can lose is if they cheat. We can't allow that to happen, because I won MN three times ... "

BREAKING: Bukayo Saka wins the Socrates Award for his humanitarian and social work.❤️

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

good closing message *HASSETT: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS A MYTH

Natalie Harp and her gigantic bag are with the president again today #TravelWithNatalie (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

Also, at least 2 hospitals were hit in Kyiv by Russian attack tonight

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS COMEY CASE WAS BROUGHT TO HALT STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, INVESTIGATION ONGOING -SPOKESPERSON

It's our job to work together — the federal government, First Ministers, First Nations leaders — to make sure that everything we do leads to real, positive change in people’s lives.

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey charged is with transmission of national defense information and conspiracy, the third case against him by Trump’s DOJ. nbcnews.to/4yKQww1

“Please go round and tidy up the Rewilding. It’s all looking a bit uncultivated.” #TheArchers

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

From a pure public administration standpoint, I wonder if that might be the more practical headline from Trump 2.0. They want everyone to bear the full brunt of his policies except for the people who voted for him. It's "MAGA for thee but not for me."

David Fotouhi, the Trumper currently serving as the deputy EPA administrator, decided to announce a new policy today from inside a storage closet. And of course, it's ethanol mandates. They are repealing as many of Trump's policies as possible in swing states.

Ooh, let's see how long it takes for Kemi or Nige to adopt this: 'on benefits, don't get to vote!' 👀

I don't agree with this. Even though Elon Musk received over $38,000,000,000 in corporate welfare from the federal government, he should still be allowed to vote. Once. What he should *not* be allowed to do is to interfere with *our* votes.

NEW from me: Last year, Mark Carney set a goal to double Canada's non-US exports by 2035. Today, he's already halfway there In response to Trump's tariffs & threats, Canadian businesses, consumers, & even tourists are taking difficult steps to decouple from the US🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/how-canada...

So Kemi Badenoch’s office has variously included a guy who offered to hire contract killers and a guy who has done time inside for hate crimes against opposition MPs. Cool cool cool cool

Oxford Street pedestrianisation will be a resounding success for the same reasons ULEZ was: When you design cities for the public rather than purely private interest good things happen to health, life and commerce.

Tim Scott calls Annie Andrews "tranny Annie"

Trump: “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!”

to try it out, make sure you have beta features enabled here: bsky.app/settings/bet... then, visit your Notifications tab here: bsky.app/notifications it looks and feels a bit different — i'd suggest using it for a bit to get a proper feel for it. we'll iterate with your feedback.

we're testing a new beta version of the Notifications tab! it has new tabs to help you notice priority notifications, and it uses new grouping logic to reduce noise (e.g. when one person likes a bunch of your posts). disclaimer: it's a beta, not a final version. send us your feedback! :)

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Absolute icing on the cake reading down this article to find Elon Musk whining "the math doesn't add up" and to know that the little shit has lost another one. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

but, fortunately, it cant write or think. If you ask it to produce a number between 1-10 they all pick 7 every time. if you ask it to summarise, say, a chapter in a huge law treatise for a student it can do that, but not make an argument as to why the standard position is a mistake.