MKSutherland

MKSutherland

@mktsutherland.bsky.social

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Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

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the half a billion dollars Musk has dumped into the midterms is a little over <3%> of the change in value of just his TSLA shares since the market opened <yesterday> so um yeah

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NYT & WSJ Agree: Vote Against R's to Teach a Lesson! #ABlueView🧵 WSJ (https://twp.ai/4hwK4F): "Do we express our disgust with the state of the modern R Party... and risk letting our choice be an endorsement of a R Party that has forfeited just about the last shred of trust we have in it?" 1/3

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Trump: "We took over Venezuela very successfully, and they've sent me as a gift a boatload of a million barrels of oil"

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Natalie Harp is sitting right next to Trump as his car rolls up to his Qatari bribe jet #TravelWithNatalie

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I have Tan Suit at 19 and Kamala’s wired headphones at 24 personally

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Blunder aside, Vance's whole vibe is so dark and conspiratorial. Adam Hamilton will weaponize "your faith" to "launder an ideology" that "despises how Kansans live?" He's a mainstream Protestant megachurch pastor who went to Oral Roberts!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance tries to say Kansas but it comes out "Sexus"

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Americans are heading into the midterms gloomier than before any midterm on record. The consumer sentiment number released Friday is at 48, far below 2022 (60) and 15% lower than just before the Iran War.

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It's absolutely crazy the scandal of Donny Jr's wedding bill being paid by this guy dropped and two weeks later he meets him in Mongolia! Related: Trump said Junior would reimburse has anyone seen the receipts? These people have no bottom.

Peter Andringa@peter.andringa.me

NEW: We uncovered another trip shared by Donald Trump Jr and Umar Kremlev, the Kremlin-linked oligarch who attended his wedding. In August, they went hunting for a rare wild sheep in the remote Mongolian wilderness:

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* BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO MISSES SUPREME COURT DEADLINE TO HAND IN PASSPORT TO FEDERAL POLICE -- SOURCE * BRAZIL FEDERAL POLICE CANCEL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S PASSPORTS AFTER DEADLINE MISSED -- SOURCE @reuters.com $EWZ

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Whether it's Donald Trump maintaining a personal police force that kills and imprisons without cause or it's Barack Obama making a joke about the Cheesecake Factory, both presidents have trashed the very principles that make this country what it is.

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POLITICO: ".. The documents show representatives from Google, OpenAI, Meta, Amazon Web Services and Nvidia were 'confirmed' to meet with Abbott’s team, joined by Texas’ head electricity regulator .. to discuss building out the state’s power grid." @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comTexas officials huddled with tech companies before grid blitzAs Republican Gov. Greg Abbott talks tough on data centers, records and interviews show how his office and appointees worked closely with the tech and power industries.

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In other words, they’re calling him “uppity.”

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social

Young ‘uns: this stuff happened once a week during Obama’s presidency. Dijon mustard. Moving a bust of Churchill. Inviting a rapper to the White House. Putting his feet up on his desk. They’d scream and cry for days about how effete and snobby and Black he was and how misinderstood they were.

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We spoke to the acclaimed economist Isabella Weber, author of the new book "Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy."

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woke up thinking about this guy not all heroes wear capes

JohnnyMangu@johnnybarbu.bsky.social

#Trump is heckled by a protestor at his speech in Mississippi: "SHOVE THAT BALLROOM UP YOUR FAT ASS!!"

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voter turnout -Israel - could hit 90% -Brazil 81% -Hungary 80% -Serbia 69% -the US won't hit 50% in the midterm (it's also how we got Trump 2x)

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Donald Trump Jr. spent two days in August on a hunting trip in Mongolia with Umar Kremlev, the Russian businessman with ties to Putin who helped pay for the presidential son's wedding weekend festivities, the @ft.com.web.brid.gy reports. www.ft.com/content/f41f...

ft.comInside Donald Trump Jr’s Mongolian hunting trip with a Kremlin-linked businessmanRemote August rendezvous highlights remarkable ties between the US president’s son and a Russian close to Vladimir Putin

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🚨 Earlier this month, we witnessed ICE agents violently detain a U.S. citizen in North Long Beach. What they did was horrifying, wrong, and put everyone in danger. Oversight Dems are demanding answers. We will not tolerate this violence on our streets.

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greatest economy in the history of the world US DURABLE GOODS ORDERS UP 1.8 PERCENT MONTH-ON-MONTH IN SEPTEMBER, EXPECTED +1.9 PERCENT

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🚨 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA VOTERS! More than 7K voters had their registrations flagged over questions about their residential addresses, & the ACLU is raising serious concerns about errors. Check your voter status NOW. If it says “Challenged,” contact Fulton County Elections.

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Exclusive: Researchers at TrendAI ‌concluded the Israeli company Discover-Tech was one of the biggest sources of digital ads shown to users of SpaceX's Starlink service and that the ads were likely being used to geolocate or otherwise surveil them reut.rs/4jDCHLZ

reut.rsEXCLUSIVE: Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users, sources sayExperts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of ​Starlink's satellite internet service in a likely effort to spy on them, according to s...

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A localised ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky went into effect early on Tuesday.

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Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The remote rendezvous in August highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a businessman with ties to the Kremlin. ft.trib.al/9g7wnme

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Everytime

Tristan Lee@tristanl.ee

My contribution to Cheesecake Factory discourse: Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang members assaulted a mixed-race family. I identified one of them because he worked at a Cheesecake Factory and their Instagram page posted pictures of him. He has a back tattoo with SS bolts and phrase "Aryan Soldier"

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Good representation on the back row from the worst sixth formers you know.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

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Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social

Where we are a a country: the Secretary of State waning a Nobel Peace Prize winner not to peaceably assemble because that won’t lead to democracy. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...

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Texas AG Ken Paxton has taken about 350 out-of-state trips with a state-funded security detail. During a 2017 Israel trip, organizers said Paxton insisted on his own security despite the government providing it for other AGs. His detail cost $75,000. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u... #txlege

nytimes.comKen Paxton’s State-Funded Jet-Setting Draws Campaign ScrutinyMr. Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate in Texas, has taken about 350 trips outside of the state since he was sworn in as attorney general.

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#GOTV #PhoneBank #Oklahoma Oklahoma City Oklahoma Staff the Voter Protection Hotline Wednesday, October 28 to Tues Nov 3 Multiple times available Oklahoma Democratic Party HQ 3700 N Classen Blvd Oklahoma City, OK 73118 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

mobilize.usStaff the Voter Protection Hotline · MobilizeHelp us staff the statewide Voter Protection Hotline to answer questions like: - How do I vote? - Where do I vote? - What do I need to bring Connect people who call for a ride with drivers statio...