Michele Lamb

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

Required reading. Thank you @theradr.bsky.social for saying what must be said.

The FRENCH don’t play when it comes to a REVOLUTION

Not too early to start thinking about how grassroots pressure on a Dem House could help produce better results -->

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JEFFRIES: “.. we’re going to hold him accountable in the same way that we held Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem accountable. .. And Pete Hegseth needs to be pushed aside by the president, or we’re going to have to deal with that situation if he is not.” www.politico.com/live-updates...

may Lula make Zuck face the consequences

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

“.. a stunning comeback, sealed late as voters in Lula’s northeastern stronghold rallied behind one of Latin America’s most prominent opponents of Trumpism.” @bloomberg.com 🇧🇷 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

1. NOBODY asked you. Zero bodies. 2. Conflating Diaspora Jews w/Israelis is textbook antisemitism + I'm sure that stat's a lie 3. Most of all, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social embodies more Torah principles than any of these dinguses ever could.

there is no other current or former politician in the US who gets this sort of response

Democrats don't need to pay people to show up when it's someone worth showing up for - about half the line in Cleveland for the Obama rally with Amy Acton & Sherrod Brown. Clip credit, Brennan Leach of NBC News.

OBAMA: That just feels a little bit different… where people are so sick and tired of being sick and tired. After 2 years of chaos. and cruelty. and corruption. and incompetence—you get a chance to say enough's enough.

⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers

But about him in this New Yorker piece - The Art of Leaping Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

🔥 D.L. Hughley on @stephenasmith’s dinner with Trump: “Why is it the people who hate us feel so comfortable talking to you? You got a meal, everyone else is starving. When NABJ gave SAS a thumbs down award he went scorched earth. When Trump impugned his intelligence he went to dinner.”

Today’s indictment of Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas is yet another politically-motivated attack from the regime. For years, we have watched the president weaponize federal law enforcement to go after his political opponents — especially Black women who stand up to his destructive agenda.

Whoopsy - it seems Trump messing with the postal service is hurting his own rural voters the most. 😬🤷🏼 🗳️ www.propublica.org/article/mail...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

Analysis | No one could have predicted that a slick businessman who made billions selling cancer drugs he knew didn't work would run campaign ads weaponizing the fact that his opponent was raped as a girl.

In the no contact world there's a term for relatives/friends who are employed by the abusive parent to harass their kids. They're called "flying monkeys." This guy charges $995 to be a flying monkey and send emails to estranged kids to "see if they will correspond with me." Quite a genius grift.

Mensch. End the occupation.

It is a devastating and shameful set of circumstances that the police force in Guinea-Bissau, one of the poorest counties in the world, has had to take action to stop a predatory, unethical experiment on infants from being done by Danish scientists who are funded by the US—and Bill Ackman.

I'm not kidding, the guy simply has to be at the very least deported at the end of this. If we're doing "he's not from here" shit, he is the most not from here guy alive. He needs jail or deportation the second it's viable to do it.

I do think Acton should go as hard as possible on this. "Elon Musk is paying millions of dollars to bombard your TV with lies by a rapist pedophile and his insane enabler wife. Don't let him win."

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

I like how even when they are so crooked that they're taking money to pose as voters, they're also paying the money to their own sons. Layers upon layers of corruption.

thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social 🙌

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

When I tell you that I've spent my entire adult life watching as my humanity, dignity, & rights were used as bargaining chips by the only party I've ever supported in the Name of a ~Big Tent~ - this is the bullshit In talking about. LFG, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

WSJ doesn't credit @marisakabas.bsky.social who discovered "Tommy" was a paid shill, and misspelled Abdul El-Sayed's name. Paper of record, my ass.

CEO said a thing!

Current and former defense officials say former Wall Street executives have taken hold of a wing of the Pentagon and they’re favoring people and companies with close ties to the Trump administration.

140 days of protests triggered by a corrupt kushner/trump family luxury island deal… yet 🇺🇸 media is essentially crickets 🦗 🦗

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

here’s where I disagree w/some nuance. It’s not that journalists shouldn’t be publicly taking sides, it’s that journalists should be more intellectually honest when one political side continues to act in bad faith. Call out the side that is lying to and cheating the public while also being corrupt

Marisa's entire piece is terrific, but this part has really stuck with me. A group of College Republicans decided that El-Sayed wasn't "welcome" in the Senate and set out to stop him.

Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.

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.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

you have to watch every second. i…wow.

New twist: I get this error message when I try to click on the #NoKings hashtag on Instagram. Is Instagram suppressing the hashtag too?

Hope this provokes the biggest example of the Streisand Effect in the entire history of Streisand Effects. To Hell with both Musk and TikTok.