Raisin’it

Blocking left blocking right These trumpy putlers are in my sight 🤪🤣 so bad but couldn’t resist. Next swarm of them gets a haiku!

Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

As Israel holds elections today, millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation are ineligible to vote. Even as Israel sets up polling stations for illegal settlements in the West Bank.

“Following his defeat against Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, questions arise about Flávio Bolsonaro's whereabouts as authorities investigate a possible escape to the US through Argentina.” 10/27/26… 1/

What in the ever loving racist incorrect mouth dropping is this??? The Arab world “produces” plenty of “science”… which is all the more impressive since the West periodically bombs all their shit.

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA Israeli settler: “Go back to Jordan... It's not your land.” Suri Crowe's group: “But why can't they harvest their trees?” The settler then threatens to call the police and have members of the group taken away. Suri Crowe reports from the ground in the West Bank.

Armed ICE agents are moving through Puerto Rican neighborhoods with assault rifles, threatening residents who film them with pepper spray. In Villa Capri, a restaurant owner refused agents entry when they tried to enter without a warrant. Watch and share everywhere!

Old-fashioned racism from RFK Jr. at a GOP event.

This is the "opposition" by the way Zionism is a cancer #ZionismIsRacism

⚡️Update: Paramedics caught under fire, university campus struck as Russian ballistic missile attack kills 1, injures 10 in Kyiv.

i know politicians are terrified of public opinion on immigration, but given how badly the other side has failed, i really think if we had a bit of courage many people would hear us out www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

Here's what you should be doing.

Your Prez ratioed a troll out of existence. What a shame.

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

Right on schedule... "a person protesting could be held liable to pay up to €10,000 for damage and vandalism even if they did not directly cause it themselves, if they were continuing to demonstrate nearby or as part of the same group as perpetrators." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Pay attention!

A reminder that Bolsonaro’s father plotted to stay in power by poisoning Lula, assassinating the Vice President, and murdering a Supreme Court justice after losing his reelection bid. He is currently serving a 27 year prison sentence for his crimes. Any wonder why Trump is helping his son?

Looks like the next Trump catastrophe is gearing up: The CIA has released a Spanish-language guide advising Cubans seeking "positive change" on how to contact the agency securely.

“Mark Zuckerberg modifies the structure of his shareholding to escape wealth tax without losing control of Meta”

Small dick energy.

This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

Anti-government protests are continuing in Tirana. Albanian protesters have been throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers.

@chadbourn.bsky.social

Hawaii did it. 49 to go.

As his policies bankrupt them, Trump-supporting farmers fully embrace socialism. But only if it’s for them.

The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

I wrote about this in Part II: If Republicans try to deny Democratic members-elect their seats, Democrats should just congregate somewhere else in DC and declare themselves the sole legitimate House of Representatives.

This pattern stands in contrast to the idea of Trumpism’s irresistible march towards consolidated autocracy. A past pattern is not a guarantee that the regime won’t ultimately break through somehow. But being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent.

Among the cases cited is City of Sherrill v. Oneida Nation. That Supreme Court decision came down in 2005. In it, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg limited an Oneida Nation land claim in New York by using a 15th century edict by the pope in her majority opinion called the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

Imagine this. A woman served a career in the USAF retiring as a Lt. Col. and choses Montana as here home is called an out-of-stater by a guy who only came here to be president of a university that he left abruptly to seek his fortune in DC as a US Senator. Weird times. She won the Democratic Party.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Ukraine says satellite access still restricted despite Trump saying otherwise
The president said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starshield, but Ukrainian soldiers said the service was still disrupted Friday. wapo.st/3UeuOlS Gift article

“Did Alani really say that?” Whether you've voted already or are still deciding, check out what attack ads and super PACs are saying about me, side by side with the truth. Decide for yourself: alaniformt.com/rumors Vote ALANI BANKHEAD for U.S. SENATE by NOV. 3rd

Did you know the LA Aqueduct was bombed many times by farmers angry Los Angeles was taking their water? Did you know international laws now prohibit attacks on water systems during war? My new book tackles the long history of water conflicts & how to move toward peace. share.google/ITtvgbs4fFKf...

What are things looking like on the per capita greenhouse gas emissions front? Russian and the US are in a league of their own! (One slither of hope for the US a -1.2% 10-year average change) The EU is still above the global average but their 10-year average change is best in class at -2.9%

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Fewer than 150 Americans were denaturalized between 1968 and 2013 From 1990-2017, DOJ filed ~11 denaturalization cases per year Trump's DOJ is aiming to pursue “100-200 denaturalization cases per month” ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

So here's a thoroughly startling science story - and I promise that despite the next thing I'm about to say, it's not conspiracy-theory clickbait: It turns out there’s a vast blob of *something* in the depths of our planet, and parts of it look a bit like a tree - and it might be ALIEN? 1/

Among the major religious groups in this country, white evangelicals were the least likely to name empathy as a foundational social value. “They really are on an island by themselves on this..." - @robertpjones.bsky.social

The Trump admin could have challenged voter rolls months ago. Their timing says this is just a political trick, not legit concern. They don’t care if they are disproven after the election is over—just like “caravans of criminals” who disappeared once election day passed.

Also, here is another SCIENCE FACT about MASSIVE HOLES: bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

This one's a tough one. On the one hand, I don't want lots of people dying from a preventable virus, but on the other, what are we even doing still skinning minks? Wait, what's hard about this?? Oh capitalism and your hijinx.