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@rtowle.bsky.social
Pet peeve: complaints that Dems have bad messaging/do nothing by accounts who follow no elected officials or experts in their fields.
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Donald Trump instigated a war against America’s democracy on January 6, 2021. He and his Republican allies would have crippled America’s democracy that day had his own vice president not refused to commit gravest constitutional offense a president can. trib.al/Qpje9P5
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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
It is short and so I assume they are looking into things but it is... interesting... that the NYT piece on the new House Dems report on Trump ties to Epstein simply does not mention the brand new rape allegation and says whatever this is instead www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...
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The three main greenhouse gases reached unprecedented concentrations globally in 2025, continuing an upward trend that will lead to more global warming. Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...
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Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 Mentoring a lab colleague? Share your ‘CV of failures’ with them go.nature.com/4zVUbIq
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Inside Donald Trump Jr’s Mongolian hunting trip with a Kremlin-linked businessman www.ft.com/content/f41f...
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“Lula supporters are starting to gather…at the heart of São Paulo, in anticipation of a Lula victory. The mood is upbeat but tense, amid suspicions that there has been a deliberate pro-Bolsonaro campaign to sabotage public transport systems to stop Lula voters reaching polling stations...” 10/25/26
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Brazil extended voting hours in lieu of the attempts at voter suppression seen today. We'll know the results soon enough. I hope for all our sakes Lula wins.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting in today’s presidential runoff, moving the close of polls from 5pm to 7 pm Brasília time.
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This is so unserious. A online community just Saying Shit
I really think the trans community is really not understanding that the Democratic Party being probably the most pro-trans major political party on the planet means whole swaths of Americans that don't like you will go "one vote for the pro trans party please" without knowing it
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Replying to @muellershewrote.com
JB: so if we can look at the reliability of CA declaration, we can also look at the reliability of your list, right? DOJ: that's certainly correct JB: your declarations are offering expertise. I don't see anything in there which would come close to establishing the type of reliability you need 29/
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Replying to @muellershewrote.com
JS: if you take a step back, you're not able to explain who the third parties are, and the reliability of the list depends on them, but somehow the district court was supposed to resolve all this in a matter of hours when we don't even know who the third parties are? You don't even know! 24/
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Who's up for some last minute door knocking to get out the vote? Click on the link within Indivisible's post, type in your address, & see if you're in an area they've targeted. (I wasn't.) If it's a no-go, at least pass this on so others can help GET OUT THE VOTE! We have just this ONE CHANCE!
Getting out the vote is as easy as talking to your neighbors if you’re in one of these states or districts: 2026.indivisible.org/n2n/
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www.npr.org/2026/10/25/g... I hope they can get rid of Bibi. #USDemocracy
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Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...
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First Musk said he did not disable Starlink for Ukraine. Now he's confessing to disabling it but says he was justified in doing so. Congress, if you can hear me, we need hearings when Dems take over. www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/e...
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Very glad to hear that Elon Musk is a stickler for details on contractor – government relationships. Could come in handy later.
Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...
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A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...
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As Obama said, it has been "two years of chaos and cruelty and corruption" and I would add years of abuse of Democracy. In 9 days, accountability begins. Gifted: wapo.st/4BuABEM #voices4Victory #dv1 #usDemocracy
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Can confirm from all the restaurant subreddits I've seen. Cheesecake Factory BOH is a perpetual warzone. Every dish is made fresh in house and their menu is thicker than the Holy Bible. Spend a few years cooking at a CF and you can cook damn near anything in the middle of a firefight.
Tangential to the Cheesecake Factory talk is that their workers are genuinely elite tier 1 operators in the food service industry. I have a friend who manages bars and restaurants and he will instantly hire anyone with Cheesecake Factory experience. They are like the Marines minus the war crimes
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Gaslighting 101: The AG is literally calling us crazy for thinking Trump will use the levers of government power to overturn the results of an election, when he has a documented history of doing just that. That’s tyranny.
BASH: The worry is that we end up in a situation where President Trump tries to overturn the election and the result of that could be like what we saw after January 6-- BLANCHE: Stop it! You gotta stop it with that! That's crazy BASH: This is a president who has a history
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Obama blames Trump for 'starting unnecessary war nobody asked for' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/obama-blames-trump-starting-unnecessary-war-nobody-asked
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Replying to @carlbergstrom.com
Just in case you think I'm making this up. Via www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.
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Oddly the far left hasn’t found the time to fight against government contracts going to Musk or any white supremest working to overthrow the democracy. He doesn’t seem to be the same problem in their eyes as, say, Jewish PACs.
Musk's companies have received an estimated $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits since 2003. Musk has become the Worlds richest person on the backs of America’s tax payers. Now he uses the wealth to buy elections. #Sheshed apnews.com/article/russ...
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Musk's companies have received an estimated $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits since 2003. Musk has become the Worlds richest person on the backs of America’s tax payers. Now he uses the wealth to buy elections. #Sheshed apnews.com/article/russ...