Brian Schmidt

Election denier mirror images: The Rs say Ds somehow cheated in 2020 despite Rs controlling the federal government, and then Ds didn't cheat when they controlled the feds in 2024. Left deniers say Rs didn't cheat when they were in charge in 2020 but somehow cheated in 2024 when Ds were in charge.

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

I'm glad to see that in Brazil, pretty bad triumphed over catastrophic.

Too many Democrats are allergic to using Ukraine as a campaign issue, but you can make a strong pro-Ukraine argument without becoming a dreaded Foreign Policy Hawk. Indeed, it's quite evident that the GOP coalition is a lot more fractured on Ukraine than the Democratic coalition.

A good piece on the Trump reality show and its decline. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/donald-...

Dear Texans: please elect Talarico and also tell him to stop texting me. Thanks!

The massive egos on the far-left who oppose attempts to protect Palestinians, creating risks to Palestinians instead, are beyond belief. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/n...

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Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

A shock wave is spreading across the nation....

Those of you familiar with him know that Mike Davis is one of the genuinely fascist players in the MAGA legal world. Here he is first lying about what Slotkin said and then threatening her with assassination. A product of the corruption and rot of the conservative legal movement.

When Trump's gone, geographic names should revert to original. New landmarks named after him represent an opportunity to rename them after local, little-known, actual heroes.

Pope survived but should still keep his distance. www.dw.com/en/pope-leo-...

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

The Crime Index (Crimeindex.org) is updated now through August. Murder is down 16% in our sample of nearly 550 agencies covering 112 million people nationwide. Violent crime is down 6% and property crime is down 9% as crime continues to fall in the United States.

Along with everything else, this is beautifully written. Highly recommended.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.

“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

Ok, I wrote this all up, so if you've come this far in the thread, please repost the link below! bsky.app/profile/donm...

We’re going to need a new Pulitzer category this year for Best Leaked Audio of a GOP Senate Candidate

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The military coverup of damage from the war is the Republican Party protecting itself before the election, by delaying any action and harming American security. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

Children in the 2030s will be amazed that photos were once pretty good evidence that something actually happened.

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Republicans are soft on crime, this is proof.

This is why other countries have professional diplomats as ambassadors, not political hack appointees. Dems are somewhat better than Rs on this. Let's hope they become a lot better in 2029. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

The Catholic Church is a mini-universe of good and bad, but it's shocking to me that it is willing to discriminate against children based on the trans status of the children's parents. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

Fun event for people in SF Bay Area/Peninsula Oct. 21: www.eventbrite.com/e/bat-week-s...

Even if Schmitt (so glad it's spelled wrong) had been right that Smith had been in Atlanta once in 2024, so what? How does that prove Smith met with Fani Willis? The whole thing was stupid from the beginning.

I think carbon capture may work someday, but playing games to stop action on climate change isn't the way forward. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

Not much room for nuance in BSky over Israel, but there's nothing requiring nuance over this attempt to further destroy Israeli democracy (note that it's not final though): www.dw.com/en/israel-ba...

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

NEW: A Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report released today "exposes how [Howard Lutnick-linked] Tether & its...token have become central to Iran’s shadow banking system" allowing Iran to fund proxies, commit human rights abuses, and...defy US sanctions, says Senator Blumenthal.

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Agreeing with this: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

Any anti-crypto super-PACs out there, especially effective ones? So many grifters out there, fortunately mostly Republican but also some Democratic ones.

We don’t talk to the Chinese because we trust them or agree with them; we shouldn’t and don’t. We talk to the Chinese because—as with the USSR during the Cold War—all of our lives depend on it.