Mark Simpson-Vos

America’s voting system is in array!

Such a fun conversation with the always wonderful @kateshaw.bsky.social! Come for the history, stay for the serious Chicago accents.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Something that stood out to me when speaking to young Black women in Greensboro who went to vote: They are fully aware of what their ancestors and grandparents did to win them the right to vote and they don't take that for granted. #NCPol #NCSen thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

This lesson needs learning for sure.

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

damn Harrison Butker doesn't have the leg. not very traditionally masculine

Lula won. Hide the ketchup.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Of course a win for non-authoritarian leaders or movements does not automatically mean all problems are solved or that authoritarian forces can't come back in future. But it is worth maintaining hope and optimism, because if people succumb to nihilism and apathy then democracy cannot survive.

I just laughed at the Geico croissant ad and immediately recognized I will hate it with a white hot passion in about a week.

> We are now EXTREMELY happy, but slightly worried that the whole thing with the extended voting period and the people who were prevented from voting being used to call the result into question.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

Yeah this is a great lineup. Wish I was in Philly.

Vote NO on all 3 constitutional amendments on the ballot, NC!

I can’t quite believe Green Bay bailed them out but I also can. A lot of hate watching happening here for this Vikes fan.

If only we had a parliamentary system.

In the history of teams deserving to lose, the Lions are one of them today. What a dumb call.

Lean in and all that.

NEW: Blanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certification of the state's election results. The actual complaint says it does. His attempt to reframe the lawsuit is a bid to push back against how it's been correctly interpreted: a dangerous effort to subvert the midterms.

nightmare in Brazil but this in Serbia

Here’s a shocking video of Bolsonaro supporters throwing stones and bricks at Labour Party councilwoman Iara Pimentel (PT-Montes Claros) in Minas Gerais last night. One of many shocking displays of public violence by Flávio Bolsonaro supporters.

Mack Brown could have delivered the same performance for a fraction of the cost.

Is Kenan Stadium subject to the Carrboro noise ordinance?

I am going to print this paragraph out and hand it to every 22 year old woman with a visibly older boyfriend

Bye Dave Doeren.

after statehood we'll have to rename the airport after someone who isn't awful and while duke ellington is probably the most sensible pick i think "fugazi international" really rolls off the tongue

A dollar a word! What a dream world that would be.

Ouch. Hope he’s truly okay.

Giannis Ottertekounmpo

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Chicago Manual of Style vindicated x 1000000 😂

Sounds fascinating. And a book only a university press could publish, which speaks to how valuable university presses are to the development and free exchange of ideas. Well done University of Pittsburgh Press and congrats to the author.

Hello to the Western History Association! Thrilled to be in the Pacific Northwest for the annual #WHA2026 conference! We hope you'll drop by our exhibit booth to check out our latest books. Check out our WHS website for info on getting 40% off our books on exhibit! www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/w...

all the trouble of making a nice edition of my boy and then you put the wrong kind of whale on it?? like how many more whale facts did you need him to put in this thing

A million North Carolinians have voted in this year’s election. One of them—just one!—cast a ballot from Antarctica. I found him. And I found out how he did it. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/one-person...

🥚 Imagine finding out when you are in your 60s that 1) you’re adopted and 2) not born in the U.S. and 3) your parents never filed naturalization papers because you are arrested by ICE for VOTING and hauled into court in shackles. Just happened in Syracuse,NY: www.syracuse.com/news/2026/10...

If you are one of 107,337 voters with an unvoted NC absentee ballot, if you are using USPS, I STRONGLY suggest mailing by MONDAY OCT 26. Alternatively, return it in person during business hours to your county board of elections thru Nov 3, or return it at any early voting site thru Oct 31. #ncpol

Just a regular kid

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Shane White (emeritus history professor at the University of Sydney) joined Kate on the podcast to talk about his career and his dogged approach to research, especially for his newest book is A Moment in the Sun: Black Manhattan Before the Civil War (@liveright.bsky.social). Listen: buff.ly/HzygUFm

Telegraph: The White House has blocked the transfer of Patriot missiles to Ukraine, US officials have said. The transfer of interceptor missiles from countries friendly to Ukraine requires the approval of Pete Hegseth. I’ve been screaming about it for years - you use/sell/donate US tech on US terms

So very weird.