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Brazilian judge orders investigation into JD Vance illegally financing Bolsonaro's campaign in Brasil www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

New: Couple of guys from Kentucky just put out a new way to track money in politics. Been playing around with it—very impressed.

We won our case against DOGE for violating the privacy rights of current and former government employees! The case is AFGE v. OPM, Case 1:25-cv-01237-DLC Document 241 Filed 10/20/26 if you can't get it from the ECF link ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/doc1/1271405...

Elon Musk is a threat to democracy both here at home and abroad. He ordered the slowdown of the military version of Starlink, which the Ukrainians need in their war of survival against the Russian invaders. And then Musk lied about it on his X, the extremist sewer that was once known as Twitter.

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

Seized tax refunds. Garnished wages. Less money for rent and groceries. That’s what’s in store if the Treasury Dept. moves forward with plans to hire private debt collectors to impose financial penalties on those who defaulted on federal loans. www.washingtonsun.com/economy/trum...

As Kansas has become a major battleground for the Senate, a reminder that the state GOP passed a law this year that has invalidated the IDs of many trans Kansans, threatening their ability to cast a ballot. boltsmag.org/kansas-trans...

This is the fundamental underpinning of fascism isn't it? There are humans who do not deserve our care and we cannot survive unless we stop caring about them.

Anthropic outlines its approach to "responsible data centre development", and........explicitly promises to carpet bomb communities with massive, polluting new fossil gas plants. This is what your Claude subscription is enabling: web.archive.org/web/20261016...

11-year-old Arina Koval was also killed by Russians yesterday in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region. Her brother Artem and her mom Lilia are in the hospital.

The obsession with keeping Black kids out of quality schools is really something else.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

The Trump-Republican agenda in chart form 👇🏽 Corporations and the rich win, you lose

Don’t look away from how shocking this is. Yes, unsurprising. Still shocking.

Regular reminder that the regime’s desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity to carry it out is not.

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

“They just kept kicking me & kicking me” Jewish @washingtonpost reporter Heidi Levine clubbed, beaten, robbed by Israeli terrorists in the West Bank Protected by the IDF. Funded by 🇺🇸 tax dollars. What will it take? Will this get coverage? (H/T @infinite_jaz @DistillSocial)

Don't go to a potentially dangerous protest without eye protection. You don't necessarily need $400 ballistic eyewear. The local sporting goods store has inexpensive stuff that will do the job.

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

New York Times tech reporter Natasha Singer, author of Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, makes the case for “tech civics”: teaching kids to ask who profits from technology and who is steered by it. “It’s about power,” she tells Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix.

It’s a miracle of pure dumb luck that this person’s gun jammed before he was able to carry out the attack, but this stuff is a symptom of all the of the rising anti-Indian racism online that desperately needs to be pushed back against

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued on Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”

Writing a story about an elderly leader who has an unhealthy relationship with his daughter and keeps cloning her and turning those clones into his companions while he slowly loses his mind. Yeah it’s def science fiction and not based on anything in real life.

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Hi #portfolioday! I'm Robin- worked in games, now freelance illustrator. I've worked on several tabletop games. I love creating colorful, character focused artwork, especially fantasy themes, critters, & humor. Currently open for work and personal commissions!

Ireland is still fueling the Russian missile war machine with alumina. The government of that country has blood on its hands.

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now the lowest ever relative to Refinery Inputs. (via RB Advisers) #SPR

Someone just left this sweet kitten on my doorstep, but I'm allergic! 😭 Does anyone in Brooklyn want to foster a kitten? Seems to be about 4 months old, clean and well-cared for, and very docile.

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“Neofascism can be beaten. Its advance relies on our acquiescence. And our acquiescence comes from not having taken its measure. And the response to their delusions can’t be delusions of our own. We’re in a new reality now. And we have to face it head on.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

This tracks. I noticed a number of grocery items -- whose prices had held steady for months -- suddenly 10-20% higher this week. Seems like the spike in diesel prices is giving retailers the opening to finally raise prices that they had been holding pretty steady for weeks.

US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries www.ft.com/content/68fd...

Six months ago:

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.