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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Nov. 3 could be a defining test for the rule of law in this country, and both our democracy and our prosperity are on the line. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

Very good thread follows.

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

Both my dad and the Founding Fathers understood something crucial: declarations are powerful social technologies. They are called for at thresholds: when things begin falling apart and what comes next has not yet arrived and the future remains radically unknown. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

FIRST: VOTE 🗳️ & WIN. The To-Dos list is so damn long; Ds need to have their act together. There's what we want to do versus what is achievable as long as Decomposing Dictator is still sitting in the WH. I look forward to subpoenas & Oversight hearings. 🎁 t2m.co/zoLEA86 📺 bsky.app/profile/nyti...

This is a good ad.

🤔 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

Looking at the net partisan margin shift of votes cast so far to the same point in 2024 in party registration states, Dems are outpacing '24 in every single state. And Kansas looks... very good (yes, that reads +33.8 Dem).

In case facts still matter — we have abandoned Ukraine in favor of Putin Russia was never a hoax

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Worth your time.

Disgusting! (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

"Ivanka knockoffs"

Get yourself to the polls and make this happen:

Meta took down the No Kings Instagram account during today’s No Kings events.

OMG!

Good overview and reminder of what we all know to be true: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10...

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

This is clearly not acceptable

In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...

Who Votes in the Midterms: usafacts.org/articles/who...

TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. https://whenweallvote.org/

Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.

#momsky#sheshed #BlueWaveIn30Days Get off your butt and Vote!

The price of everything is going up. Americans are stretched as thin as paper…and the bill for the Big, Ugly Bill is still to come due after the election. That’s why we need every vote. To take back control of the branches of government. Unless you like things as they are? #BlueWaveIn30Days

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass

🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com

Even in dark times, democracy can renew itself. That’s the quiet power of voting: every election is a chance to refresh the system, correct course, and begin again.

Now is the moment for us to reach down and pick up the power we have as citizens and rebuke these abuses so decisively that no president will try anything like this again for centuries.

AMEN!

THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity

In every state, this wouldn't hurt:

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices

This is where we are at. The U.S. was the only one to oppose… 😡 #Pinks

CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

I just checked my voter registration. I encourage all of you to do the same. Try your state's official site. AVOID VoteSafe.Org. It's an Elon Musk scam to harvest data.

The No Kings coalition wants everyone who is able to vote early. They will be preparing people to do so on October 17th, but early voting has already started in some states. If you are physically able & your state has early voting, please consider doing it for any of the good reasons listed below.

He can't raise the retirement age without Congress. Vote.

TALARICO: “The richest 1% now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. 3 dudes (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos) now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined… they aren’t just buying yachts and jets anymore. They’re now buying power.” 🇺🇸 (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius.