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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.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

Jesus Christ. $2B from the UAE!

So: never got confirmation my ballot had been received so I checked. For whatever reason they never got it. After helpful emails w military/overseas voter support, I re-sent my ballot (YES on 40, NO on 41 & 42). In any case, make sure your ballot arrives & is counted! www.vote.org/ballot-track...

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

#OnThisDay in 1901, President Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to stay for dinner at the White House, the 1st Black American to do so. The act drew outrage from many white Americans, and an assassin tried to kill Washington. mississippitoday.org/2024/10/16/1...

Department of Homeland Security job posting: "defend your culture ... against illegal foreign infiltration"

These are the referendums on this year’s Massachusetts ballot, along with how four groups recommend you vote. Remember to vote early!

"Nobel Prize? More like Trump deserves the *Ig*-noble prize! Hi, I'm Chuck Schumer." "And I'm Hakeem Jeffries. Americans are tired of Trump's rhetoric. It's time to reach across the aisle and compromise. Will you chip in five dollars today so we can write him a letter?"

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

“Everything is gender” and “men would literally rather [x] than go to therapy” are a little played out as jokes, but… well! 🤷‍♂️

After 23 years of war and occupation, the last US soldiers officially left Iraq on Wednesday, Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced in a statement on the “successful conclusion” of operations against the Islamic State organization in Iraq.

BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.

Please help if you can! Queen City Cat Lounge is an adoption center I visit frequently here in Vermont and their window was vandalized last night. Fortunately they had double glass for the cats' safety, but the broken outer window needs to be fixed ASAP. www.gofundme.com/f/repair-and...

wtf is this

Here you go! The Ellison Billionaire Empire.

Hi! Do you know anyone who works at State Department or embassy to Israel? (or used to?) Or who has interacted with Marco Rubio or Mike Huckabee in any capacity? Please text me on Signal premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be safe Even if you don't, please boost — because your followers might :)

1. I need a favor. I’m working on a new project and, to test it, I need photos of political mail. If you have any political mail lying around your house, please take a photo of the front and back and send the photos to mail@popular.info.

This is not great

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

just learned this today

Why didn't Odysseus simply secure a mutually beneficial exchange with the Trojans through the blockchain? Was he stupid?

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

The Marian Webster definition of “complicity” is…

Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

Nearly 40% of incarcerated workers are paid *nothing* for their work. And the rest are paid at abysmally low wages. This is not a system built on "justice" for all.

I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work

hello liberal democracies around the world, i hate to say it but you need to take a look at how successful the funding of fascist media in america has been for the far-right and you need to start counteracting this with your own dollars funding progressive media here

Those 33 Dems are fascist collaborators.

why has congress put forward a resolution condemning DSA but not 9/11? do they not care about 9/11

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

1. ICE has not paid outside medical providers that treat detainees SINCE LAST OCTOBER. It is leaving hospitals and other providers with millions in unpaid bills.

Pete Hegseth makes George McClellan look like George Patton: "With Driscoll’s departure, the Army will lack any Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

the most difficult question in American politics is “who was president in 2020” the second most difficult question, apparently, is “who is president right now”