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This problem isn't limited to Dem fundraising mechanisms. Rectifying it needs to become part of a wider election reform agenda. Act Blue makes donations easy & convenient, but it's also a monopoly on harvesting donor contact info and monetizing it back to Dem candidates.

Maurene Comey must be REINSTATED to her federal prosecutor job with backpay, a federal judge has ruled. He adds that accepting Trump DOJ's position would "unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system." Doc buff.ly/CDtADgH

China stepping up for Cuba. 5000 solar panels will be a game changer to keep things running during the power shortages caused by the 🇺🇸blockade.

"The Attorney General said that the use of force was justified. Doesn’t matter that Kohen’s mom was accused of a misdemeanor. Doesn’t matter that the video footage shows that the officers put themselves in danger. Fitch said the police were justified in killing that baby." Mississippi goddam.

I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

I’ve already come up with a half dozen conspiracies after seeing this.

Heheh.

Even the Bush family is openly supporting James talarico in Texas! Praise God.

"The consultants’ key constituency is not voters but the campaigns, donors, and party elites that provide them contracts." I fear the establishment dems who uphold & perpetuate this cabal will take the blue tsunami generated by the public's rage at MAGA in Nov as confirmation bias & not reform.

"Lucas allegedly said this was their “last chance at generational wealth,” adding, “I’ve gotten too old to not be greedy.”" Last I checked, "wealth accumulation" isn't a crime. It's called capitalism. Necessary, given her salary as a 40-year public servant ($18,000). www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Hegseth broke the globe--and the post-WWII world order. This is so symbolic. Dude, hold my beer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump gives Russia $$$. Russia gives Trump...this.

Carville's worldview is literally why dems lost the working class. "Is the economy, stupid" ushered in an era of rip-stop capitalism that's ended in shareholder value over workers & runaway profits for billionaires.

Alarming news is alarming news regardless of who's in charge of the ed desk. Watch out, world order, things are going to get... weirder now that Trump has imploded American foreign policy.

Props to the #NYT front page today. The headlines sum up the midterms pretty clearly.

This is an important cautionary tale of the consequences of an openly politicized court. Not sure why Newby so vehemently avoided questions & threatened ProPublica for publishing; the piece accurately reports facts without sensationalism. It's def not a puff piece, but it's not a hit piece either.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

This threat of retaliation against the EU commission for hedging its bets on proven bad faith from the US & Elon Musk is really rich coming from the country that has tariffed the EU expressly to enrich itself. Protectionism and self-enrichment for me, not for thee.

Interesting thread about "Rhein," the James Talarico prank caller.

I think 'treason' should be reserved for Trump this week. But traitor def fits here. "Andreessen & the tech reactionaries..were not betrayed by the “Democratic machine;” they simply could not be content to be merely rich. They want..wealth w/o duty or any of the basic burdens of citizenship."

Ohh hey it’s “the left is plotting a Color Revolution” time again — right on schedule w/this election rumor that recurs year after year. This time it’s brought to you by govt-paid midwit DataRepublican. The “XYZ is plotting a Color Revolution” trope plays well. It goes viral every time.

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

We knew this during his first term. Anyone who didn’t was an idiot.

A direct hit 🎯 from @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Say what you will about the impiricism of American hegemony in the 20th & early 21st century, there was a stability & grain of faith in a moral arc, however flawed & slow its realization. Trump& his Heritage Foundation enablers have committed treason.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

@marisakabas.bsky.social had it first: Tommy is Thomas Teepell, the Christian nationalist former ops director for MO senator Josh Hawley &son of a staffer of former LA governor & US rep Bobby Jindall. Not an everyman. But he left the room unescorted & unaccosted. www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teep...

The true measure of #NoKings this October 17 will be the turnout at the ballot boxes throughout the United States between now and November 3. #NerdReich

It’s oligarchs against the rest of us. And the robots are a means of control. I wish the plot line of so many sci-fi classics weren’t coming true but…

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

"Russia has been helping Iran the entire time....And Donald Trump’s response is to beg Putin to accept American money in exchange for a few thousand barrels of diesel....This is the most stunning display of submission and weakness from an American president ever."

"the Telegraph on Oct. 16 reported that it was Musk who proposed the speed cap to Trump—and Trump "agreed." The claim contradicts Musk's own comments that any Starlink restrictions applicable to the military were the ultimate decision of the White House." kyivindependent.com/musk-asked-t...

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

War crimes. Donald Trump is openly colluding with Vladimir Putin to severely hobble Ukraine's defenses even as Trump grovels at Putin's feet lifting sanctions& buying diesel. Putin gives Trump the middle finger on his self-proclaimed energy infrastructure ceasefire. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

We are governed by the worst people imaginable: “On Sunday, Trump declared an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine that would be effective immediately. Shortly after his announcement, Russia launched a strike against a power plant in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Jeff Danziger, Rutland Herald

A U.S. Air Force member jailed since August for publicly calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment is being held in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, according to his attorney. www.military.com/air-force-ma...

NO ON 43, Californians!

Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/

Ellison family consolidates dozens of media outlets: Cool, no problem, go ahead guys. Media coordinates to protest Trump's first amendment violations: Oh, that's antitrust! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this