A.A. Dowd

Silent Hill fans, is TOWNFALL worth a play? Seeing very divided reactions. I didn't like f, for what it's worth.

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

My buddy was a producer on this movie, which opened the documentary program at TIFF this year. In a bunch of theaters nationwide for one night only, October 28th!

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

There is no bottom for the Republican Party. It is a force for evil I’ve watched for my entire adult life (I’m almost 49). This is why I can’t stand calls for bipartisanship or demonstrations of the old boys and girls club. They’re fucking monsters who ruin the very fabric of society.

Lol, every single one of them. I gotta make some changes...

Abdul El-Sayed on JD Vance: "I think America is big enough for all of us. His view of America is small like him. It's about pointing to other people and making the argument that the reason *you* don't have is because of *them.*" El-Sayed came on our pod. It's good: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

There's a new V/H/S out, so naturally I've updated my giant ranking of the franchise's individual segments for @vulture.com. Not a lot of classics in this latest batch, but the RZA's short is pretty good! www.vulture.com/article/v-h-...

California voters: Don’t fall for billionaires’ tricks. Vote YES on Prop 40. Vote NO on Props 41 and 42. Let me explain.

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

If you voted early, please convince at least 3 friends, family, coworkers, or neighbors to vote early, too. The margins in each state need to be so wide that MAGA can’t get away with shady tactics to change the results.

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Just donated to the El-Sayed campaign. That's my home state and the guy rocks and the racist ghouls of the GOP are throwing everything they have at him.

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.

“He's gunna go up to the Upper Peninsula and get a pretty cold welcome.” And the UP said…

Nodded knowingly at the appearance of a train in the new James Benning as though I were watching a post-credits cameo in a Marvel movie.

Injusticewatch.org is an excellent resource for checking in on judicial records! Judge retention is huge, because whoever presides over the bench can and will affect the lives of everyone they see. That could be you! Or your neighbors! Vote out sketchy judges!

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Right, the problem was that it showed this correspondent was (1) biased & bigoted and (2) unable to understand what had actually transpired at the event, both of which are disqualifying for a reporter.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is so, so good.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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

🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

TikTok has (per the Hollywood Reporter) banned the account for Alex Gibney’s documentary “Musk” citing “political content” that ostensibly violates its policies. The movie is in theaters and here’s how you can see it. Please share. bleeckerstreetmedia.com/editorial/fi...

I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

Democrats don’t just need to win, they need to win by margins that make Republican ratfucking ineffective and pundits‘ efforts to downplay a mandate laughable. Pour it on. Do not let up.

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Oh.

It’s not surprising Kojima likes Iñárritu they both love losing hundreds of millions of dollars on a prestige work that makes a valid point in a kind of annoying way.