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I'm interested in an opposing view as long as it's supported by data, ethics, human rights. I can be wrong about things! I'm sure I am plenty of times, and I'm ready to change my mind when presented with new/better facts. But with the fools spamming fascist noise it's fun to just erase them.😄

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

It's only socialism when you tax the wealthy & use it to fund services for the poor & middle class. Otherwise, it's just sparkling kleptocracy! Related: Family farmers have made more take-home income than non-farmers every single year since 1997. Yes, that's AFTER farm debts & expenses.

Lula should immediately task someone to apprehend every last fascist asshole that participated in the election-tampering conspiracy, and take over any assets in the country owned by Zuckerberg or Musk.

Shitburgs like this small Texas town deserve oblivion. You will never find a place as corrupt as small-town America. What might happen to them if contractors simply stopped taking jobs there?🤔

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

If it's the sound political strategy you claim to believe it is, what are you worried about, you'll more than make those lost votes up in disgusting centrists, right? Right? But you know deep down it doesn't work like that

The next republics will ban first-past-the-post. Ranked choice is fine, but multiple/consensus voting is much easier to explain and retains all the other improvements of RCV.

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

i wrote about the GORP

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

In his defense of Ramaswamy’s vile ad, Trump called Amy Acton a “defective” candidate. As a former rape crisis counselor who has worked with countless survivors of childhood sexual assault, I want to speak a bit about how profoundly damaging that is. 🧵

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.

On the chance Alaska and/or Maine (less likely ME but write-ins could do it) go to an RCV tabulation, I'm pre-registering my gripe that it's a dumb and unnecessary policy choice to withhold reporting of all but first choice rankings until they make a big reveal of it at the official RCV tabulation.

my idea is an economy that incentivizes providing goods and services that people want instead of destroying everything and firing people

This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

I do think Acton should go as hard as possible on this. "Elon Musk is paying millions of dollars to bombard your TV with lies by a rapist pedophile and his insane enabler wife. Don't let him win."

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.

corruption and fraud above a certain amount should be treated as seriously as murder. because fraud kills. corruption kills. when a congressman pushes a bill to, say, build a highway because they personally will make $3 million selling land for that project, we should lock them up for life.

yea we need to break these companies up and take the ceos money from their personal accounts

schumers silence on omar is fucking enraging, he needs to go

and past a certain point it doesn't matter how large the bill is, you have to declare bankruptcy theweek.com/articles/666...

he's not the only one to be fair. half these Putin simp parties in Europe should arguably be banned under their domestic laws kyivindependent.com/europes-far-...

largest investment in american history and they all know it’s bull shit. we have to take their money away from them at the end of this. we put them in charge of everything and they failed. we need to take away their money, they are bad at having money and we have gotten nothing for our investment

This semester I taught kids about the Aztecs and how they would ritually kill people to perpetuate their society. I called it "ritual killing," not "human sacrifice," because most societies do it and the other term implies the Aztecs were somehow unusual in this. This is how *we* do ritual killing.

And then they staged an insurrection at the capitol and everyone was like "oh wow, where did that come from?" and my question was "what the fuck did you think was going to happen?" Still is.

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Anyone importing Russian oil under the usurper's fraudulent license is *also* breaking the law, and should have their import license withdrawn (as well as dissolution of the company and seizure of corrupted assets). Nobody can be allowed to profit from the coup.

A seemingly daily reminder that "ICE" has neither the authority nor the training to do traffic stops. State and local officials continue to fail their constituents by letting this terrorist gang run rampant.

We should not be limited to a false choice between feckless inertia and active malevolence. Eliminating first-past-the-post must be a top priority, as important as cleaning up the judiciary.

At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.

Thing is, it doesn't really matter what trump meant when he floated the possibility of Iran nuking cities in California, that he said it out loud to a bunch of yahoos in Nebraska who cheered it on is all you need to know. /1

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this is just like those Lawfare articles about how it’s banana republic to prosecute the president for crimes. no, it’s the opposite, idiots

The G7's new 100M barrel release? This is PR , not an energy policy. The real issue is the Strait of Hormuz. https://youtu.be/Cc21Z2WeWdU

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

If Los Angeles and San Diego are a "small price to pay" to consign them to attack by a foreign power, then they should stop paying federal taxes.

I already see us getting a news cycle parsing through Trump's "let 'em take out Los Angeles" comments, with media folks straining themselves to give the most charitable interpretation of what he actually meant. But one thing's clear - that Nebraska crowd cheered on the prospect of LA getting nuked.

I know it is never going to happen, but if fraternities are the source of so much harm in American society and its universities then surely there are strong arguments for having them abolished?

"The most important fact they establish is that the traditional narrative of Marbury v. Madison—the decision that supposedly established judicial supremacy in the United States, as taught in high schools across the country—is an invented tradition." prospect.org/2026/10/05/o...

Alito is an insanely arrogant man and I don't think even he would write about himself in such nauseatingly hagiographic terms as Crawford does. But that is why she's the one he talked to. She is very predictably like this even before CBS got Weiss-ified.

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.