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5. A new Times poll found that more than a quarter of Hispanic voters personally know someone who has been arrested, detained and deported by ICE.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Let’s do this in America.

Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

PSA for cis folks: if a democrat goes on camera and answers a question about trans rights without making an explicit statement supporting trans rights, they're anti-trans

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

In MAGA, parental estrangement is a big issue — and parents are held out as blameless victims. I suspect that's one reason why Vivek Ramaswamy ran an ad celebrating Amy Acton's vile mother. And why MAGA — including Vance and Trump — are backing him. www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

This feels right

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

It's not that they're all attracted to kids, it's that it's ideologically important to them that children and women are the property of men.

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.

May 1933: Nazi troops storm a vital community institute in Berlin dedicated to providing trans people with lifesaving healthcare October 2026: Germany police (which includes many neo-Nazis) storm a vital community institute in Berlin dedicated to providing trans people with lifesaving healthcare

The easiest way to get a big scoop in journalism is to straight-up steal it from @marisakabas.bsky.social, as we've seen over and over from "respectable" outlets.

Musk would do this through those f*cking Trump Accounts they opened in every child's name without parental consent. I HATE these SO much. Parents cannot close the accounts. Parents cannot reject donations to the accounts. And we must hold on to donations for at least 5 years. I'm a state lawmaker.

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

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People mention LLMs a lot in terms of "increasing accessibility" And as someone with intermittent cognitive disabilities, I *really* want to highlight how much work it is to sort through AI slop to try to find accurate information

It's a key part of conservative ideology: "I have no obligations to you and I can treat you however I like, but you are required to love me."

Again, this is mostly an attack on Black women.🤷🏿‍♂️ Because a disproportionate amount of student loan debt is held by Black women. Because: 1) Their families aren't rich 2) But they study hard and get into college 3) So they need much more in student loans 4) But they're paid less / hired less

Trying to say somebody who founded and ran a food pantry that serves thousands of people a month is a bad person that America would be better off without - this should earn you everlasting shame from all around you. This is ICE.

In the push for scripted curriculum, who’s in the room matters, and you’re probably not invited. covingtonedu.substack.com/p/controllin...

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

Treason. Every politician refusing to react is complicit.

So much to praise about this, but I love the way he answers the question in good faith -- which I presume to be for other viewers who have heard the conspiracy theories but aren't fully black-pilled -- and then finishes with a pointed question that exposes the bad faith in which it was asked.

Tommy is not asking white religious extremists to behave in a superior way or even to win over others to their self-proclaimed superiority, but instead seeks to eradicate them from public life entirely. Only through eliminationist state violence can Tommy claim to be superior.

Remember, I have a guide to help you do just that.

The sharpest executives in the industry are noticing this only 2 years after ordinary workers. This is why they get paid the big bucks.

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.

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

This was such a great conversation! It was clear the hosts knew exactly the right questions to ask about Title IX. We walked through how the entire system was designed to betray survivors—and delivers on that goal.

Pete Hegseth "is a loser, following an ideology by and for losers. That means that he is very concerned that other losers prove their devotion to the religion of death by showing indifference to human suffering." @garethwatkins.bsky.social writes today www.liberalcurrents.com/public-execu...

Key to Trump's strategy for Venezuela is forming a bond with a kleptocratic class which will share the country's wealth with Trump and his cohort. Thus, Trump lifts sanctions on Delcy Rodríguez’s brother, Jorge, a long-standing member of Maduro's inner circle long linked to narcotics trafficking.

It's already been said many times that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, was turning its back on Ukraine. But the past few days show something worse than abandonment: Trump is now actively helping Russia win the war.

hey we might break a bunch of private property because we want the biggest IPO possible this is OK in a way burglary is not, because

My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...

Trump says he'll stop selling America's European and UK NATO allies weapons for forward delivery to Ukraine... because the US is now siding with Russia in the conflict. www.ft.com/content/68fd...

Women who were detained in South Louisiana while pregnant told Prism that they were berated by guards; forced to wear shackles on their wrists, hands, belly & feet; & were made to eat inedible food. The eugenics movement has shaped the experiences of women in ICE detention, Edith Romero reports.

I really hate the rhetorical framing of "voting for ice cream vs driving off a cliff", because it's a transparent attempt by Democrats to explain why they've gone 1 in 3 against fascism without actually examining their own failures