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Our House district four candidate James "Rus" Russell vote flyer. #VOTE #AR04 #Arkansas. If turnout in my little neck of the woods was over 3 times bigger than usual for the first two days, I can't imagine what things will look like Nov 3, but there will be some surprises.

Donald Trump was “an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to the report.

It does go to illustrate that democrats have been doing a lot of work, & corporate media is covering none of it. When they expose stuff like this, msm still doesn't cover it. I hope they start giving all their info to independent media. This dynamic isn't working for anybody but trump & corporate.

As I suggested for @thebulwark.com this fall, RFK Jr is a eugenicist at his core. It’s why he talks about autism like it’s contagious. It’s why he want to deprive people of SSRIs. And of course it’s why he’s saying that “Arabs don’t produce literature.” He’s a eugenicist and a fascist, simple as.

Elections, trends, and underfunded state parties can lead to party instability and loss of political power projection for well over a decade. Look no further than Wisconsin and Missouri which could well have political strength on the state level they havent had since the pre-Obama era

At some point, you have to start concluding the new york times is intentionally abetting him and has been from the beginning.

Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

Just wait till it starts sending unordered pizzas.

That's going to happen to a lot of people, whether they're running for office or not, within the next 3 to 6 months.

He made the fatal mistake in a Trump alliance of losing an election and ending up with no power.

The democratic candidate is excellent, serves in the legislature, very approachable. He's been all over AR. But it's hard to gain traction when democratic campaigns aren't getting covered & amplified. Add a weak state party apparatus, & it's hard to get a leg up. Senate & hd#2 are the best chance.

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Aleksandar Vucic's crushing election defeat has cast gloom over Moscow, which has lost another important partner in Europe just six months after ally Viktor Orban was ousted in an election in Hungary.

“I’m just stunned…at the degree to which Republicans are in trouble.” - Larry Sabato, after reviewing both public and private polls and at minimum foreseeing a blue wave.

And some wanting selfies, that's pretty cool. Starting to wonder if a lot of these attendees are kinda like Deadheads. They just go because that's the thing they do. Or maybe rocky horror picture show would be a better example, dress outlandishly, bring props, and see a man living in another world.

He. Is. Insane. I'm not saying it as a pejorative. He's gone, and no one who's able is doing anything about it. They're just propping him up until the elections. But his rasputin enabler/caregiver natalie, could turn this real ugly real fast. I try to refrain from saying it, but this can't continue.

‘The truth, which Anthropic didn’t want to emphasize in the S-1, is that Q2, right at the height of tokenmaxxing was fantastic, but Q3, post tokenmaxxing and after the rise of low cost alterntive models, represented a slowing of their growth.’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-anthr...

They've purged the party to the point they're really all like that to some degree or another. The rich privileged ones like him are the worst, but it's a common thread.

Former Federal Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch New Organization to Ensure Criminal Accountability for Public Officials in the United States ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

Nice job, by the way: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

If NYT is initiating contact, then what are the odds in NY of that happening so often that a massive parody account is built around it?

Absolutely. I think it would make a huge difference. Start after this election and build over the next two years, then maintain after 2028. A big part of where we are is because voters don't see the party differences. We know them, but voters don't see it. It's why so many are Kenan Thompson

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

When I was a kid we had a tornado. Our neighbor had a storm cellar, so we got in it. We were the only ones there. It tore up part of the city and killed 30 people. Days later a warning out of town was issued. We went to the cellar again. It was packed. Don't know what made me think of that story.😏

On a recent podcast, Jessica Taylor of Cook Political Report said that the combination of public and private polling she's seen, plus what she's hearing on the ground from Republican and Democratic, says a 2010-esque night (but for Republicans this time) is increasingly likely. Be still my heart.

Been seeing Yass come up lately. It sounds like he needs a lot more scrutiny than he's getting.

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

Latino turnout is off the charts - what it does and doesnt mean youtube.com/watch?v=HAos...

He's a gross disgusting pig. He would be whatever he says. But he's dragging the US and the Kennedy name--they have their issues, but they've at least given back--while he's literally causing people, including children, to die. I hope he's on the investigation list. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

I think believe, and hope that these people are done after this. They'll be completely anathema everywhere they go.

The hardest hill to climb is going to be restore trust. The first step in that is consequences for republicans and billionaire bros for fraud, theft, and lies to start. And everything they go through needs to be public.

The biggest mistake they're making is to reveal, amazingly for the first time, that they really don't know their own voters. So when they're trying to hit cultural issues and make cheesecake factory a thing, they don't even know how rural people live or what their daily lives are like.

Anybody on kalshi lowballing rural gop turnout?

Oooh! Perfect example of how to frame a post the way Brazilians suggested.

See my pinned post. Our #HD4 representative candidate is awesome.

I know future #FLgovernor @davidjolly.bsky.social has his hands full atm, but I hope when he takes office he can push for changes that protect minority children. That little boy deserves to be a star, not made to feel bad for his amazing talent.

No doubt.

Key lessons from Brazil Amplify our people. Ignore the opposition. Use the tools owned by fascists to defeat the fascists? Meet the people where they are. May need to reconsider my staunch position of boycotting Meta for the reason. Thoughts?

There's nuance here about "how do we use platforms owned by the fascists". You *have to understand the political purpose of the platforms* in order to use them to subvert authoritarians. For the most part, Americans simply do not. Centrists (including DNC consultants) do not. Major media does not.

IMO, older incumbent democrats need to shift their rhetorical style away from Bill Clinton, and even Obama, though both can be very direct when the circumstances call for it.

The main thing I got from some other posts is if you attack and correct disinformation, do it from your position, putting your people out front, while amplifying, spreading hashtags, etc, not replying or reposting the opponents' trolls.

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.