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"The votes aren't there" is cowardice masked as savviness. There has to be accountability for their crimes. The House has a duty to make the case here and if some GOP senators want to weasel out, make them own that vote. Don't let pundits and "strategists" talk you out of doing your damn job.

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

I'll never forget how, in the aftermath of the worst antisemitic attack in US history, the Israeli government rushed to absolve Trump of any blame for it - even while they rush to blame Mayor Mamdani for antisemitic violence in NYC, on much more tangential grounds. forward.com/opinion/8409...

NYT has gained monopoly power in the American non-MAGA economy. With no comparable competition, they can say “fine, good luck elsewhere” to nearly any person, idea, or story they want. They don't have to fear upsetting their audience or journalistic standards. Monopoly power.

The Bolsonaro story is yet another example of why Dems must internalize that they'll need an international pro-democracy, anti-corruption, and anti-authoritarian agenda should they win the White House in 2028. They have no option but to embrace that fight, even as they push domestic priorities.

counterpoint, it is all connected (because the fascist far right is a GLOBAL movement): bsky.app/profile/shoe...

Per Reuters -- Bolsonaro has fled Brazil for the ⁠United ​States after ​his election defeat www.reuters.com/world/americ...

It's another day, so let's talk about this. First of all, Lula didn't win the election alone. He won because more than half of the country FREAKED THE FUCK OUT and built a popular movement that organized several actions both irl and online.

Unsolved Mysteries is pretty wild to rewatch in 2026... We should make Gen Z watch it to make them understand why a majority of this country believes in Angels.

if the red knight wins the tournament show at medieval times he's actually allowed to do prima nocta with your girlfriend if you're sitting in the red section. its part of the terms of service you agree to when you buy your ticket.

“Unfortunately, finding a stray tabby under a car and gently tying your ballot to its tail with a ribbon almost certainly ensures your vote will miss the deadline for counting.” — Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

me wishing zohran would start dunking on the nypd

Nationalists, Europe, 1926: "Jews cannot be good members of the polity if they have loyalty to the Jewish nation above the nation where they live." Nationalists, USA, 2026: "Jews cannot be good members of the polity if they do *not* have loyalty to the Jewish nation, first and foremost."

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

Nazi ICE agents are now terrorizing Brown people in Puerto Rico, demanding IDs from people who are Americans by birth. 🚨 Watch and Repost to everyone! bsky.app/profile/resi...

Too many American Jewish organizations will not call out the blatant antisemitism of a non-Jewish president saying that Jews are being "disloyal" if they vote for Abdul El-Sayed. I am so grateful we have this organization that will.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

Another data point for the “Yglesias brain is cooked” hypothesis. Imagine thinking that it doesn’t matter for American democracy if other countries are taken over by autocratic regimes. We just saw the result when Orban lost power and a bunch of conservative influencers had their income vaporized.

Here is the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, spreading the antisemitic conspiracy theory that the Soros family are the puppet masters behind the election in Brazil yesterday. The Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs seems to see it as his job to make the Diaspora less safe.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Non-Jews telling Jews that they are doing their Jewish identities inauthentically if they have the "wrong" politics is in fact textbook antisemitism. But somehow I'm not holding my breath for the ADL to weigh in on this one, because it would require them to acknowledge many Jews support El-Sayed.

#IStandWithTheCheesecakeFactory

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

TSE statement: polling stations that have already closed can’t reopen but others should stay open until 7 PM. A glaring discrepancy in the electoral process. With no possibility of electronic voting, paper ballots should be in place, but everyone involved is severely unprepared for this scenario.

Reports confirm Kassio Nunes knew about voter suppression since the beginning of the afternoon in Brazil and waited until less than an hour before polls were due to close to require further evidence and begin the delayed closure of polling stations. Another highly controversial move by the Justice.

The pro-Bolsonaro movement has begun instructing its far-right peons to go to polling stations and further disrupt the already-frail extended polling times. Reports say the instructions consist of starting rumours of polling fraud in case of a Lula win. It has begun.

Just so y'all international folks know how Bolsonarism is rigging the elections out in the open Elections are today, meta has outspokenly meddled with the lefts reach for weeks Has boosted the right to ridiculous levels one guy getting more reach than anyone in the world...

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

When Democrats do well this fall, we’re going to see a lot of “strategists” trying to take credit for their approach. The trans panic people have been nothing but a drag on Democratic momentum and they need to fuck off into the sun

In his talk at Princeton, @marcelias.bsky.social noted that the election suppression he worried about was less ICE at the polls and more ICE putting up traffic checkpoints and other things that made access to the polls much harder. And it looks like we’re seeing a version of that in Brazil.

I guess men are a protected group... protected by patriarchy! BOOM FEMINIST OF THE YEAR AWARD

Story time: During Helene @distributeaid.org organized with @ufw.bsky.social and MADR to protect migrant farmworkers. They couldn't come into town to access services since they were worried about getting detained by the authorities. But that isolation also left them at risk of trafficking.... 1/n

I'm gonna keep talking about Kazimierz Moczarski's "Conversations with an Executioner," his account of spending nine months in a prison cell with the SS general - Jurgen Stroop - responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. There was a third guy in the cell, a German named Schielke.

Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

They don’t want to confront the rank racism that lies at the heart of today’s Republican Party and pretending that black voters are drifting away from Democrats and flirting with the GOP is an essential part of that.

of all of the people in this administration who deserve to go to jail stephen miller deserves to go to jail the most

544 buses stopped in Bahia! Only one bus per line on the streets of Teresina, a capital with a population of almost a million! Metro stoppages in São Paulo with no replacement buses! No buses in São Gonçalo, a city in the state of Rio governed by the far-right!

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.