Barbara Waxer 🌈

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

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

Happy Birthday, Secretary Clinton!

GM Blue Sky! 🎃

LinkedIn removed my post today for "hateful speech." I compared Todd Blanche to Nazi lawyer Hans Frank, quoting from book review: "Hans Frank, the Nazi lawyer who saw Hitler as a gift from God for the German people" Ruth Ben-Ghiat has compared Blanche to Frank. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

“By promising to invest in a key battleground state, and giving Mr. Trump something to brag about, Volkswagen may be hoping to win concessions from the White House that would lower the tariff burden and help the company revive flagging sales in the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/b...

Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

As his policies bankrupt them, Trump-supporting farmers fully embrace socialism. But only if it’s for them.

...and don't refine your prompt!

Kisqali can run $15K /month without insurance. Did she ever listen to MAGA plans, especially Paxton's? She'd be bankrupt. GMAFB

She voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the bills apnews.com/article/trum...

She shows how a Mike Rogers campaign email pretending to from Black folk is actually from a pac run by a bunch of white folk Stay woke yall

Trump’s so jealous… Obama packed the crowds in Ohio and Michigan yesterday, and Trump responds with this unhinged Truth Social meltdown. Today, Trump has to show up in Michigan to campaign for Mike Rogers, after Obama brought down the house. 🍿

“[Trump’s Kushner and Witkoff oil deal with Russia] must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children…” @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/meid... Archive: archive.is/gW6o6

What a dangerous PoS

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.

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) might launch more California-style lawsuits to block states from counting ballots for the midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Billionaire living in a castle calls minority group she is paying hundreds of thousands of pounds of her own money to legislate out of existence ‘elitist’

Insanity

Just a year ago his beautiful mother was living on the streets of Thailand after a life of being used for breeding. We found her scavenging around for food. To see Sienna now in Wales, on daily walks in the forests and being spoiled rotten is the thing of absolute dreams.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Ty @kajakallas.bsky.social for speaking plainly and reminding the basic many wilfully ignore

I never would've expected Americans to get so accustomed to fascist madness. Every day there are 5 new outrages that make me think I must be having a nightmare. Yet some people around me act as if it's just normal life. Frankly, a little more healthy panic would reassure me.

WTF 🤯 We're living in a perpetual nightmare

This👇🏽 Don’t get comfortable. VOTE. 🗳️ #VivaHerAlliance #VoteBlue

Huh. I approve.

BREAKING: Police in Guinea-Bissau say they raided the offices of Bandim, the Danish research project, and seized hepatitis B vaccines at the center of global controversy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

If SCOTUS says, in this case, a race-neutral policy to enhance diversity is racial discrimination, it would mean (a) racial hierarchies that exclude Black & brown students are required because (b) schools can't try to prevent Black & brown students from being excluded. It's white supremacy.

No surprise, the Food and Drug Administration now plans to hold off on releasing its so-called safety review of mifepristone—the drug most often used in medication abortions—until March 2027, when the midterms will be safely in the rearview mirror. #ReproductiveHealth msmagazine.com/2026/10/19/f...

Hymns, Hate, and ‘Holy Wars’: What I Saw Inside a Christian Nationalist Conference www.confrontthehate.com/p/hymns-hate...

Thanks, RayRay ✊️💙🗳

Amy Acton on Vivek Ramaswamy's abhorrent campaign ad: "I won't normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is 'something I'm just complaining about,' who today, just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect and sexual abuse."

this is the German party that the GOP's #1 donor in the '24 and '26 elections is constantly promoting on his personal account on the hate speech website he owns

Imagine how much different this statement would look if Abdul El-Sayed had said it instead of Trump.

Meet definitely not creepy af Ramaswamy campaign manager Jonathan Ewing

🚨 VILE: Vivek Ramaswamy’s new attack ad against Amy Acton features her estranged mother, who stayed married to the man who sexually abused her daughter at age 12, even after his arrest. Now even conservatives are calling the ad disgusting. The horrifying story behind Vivek’s attack:

Ramaswamy is a sick, morally bankrupt piece of shit exploiting a woman’s rape at age 12 to win an election. He gave her estranged, abusive mother a platform to weaponize her childhood trauma. There is something profoundly fucking wrong with this man. He has no business holding public office. 🤬

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

MAGA: just ignore the health warnings like you always do. Recalls are Woke, remember?

🔥 “You voted to cover up the evidence even though you knew 14-year-old girls had been raped because Donald Trump told you to.” Sen. @ossoff.bsky.social savages Mike Collins to his face on the debate stage

Sunday, October 18 Timeline cleansing time! Another splendid chapter of M o t h e r and s o n! Enjoy. Relax. Giggle. Repeat after me! M O T H E R!!!!!

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NEW: Jan Crawford from CBS has deleted her conspiratorial tweet about Abdul Sayed for “violating CBS News standards,” meaning it was too stupid even for CBS.

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.

Nora is known for many things. Regrettably, grace on four paws is not one of them. Happy #Caturday