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Amen. The proposed Open Courts Act of 2026 “would replace PACER with a modern, functional, secure system for court records and electronic filings…The law belongs to everyone. Access to it should be secure, functional, and free.” free.law/2026/10/21/p...

What’s so moving about the election results in Brazil & Serbia & global student protests is you think you’re alone wanting things to be different & then suddenly you realise the young generation has got this . They are outmanoeuvring unhinged wealth & power , we have so much to learn from them .

Vote like the polls have us down 5%. We must vote.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Back in the happy place. Meeting some new guys but glad to see 4 returning starters. #LetsGoVCU

Williamsburg is fired up to send @shannontaylorva.com to Congress! Great canvass launch this morning with the Historic Triangle Democrats and a reminder that we have 10 days left to put in the work to flip this seat and retire Rob Wittman.

10 days before Election Day, the # of early votes in Virginia is 10.5% more than 2025 gubernatorial election & 80.1% more than the 2022 midterms. The pace of voting was >55k per day last week, suggesting early vote may exceed 1.6 million by ED. In #VA1 early vote may reach 30% or reg’d voters by ED.

He is a hero. And I thank God he was there and able to stop the shooter. But can’t we come up with better solutions for keeping our children safe while they learn? Cause this ain’t it, y’all.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Extorting Marines with cancer to own the libs.

People are really putting gas in their car to go support the person who made it cost so much 🫠

Reminder that Burrow has good politics.

Looking forward to being back in my happy place—the Stuart C Siegel Center—on Sunday for the first time in almost 6 months. #LetsGoVCU

So he thought the Titanic was the appropriate reference for our economy? The ship that hit an iceberg and sank? 😂

Two thoughts: This false, despicable ad is proof that Vivek Ramaswamy knows he is about to lose to Amy Acton. No mother who loves her daughter would do this. Her complicity reveals her.

Nobody is intentionally risking their legal status to improperly get one single vote. The whole premise is absurd.

Wow. Democratic Socialism seems terrible.

This guy is so superior to McGuire as a person to represent Virginia’s 5th District. Elect Tom Perriello. 🗳️

I peeked briefly at the bad place and someone referred to Trump as "Saddam Insane" and this is my new favorite name for him.🤣

I keep seeing news stories similar to one tonight on one of the networks where a farmer was bemoaning his situation after voting for Trump 3 times. I’m having trouble mustering sympathy for these folks. Am I wrong? Guess I need to work on my forgiveness.

As a man of faith, I pray every day. Faith is a thing there’s just too little of in Washington.

Mr. President, our state is not yours to rename. Our history is not yours to erase. Our culture and identity run deep, shaped by generations of New Mexicans long before you or the U.S. were here at all. We are proud of who we are and where we come from. Because we are New Mexicans.

#TXsen

I’ll never take it for granted that my mom teaches public HS and her love for her students makes her inclusive and progressive.

In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”

In the 1980s television viewers loved watching rich people fight over petty things.

My dude walked right into that one. He gets schooled on the constitution and the freedom of religion, then confesses that he wants Christian rule. Forget sharia law — these guys are the real threat.

El-Sayed: the Constitution protects everyone’s right to practice the faith they choose. And then he asks if Tommy agrees- if he “disavows any attempt to read a religious doctrine into the laws of our country.” And Tommy replies “I do not.”

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

She lasted one semi-Scaramucci.

NYT: Katie has been fired www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

Chaplin’s masterpiece was released 86yrs ago today. THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)

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Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

💯! One issue in which VCU and Flyers fans are united!

He saves his most vicious attacks for Black women. Racism & Misogyny are central to who he is. And yes, that’s part of the fascist playbook.

The run-up to midterm elections—

She done lost her damn mind.

So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

Is anyone else expecting Trump to start bombing Iran in earnest shortly before the elections and then concocting some purported Iranian attack on U.S. soil to justify calling out the troops at the polls for elections (or just cancelling them)?

@chaznuttycombe.bsky.social - The State Navigate page on “2026 VA early voting” shows 2026 early ballots @ -0.3% v. 2025, but 2022 ballots were 7.3% fewer overall than 2021. If Virginians typically cast fewer ballots in midterms than gubernatorial election, should that be factored into the analysis?

Shocking? Nope. Obvious in face of stagnating Main Street economy.