I've already seen some effort to bury this as "there's not a lot new here." As if, "What's one more rape victim?" is sound editorial judgment. Republicans kept the Benghazi story going for years on nothing new, but that didn't stop to press from covering every nothing burger they served up.
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.
El-Sayed: This is like the 3rd campaign stop where Donald Trump can't help but mention somebody's ass. When I get to DC, I'm just gonna make sure that I never let him see mine…
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
There's a scenario in which the Supreme Court gets this case in December and three justices involved in Bush v. Gore on behalf of Bush will be asked whether confusion is grounds to reject election results.
The Trump administration is preemptively suing to block Alaska from certifying a Mary Peltola victory, should she win.
Their argument is that the double Dan Sullivan thing is confusing voters. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Just a periodic, friendly reminder that we could actually avoid all this by not caring who’s attracted to, who’s having sex with who, who’s marrying who, let alone believing any of it should matter in public policy. We could just all mind our own business and all have rights. ✨
I have been praying for this kind of pushback from Democrats against Elon Musk for a long time now and I am thrilled that the Talarico camp is leaning into it.
Light. Him. Up.
NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads?
Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them.
The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything.
Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.
They both did it, it was a joint effort, it’s one of the crazier things to happen in the national security space (which is really saying something) and every government should be scrambling to reduce dependence on—and as soon as possible get off—Starlink/shield or any Musk product, including the US.
If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision.
More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?
NEW AD: “Ken Paxton says I don't have his experience — and he's right.
I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party.
And I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.”
Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas.
He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas.
But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.
Stand with Zelensky and against Putin.
Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE.
Stand with No Kings and against Meta.
Stand with the people and against the oligarchs.
Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.
At some point, voters will understand that corruption and unregulated corporate greed are deepening an unsustainable wealth gap. We need to rise above the scare tactics are designed to distract and divide us.
Ossoff: "The crisis we must meet is deeper than this presidency. Trump's rise is proof that business as usual has failed, that our politics, sickened by corruption, is failing the American public and compromising our national integrity. And that the hour is late to fix what's broken."
Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?
El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t?
Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet.
El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.
Ossoff: "Foster kids don't have lobbyists or a super PAC. Neither do the women subjected to medical abuse in ICE detention. Neither do the female inmates sexually abused by the warden and the chaplain in their federal prison ... they deserve leaders who see them"
Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"
Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies.
A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish
When JFK ran, they said the country would never elect a Catholic president.
When Obama ran, they said the country would never elect a Black president.
Michiganders care a lot less about how I pray than what I pray for: peace, dignity, basic goodness for all of our kids.
Jones: I've been told I'm too young to understand politics. Too young to understand why some neighborhoods get parks while others get police tape… But they never said I was too young to inherit the debt…. too young to inherit the consequences of decisions I never got to make
Acosta: Have you seen the golden horses? They painted a horse's ass gold. And speaking of asses… Donald Trump was at this rally and he's talking about this guy's ass… I don’t think Natalie Harp has anything to worry about.
Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS.
But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!
When you’re applying for the job of U.S. Senator, you should show up for the job interview.
Ken Paxton showed up in London on the 4th of July to party with the British.
He showed up in Dubai to party with fugitives.
He’ll show up anywhere but a debate stage in Texas.
ADAM JOHNSON: “The raid on @repilhan’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal…” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...
NEW Miami Herald:
Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an alleged sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs and traveling across state lines.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."
We went from sanctioning Russian oil to buying it in three weeks.
Instead of ending his disastrous war in Iran, Trump is now funding Russia's war in Ukraine.
We used to hold dictators and autocrats accountable.
Now our president negotiated a deal to fund Putin's unjust war.
It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task.
I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side.
I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.
I don’t think the mayor of New York can control events in Israel-Palestine, and it’s weird to treat him like he has.
Thinking that the murder of innocent civilians is bad, and valuing the safety of all types of people in his city, are very reasonable positions.
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail
there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
Someone needs to explain to Trump that the worse Republicans do in the midterms, the better it looks for him.
Just goes to show the party is utterly lost without him on the ballot! He’s literally the only Republican who has the juice.
(Natalie, if you see this, please print and share.)