Joan

Bottom line, this isn't Facebook. The asymmetrical nature of follows is a plus, not a negative. I will never pressure someone to follow me back. If they want to they will. Great. If not, they won't. That's perfectly fine also. We aren't all joined at the hip, for cryin' out loud.

in ohio this is basically like being shunned

St.X is a big deal in Cincinnati, especially with white conservative voters. The petition is being covered by the local news.

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.

ActBlue poisoned the well.

“I feel like I’m being penalized by the campaigns that I’ve supported," said Barbera Speros of Tampa, Florida. She said she's now getting an enormous amount of political texts and emails -- every hour. "Beyond ridiculous."

No one is saying that Trump deliberately hurt farmers, but when he plunged the US into the Iran war and his many trade wars, he showed little concern about what those decisions might mean for rural America.

Rural voters are so upset with Trump that polls show that Republican Senate candidates stand a good chance of losing in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas, even though Trump won those rural states by 13 percentage points or more in 2024. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Sherrod Brown greets FIRED UP overflow crowd in Dayton 👏👏

He's hallucinating in public again None of this ever happened

A Sept. national survey by telecomm company NumberBarn, which screened 1,000 adults, found 72% of people who replied STOP to a political text message kept getting political messages after. Nearly half said getting too many calls or texts made them view that candidate less favorably.

See this AI documentary. Free on PBS and YouTube. 110 min. Eugenics, racism, misogyny, and Silicon Valley tech-bro libertarians combined to give birth to AI. PBS: www.pbs.org/independentl... YT: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Samuel Sey, 39, a Christian commentator originally from Ghana, West Africa, was arrested by ICE agents at Columbus International Airport in Ohio. Federal authorities confirmed that Sey overstayed his legal visa

A popular conservative writer who publicly championed strict immigration crackdowns is now facing deportation from the U.S. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

www.wonderwall.com/politics/pet...

historical inaccuracy might actually be the least of this video's many sins

The growth of AI license plate surveillance from Flock and other companies means that more and more innocent people may be stopped in this way — though most probably won’t get a demonstration from an officer as to what is going on.

The real reason the officer had pulled Knowles over was because some surveillance system he was using had access to automated license plate reader (ALPR) data on where she’d been driving, and had decided that her travel pattern was “suspicious.” www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

www.rawstory.com/amp/gop-midt...

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/b...

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Three vehicles torched. A Palestinian man's hand broken. All during the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. MeidasTouch reporter Suri Crowe recounts what happened to a family she met. “These Palestinians are merely trying to harvest the olives on land that they have owned..."

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most

He needs to do his fucking job. We are paying him to be the Speaker of the House, third in line for the PresidEncy. He is a LEGISLATOR if anyone forgot to tell hIm. Fucking legislate, you twerp.

Don't know about you, but I'm dog-tired of drug-addled trillionaire rapists complaining about what's wrong with anyone at all. Don't they own mirrors?

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors ordered Washington state in letters Monday to set aside ballots from over 400 people they alleged, without evidence, were noncitizens illegally registered to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

www.alternet.org/amp/trump-re...

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www.politico.com/live-updates...

www.desmog.com/2026/10/26/a...

When you watch Laalitya’s clip below, you may miss the shot of what the Ohio GOP is saying about her & Cara Jacobs. They have an ultra conservative PAC funding this garbage. This is a sure sign they know she is right as well as they’re in danger of losing their gravy train of income. Support them

www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/quic...

fortune.com/2026/10/26/p...

The 405 would like a word.

Once you pardon someone, they have no basis for refusing to testify… Can’t plead the 5th if you can no longer be incriminated. Trump won’t pardon junior staffers because he needs them to be afraid of going down.