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It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

this isn't the nuttiest thing to have happened at the UN General Assembly but it was notable. Also notable, I thought: Waltz claiming & condemning the Castro government put gay people, Afro-Cubans, & others in concentration camps. Shows us Waltz knows actions his own admin takes are beyond the pale

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

A furry/drag number where the evil arms of DHS come out and attack the stage before Commander the German Shepherd comes on stage to take care of them all.

I think this gives state and local parties a chance to begin demanding campaigns support a good fundraising neighbor system for endorsements. Maybe at the state or county level, putting together a single, unified campaign for donations that has maximum message rates in place of everyone shouting.

Recent ideas for how to use the dormant industrial land on the south side of the ship canal: 1: Build autonomous war drone ships. 2: Condos for cars. Perhaps it’s time the city stepped in with a plan that would actually benefit the public.

Condos for cars on the waterway faces no environmental review, but a biking and walking trail nearish the waterway faces decades of review. Make it make sense, Washington State!

A years-long push to give nonprofit and community partnerships a chance to buy distressed buildings broke through in the City Council Thursday. Supporters expect the mayor to sign the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) into law, @patrickspauster.com reports. citylimits.org/council-pass...

Cursive Roman numbers get easier to read when you use Arabic handwriting shortcuts. · for one dot, — for two dots, and ^ for three dots makes it easy to tell from a glance what you wrote. Or "I'm taking notes on page xliii and just had a divine revelation to share".

Important piece: Republicans already strip-mined their donor base, and now are deeply dependent on billionaires. Unless Dems change, they will go the same route, or become electorally uncompetitive.

The fact that a certain socialism group and a local choir have the same abbreviation cannot cause any confusion, I told myself signing up for the former. No, I totally will know based on context. Anyways, the socialists reached out and I panicked thinking someone was trying to get me to audition.

Carrying on a long and storied legacy of Ohio politicians doing a little bit of sexual abuse apologia at every instance they can. A morally deprived and spiritually dead people, the Buckeyes, my kin I escaped.

When I heard those Toronto protestors chanting, "Get Home Safe!" to the construction crews who were leaving after they put their bodies in the way to stop further removal of the Bloor Street bike lane, that hit me hard. It's so real. Why is it this hard to make our streets a little safer?

As this insane and totally on brand story spreads, a note that Turning Point USA and UK have a branding agreement. No overnight from America. I don’t know what in contract could kill that but this might. As I have written TPUK is street fighting organization matthewboedy.substack.com/p/turning-po...

U.S. Democratic nominee Brad Lander has been detained by the IDF while joining rabbis and volunteers to help Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the West Bank. This incident follows just days after photojournalist Heidi Levine suffered broken ribs and vertebrae in a brutal attack by settlers.

Watching federal workers act like they have minders when they correct to SI is honestly the funniest concerning thing for me.

Ahahahaha Sodom is everywhere and is not at all the hot joke.

Michigan senate polls show Abdul El-Sayed in the lead, but they are under-sampling Free Press subscribers in New York, Austin, and Washington, DC. by Jeremy Peters and Bari Weiss

That’s Micah Bock, communications director for disgraced former congressman Madison Cawthorn, and who himself was accused in college of rubbing his genitals on a sleeping woman and then defending himself later with the argument that “she was asking for it.”

Being in a mixed normal people and academics group chat where everyone wants to do public facing work, I'm really considering violence today after reading analytical philosophy writing meant for the public.

finished my first quilt ever earlier this week—all hand pieced, quilted, and bound. I learned a lot through the process. But more importantly I made it to being some awareness to two initiatives that will be on the WA ballot in November: IL26-001 and IL26-638.

If you're 79, living in a mansion, presumably kids have left, and think your taxes are too high, you should probably downsize. I just don't look at an octogenarian standing in front of a 5 bedroom and think "poor him"

Older people who want to pay lower property taxes should be able to downsize into an age-appropriate home that requires less upkeep without having to leave the communities where they raised their families; but they oppose that because they feel entitled to a fixed, unchanging neighborhood character.

BREAKING: They’ve called it, PETE FRY of the Green Party is the NEW MAYOR OF THE CITY OF VANCOUVER, with what will be a progressive party coalition majority on City Council. A near-decimation of Ken Sim & ABC, and a significant turning point at a challenging time! Congratulations to the new Council!

I got an editor for some writing. He didn't like my use of the word soupçon and I'm never going to recover.

Congratulations to Mitch McConnell. You truly did everything you could during the teens to avoid your personal friend having to take any blame for failing to stop the military from doing genocide, and now your party is regularizing relations with the same, who now destroyed her government.

1) Olivia Rodrigo remix came out 2) Trump heard it 3) Zacharia out

The way you know Vivek is not fit to rule Ohio is a true Ohioan would drive at least 8 hours before even considering flying

Absolutely unhinged moment where Evangelicals are demanding other Christians running for office repent and shut up.

It remains an utter obscenity that adults have a right to discriminate against foster children on the basis of sexuality. In the case of fostering, a child's rights should be far more ironclad than those of the voluntary foster parents. www.kuow.org/law/2026-10-...

Expropriation of essential global utilities is not only good, but a necessity.