Bob Spence

The next 10 days will test our democracy. Trump hasn’t been able to suppress votes systemically like he wanted to & now there's a lot going on, especially in courts. Get caught up on what you need to know now, like recent developments in California and Alaska. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

195 KIDS ABSENT. BUSINESSES CLOSED. FAMILIES AFRAID. Russellville’s mayor reported this amid ICE’s creepy operation. What the hell are we doing? PAXIS.app helps you know your rights. Record EVERYTHING. Demand accountability. Help keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

Democracy Demands Participation: Vote Wisely, or Lose EVERYTHING I voted straight-ticket Democrat today. We either hold the loathsome piece of shit accountable, or we lose our democracy. The stakes are that high. Let's fucking go! 💪

Love to see it. This is what that man is meant to do.

A new study reveals that Europe's summer heat waves claimed over 50,000 lives, with nearly two-thirds attributed to human-caused climate change. tinyurl.com/2f88h6cd #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeHeat #ClimateChange

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

Just in case you were worried about tomorrow’s hearing before Judge Reyes in the East Potomac Golf Links case being uninteresting, President Trump has decided to … prove the plaintiffs’ claims about why the trees are being removed?

My first time hearing the word Islamism. Quick dictionary search: "Islamic fundamentalism“. But if I had just seen it in your original post without your clarification above, I might’ve confused it with Islam. Also: I greatly appreciate you fighting against Trumpism & on the right side of history.

The White House task force that Trump charged with uncovering evidence of election fraud hasn't produced any. Instead, it has shifted to releasing records that his admin is using to help build a public case against officials who investigated him.

Of all the things that never happened, this is the thing that never happened the most. #16DaysUntilTheBeginningOfTheEND-IfYouVOTE 🗳️ ✅

Of course, there might be another, simpler explanation...one that I find more believable from Thomas Friedman:

Trump promised Russian diesel "immediately." A week on, Russia's deputy PM says there is no contract, the first cargo went to Morocco, and the only signed paper is a sanctions pass good to April 2027. Blood diesel. https://www.narativ.org/p/1016-diesel

Elias Law Group is currently litigating 90 voting and election cases in 41 states and DC. District of Columbia 10 Georgia 9 Florida 7 Louisiana 5 California 4 Virginia 4 Arizona 3 Kansas 3 Montana 3 New Hampshire 3 Wisconsin 3 Idaho 2 Illinois 2 Nevada 2 Pennsylvania 2 Texas 2 26 other states 1

Trump doesn’t care about the general public. His only concern is walling off public lands into private enclaves and business opportunities for himself and wealthy cronies.

I'm begging @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social to run against Musk. He's an unpopular and creepy white nationalist asshole billionaire whose approval rating in most polls is 20 points underwater. You can mock Paxton for needing to be bailed out *and* mock the puppet master pulling his strings.

oh my god this interview was a disaster for Zacharia. I've never seen Hannity do someone who works for Trump like this

"Putin does not belong to any grouping of leaders representing civilized people around the world."

Tesla’s New Roadster Can Somehow Do Corkscrews in the Air (Without Exploding—Yet) gizmodo.com/teslas-new-r...

Here are 22 times Katie Zacharia blatantly lied about being a lawyer. She’s perfect for the Trump administration. She’s pathological.

Zacharia’s LinkedIn work history places her at Zhong Lun, an elite Chinese multinational law firm, between 2011 and 2013. She worked at the Beijing-based firm as an associate on the international practice team, months after she obtained her J.D. from Pepperdine Caruso Law.

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

plaintiffs assert that NPS removed 529 trees on Saturday, including healthy, mature maples and oaks. the government was supposed to refrain from doing anything irreversible without providing enough notice for the court to act, but Judge Reyes hadn't entered a formal order until this morning

Ballot measures are way too convoluted. Here is a prompt to get some help filtering things out: If a voter is a progressive democrat, how would they vote on each ballot measure this year?

Trump is the great destroyer. Killing 500 healthy trees.

Asked if he approved of the public execution,Trump said, “Absolutely.” After all, he’s been imagining executions since at least 1989 when he bought a full-page newspaper ad demanding that the Central Park Five be put to death. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press president Bruce D. Brown says this investigation "appears to be a pretext for seeking records from the networks about how they are covering daily White House events during a media ban the president himself put in place." www.cnn.com/2026/10/10/m...

FYI, here's the plan for the "surprise" papal visit next weekend--assuming the White Sox win tonight. He throws out the first pitch in Chicago Friday at ALDS game four. He insists on visiting a No Kings rally Saturday. He preaches Sunday at St. Raphael's in Springfield, OH.

“Protests intensified after the Indian Express reported last week that two election commissioners had questioned Kumar's voter-list revisions that removed roughly 130 million names from voter lists.” 130 MILLION!

“A Republican victory in 2028 would mean that we could never assume—ever—that “liberalism” as we understood it since the end of Jim Crow, was secure in our country. It would mean living on the knife’s edge, between liberalism and fascism, forever.”

Estonian PM Kristen Michal after Trump's diesel deal with Putin: “It will be worth discussing in Estonia and at the European Council next week whether we can quickly contribute more to Ukraine so they can blast Russia's oil refineries to smithereens.”

Susan Collins "does what Trump needs her to do to enact his agenda, and sometimes casts a protest vote—but only if she can prearrange it to be meaningless. She is a snake disguised as a muppet."

Trump is a coward. Zelensky is a warrior. Trump is a pathological liar. Zelensky is a truth teller. Trump is a scoundrel. Zelensky is a hero. Trump kisses Putin’s ass. Zelensky is kicking Putin’s ass. Trump is a traitor to the free world. Zelensky is defending the free world.

This is clearly not acceptable

"Unless Democrats have some major screwup in the next twenty-six days, it looks to me like the party, its voters, and their candidates have done just about everything we could reasonably ask of them to preserve liberal democracy."

Investing in nature pays off. A new study shows how wetlands restoration and wildfire prevention can drive down skyrocketing insurance costs while protecting communities. tinyurl.com/yf6rs3wm #ClimateAction #ClimateHope #Nature #Restoration #Conservation #Sustainability

A new study reveals that planned road expansion between Acre, Brazil and Peru could threaten a decade of REDD+ progress, risking up to 133,800 hectares of additional deforestation. tinyurl.com/m77tdv8c #AmazonRainforest #Deforestation #Conservation #ClimateAction

"How could a country extend such a shining future to a young man like him—only to shatter that future, and him, by suddenly ripping it away? And how could the president who made it happen show his face that same day, just miles down the road, to bask in it?" www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...

25th Amendment.

Vance: "They are ruthless. They will do whatever they need to do, right up to cheating and right up to lying. And right up to putting somebody on the ballot who has no reason to be there other than to help them steal an election."

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Gateway is ALL SYSTEMS GO! After repeatedly beating Donald Trump in his attempts to shut off federal funding for Gateway, we finally began boring the Hudson River Tunnel, the first new tunnel under the Hudson in over 100 years.

"Architecture is not incidental or accidental. It reflects who we are." @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu argues President Trump's White House renovations are damaging the ideas behind America. "It's changing what it means to be an American president." Follow on Apple: shorturl.at/nQU2k

The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.

BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...

The same program made generic insulin cheaper for California residents.

The American pope draws attention, but there have been scores of American cardinals. You might not always hear much about them, but listen to this one:

"What I want to do, and what I will do, is: You graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country" - Donald Trump, once upon a time