Boltgrrrrrrrl

Give me your tired, your poor, Your befuddled asses yearning to bribe free, With secret accounts kept off your teeming shore. Send these, the voteless, second-round-lost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Here is @emilybregel.bsky.social’s story. CW: self-harm 38yo Andreea Marin is brain dead on life support, her brother says, after not getting the medication she needed for her mental illness in ICE custody. Yet her wrists and ankles are chained to the hospital bed. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Meet the guy Republicans are hoping to gerrymander into Congress by diluting the voting power of Black people in Memphis.

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

the algorithm effect makes it so people are very activated against, say, the issue of data centers, but there is a lack of a self education being done on the topic of how local governments work to translate this motivation to make change into effective opposition, IMO

The researchers found the Environmental Protection Agency’s minimum reporting levels masked widespread contamination.

Ohio candidate for governor Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is attempting to reframe his controversial ad featuring Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother as protestors have started gathering at his events. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/25/r...

Dear People On Medicare, BEFORE YOU VOTE. It is Medicare Open Enrollment, go to medicare.gov & check your Part D RX plan for 2027 vs. 2026. Mine went up 3x the amount in a YEAR. That is because of Donald Trump & RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz REMEMBER that when you CAST your BALLOT!🗳️💙

Yes, it's *absolutely* like scam emails. And they're generated by people who aren't readers themselves, otherwise they'd know better than to do this. Like unironically trying to sell a colour-by-numbers book page covered in crayon in an art gallery.

lmao even DataRepublican is like “uh folks we need history e-day turnout or we are capital-F Fucked”

Ohio labor market weakens in September ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/22/o...

Absolutely an homage and I'm glad someone found it!

Inject this into my veins. Go vote. Bring friends. The GOP is terrified, and they should be.

Diabolical — Republicans appear to be sending fake pro-trans/LGBTQ mailers from Wyoming directly to kids in Texas (not their parents!) to piss off voters

WATCH - @johncarreyrou.bsky.social: "There's an extremely fine line between Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk. It's completely legitimate to wonder why one is in prison and not the other." John broke the Elizabeth Holmes story. NYT Executive Producer Caitlin Roper agrees with him. (on Hard Fork)

Can someone explain to us like we’re 5 years old why @abdulelsayed.bsky.social has to answer for old @hasandpiker quotes every 5 minutes but @marshablackburn never gets asked about her pal Kid Rock singing statutory rape is “mandatory” 🤔?

Surprise!

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.

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

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"As of this morning, instances of connectivity loss at speeds of 161 km/h are still being observed. There is currently no confirmation that these restrictions have been lifted," a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 23." kyivindependent.com/analysis-ukr...

Also, Colossal Biosciences is full of it (and they did not actually make “dire wolves”): www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In their first interview since being fired, OpenAI safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak take us inside the Hugging Face hack probe and explain why OpenAI’s story doesn't add up.

Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

EXCLUSIVE: Emails released by the FBI show for the first time that the White House was directly involved in crafting the July 2025 memo jointly issued by DOJ and FBI on Jeffrey Epstein that determined "no further disclosure would be appropriate." (paywall) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Around the world, tech is increasingly being used to stifle dissent, assert control and diminish human rights. Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents how states are deploying surveillance tech. privacyinternational.org/report/5873/...

Mothers coerced/forced into adoption are survivors of traumatic births, child loss, missing child, and often medical trauma, in addition to multiple levels of emotional, physical, and psychological trauma. This is a women’s rights issue that is never even acknowledged. #adoption #womensrights

Sealed adoption records are a reproductive rights violation #reproductiverights #adopteerights #adoptee #generationaltrauma youtube.com/shorts/F9Yue...

every democratic member of congress should be giving meta hell right now, and every democratic state government needs to be announcing investigations for election interference — these were early voting events

Unpopularity alone does not bring down authoritarians. This is the part where they make desperate plays to maintain their power, and those moves are either successfully resisted or not.

There is much to admire in Abdul El-Sayed's response to the GOP plant in his audience. But one of the most deft things he did was to point out (twice) that our Constitution protects our right to follow *no* religion, thereby casting Christian nationalist Tommy as the actual religious extremist.

there is a piece to be written about this "no contact" as a very specific kind of moral panic about status, intergenerational mobility, and maybe dementia. because it is wild how much this no contact thing riles up older people.

It's a key part of conservative ideology: "I have no obligations to you and I can treat you however I like, but you are required to love me."

A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again. n.pr/4Bl830k

ICYMI: No Kings protests in Colorado meant to help protect the November election

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