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The leaders of the groups massing under the banner of “the resistance” have an audacious agenda for a Democratic Congress—and they tell The New Republic that they are ready to fight for it. trib.al/JBRUYnE

Off to explain to a group of local college students why tax law is the best law!

This is my biggest concern. If we let AI think for us, it’s likely we’ll stop being good at it. There is a related problem, which is that we will lose our civilization. Instead, we will be a kind of welfare side project for an AI civilization, not unlike the humans in Wall-E.

I have written an introduction to an unfinished attempt to think through what ChatBots will mean for human intellect. It is largely behind the paywall because it is profoundly unfinished. (1/4)

LinkedIn removed my post today for "hateful speech." I compared Todd Blanche to Nazi lawyer Hans Frank, quoting from book review: "Hans Frank, the Nazi lawyer who saw Hitler as a gift from God for the German people" Ruth Ben-Ghiat has compared Blanche to Frank. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

I'm not surprised. No one who's been paying attention is surprised.

The central issue in the US election and elections worldwide is corruption writ large-a system that only works to serve the rich at the expense of everyone else, a system in which politicians and the rich are in bed together and yet screwing the rest of us. Affordability and corruption are the same.

Good news from Serbia and Brazil, and from the early vote across the U.S. Elon freaks out at the idea of accountability, and MAGA thinks we’re not allowed to laugh about the Cheesecake Factory. An upbeat podcast! youtu.be/Rho5Qsf5fvg

As Palestinians attempt to harvest their olives in the occupied West Bank, reports of violent settler attacks are escalating. MeidasTouch's Suri Crowe just returned from the ground—and what she witnessed deserves attention. Watch the first in her exclusive reporting series.

Remains possibly the worst spokesperson for anything, at any time

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could finish second in Tuesday’s national election behind retired military chief Gadi Eisenkot but still return to lead a unity government alongside the man who vowed to replace him.

The same day a court threw out the Trump administration's firing of Comey's daughter, the Trump administration goes back, for the third time, to try to indict the head of the FBI who refused to swear loyalty to the President. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

🗳 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚? 𝗪𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗬𝗢𝗨. Raw Story is investigating reports of voting machine malfunctions, ballot errors, voter intimidation, and other issues that could interfere with the ability to vote. 📩 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀@𝗿𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.𝗰𝗼𝗺

lol Trump wants to take J6th wussdom global www.barrons.com/news/trump-s...

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I honestly don’t get what Newsom thinks his future in the party is. Between this and Paramount merger he’s just not close to where Dem primary voters are

I could support this if it’s local elections only (especially for local school boards) and if they voted at school so lesson plans could be structured around it and assignments to research candidates or issues could be completed.

What a disgusting pig.

Live view of House Judiciary Dems 😂

Jaws dropped at new allegations against President Donald Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche released by House Judiciary Committee Democrats in a new report on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

NEW: After the Guilford County Board of Elections denied students in Greensboro an on-campus polling site, many young Black students turned out on the final day of Souls to the Polls. It could make the difference in #NCPol #NCGA thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

Republicans redrew congressional district lines to try to tilt the midterms in their favor. But now they are facing expensive and competitive races they had hoped to outmaneuver.

Even with all the levers of power he has his hands on, and even with control of every mechanism in the federal government, Trump has been unable to find election fraud. So he's crowdsourcing it now.

Eric does great work, folks.

Reading about an ailing priest literally being carried out of an ICE facility, as well as Team Trump spying on churches, I kept thinking about one thing: The Trump White House last year accused Biden and his administration of having “abused and targeted Christians.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Pretty sure the bulk of it doesn’t really get fixed until the five or so way too rich people we can all name have all their stuff broken up and taken away

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

‘Prairie Populists’ fight to win back rural voters long ceded to Republicans

Watching the first two Dune movies back to back, and I don’t think Rebecca Ferguson has been given enough credit for how she plays Lady Jessica before/after taking the Water of Life. I also love the glimpses of “oh shit, this is actually real” we get from her in response to Paul’s evolution.

Scientists discovered that human brain organoids, which are small neural clusters derived from stem cells, could identify the Braille alphabet with a high degree of accuracy. www.404media.co/computers-ma...

María Corina Machado, the leader of the biggest opposition movement in Venezuela, returned to her country on Sunday after nearly a year in exile since slipping out to receive the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Read more: nyti.ms/48eOrgV

Prepare for RAGE “Luster’s crime, the rape of an unconscious person, technically qualifies as a nonviolent offense, the Ventura County district attorney's office explained to KCLU in 2023.” apple.news/ANo294xamRjK...

This guy. 🙄

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returned home after nearly a year away, and after several failed attempts to return that strained her ties with US President Donald Trump's administration. reut.rs/4jBKABD

Been watching this dude for awhile. He should consider running for office himself.

Tennessee Brando delivers a blistering assessment of Trump's remaining supporters. “It's sad to watch people who are so miserable in their own lives get behind a man who is the king of misery, who just keeps adding more misery to their lives, and they keep cheering it on.”

Until the 20th century, only white people could claim citizenship in America. With MAGA, even being a citizen is insufficient to being an American; whiteness is all.

they must be new

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Nearly two hours of oral arguments just concluded in the California election case, and it looks very unlikely that the Trump administration is going to prevail in this early stage of the litigation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/just-...

great context on the serbia news here -- gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...