Chuck Darwin

Idaho Lawmakers are asking voters to choose their state’s official gun amid a list of options; Idaho will be the 11th state to adopt a state gun.

Could Victory for Netanyahu Mean Mass Emigration? Nearly one-fifth of Israeli voters are already considering leaving the country. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/26/i...

White House is sued again over media bans as press groups seek wider injunction www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"I can just see the fake headlines," Trump said. "President Trump is talking about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump." "But I said, ‘I don't give a damn, I'm gonna say it: We're making a frickin fortune,’" he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed Donald Trump for additional public support ahead of Tuesday's election, as final polls project his governing coalition will fall well short of a parliamentary majority Netanyahu spoke to Trump twice in three days oblivious to Trump's unpopularity

This is Justin J. Pearson. If flipping Tennessee blue is worth even $1 to you, please - chip in today. jp4tn.org

Idaho Lawmakers are asking voters to choose their state’s official gun amid a list of options; Idaho will be the 11th state to adopt a state gun.

Obama argues that we won’t fix our political problems unless we rediscover our moral compass first

Very sad and very true. “For all the angst about sexual abuse, even of minors, the forever Trumpers honestly don’t care as long as their candidates win and maintain power. Just ask Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.”

MAGA diehards may holler and stomp about how much they hate pedophiles, but they hate Democrats more. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Muddling through is not good enough. It's kicking the can down the road for the next would-be autocrat to try again and try harder. skywriter.blue/@andycraig.b...

This, like so many laments about what things cost in America, is a housing story. Public schools that provide a residential undergraduate education are also selling undergraduates an education in what it means to afford a residence. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

Discover what happens when art, creativity and research come together at the University of Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind. festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2026/

My worry is that most of the machinery is still in place - the consolidated wealth able to fund vast networks of media and ideological institutions - to continue the push. Do we need to take drastic measures to prevent illiberal capture by wealth?

OMG he's going to make her run so he can stay in power.

Candidates having the same or similar names isn't that unusual. It happens. Some states have codified rules about how to disambiguate. Alaska didn't, but got there by state court + administrative. Even when one is a spoiler and it apparently works, no election has ever been overturned on that basis.

A key issue, however, is that local registrars can’t actually carry out these investigations easily; they don’t have access to any special database that has a correct answer to these questions, so as they have argued in court, they can’t do this in the general course of their operations.

Every single thing we learn about how Ramaswamy and his campaign have been operating over these past weeks in the decision to attack Acton in this way show in ever more abhorrent ways that they are morally incapable of the task of governing.

The icepacks in the western US are vanishing in our lifetimes, accelerated by the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planning for the future lets people know there will be one.

Russia was never a hoax

Trump’s press adviser at the State Department apparently got drunk at a Wizards game and assaulted someone in the crowd.

Putin Nears a Prize: Restoring Ties With the U.S. While Giving Up Nothing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/w...

I’d like to echo Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: If you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in support of the personality cult of a mad wannabe king/Fascist dictator, or the other one. Act accordingly.

The latest rift with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine serves as a reminder that Trump readily lashes out at other world leaders, only to grow outraged if they fight back. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Trump lies constantly Trump doesn't pay his bills Trump reneges on his promises TACO Trump discards his supporters www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

In terms of wind speed, Super Typhoon #Champi is the most powerful storm on Earth in 2026 so far, achieving peak winds of 296 km/h--the equivalent of a Category 5 storm www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...

Talarico, Turek, Peltola, Ossoff, Jackson, El-Sayed, Cooper & Brown have critical races! All donations are 3X-matched. i.demsenate.org/sQGZPnet DSCC

President Trump has repeatedly claimed that Democrats are cheating by allowing noncitizens to vote. But the poster child of Monday morning’s voter fraud sweep — who the DOJ alleges was illegally registered to vote in L.A. — is a registered Republican. Read more: buff.ly/7PfRlA1

The PACs have figured out buying national airtime is cheaper than buying targeted market airtime.

Cash doesn't hit like it use to when you've tanked the economy and raised gas prices to the highest point ever. (See Wisconsin supreme court election). If Max Miller wins this election it'll be because voter suppression and outright stealing the ballots.

The republican ads in Iowa right now are off the charts of lunacy & lies about their opponents. I have never in my 60+ years of life seen such negative & blatantly untrue political ads. And they bunch them up so it's a stream of anti-democrat ads at once.

Max Miller

Russia gave Iran the coordinates they needed to attack and kill U.S. military forces. Chump has responded by helping Russia every chance he gets. This is as close to textbook treason as it gets. I don’t understand why this isn’t being discussed more. The president is committing treason

A whole bunch of No-Kings supporter accounts blocked today on BlueSky … today being #NoKings day. Not suspicious at all.

Trump administration seeks to remove judge who rebuked it over tree removal
 Justice Department attorneys accused the judge of bias and “animus” after a contentious hearing over the removal of hundreds of trees at East Potomac Golf Links www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

"Flying cars are real," Elon Musk said during the event, adding that the vehicle's "success is not guaranteed" but "it will probably work." www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-r...

Let's go No Kings Saturday October 17

“This administration is just moving with a level of impunity and cruelty that, frankly, should shock every single American." www.democracynow.org/2026/10/16/n...

Silicon Valley’s slide to the right was influenced by corporate backlash to labor’s demands, explains Redwine, who was fired from Kickstarter for union organizing. She says she hopes to inspire a new generation of tech workers to organize

Tech billionaires have been dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the fight against a wealth tax in California. They’ve raised more than 💥$340m, and the campaign they’re funding is spending 💥more than $1m a day to defeat the measure, according to state financial disclosures.

In a chilling campaign rally rant, Trump called for shooting leakers and branded them the “scum of the earth” before declaring that journalists spreading what he calls false information are leakers, too. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

Reject Prop. 39 and keep Donald Trump’s election paranoia out of California Say no to an expensive voting overhaul that creates new hurdles for legitimate voters in the state

Americans have now spent $135 billion more on gasoline and diesel purchases since March 1 than the same period last year.

Make sure you get out here and Vote For Real

Isabella M. Weber Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik Warum unsere Demokratie auch von der Wirtschaftspolitik abhängt

Cruelty, corruption, and spectacle have become defining features of American public life. Rebuilding democracy will require restoring the expectation that power must answer to decency.