Jim Chen

Midterm Elections and the Return of Good and Evil 🫏🐘 Democrats Are Sounding More Like Republicans

When you have a president whose worldview resembles Squid Game; who says that he is constrained only by his “own morality”; who characterized dead soldiers as “suckers” and “losers,” political physics suggests that the pendulum will swing in the other direction www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...

Beyond domestic priorities — in essence, a clean-up for public institutions — little is clear in Serbia 🇷🇸 The Student List went into the elections against Aleksandar Vučić without naming a candidate for prime minister, let alone a possible Cabinet www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Many Hispanic voters believed that Trump would not deport law-abiding immigrants. He was lying, but many didn't believe the truth. They believe it now. More than a quarter of Hispanic voters personally know someone who has been arrested, detained and deported by ICE. www.alternet.org/amp/donald-t...

The ‘Big-Ass Truck’ Vote: La coalición de camiones y cabrones 🍊🤡 Donald Trump won big in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley in 2024 — but now Latino voters are turning on him www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Republicans have become obsessed with Indian Americans, resulting in calls to limit Indian immigration, eliminate H1-B visas, podcasts pondering “the Indian Question,” and declarations that Indian American students don't belong at University of Texas football games. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-in...

A stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, whose government cultivated close ties with Donald Trump and his family, has conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in a historic parliamentary election.

Why women dread male Instacart shoppers 🛒 Behind the jokes about grocery substitutions is a familiar frustration: Paying for help and still doing the work www.salon.com/2026/10/25/w...

Those stories are hard to read. No kid should lose cancer care over a budget bill.

Donald Trump’s tax cuts in One Big Beautiful Bill is a sleeper vulnerability 🍊🤡 Tax cuts took effect right away, while cuts to Medicaid were delayed. Americans are sharing stories of children cut off from cancer treatment and families struggling to afford prescriptions. www.salon.com/2026/10/25/t...

MAGA Melts Down Over Obama Comparing Trump's Oval Office To Cheesecake Factory 🍰🍊🤡 Donald Trump “seems very focused on home renovation. He should be on HGTV… There’s gold everywhere. He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-o...

Cindy Banda voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the bills. 🍊🤡 When cancer came, the ensuing scramble to make ends meet was painful enough to rearrange her priorities, and she started to think about voting Democratic for the first time apnews.com/article/trum...

An ancient virus in chimpanzee DNA switches off a gene that is active in humans 🐒 Patricia Gerdes et al., Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains, Science Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeg5791. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

No paywall 💰 Trump’s Retreat: From the Gulf to Britain, American Forces Pull Back 🍊 🤡 A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart. 🚨 Ingram, Texas, was rebuilding from a historic flood when its Police Department signed on with ICE. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Latinos have cooled on Trump. As have many rural Americans — former Trump voters who drive diesel trucks. In a world dominated by large cars, high diesel and gas prices dictate how you feel about life. Push fuel prices too high, and you might even vote for a vegan. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

For all the angst about sexual abuse, Trumpers don’t care as long as their candidates win. Just ask Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. E. Jean Kelly. Victim A of Matt Gaetz. Christine Blasey Ford. 😳 MAGA diehards yell about how they hate pedophiles. They hate Democrats more. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

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Inside high society's most brutal rules: How the Astor family ruled America's Gilded Age elite 💰 When the Vanderbilts became one of the richest families in the world, they challenged Gilded Age society's rigid rules — and gatekeeping — led by Mrs. Caroline Astor www.hellomagazine.com/us/930499/as...

Neoclouds are building data centers that require gargantuan efforts to sell shares and issue debt 🤖 Investors have funded insatiable demand. But rising interest rates raise concerns about demand, as cheap, more efficient AI software becomes increasingly capable. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

What kind of daughter is such a liar that her own mom speaks against her? That's what Vivek Ramaswamy wants you to ask. 😳 The real question is, what mother believes a man over her own child? What mother surfaces after decades of estrangement to call her kid a liar? www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Vivek Ramaswamy is All American, And Evil 😳 Catholics have no business lampooning somebody else's religion for denigrating a victim of childhood sexual abuse. All religions have abusive people. But the Catholic hierarchy and their enablers earned us a reputation. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

The Donna Arthur ad was designed to stoke a sense of entitlement and persuade conservatives to punish liberal family members for shunning them. From the party that gave us “Haitians eat pets,” there is no move too morally depraved, if they think they can get votes. www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

These are not normal people. These are sick, twisted, cruel, sadistic, and psychotic people. They don't care that Amy Acton was raped as a 12-year-old girl. They care only about how they can crush her—politically, emotionally, in every way. They want to destroy lives. newrepublic.com/post/217049/...

Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Vivek Ramaswamy all know that the political right includes many people who yearn for the days when children were expected to defer to their elders. This atavistic passion animates Ramaswamy’s disgusting ad, and Trump’s defense of it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Conservatives are drawn to support politicians with the no ethics, morals or integrity. Could it be they see themselves in those low life’s? Why, yes, yes it is. Sadly, too many will vote for the low life Republican. They call Democrats ‘evil’ to make themselves feel better about their own vileness.

That's why I posted Vivek is despicable; should never be given the opportunity, to be in a position of Power, in US Government!

Cruelty is the whole GOP agenda.

Vivek Ramaswamy

In his latest move to undermine his own party, Donald Trump is bullying Republicans into embracing Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad that weaponizes alleged child sexual abuse. The ad has rubbed many GOP officeholders the wrong way, from both a moral and a political perspective. www.cnn.com/2026/10/23/p...

Republicans Trump, Vance and Ram-it-up-your-ass Vivek want voters to hear only part of the story; they don't want you to know the rapist father figure ran away from Ohio to avoid prosecution on his indictment for child sexual abuse. Mother chose to stay w/ rapist & abandoned her children.

J.D. Vance is the product of politics that treats people as a means, rather than an end unto themselves. There is no principle Trump’s people will not profane in pursuit of power. Accuse the victim of child rape of lying? Yes. Weaponize her estranged mother? Yes. www.alternet.org/amp/trump-oh...

Juvenile taunts are a sign of GOP weakness. Republicans have no answer to Americans’ economic pain. 🐘 They are betting that the grim satisfaction of cruelty will be more important than $5 gasoline. They’re leaning into being mean because they have nothing else. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MAGA can not challenge on policy because their policy is authoritarian and cruel. Vote like you love freedom and democracy! Vote blue. Vote for Amy Acton in Ohio!!

What the Ramaswamy ad represents is an opening salvo in the post-midterms fight for the Republican Party’s future. It’s a battle that will accelerate next year but may not culminate until the 2030s. Put simply, what sort of party does the GOP want to be — and what will the market bear? 🧵🪡🧶 2/2 🛑

Serious question: is anyone surprised by this? Why are news orgs always so surprised by the absolutely awful things republicans say and do? They have been awful for DECADES. I'd be more surprised if they ever did the right thing for the right reason. News folk are part of this problem.

Save some revulsion and contempt for all those involved in producing and distributing it.

This is no longer a campaign about who has the best policies, but who has the best character to lead Ohio. During the presidential primaries Republicans criticized Vivek Ramaswamy’s character. He will stoop as low as to question the sexual abuse of a little girl. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Wondering if vivek is a fellow predator, same about jd. We already know he's a foul mouthed inconsiderate selfish husband and father.........