Charles Herold

Charles Herold

@cherold.bsky.social

Well, I'm just glad I didn't live to see this shitshow. Oh, wait, I'm still here. Fuck. BTW, instablock to anyone who messages me who has never met me in person.

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Journalists talking about "moderate" Republicans is like terrorists taking over the Super Bowl and one terrorist says "we're going to kill all the hostages" and the other says "we're going to kill all the hostages except children" and journalists start calling the second one "the moderate."

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Opinion | Democrats lead in the polls with the election just a week away. They must seal the deal with an onslaught of rallies starring Liz Cheney and Cindy McCain.

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Someone want to tell Bobby where algebra comes from?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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“covert surveillance inside houses of worship… “interrogations of churches’ staff… “ICE agents hauled off a nun who was wearing her habit and walking down the sidewalk en route to Sunday Mass… “suing a Catholic diocese in New Mexico to seize 14 acres of their land…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowThe Trump administration keeps clashing with faith communitiesLast year the White House said Joe Biden and his administration “abused and targeted Christians.” A year later, the hypocrisy is staggering.

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So basically someone told Trump today what Cheesecake Factory was, and it probably took a little while to explain to him that they aren’t local factories that make cheesecakes. But he probably still isn’t quite sure what they are.

"This race for your local city council seat will have by far the greatest impact on you, making it a little strange how much more you know about a Senate race happening 12 states away." #guilty

The Onion@theonion.com

Midterm Races To Watch In 2026 https://theonion.com/midterm-races-to-watch-in-2026/

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Whether it’s Republicans openly demanding bribes or Democrats investigating the payment of bribes, both parties have created a tense and politicized environment for CEOs.

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Replying to @muellershewrote.com

JS: it's not until the night of the 21st when you ask for a ruling the next day, what changed that made it an emergency? 5/

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Replying to @lolgop.bsky.social

Percentage of Americans actually offended by this joke: 0% Percentage of Americans offended that a Black man is allowed to speak on a mic: 23:-28% Percentage who will think it's funny and get why Trump is a wannabe dictator clown with the taste of a McMansion model home decorator: 64%

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Replying to @therealbrent.bsky.social

Stevens “says she’s encouraged Abdul El-Sayed to give a speech addressing Black voters’ concerns and “that didn't happen.”” on the day after he held an event with Obama on just that topic. I mean, who needs Republicans when you have people like her

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

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They don’t want to confront the rank racism that lies at the heart of today’s Republican Party and pretending that black voters are drifting away from Democrats and flirting with the GOP is an essential part of that.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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More than a decade ago, Trump promised to fix a broken health care system. But he never came up with a plan. Now he's saying it's the best in the world. He simply skipped the "fix it" part.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have the best healthcare plans in the world. Now it doesn't cover everybody, but it covers a lot of people."

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Smart move by Mike Rogers' staff to set up his earpiece so it mutes any reference to Trump.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda? MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan

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"I'm sorry I'm entering a tunnel, the reception got bad."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda? MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan

Excellent analysis. "[T]hese are not the actions of a confident regime fully in control of the nation’s destiny. This certainly does not indicate there is a comprehensive secret scheme - some devious, unstoppable master plan. The MAGA government is in Hail Mary territory."

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social

The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

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Replying to @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

Several times over the past twenty months the Trumpists seemed poised to vanquish the democratic opposition and break through whatever obstacles the constitutional order was still placing in their path – but then were unable to force that next step.

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Replying to @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

We are faced with a somewhat paradoxical situation. MAGA weakness is a source of radicalization. When delusion, authoritarian desires, ideological zealotry, ineptitude, and mounting desperation all combine, things are bound to escalate further. That is dangerous!

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Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

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Mind you, the overflow crowd at Obama's rally in Michigan tonight is bigger than the actual crowds at trump rallies.

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“People are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. Were making a frickin’ fortune.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher'... we're making a frickin' fortune"

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Trump wanted to create an Orban style autocracy & take away everyone’s liberties. But Orban knew u need to be popular when u put that into effect. But in just 20 months Trump failed so hard he’s more unpopular than any midterm Prez in 80 yrs. Chump just doesn’t have the cards. 🤣

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This is a model for how you describe that ad in your lead. 👏 www.ms.now/news/amy-act...

Headlines that call it an “attack ad” featuring “Acton’s estranged mother” obfuscate the aberration. How about “Ramaswamy ad revictimizes Acton, who was raped as a child”? presswatchers.org/2026/10/depr...

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“Denmark gave us Greenland”?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Why do we always have to take people from shit house countries? We can't we take people from Norway and Sweden and Denmark? By the way, Denmark gave us Greenland ... what do you take, Venezuela or Greenland? We got them both!"

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Kelly Loeffler claims Trump works 20 hours a day (does sleeping on camera count as work?)

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I’m sure this has much more to do with the crimes they plan on committing in the next two years than crimes of the past. People will hesitate to follow Trump’s illegal orders if they get the sense they may actually be held accountable.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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Trump voted early before he could cheat Election Day voters, including him, out of their vote.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

President Donald Trump cast his ballot for the midterm elections in Palm Beach on Saturday, opting to vote early in his adopted home state of Florida.

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Replying to @bgrueskin.bsky.social

Has anyone asked Ramaswamy how much he or his campaign paid this elderly, destitute woman to appear in his ad? bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Donna Arthur — aka Amy Acton’s estranged mother, and the person whose testimony Vivek Ramaswamy devoutly trusts — has been living with her cats, in a car, in a church parking lot, having declined housing assistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

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A new excuse dropped for the Starlink/Starshield throttling in Ukraine: "Ukraine hacked the terminals." Promoted by all the bots and paid pro-russian influencers, supported by their fever dreams and zero evidence whatsoever.