Final pitch of the midterm elections
The Democratic Party: Donald Trump is a racist dictator who is murdering and disappearing your neighbors, started a pointless war, and is making everything expensive for you personally
Donald Trump: I Have Always Wanted To Be Featured In Homosexual Pornography
I feel like I’m living in some weird fucking Beckett play or a dystopian sequel to Being There where the president of the United States is just increasingly obviously a porridge-brained mental patient and everyone nods and smiles like it’s normal.
Flavio Bolsanaro has reportedly fled Brazil. Reuters reports he is en route to the USA. He failed to surrender his passports to Brazilian authorities engaged his alleged involvement in money laundering. The documents have been cancelled. Trump's America may offer him refuge nonetheless.
Netanyahu is sounding utterly desperate today.
He's posting non-stop about high Arab voting turnout to create hysteria and fear.
He also released a video statement claiming "They are trying to steal the election from us!"
Arab Israelis make up 21% of the Israeli electorate.
Turnout rate in the Israeli election was up to 74.3% in the latest update with still two hours to go.
The record is 86.9% in the 1949 election.
Even if turnout passes just 80% by polls closing, it would be the highest turnout rate in nearly 60 years.
Talarico: "If you've seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you've gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon. If you've received a text message saying scary things about me with scary black and white photos. That was Elon too."
He has spent ten years trying to erase Obama from the history books and Obama is not even running for anything. Retired, out of office, minding his business, and still beating him in the only contest Trump actually cares about. That has to burn.
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.”
Trump again talks about Husted’s ass, then talks about Nicki minaj’s ass and asks her to stand up so everyone else can look at it
So presidential 😕 (h/t @acyn.bsky.social )
Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government.
They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.
Another stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian students voted out their authoritarian leadership after months of protests against corruption, taking their fight from the streets to the ballot box and turning people power into political power.
In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.
Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede after losing Brazil's presidential runoff to Lula.
"It is impossible to acknowledge the election results. We will ask for the elections to be annulled."
As a Brazilian/Canadian this is the tightest election I have ever seen in my lifetime. Lula pulled off something nobody has done as far as I can remember. We’re Bolsonaro free for at least another 4 years. 🙏🏽
Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying.
“Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.”
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99% of GOP talking points can be knocked down if reporters do third grade level research and pushback. It rarely happens, which is why it's so jarring when you actually see it 🙃
wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!
New in PN: In defense of empathy
"Being aware of other people’s feelings, sensitive to them, and able to put yourself in another person’s shoes is pretty much essential for humans to function as a community. But the current conservative project has zero room for that sort of thing."
The students knew they would be marked with an unexcused absence for walking out.
Still, about 430 did.
"We don't care, because we've got to support our people,"
"We've got to support our people who belong here."
The hundreds of students, who left their campuses from 7 Santa Fe schools.