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SMASH AND CRAB Best headline ever

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

We could easily have taken that same money as a wealth tax.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

it feels truly insane that it’s not

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

I am 100% in favor of people who don't want kids not having kids, but watching your kids play on the beach on a day where all your responsibilities are asleep is a peak human experience of a type you will struggle to get elsewhere.

The first step was halting authoritarian consolidation. The second step is protecting the vote and the election. The third step is going on offense.

The orientation I want congress to have: productive conflict is GOOD. Dems have a real credibility gap. They need to communicate clearly to the public what they are for. Hold the regime accountable and force Trumpists to oppose popular stuff. Don't muddy the message with watered down bipartisan BS.

We need to crush these people to restore a basic sense that moral behavior actually means anything at all. That is what is at stake here.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

No, we're really not. She's a test case for the regime.

The @baystatebanner.bsky.social, Boston's Black newspaper, endorsed NO on Question 3. They see through the false promises of this dangerous ballot question and know it would do NOTHING to make our government more representative of the people. Vote No On 3!! baystatebanner.com/2026/10/21/n...

"If your $100 was in response to a fundraising text or email, the single most expensive way to raise money in American politics, $65 is instantly consumed by the cost of asking you for it. " newrepublic.com/article/2163...

"The significance is not that an algorithm has replaced human violence. It is that these systems increase the scale, speed and bureaucratic distance at which violence is organised, while cloaking life-and-death decisions in the appearance of technical objectivity."

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

I am requesting that we bring back shame a bit more urgently than usual

Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas. He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas. But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.

Currently, police are demanding both obscene amounts of surveillance power and a slap on the wrist when they abuse it, as they seem to be doing incessantly and gleefully. We do not need to tolerate this.

Remarkable story here from @mtredden.bsky.social and others at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/nava...

A lot of my policy & political positions are informed by an underlying view that the status quo is carrying us at an accelerating rate toward various intersecting apocalypses, that hopes of changing course are pretty slim, & that the urgency of the situation warrants taking some big risks.

Everybody in that crowd should "feel stupid" because his claim doesn't even make sense: there's nothing special about Minnesota and Mercedes-Benz, the state's dealers & sales per capita are well below the national average. Nothing to this but more racism seeping out of Trump's cognitive septic tank.

I guess I'm glad to see people recognizing that the way Trump fawns over Putin might be corrupt and traitorous and not just "oh, he likes strongmen" but you know what I'm not I'm pissed as hell that it's taken too fucking long to get even this far.

My question, senator, is will the Senate bring in the executives involved these schemes for questioning? Bribery is a two way crime.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Why is @jamellebouie.net the only major media figure routinely pointing out that Elon Musk, who is spending a quarter of a billion dollars to prop up Republican candidates, is a white supremacist? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/o...

This is a depressing must-read. Let's do what Rothkopf urges us to do: "We are going to have to rise up and fight many of the fights that were undertaken by our fathers and mothers and ancestors to re-win the victories they thought they had achieved."

How are we ever going to nationalize SpaceX or kick Palantir out of our lives if we can’t even stop our congresspeople from sending people to hang out with the largest GOP donor in human history?

The Digital Dunkirk: Why We Have to Bet on Bluesky THE FARCE https://www.thefarce.org/the-digital-dunkirk-why-we-have-to-bet-on-bluesky/ Support →

As we were reminded yet again yesterday, we can’t take anything for granted with this election when Trump and his enablers are desperate to avoid accountability for their actions.

The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.

Mayors of our blue cities, take note and follow Mamdani’s lead.

One of us is The other is just taking campaigning. orders from Trump.

this is exactly correct

Amassing tremendous amounts of wealth by exploitation and manipulation is an epic policy failure, and moral failure. These individuals - namely your poster boy Bezos could cure world hunger, homelessness and sickness tomorrow and still remain billionaires but their only goal is to become richer.