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Can you imagine if the Democratic party pulled its head out of its ass, whipped the party line to be supporting trans people, and then set aside funds and some logistics admins for a program called "Trans People Against Fascism", to support any trans person who wants to get organizing?

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-...

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

"There are many who will claim that the reason the community is *divided* is not because of Nazis, but because some people make Nazism a hardline purity test, which makes it hard to build a coalition...with Nazis, I guess. So shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

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.

WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Translation: "The dean dodged the rules that protect students from sexual predation to forewarn me that the level of coercion I was comfortable with in a relationship (unacceptably high) needed to be hidden better. And I realized sexually coercive rule breaking could, in theory, have consequences.😱"

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins reelection in Brazil, securing his fourth term in office.

please refer to the chart

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

It's one of the biggest positive signs that you are talking to a morally and intellectually lazy asshole, or somebody acting in bad faith to pose as morally and intellectually lazy in order to disguise the worse thing they actually are.

Another evil layer to this ad from Josh Turek: When he turns to say "stop the nonsense from both extremes," he opens with a clip of Rep. Becca Balint, the first openly gay woman to represent Vermont in congress and one of the few openly gay members of congress.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC - @electdemocrats.bsky.social) is running anti-trans ads now, so I don't know how you can say the party itself isn't embracing transphobia. There are still some good Dems out there, but transphobia is apparently a party value.

Your strategy is based on the idea that those aren't the votes you need to win. Deal with it

I think subconsciously people register that this is the move of a juiceless replacement level mook and people saying they won't vote for them touches that raw fear nerve

If it's the sound political strategy you claim to believe it is, what are you worried about, you'll more than make those lost votes up in disgusting centrists, right? Right? But you know deep down it doesn't work like that

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... Mamdani's landslide victory can be entirely accounted for by the fact that queer people - who vote overwhelmingly left-wing - turned out at twice the rate of everyone else. But sure, throw trans people under the bus, see where that gets you.

It's only socialism when you tax the wealthy & use it to fund services for the poor & middle class. Otherwise, it's just sparkling kleptocracy! Related: Family farmers have made more take-home income than non-farmers every single year since 1997. Yes, that's AFTER farm debts & expenses.

A Serbian nationalist leader who courted MAGA just lost in a landslide

idk how to explain how important this Lula win is but just know the entire balance of world power could have shifted in a terrible direction tonight and instead the people and democracy won despite overwhelming odds 🎉🎉🎉

The most insulting part of it that these people want to eat their cake and sell it too. It's not enough for them to insist that the party has to trade trans votes and lives for mythical moderate conservative votes. They will also throw a tantrum about this not being allowed to cost them votes.

Trumpism has succeeded because his side draws up a passionate core and supplements it with gigantic media presence. There is no alternative to this. Goody-two-shoes "let's participate in democracy together" crap goes nowhere. You can only defeat fascist power with progressive power. /end

It's interesting what positions get equated with "start from nothing, year-0 revolution", right? I mean the actual position this person is addressing is the possibility that the Dem-right fumbles another administration and helps lay the groundwork for the next Republican win. Is that outlandish?

Telling, isn't it, about the psychic life of centrism, that Sensibles can't conceive of any other political pathways than fascism, their own dogshit politics everyone hates & has as per below to be guilt tripped into voting for, or year-zero violent revolution

On the one had, yes, on the other hand, telling me that I have to hold my nose and vote for the Democratic candidate who scaremongers about trans kids in TV ads because I have no other options is the type of thing that eventually starts to make me feel like a hostage.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

if you ever write an article about a guy saying hes done with politics and then a month or so later hes making the largest political donation in history then you need to quit and find another line of work

“The issue was treating immigrants and citizens like enemy combatants." www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/p...

the right doesn't reject empathy entirely, they selectively deploy it. when a white person is murdered by an immigrant, for example, they will call upon your empathy. but empathy directed at their enemies is cast aside as toxic.

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

Armed federal agents “have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status — and to inquire if they have registered to vote or cast votes in past elections”

This article really gets at why regulating the Internet for kids isn’t enough. The dangerous content online is dangerous for all of us. We would all be better off without AI scams and digital violence. The constant vigilance is depressing. And no amount of individualistic caution is enough.

this remains a great study of the estranged parents movement, and one of the almost universal features of these narratives is the missing missing reasons--the extreme caginess with which these parents present the events that led to the estrangement

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Challenge for the day: Reach out to a friend you haven't talked to in a while or introduce yourself to a neighbor you don't know. People are feeling isolated and it's making everything that much harder. You can't fix everything but everything is harder when people feel alone.

A lot of things lining up right now. - Potential Dem wave election. - This ad going to close race states. - Vivek's ad against Acton defusing the "trans issues won this election" claim preemptively. - Talarico not supporting a trans sports ban - Polls showing anti-trans ads backfiring Good stuff.

Another brilliant essay by Kate Manne. A lot of people want some shocking explanation for why fraternities perpetrate gang rapes. But we already know the answer because patriarchy (and its associated norms like "bro code") are everywhere. The familiarity is why it's so unsettling.

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

it's true that after spending a trillion dollars, paving over thousands of acres with datacenters, draining cities of electricity, causing mass panic, destroying the pc parts market, and jacking up the economy, they made something that can be used as a pretty good linter. that is not a complement.

People are not cutting off their parents because they had unfair expectations of perfection of them. But a defensive reaction to stories like these can be a red flag that you won’t be able to hear crucial feedback from your own kids if your behavior has hurt them.