I hope you don’t mind I borrowed your idea. It inspired me to do this. I might even read it in person at an @contesteveryrace.bsky.social event next weekend.
#CERWhyIVote
I vote because:
Your vote is your ICE whistle, blow it.
Your vote is your gas bill, lower it.
Your vote is your Supreme Court, remake it.
Your vote is a data center, ban it.
Your vote is...
Revenge of the Voters. Coming Soon.
Chris Stigall is running to be my next congressional Representative. He is also happy to be endorsed by MO State Representative Chad Perkins.
Chad Perkins had sex with an intoxicated teenager while on duty as a police officer before being elected to the statehouse.
Birds of a feather…
I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized.
Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it
We’re a week away from Election Day and MAGA has poured more than $280m into attacks on trans Americans.
But this strategy will backfire.
MAGA is ignoring voters' top concerns — affordability, healthcare, and political corruption — while LGBTQ+ voters are poised to be a powerful voting bloc.
Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation.
🔥GEORGIA — NEW SEN. @ossoff.bsky.social AD: “Corruption is why nothing works for ordinary people… but a wave 🌊 is building. The kind of wave that comes once in a generation when the people have been pushed too far.” 🇺🇸
Nicole Chuminski was convicted of arson & murder based on a fire that took the lives of her girlfriend's 2 children. Now, new evidence tends to prove her innocence, prompting the New England Innocence Project to file a Motion for a New Trial: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/26/o...
One of the many incredible things Pedro shared was how Meta's AI bot within WhatsApp refused users' asks to make a poster for Lula but granted it for Flavio and when asked to make mock poster for, say, a dog they added Flavio's electoral number - as in vote for #22. In Brazil, vote is by #.
Tomorrow 10am PT/1pm ET/2pm Brasilia Pedro Telles of D-Hub and Fundação Getulio Vargas will tell us what went down & what's next in Brazil's elections. Join @mikepod.bsky.social and me for Substack live (moved from our typical Wednesday.)
www.weekendreading.net/s/wer-live
Does Israel have to bomb us for people to donate? I'm exhausted. I've been fighting for my baby girl for a long time, and no one has donated. I beg of you, even just $5.
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I beg you, I implore you.🙏🏻
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Via Alander Rocha: Edwin Brant Frost IV, the founder of a conservative lending firm in Georgia, was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison for his role in running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of millions of dollars. Frost made contributions to at least three Alabama campaigns.
Justin J Pearson’s republican opponent sent unsolicited dick pics to multiple recipients when he was as old as 53. He admits to it, but calls his behavior “youthful indiscretion” and a “distraction.” www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
Abbott attacks Travis County DA José Garza for agreeing to an innocence claim that was also convincing to ... checks notes ... *every Republican judge on the Court of Criminal Appeals.* smdh
The 2026 cycle is when the GOP decided, "Outright lying is the only chance we have."
How do you know Election Day is almost here? There's a chill crispness to the air … the leaves have started changing colors … and The Downballot's beloved poll closing times map is back, thanks to our sponsor, @edfaction.bsky.social Votes!
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As millions turn to AI chatbots for election information, accuracy matters. Our research found they can fight election misinformation — but they can also fuel it. Read our report: bit.ly/3TSPbV6
We’re a trans family raising our autistic son, who loves Halloween but is too scared to trick-or-treat. We’re raising $220 for a week of healthy “junk food,” movies & games at home! Every donation/share helps make Halloween magical and safe for him.
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Save democracy — Vote!
Early voting is now underway in 46 states (plus D.C.), so get out there and make your voice heard. The time is now to stand up to Christian nationalism.
ffrf.us/vote
It's VERY useful right now to watch elections in other countries: like Serbia, Brazil, & Israel.
It's fascinating to see democracy emerge victorious in 2 countries.
And to discover how panic over the impact of mass voting--democracy--will affect a 3rd
BIG numbers of people voting are a GOOD THING
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.
Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).
EXCLUSIVE: Two books, sold inside two Christian nationalist conferences, provide arguments for followers of Christ potentially murdering abortion providers—and a warning for America. 1/2
A judge has sided with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa, ordering that Gov. Greg Abbott's office let her inspect unredacted communications with billionaire Elon Musk. Abbott has appealed.
Read More👉 ebx.sh/S0oWTJ
So hard to pick a favorite part of this article.
Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too
For @texasobserver.org, I dug into the ginned up “October surprises” in the Senate race in Texas. Most notably, the bogus transgender mailers, which trace back to a printing shop whose owners are major Republican donors with ties to Texas megadonors.
www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-j...
Something that stood out to me when speaking to young Black women in Greensboro who went to vote: They are fully aware of what their ancestors and grandparents did to win them the right to vote and they don't take that for granted. #NCPol#NCSenthepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...
The Trump administration has worked to portray itself as protecting women and girls through their anti-trans policies. Meanwhile, they've worked tirelessly to undermine protections against sexual assault.
Wither Title IX, in this exceptional new reported story by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social.
New: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas -
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
A group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers is coming together to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that it says is being ignored by the Trump DOJ.
"The rule of law is on life support, but it's all of our responsibility to make sure it doesn't die."
In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay.
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”
Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksander Vučić has been swept out of power by a historic student-led opposition movement against Vučić’s right-wing Serbian Progressive Party.
NEW: After the Guilford County Board of Elections denied students in Greensboro an on-campus polling site, many young Black students turned out on the final day of Souls to the Polls. It could make the difference in #NCPol#NCGAthepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...
Calling out churches for violating the law isn’t “persecution” or “intimidation.”
Churches are free to preach whatever they want, but tax-exempt status comes with rules.
If pastors want to operate as political operatives, they can pay taxes like everyone else.
The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements.
"A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."
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...
Josh Turek’s rank bigotry is a betrayal of American values. His stance on trans rights is to the right of West Virginia, Alabama & seven other red states’ laws. Dems are +9 on trans issues; there is no moral or political reason to take this stance except to oppress trans people. Turek is a traitor.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
Horrific.
Amy Acton did not come recently to her bigotry. This is 2016, when she was lead defendant in Ohio refusing to allow trans people to correct their birth certificates.