DarkMae🎙️📚

Audiobook narrators: Has anyone paused doing this work due to AI? So many weird offers & inquiries, and for books that written by AI which I don’t want to lend my voice to.

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

You know I’m a teacher by trade, but I can’t stand for women to have to share their most intimate horrors to try to educate men on abortion or rape. The men already know…they either don’t care, or they are already actively working on our side. 

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

Yuuuuup…

Republicans have always told us that cutting regulations for corporations would make products better and cheaper. Turns out, without regulations, corporations will just wash our food with literal shit and charge us even more for food we can’t eat…

What were the promised “refunds” we were supposedly getting? $5000 doge check $2000 tariff refund? I have a dinner & some maga folks will be there. Just confirming the numbers in my back pocket.

He’s not going to “throw the midterms into turmoil.” He’s going to try to cancel them. I’ve been screaming this since 2024. He’s said it himself.

The “clean” fully clothed version.

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

ZOHRAN: *parachutes in to help wildly unpopular congressional Dems get more popular* 🦸🏻‍♂️ ESTABLISHMENT DEMS: “wHY iS He TRyiNg tO KiLL tHe PArTy?”

Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️

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Here’s the breakdown of the new lawsuit filed to stop Trump from continuing to build “the claw“ on the south lawn of the White House and hold the UFC cage fights planned for his birthday. The details in the lawsuit are astonishing. We work through them: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"The Court’s behavior in the Louisiana and Alabama cases over the past six weeks can’t be reconciled with or explained by any coherent understanding of what Purcell supposedly stands for. ... The overall pattern reveals justices behaving in a way that has no obvious explanation other than politics."

Justice Sotomayor laid out the choice plainly: an orderly election under a fair map, or a chaotic one under a map a court found intentionally discriminatory. The majority chose chaos. Here's what that means. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Trump admin: -Gutted USAID and foreign health aid to Uganda and Congo, the epicenters of the Ebola outbreak -Withdrew from WHO, which monitors global health emergencies -Made deep staffing cuts to CDC, which coordinates disease response The pro-virus president.

20.6% voter turnout for Alabama primary. Depressing.

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Just went to my usual place to top off my tank and they are out of gas. #alabama

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

A book the principal message of which is that #SCOTUS really *isn't* defined by its ideological divisions was never going to be persuasive. Even still, it's pretty remarkable how much events of the past three weeks have *directly* refuted its thesis...

Your Honor, the defense rests

Mark Carney: "Many of our former strengths, built on our close ties to the US, have become weaknesses. The US has changed. That's their right. And we're responding ... we're deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the EU, the Nordic countries, and Australia."

Remember this from GoT? “Cersei understands the consequences of her absence and she is absent anyway, which means she does not intend to suffer those consequences." Why does every action this administration takes bring that scene to mind?💥

Was not expecting this. Gonzales will also resign from Congress.

Swalwell has announced his resignation from Congress. It’s impossible not to ask why Texas Republican Tony Gonzales hasn’t done the same. And why the GOP doesn’t insist the Epstein files, which repeatedly mention the head of their party, be fully released.

No ORD means no independent research. No chemical risk assessments. No scientific firewall between industry lobbyists and federal health policy. They’re not just cutting jobs. They’re cutting the part of the EPA that tells us the truth.

youtu.be/k92eAqyYI_4?...

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

Why is ICE funding always on the table? I thought they’ve done BEEN funded through the next 4 years? Are they asking for more?

Crockett: "What if someone from another country said 'We're gonna bomb America bc we have a warrant for the president's arrest bc of the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.' Every single one of you sticking up for him right now would be screaming. The analysis has to be the same."

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

Be right back. Gonna punch my neighbor before he can punch me for getting punched by some other guy.

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

This this this! Though I'd argue the Maduro regime is still the Maduro regime, too.

Given all this, I just topped off my gas tank. PS. It’s $2.66/gal where I am in Alabama. NOT $1.99

This continues to age like the funky lemon I found in the back corner of my fridge.

Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG: “I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.” The ad aged. The internet remembers.

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1. Landslide 2. Parable of the Sower 3. Hold the Door

💔 Catherine O’Hara 💔

They won’t investigate the murders of Good or Pretti, but they’ll investigate fake 2020 election fraud. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Philip Glass has pulled the premiere of his new symphony based on Abraham Lincoln from the Kennedy Center saying the institution’s “values” are no longer aligned with the message of the piece.

We are off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸

Why isn’t leadership making this clear?