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This is joy. This is fuel to keep on. Let it cycle for three or four minutes and then go make the world a little better.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

In Maryland, just 50 miles from DC, a sheriff has relentlessly targeted local immigrants for over 20 years. He is running for reelection next week in a county that went for Harris over Trump. Make sure to share story: boltsmag.org/frederick-co...

no amnesty

My favorite political ad of all time and it's not even close

I can't stress enough how counterproductive it is for campaign sites to hit visitors with a donation pop-up they have to close before they can see anything. A week out, most visits to these pages are voters trying to make up their minds.

Nobels: Literature - Naguib Mahfouz, Abdulrazak Gurnah Chemistry - Ahmed Zewail*, Omar Yaghi*, Elias James Corey*, Moungi Bawendi (*=also Wolf) Medicine: Peter Medawar Peace - Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman Fields: Michael Atiyah Booker: Jokha Alharthi

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

So if you’re furious as you fill up your tank, just remember Exxon is making a lot of money off you.

I suspect what we’re going to find on election day is that Dems faced a Blue Undertow in 2024 thats gone now.

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

Remember, the doctor who lied about the Covid vaccine killing kids routinely yawned at Covid itself killing kids. 19 dead kids in a single month? Who cares? There are soooo many more kids, after all.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

READ THIS: This billionaire’s initiative would very likely send $4 billion to a nonprofit that he founded. The nonprofit is supposed to lead California on health research. However, it only had three employees last month, despite agreeing with UCLA to have more than 50 by last year. My reporting:

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

The biggest single reform the next democratic Congress could make is to ban dual-class shares. Tech companies would become substantially more beholden to market forces and founders could be forced out if they failed in their fiduciary duties.

Wall Street is bailing on the AI trade. “Signals from Meta that it could soon go on a cash-raising spree helped trigger another massive rotation trade on Thursday, with investors dumping stocks connected to the AI boom and piling into almost everything else“ www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

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.

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.

Boycott Elon Musk and everything he sells.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

That’s the GDP of Bolivia.

From 1982-2018 the RNC that Rodgers invokes was under a federal consent decree that restricted its ability to engage in "ballot security measures" to intimidate voters. This is why. There is a reason Rodgers talks about Detroit and no other part of the state. Same reason as always.

This is a pretty funny chart

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Lula challenged Bolsonaro to submit financial and phone records for judicial inquiry before the election. “I challenge you. Tomorrow, you and I open our bank accounts and telephone records so that the Brazilian people can find out who the thief is in this country.” #DebateNaBand

🚨 TRUMP IS A POLITICAL ANCHOR DRAGGING DOWN REPUBLICANS An Iowa Republican says why he plans to vote for Turek: “Just a change. And I think he’s going to be pretty moderate… that’s what we need, we don’t need the crazy rights and the crazy lefts, we just need back to the good old days.”

Trump promised America a “golden age”. Instead, voters are worried about damn near EVERYTHING.And the biggest concern is government corruption — 88% We all see Trump‘s self-dealing at our expense‼️

"It's too late to put your mask back on," another CBS insider told me. "And not just CBS standards. It violated the standards of any ethical, decent journalist."

I wish to see more of this. It helps to correct the path towards more ethical use of services and also to reinforce that the path we take is worthy (and not mislead by ignorance).

I didn't think it was possible to fuck up a headline this badly

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Why can’t No Kings lead a boycott of X and meta or at least pressure all elected Democrats to get off of X completely? Wouldn’t that be THE appropriate response to the politically biased behavior of Musk and Zuckerberg?

Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/