Daybed Baby

“I’d wake up early and be fighting these bastards…”

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Every father hopes their son will follow in their footsteps (prison)

The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity #Time

Not on the New York Times home page apparently, but it is on the People home page.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.

#LockThemUp

Bluesky has *five* kinds of users

If the fascist boots fit…

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Defund this bitch!

OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

After seeing good results from two critical elections today, this song by Luna feels like a good one to play. “Good things are comin’, you’re gonna get some…” youtu.be/ztbNMUslr4w?...

Womp, womp

Democrats should realize that what Meta did in Brazil, they and other social media companies will do in the US in 2028 unless they are made to understand they will face criminal penalties for it

Meta is accused of election interference in Brazil after restricting Lula's Instagram while recommending Bolsonaro's accounts. 1,613 foreign-funded political ads were uncovered generating 171M impressions. Brazil has ordered Meta to explain its conduct.

Woot!

This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.

Cartoon by Michael de Adder

You heard him, folks!

NON BRASILIANS FROM BSKY WE NEED YOU TO SPREAD THIS MESSAGE. THERE'S A COUP D'ETAT HAPPENING IN BRASIL RIGHT NOW! THE PEOPLE POWER GOT SO STRONG THEY TOOK DIRECT ACTIONS TO SABOTAGE THE ELECTIONS SPREAD. THE WORD. NOW.

Add "Between My Legs" to a movie title: A Good Day to Die Hard Between My Legs

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

This is the way

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Is this the justification/rationale for tech accelerationism??? If the “Antichrist’s arrival is a necessary precursor to the 2d Coming of Christ,” then “[s]hould we even be looking to delay the end of the world? Maybe we shld just accelerate, put the pedal to the floor &… get it all over with…” 1/

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie.

Gaslighting 101: The AG is literally calling us crazy for thinking Trump will use the levers of government power to overturn the results of an election, when he has a documented history of doing just that. That’s tyranny.

My advice to Democratic candidates is simple: Don’t take advice from “Democratic strategists” who spend the two weeks leading up to Election Day running to the nearest television studio to bash Democratic candidates.

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

Happy first day of early voting, New York!

If they weren’t committing crimes, they wouldn’t need pardons. This isn’t an administration. It’s a criminal conspiracy. 

fwiw back in 2019, the last time the Trump admin directed federal authorities to comb through Ilhan Omar’s immigration records, they found no evidence of wrongdoing but actual legal wrongdoing is very much not the point of this "investigation" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

HUGE: President Obama has endorsed Dr. Amy Acton for governor of Ohio. “Amy understands that leaders should solve problems, not create them. Amy Acton will be the governor that Ohio needs.”

“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material… Oh wait, that’s what trees are.” (Survee) Alaska is home to two of the nation’s largest national forests: the Chugach and Tongass :-)}

Best way to fight back? Vote. Minnesota: You can vote now or cast your ballot by November 3.

Still covering Elon Musk as a business mogul and not foregrounding his murderous white nationalist politics is like doing a piece on only the clown career of John Wayne Gacy.

And it begins... A major danger for our Republic: Trump will try to get Secretaries of State not to certify election results. We will fight like hell against his election rigging.