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So. Ukraine is fucked. Europe is less safe. Our former allies will never trust us again. They certainly won’t share Intel when the likes of Kash Patel are being floated as CIA director. Women in the US are even less safe than usual and they’ll die in record numbers 1/x

Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns

In case you haven’t seen this @marisakabas.bsky.social it fits right in with your GORP article.

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...

The guy in the blue shirt

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

#OtD 26 Oct 1881 communist Indigenous activist Dolores Cacuango was born in Ecuador. She took part in several strikes and uprisings, the landless and indigenous movements, and fought against sexual abuse of Indigenous women by hacienda bosses stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9863...

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Lisa is turning lemons into lemonade 😂

This is such an important discussion with @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social & @katiephang.bsky.socialabout about why accountability is paramount not just for individual victims, but for entire systems of oppression. Democracy can only flourish with transparency & accountability.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Former Federal Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch New Organization to Ensure Criminal Accountability for Public Officials in the United States ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

Two Democratic senators who have long overseen US intelligence say the government is illegally withholding a secret court’s findings from Congress until lawmakers renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

I have already voted. Please vote ASAP and help others to do the same!

And Trump supports the regime harassing Americans www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

ALL of this from @jamellebouie.net about holding El*n accountable for his actions & ideologies.

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* ANTHROPIC: CONCERNS RAISED THAT ADVANCED AI SYSTEMS COULD POSE CATASTROPHIC OR EXISTENTIAL RISKS TO HUMANITY WITHOUT APPROPRIATE OVERSIGHT @reuters.com $ANT

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Terrifying www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

In case facts still matter

Abdul punches back and doesn't take shit. He isn't a weak centrist nothing. People want fighters.

That's right. Gain power and crush fascists. Enough is enough.

Last year: It was rigged 😭 This year: There will be investigations.

“ The Houthis have recently homed in on a particular set of revelations to try to undermine Saudi Arabia’s leaders — namely that associates of the Saudi royal court sent tapestries that had draped the holiest site in Islam to Mr. Epstein’s private island.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/w...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

First Serbia and now Brazil! I'm not a religious person, but halleluja!!!

Vucic had many shady ties to Trump and fam. A new govt might help with investigations into all that.

Culver City’s vice mayor says lowering the voting age in local elections could strengthen civic engagement and voting habits. “We are at an existential moment for democracy in this county. And here we have people who are ready and willing to be engaged.”

'To The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

The global voices of freedom and democracy *must* unite and support each other in every country to combat the far right's global support of this movement.

This is a man who knowingly took up Nazi rhetoric to gin up the hatred behind an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Haitian refugees from his own state.

Ukraine is taking back territory, and Trump is trying to bail out Putin — the one assignment he has always taken seriously. (Note: this essay by Phillips O'Brien is from last week. See his page for this week's update as well) phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

#OtD 25 Oct 1882 German anarchist Johann Most was released from Clerkenwell Prison in London after spending a year and a half there doing forced labour for praising the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9781...

FLORIDA — Insane: Winter Park police called on 3 year old for being too good at soccer because 5 year olds couldn’t get the ball from him. (H/T @the_public_defender2) More: blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli... Their TikTok account: www.tiktok.com/@nevadaney10...

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

We tested AI models’ protections against creating election disinformation. The stark results show the dangers to democracy when technology companies are left to regulate themselves. bit.ly/4hZve8P

Well… this seems like our future

There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.

President Trump says he brought in $21 trillion in new investment, but according to the White House he's off by about $11T⁣ ⁣ That gap could pay every American's grocery bill for a decade. https://youtu.be/ODOd4JOVk64

If you're not already, really recommend you follow @katestarbird.bsky.social to unpack the election mis and disinformation.

The Russian drone operators call this "human safari."

About a quarter of NPR affiliate stations are tied to public universities. And as the Trump administration has cracked down on higher education, public radio outlets find themselves in an increasingly precarious position with the schools that house them. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

No single unelected person should have this much power. Musk is killing Ukrainians.

After many obstacles were placed in her way, including by the Trump administration, the leader of the Venezuelan democratic opposition is back in Venezuela