Douglas Moser

Interesting approach by Mike Rogers to make his loyalty to Elon Musk & the oligarchy an explicit part of his campaign earlier this year. “When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk,” Rogers wrote. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

My latest, on the historic Student List victory in Serbia. bradfordvivian.substack.com/p/it-began-i...

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

After tech companies were warned that data center expansion could cost Republicans competitive midterm elections, Fox News’ pro-data center coverage increased by 420%.

Much like a world with fake-ass corporate Pride merch, I would much rather live in a country where both sides at least pay lip service to everyone being an American over a mask off one like this because taking the mask off is a sign something has gone wrong.

Well played

It's... also not particularly novel for Americans who DO follow this sort of thing to be happy when autocrats in other countries are defeated? I'm just barely old enough to recall the ouster of Pinochet being broadly celebrated in international coverage as a victory for human rights & democracy.

'Where are your nuclear wessels." Still my favorite scene in all of Star Trek. RIP youtu.be/sf8rDpu1vCk?...

Abolish ICE.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

He can have the bottom bunk!

"we need more community input on building affordable housing, like Alicia Boyd screaming about how it will bring homeless people and shadows, or Vickie Paladino unleashing entirely new combinations of racial slurs."

2/ Link for post 1. Note that Pirate Wires, which published the article, was founded by Thiel ally Mike Solana. www.piratewires.com/p/inside-pet...

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

this company knows where their bread is buttered, this is catnip for liberal moms and that is exactly who you need to sell to if you wanna move ras el hanout in america

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

Right wing authoritarians defeated in Hungary, Serbia, and Brazil. Then a Democrat wave and Netanyahu thrown out onto the street (then The Hague) to stop them here and in Israel. Might actually be able to slide into a new year with a bit of hope. That’ll help for the big fights in ’27.

I’ve learned over the last decade that there’s nothing at all I like more than a fascist losing.

Watch closely how this unfolds. Trumpists and MAGA Republicans are advising and backing Bolsonaro. It’s a preview of the playbook they want to try here.

Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

The writers are just phoning in the most hackneyed shit this season.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

Trump’s response to the Ramaswamy ad is worth dwelling on to remind us how his administration has actually treated survivors of abuse. Beyond Acton, beyond Epstein's victims, there are thousands of other kids and domestic violence victims whose lives have been made materially worse by Trump policy

Obama on Trump: “There’s gold everywhere. What’s up with the gold? Everything — more gold. He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”

In MAGA, parental estrangement is a big issue — and parents are held out as blameless victims. I suspect that's one reason why Vivek Ramaswamy ran an ad celebrating Amy Acton's vile mother. And why MAGA — including Vance and Trump — are backing him. www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

This is a remarkable portrait, and puts the general failure among our richest and most powerful people to risk anything at all in sharp relief. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

The last third of this essay, Hoo boy. The elites are terrible people. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

sports, math, art

I'm pureeing liquid dead horse at this point, but: policy choice! technology cannot be uninvented, but specific networks can be broken. we do not have to live in a world with instagram and TikTok! a dozenish companies whose continued viability is contingent on existing laws! not inevitable!

Medicine. Amazing advances and even more on the near horizon. This is distinct from the healthcare system.

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

Bookmarking this because I want to see what the breakdown is after Thanksgiving and again in January.