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1/ Saturday's Ukrainian attack on Omsk in Siberia, at a distance of over 2,500 km, is causing fresh angst among Russian warbloggers over the poor performance of Russia's air defences. "[We're being hit] further and deeper," one complains. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kyiv...

I saw Musk, Alex Gibney's documentary, yesterday afternoon. This is easily the most important documentary of the last decade. Watching it reminded me that over the last decade, exactly two publications have done a stand-up job of covering Musk: WSJ and Wired. The balance of US media has been AWOL.

#til A Chinese nickname for Trump: "'Chuan Jianguo,' which roughly means 'Trump, the (Chinese) nation builder.'"

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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.

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

3. What scares them is a Democrat who has the character and credibility to quote scripture with authority, not only to popularize good policies, like pro-immigrant reforms, but to discredit the GOP's authoritarian project.

How do we build power in the current polycrisis while autocracy is growing and efforts to limit the climate crisis have failed? I reflect on where we are and where we need to go (and how the world has changed since I delivered my TED Talk 2 years ago this week) danarfisher.com/2026/10/25/b...

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

The Trump Regime is making up bullshit about election fraud to disenfranchise millions of voters. @kamlager-dove.house.gov visited the LA County Ballot Processing Center & joins me to explain their security procedures & to give the latest on how CA is fighting back. youtu.be/JvE3FcOiaXs?...

The plain fact of it is thus: the Trump administration wants to re-segregate higher education. It is a racist project straight-up-no-chaser. Accommodating any of this puts you on the wrong side of history, makes you a collaborator in this project. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into what she calls "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to ignore it.

Elon absolutely sucks but this is just a preview of the kind of control AI companies are playing for with their push into government, education, and every other industry

What a disgrace to have a traitorous U.S. president who blames democratic Ukraine for his problems while Ukraine is engaged in a life-and-death struggle for its sovereignty against the murderous invasion of Putin’s Russia. And worse, he is strengthening the enemy’s position.

I talked to CNN for a little segment about clippers that just aired

The Trump regime’s window to get Russia a victory in Ukraine without Congress exposing the corrupt personal payments Trump and Co. will get from Russia if they pull it off is down to three months. Hence the big push now.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

#MAGALogic

Every time Trump starts criticizing and blaming Ukraine and demanding they surrender territory, he should be immediately asked what concessions he's demanded of Russia. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. And it's an abject failure of the press that this is not happening, and I'm furious about it.

We are so far gone. 💔

Musk owns X. Ellison owns CBS & CNN. TikTok blocked Musk movie account. Meta blocked No Kings account. Democracy Docket is not built on Substack, ActBlue or any platform that could turn against it. It costs more to operate but is worth it. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld

Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson—running to flip a key midterm seat—will be locked out of a meeting that could pause new xAI data centers in Memphis.

How in the world does a president openly admit that a country he is HELPING is using its resources to KILL American troops in Iran, and not IMMEDIATELY get removed from office?

"Golf courses waste even more water” is an argument against wasteful golf courses, not an argument for data centers.

And also notice that he wasn’t attacked by the crowd or beaten or thrown out bodily. One side believes in the Constitution and repect for the law. One side doesn’t. If people want change, voting is the mandatory first step. VOTE!! No matter how hard Republican Fascists try to make it. VOTE!

There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline go.nature.com/4hQid1j

Unpopularity alone does not bring down authoritarians. This is the part where they make desperate plays to maintain their power, and those moves are either successfully resisted or not.

Zelenskyy: "If the United States supports Putin, it's unbelievable, it's a tragedy. It's a historic mistake. If United States officially takes the side of Russia, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand."

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Past waves of automation have followed a script. Agriculture mechanized, got cheap, and shrank as a share of GDP, and value moved to manufacturing. Manufacturing automated and shrank, and value moved to services. Ben Moll and Alex Imas argue AI will follow that script rather than break it... 1/

this is disqualifying for any leader of the democratic party, no matter how you look at it.

The biggest fraud in Minnesota is the Republicans screaming about it deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trumpian-c...

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

Career staff at the CFTC were investigating suspiciously timed trades surrounding Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would not bomb Iranian power plants. Then a senior adviser to Trump’s CFTC commissioner told them to back off. Could this administration get any more corrupt?

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

NEW(ish): Many of you read and shared our story on the Maryland sheriff who, for twenty years, has targeted immigrants in his county an hour from DC. We have translated and published the article in Spanish to be accessible to more readers: boltsmag.org/frederick-ma...

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“Lula’s Workers’ Party alleges Meta blocked paid promotions and disabled its advertising account on Instagram and Facebook. *** Internal PT data shows Bolsonaro’s page averaged 2.96 times more engagement despite having 17.2% fewer followers than Lula’s.” Meta blames “technical issues” 10/12/26 …1/

The curse of paying attention to the Trump admin is I now recognize these guys. Zampolli who pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane, refused to marry her even when they had a kid, and then years later set ICE on her after she married someone else. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.

Excellent piece. “Three serious Musk biographers omit his relationship with Rohrabacher entirely — a curious oversight.”

Great article. “So here we are now — with public schools competing not so much with private schools for students, but with moneymen for public dollars in a dual system created as a result of ‘choice.’ ”