dramatic owl is a night owl (she/her/hers)

“Flávio has given up. He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”

Good morning! 275K of the 952k registered voters in Travis County (TX) have voted, can you remind a friend that early voting ends this Friday?

This is exactly why we need more working class people running for office. Villegas: "The programs I grew up on are all being gutted by my opponent and this administration to go give more tax breaks to billionaires."

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

BREAKING: Judge Reyes issues a preliminary injunction in the East Potomac Golf Course case, blocking more tree removal and requiring 10-day notice "before making any irreparable modification to any forms or features" of the park. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/golf-argum...

Over here for the nth time to remind people there are more Zionist Evangelicals in America alone than Jews of any political persuasion alive on the entire Earth

“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

It’s a huge problem that the most senior people in government routinely get in front of microphones and say things so mind-boggling racist and hateful that you don’t feel like you can repost it to scream about how much you hate it, because you don’t even want people to have to HEAR it

i don't think it's controversial to say that no company should ever be allowed to be in the position of laying off SIXTY. THOUSAND. PEOPLE.

From Indivisible, zines on what to do if you see ICE at the polls! English: indivisible.org/wp-content/u... Espanol: indivisible.org/wp-content/u...

i like that the big divide on this post is whether people read it, correctly, as "*run explicitly* on banning online gambling" or whether they ignored the modifying verb and adverb and read it as "i don't think anyone should ban online gambling"

NEW: As expected, on a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit dismisses DOJ's appeal in the US v. California case over DOJ's claims relating to "likely noncitizen" voting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

oh we for sure all died in 2020 and this is hell

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Get ready for all your Microsoft products to get even worse. We need to find ways to move off of all billionaire-owned internet services and software. A practical consumer issue as well as a critical political necessity.

W alt text on this amazing passage

Lina Khan on how Mayor Mamdani is tackling the affordability crisis: This administration has a willingness to confront powerful interests that are making life unaffordable and call out companies that are driving up prices or giving workers the short end of the stick.

NEW: "It’s been hell." "I’m dead inside." "I honestly don’t know if I will ever find work in the U.S. again, let alone D.C." "It’s akin to screaming into a void." What is going on with D.C.'s job market? Contributor Abi Newhouse investigated:

A big, "is this good, chat?" Monday.

do they realize telling people theyre not feeling what theyre feeling is a huge turn off?

republicans are in such a strong position that a week before election day the president of their party is campaigning in ... mississippi.

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

I'm a 60+ woman who deadlifts 165. For me, that's fucking impressive. Context, gentlemen

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

"hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists, because the point of being in the dominant in-group is that you dominate, and holding others to standards from which you excuse yourself demonstrates domination like little else can"

i wonder if these two things are connected.

More than 665,600 people cast their ballots as of Thursday, representing 13.85% of registered voters in Tennessee. The early voter turnout still lags behind 2018’s 8-day total of 810,056. From @cstephenson.bsky.social

Reminder to just block Yglesias already. He has nothing useful to contribute, ever.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Hi there folks. New link just dropped. Never a better time to dig into the 1,780,239 people who have voted already in Georgia #gapol #gapolitics georgiavotes.com

I haven’t posted on Twitter since Musk joined Trump’s government but I kept my account there to have access to real-time intel on what’s happening in Brazil and, in that sense, it is still useful. But very much a cesspit of hatred and the breeding ground for those algorithm-chasers on the right.