Andreas Duus Pape

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Have you seen the Elon Musk flying car video? My favorite part it when it lands, is completely engulfed by steam, and a very similar-looking car emerges. I’m a theater kid and I admire these kind of practical special effects. In this age of AI, it demonstrates a commitment to the craft

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Musk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his PAC since July, building a huge turnout operation for the midterms. “The staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midterms” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Not going to lie, I love seeing Ukraine destroy Putin’s oil refineries and I truly love seeing President Zelenskyy triggering TF out of MAGA lunatics all because he’s a wartime hero who refuses to allow a despot to destroy his country. Slava Ukraini! 💙👊

So this is the thing: the rich conservatives who are telling you that climate change doesn't exist are acting like it does

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Ulysses

We have to crush these sociopaths. The problem is that many Democrats take money from them, which means they will get bailed out at our expense in the next 2-4 years.

This man cannot be president

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My foreign policy views are simple. I think we should be the first among equals to enforce the international law we helped build. Thanks, @ezraklein.bsky.social, for having me on the show.

Weekend reading

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

one thing that is worth remember apropos this useful piece is that novel technologies do not necessarily require novel political solutions. americans have had to deal with fast-moving, disruptive technological change in the past, and they did so through collective, democratic action.

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

Whoa

This is how it’s done.

Trump lunges toward and growls at a reporter (a woman) who asked him about why he's offering money to voters if his economic policies are working (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

just talk about musk the way republicans would if he was a democrat a bigoted antisemitic weird foreign billionaire with a weird breeding fetish and a nazi pedo chatbot is funding the republican party. if republicans don't denounce, we know they are pro-nazi pedo bot and the voters should know.

we are the screams of the cats you've already fed dinner

Turns out for some centrists, “progressives are not electable” was not a prediction, but a threat

Exactly. If you concede to the right wing framing on something so trivial, why should I believe you will hold firm when it's hard?

What is important right now for the Democrats to do is to discredit the political project of a Republican Party captured by far right extremists, and to kill dead any attempt at Redemptionist politics.

really, truly, literally, top ten all-time american. probably top five.

Jack White is already paying tribute to Dolly Parton with a cover of Jolene in London

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

This is gutting. There are few people universally beloved. Dolly Parton is one. She made our country a better place. I've dreaded this day because of the unique way she was admired and loved by so many different people. We'll grieve together now, and it's an awful feeling. people.com/dolly-parton...

SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together. From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.” Trump won KY06 by 15 pts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... BEFORE/AFTER

The dementia-ravaged leader of my country keeps making odd declarations that he's arbitrarily changing the name of things so we're basically here now

WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo

This is what President Biden should have said every day about every Republican leader for the duration of his presidency. McConnell would not have walked back his condemnation. McCarthy would never had met with him. There would not have been another Trump term.

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... One of the most beautiful and ancient places in the United States is about to ruined by drilling.

en esta economía??????

As I've taken to saying, any system that makes voters become dime-store game theorists is bad. Ranked choice voting eliminates that. Top-two exacerbates it.

Trump is already planning for the 20*30* Census. This time, not only does he want to stop counting noncitizens, he wants to stop counting race and ethnicity. Can't have an unconstituional racial gerrymander if you pretend not to know where Black people live. My latest in @thenation.com

@jamellebouie.net is correct. youtu.be/XqpTkbNRAjY?...

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.