Nevertheless, She Persisted

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.

HFS

There should be nonstop ads from Dems of just Trump saying “Gas was $1.85 before I made that decision about Iran”

This 🧵could be a playbook for how Trump will try and interfere in November. Mass confusion, nothing but chaos.

This is the way. We should listen to the kids.

THIS

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

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...

BIG NEWS: In response to a legal challenge from our office, the Trump administration today confirmed it has no plans to build ICE detention facilities anywhere in Oregon. We’ll continue to fight for Oregonians’ rights and the safety of communities across the state.

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.

This has to be a bit. Whoever made the ad for Microsoft HAD to have bet themselves how on-the-nose they could get away with.....

The DOJ thought they could remove the Jan. 6th attack on our Capitol from memory, we're making sure that doesn't happen. The Jan. 6th Memory Project is a searchable, fully accessible archive of the files that they wanted America to forget. jan6memoryproject.org

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

This should be a blazing red flag for any country using Starlink.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Elon Musk is not a politician and he’s never been elected to office. This is speech suppression, plain and simple. This is just going to get more extreme.

They’re not even hiding it anymore. Trump knows they’re going to lose the midterms and he needs a safe country he can claim exile in once Democrats take control of Congress and impeach him. Stephen Miller isn’t the only one worried about prosecution…

It fundamentally breaks the usability of the internet for creative professionals. Post your work on Meta products, it will be fed into the plagiarism machine. Post your work anywhere online that someone links to in a Meta product, that gets fed into the machine, as well.

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

This tracks with his victim blaming

That makes sense he’d do that himself

“It was an early sign of a break in a long-standing bargain: A government that asks Americans to take extraordinary risks would not add stress that could distract service members from their missions.”

Is this who our military is now???

The slop party: "More than 80 percent of the [AI-generated] ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees."

Seizing the passport, phones, and computer of an opposition lawmaker is straight-up authoritarianism. There is no other way to describe it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Zelenskyy tells Piers Morgan Trump has betrayed him and that Musk and the US deliberately cut off Starlink and people are being killed as a result “This is not the right side of history. It is a pity that we are losing a strong partner”

Trump: famous for never being mean or mocking people.

Yesterday was when you should call Nazis out for being Nazis. Today is the next best day. Tomorrow it will be too late. Use your words.

It’s because he’s explicitly stating what we’ve all been watching with our own two earballs, and he’s not talking in platitudes, “both-sides”, or mealy mouthed condemnation. It’s not hard. He didn’t rely on party talking points “that reach the center”

This is insane how naked the corruption is, who profits, the global impacts, and the sheer predictability of every part of this. Don’t let Trump voters ever feign surprise at what’s unfolding.

It’s not surprising anymore, but it’s not any less fucked up.

Since we don't actually have TOTAL CONTROL over the Strait of Hormuz, it's likely the rest is made up too.....

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass

So shocked unelected Trump family members handling foreign relations are doing it all for the money.