Eric Michael Garcia

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

How does Marist get away with doing a ±6.6% in this Maine poll? maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-mi...

I'm 35. Barack Obama is the only president in my lifetime who did not leave office after being impeached or in disgrace.

So has John Fetterman, whose wife is from Brazil, said a damn thing about Lula beating Bolsonaro?

Something that stood out to me when I was in Greensboro, how many Black women were conscientious of their grandparents' role in fighting for their right to vote. "Ancestors have fought for this right, and so it’s my duty to do it," one of them said thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

Republicans when talking about running against Barack Obama.

Also, Raphinha who endorsed Lula when Neymar endorsed Bolsonaro

One of the better pieces I read about Brazil before the first round elections described how online betting permeated through Brazil. After Brazil's World Cup squad selected Neymar, he urged fans to visit a betting platform that sponsors him. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

Mohamed ElBaradei says hello

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Something that stood out to me when speaking to young Black women in Greensboro who went to vote: They are fully aware of what their ancestors and grandparents did to win them the right to vote and they don't take that for granted. #NCPol #NCSen thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

Yeah, don't let that "Antrhopic founders giving most of their money away" BS fool you: By @alexjn.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: After the Guilford County Board of Elections denied students in Greensboro an on-campus polling site, many young Black students turned out on the final day of Souls to the Polls. It could make the difference in #NCPol #NCGA thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM: Black students in Greensboro turned out on the final Souls to the Polls Sunday in North Carolina. Their turnout might make the final difference on everything from the state supreme court to the balance of #NCGA #NCPol #NCSen thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

Randomly remembering Daddy Yankee endorsed John McCain

Everything old is new again

Equis found that the share of Latinos reporting their social circles were mostly supporting Trump went from 19 percent in 2016 to 30 percent in 2020 to 42 percent in 2024. Now? Just 22 percent of Latinos' social circles say they are supporting the GOP. ¡Dios Mio! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Judge rules in favor of Maurene Comey. Will write up a short thread once I find the order. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/n...

Excellent essay by Simon Kuper

¡DIOS MIO!

President Lula after Flavio Bolsonaro mocked his missing finger: “I will not allow a militiaman to call me ‘nine fingers’. He has never worked a day in his life. He doesn't know what an employment book is.” Lula’s little finger was amputated after an industrial accident as a metalworker in 1964.

Crypto bro who wears Tommy Bahama shirts, is deep in debt for sports betting and defrauded thousands of Trump donors in a pump-and-dump scheme.

Just catching up with British Columbia and from what I gather, David Eby shot himself in the balls?

Ok. That was fun. Next stop. Israel's elections on Tuesday. Then we got U.S. midterms and then we have elections in Spain.

Flávio Bolsonaro calls for Brazil's election results to be "annulled" after a loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

exchange between a right wing Brazilian congressman and a left wing congressman is pretty brutal for the former

Lula once said he was grateful that Lionel Messi didn’t play as well for Argentina as he did for Barcelona. But, like Messi, Lula likely pulled off his greatest achievement in his final act. This photo goes hard

This is also a huge black eye for Marco Rubio too, who has wanted to reshape Latin America into right-leaning governments

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Got some time to kill. AMA

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Most Israeli Jews now see the world the way Netanyahu has long seen it. That is Netanyahu’s great victory. But it is matched by his great loss: Much of the world now sees Israel the way Gazans see it,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes.

Lula RN