Ruby’s Mom (she/her)

See how easy and clear that is? Video: buff.ly/XQ2psT5

Volunteers in towns and cities across the country are getting ready to act if federal immigration agents show up at the polls on Election Day—which they see an existential threat to American democracy.

FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

"Without a Muslim politician to scare moderates away, there’s a real chance that Alaskans will elect a Democrat over either Sullivan. It’s a desperate, yet clear, case of election interference." buff.ly/VlHrHsU

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

$445 million (Elon alone) could be used as $5 million stabilization grants to 89 critical rural hospitals, keeping ERs open, preserving jobs, and trauma care. 👉🏼shape the future—vote! 👉🏼read Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26...

The drink I need after this week.

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country." ~Fmr. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918. Roosevelt was born OTD in 1858. Image: NPS/Sagamore Hill collection.

Thanks to everyone who has watched as I’ve shared all of the “250 to 250” videos for which I wrote scripts. This is the last one, & how fitting to have it read by @hcrichardson.bsky.social herself since the “250 to 250” project was her idea. Tonight: the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

2. Details in today's Popular Information:

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

LEGAL immigrants in Tennessee are now unable to renew their driver’s licenses because of a new law from Tennessee Republicans. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Earlier this month, roughly 500 people at the facility went on hunger strike, and organizers say that 12 people are still maintaining the strike. It’s unclear if Sandoval was a participant.

Luis Sandoval, a 48-year-old from El Salvador, died on Friday at the Folkston ICE facility, owned by the notorious GEO Group. The detention center is already facing scrutiny over poor conditions.

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

ICE will claim you rammed into their car with your body then say the body cam somehow wasn’t on. Story: buff.ly/tgLak0J

Washington's top election official Steve Hobbs rejected the DOJ's claims in an interview. Hobbs said that there have been only 15 documented instances of illegal voting in the state since 1982. Read the full story: demdock.com/3UdGVj7

Don’t worry, Katie Miller. Dems will come for your criminal husband Stephen, too.

Breaking News: Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for an attack on Iran ahead of Israel’s election, according to officials.

Near perfect.

Not too early to start thinking about how grassroots pressure on a Dem House could help produce better results -->

"Beyond targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Trump administration has killed, arrested, deported, and demonized Somalis at home and abroad."

Are people so dazzled by fame that they voted for him simply because he was on a reality show?

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

CBS News(max) shares this 🔥 clip of Tikeila from @MemphisForAll “Lives are at stake and blood is on your hands”

INTERROGATE ELON; it’ll be great television, and there’s a non-zero chance he’ll be so ganked on ketamine that the hearings will devolve into high comedy and unplanned revelations. Read more from Rick Wilson: https://bit.ly/4yL7HNZ

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

It is ok to decide that—in the middle of constitutional crisis—that the job of social media is not persuasion, but organization and organization. It is also ok to decide that listening and persuasion does not have to involve violence and abuse. You know why trolls hide under bridges, right?

Injecting some levity, and clever writing, into the political morass

Rightwing politics is a smash and grab operation. Crude, violent rhetoric to get attention. Grandiose promises. Chest-pounding to convey energy. Menacing the polls. Once elected, bullying and defiance of all restraint in order to hold power. People are sick of it.

John Oliver: “It does feel that the Republican Party has been getting way too comfortable with some, at best, N*zi-adjacent sh*t.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...

This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

No, they were middle-aged men wearing powdered wigs, elaborately embroidered hostess jackets, silk hose, and shoes with enormous buckles and substantial heels. In other words, our Constitution was written and signed by drag queens.

We have the momentum. Let’s push thru to Nov 3rd and retake Congress! Link: t.co/Dd0K4TFaXB

West Bank…

In case you need a reminder

People who fear Muslim people clearly don’t know any.

Sorry, since when do state agencies just get to decide a section of RCW is unconstitutional and stop enforcing it?!?

Trump should be impeached — and real accountability will require more than impeachment.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

They did something similar with the BLM protestors in 2020. Fox News talking heads going live on air and saying "This is what will happen if you elect Biden!" Of course the flaw in their plan was this was all happening right now for them while Trump was president.

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

"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...

Russia owned what is now Alaska until 1867. They obviously have seller’s remorse. They’ve been playing the long game.

Voters in Missouri, Idaho, Virginia, and Nevada will decide the fate of abortion rights in their states.