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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

PS -IF YOU CAN, VOTE EARLY There *will* be post-election madness; the more votes banked early, the harder it will be to mess with the results. -IF IT'S AT ALL POSSIBLE, *PLEASE* VOTE/DROP OFF YOUR BALLOT IN PERSON It'll be harder to mess with in-person results. chart via @bittersouth.bsky.social

Holy shit.

So Trump announced he's going to steal the election.

Reminds me of this cartoon

Pantone color of the year.

I can accept the Muppets being in commercials because they’re showbiz people. I cannot accept the Sesame Street Muppets being in commercials because they’re educators.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social if you ran you would have a large following of people that trust your judgement.

“The Board of Peace should be spelled B-O-R-E-D”

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

The Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

The media is still missing the biggest story in the Epstein emails. The emails show Epstein helped Russia blackmail Donald Trump. He was advising Putin's circle on how to control the US President. Trump is compromised. We need to make sure everyone sees this:

Dispatching ICE agents to hit "groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action," the software allows the administration to order up a goon squad wherever they want, at the touch of a button. Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.

Nearly half of the databases that the CDC used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research.

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

I'm just going to keep saying this until I die: In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy. Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't. Rinse, repeat.

TikTok hasn’t let me post all day, multiple vids uploaded hours ago with zero views. many other political accounts there saying the same thing. very cool, very fun!

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

If you want proof that Trump is going to try to rig the elections, here it is: In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.

Our kids nymag.com/intelligence...

This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men

terror campaign from the federal government bsky.app/profile/atru...

NEW @CookPolitical House ratings show Dems as modest favorites for control, as Republicans would need to win two thirds of Toss Ups (67%) to keep the majority. www.cookpolitical.com/r… Lean/Likely/Solid Dem: 211 Lean/Likely/Solid GOP: 206 Toss Up: 18

11/ For nearly 100 years, Harvard has been tracking thousands of citizens, figuring out which lives lead to happiness and which to emptiness. And their finding is simple. Careers and money don't lead to happiness. Connection, friendship, and camaraderie do.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

What a game!

My son gave me A Chill in the Air, Iris Origo's Italian war diary, 1939-1940. It's an antifa document in retrospect, but in the foreground it's just a diary. We need books like this now. I hope diaries are not extinct & not every observation or voice of anguish is being spent on Bluesky or TikTok.

I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.

"a.i." is a tool to circumvent the cognitive process. Our job as teachers is to teach cognitive processes. How can the two possibly compatible,

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

I have this same meal with my family. Sad to see. What an unfortunate event.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Deliberation is under threat. Without common facts and shared epistemic ground, public debate becomes everyone yelling in their bubbles, not collective reasoning. The VDA framework highlights this as a structural fault line.