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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Documents support claim ICE has detained a mentally ill US citizen since January apnews.com/article/ice-...

This is what I meant when I said in 2024 that when I looked at the incoming administration, all I could see was rape. It’s the heinous act itself, yes, but also a mentality, as deftly explained here:

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

If you're looking to channel your nervous energy or just make sure that we run through the tape this election, I recommend the targets identified by Give Smart -- a good place that ensures you'll get the biggest bang for your buck statesproject.org/get-involved...

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to laziness. As someone who spent a decade in political communications and corporate PR, the straight answer is that either she or her reps reached out to the NYT and offered to provide quotes. And lazy reporters gratefully accepted the offer.

Nothing about this currently on the homepage of the NYT; a brief article appears elsewhere. The Washington Post hasn't run anything at all. bsky.app/profile/mari...

The 12yo has declared it Bythinella cylindrica Awareness Day! This tiny endangered freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bythinellidae, is endemic to Austria.

Cape Cod Evening - 1939 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103844

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

Portrait of a Student (L’Etudiant) by Amedeo Modigliani, 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137498

it feels truly insane that it’s not

Landscape with Rain by Vasily Kandinsky, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137820

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

*extends olive branch* *roasts a hotdog*

The great thing about killing the mood is that you can't get arrested for it

Boutique Foraine by Taro Okamoto, 1937 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137665

Sil 2 by László Moholy-Nagy, 1933 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137732

People in the Sun - 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103494

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

A nation succeeding at developing an industry isn’t stealing anything. But what do I know? I’m not an expert like this pampered, corrupt dementia patient running a money-laundering operation while pretending to be a big, tough builder.

Brazilians got to vote against the Bolsonaros, the Trumps, and Meta Platforms, Inc. all at once.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

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Another data point for ”leave X, you’re not actually helping by being there”

People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

Abdul punches back and doesn't take shit. He isn't a weak centrist nothing. People want fighters.

🔭 Andromeda in Southern Spring Credit & Copyright: Lucy Yunxi Hu ap261023

For #spacetober_challenge prompt 26 sun/star: astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ ⁠ Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge

Simon & Schuster quietly released Matthew Cole’s book two days early, we have learned, as an explosive excerpt in Vanity Fair prompts threats from Jared Kushner’s legal team. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Vertical Accents by Vasily Kandinsky, 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137279

Roofs, Saltillo - 1946 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104094

The Moon Woman by Jackson Pollock, 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137504

Bill Maher had lunch with Donald Trump again. It’s beyond belief that someone would so willingly sit down for a meal with such a reprehensible piece of shit. But I’m sure Trump had his reasons.

This applies to the anti-Islamic signaling too - some overt, some subtler. All bad. Poisonous. Yes, NOT ALL Democrats do this. But too many. It’s a road to failure! And it’s deeply immoral.