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Why does this Sesame Street toy look like Grover is reenacting Poe's The Cask of Amontillado

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Nate Silver saying there is an increased chance of polling considerably underestimating Dems: @hydevoltyge.bsky.social utter vindication

A point I've been making for the past 5 years or so is becoming much more clear. "The primary reason for all this concerns cost: “Unsubsidized renewable energy remains the most cost competitive form of new-build generation,” according to Lazard’s latest benchmarking analysis. "

Great 🧵, and it’s worth noting LBJ knew this would happen after he got civil rights and voting rights passed — and he still did it anyway.

NEW: Hormuz reminded fuel importers that buying energy cargo by cargo means importing every price shock. In TIME, María Mendiluce and I argue the response will decide who becomes the electrostates of the next decade. @wemeanbusiness.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...

“I’m just stunned…at the degree to which Republicans are in trouble.” - Larry Sabato, after reviewing both public and private polls and at minimum foreseeing a blue wave.

If things go as we expect/hope next week (🤞), the task of every Democrat will be to never mention the words "Donald Trump" without also saying "Republican Party" so often they're melded together in voters' minds *forever*

I know this'll make me sound like a prude, but I really, sincerely wish our politicians would stop with all the cursing.

On the same day, huge crowds are welcoming Machado back to Venezuela. Her return was blocked for months by the US-backed regime. Pressure from below finally made it impossible for Trump and Rodriguez to keep her out

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Having just watched E.T. we've now moved on to the high brow stuff. 🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema

Imagine seeing this headline a year ago. You’d have been laughed out of any room if you’d even entertained this idea…

It's remarkable to me that, even as France, Germany and Spain flirt with the temptation of far-right rule, voters with long-term experience of it in Poland, Hungary and now Serbia have gone to such great efforts to rid themselves of it.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Hello darkness my old friend

I sincerely hope today has been a reminder to some that good things CAN and DO still happen, fam! 9 more days and it's our turn! 😎

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When I first logged in today, every single commentator who supposedly knew something about this election said it was hopeless for Lula.

OMG!!!! Is Lula about to pull this off?!! Serbia and Brazil in the same day?!?!

There are so few Rs turning out right now that you kinda wonder which ones are actually turning out.

40 Years Ago Today: Boston #RedSox first baseman Bill Buckner commits one of the most famous errors in baseball history vs. the New York #Mets in Game 6 of the #WorldSeries at Shea Stadium! Classic call by Vin Scully! (October 25, 1986) #MLB #Baseball #History #Postseason

a reminder

I’m not sure there’s anything he could have done anything to boost KLB’s chances more than this

close enough

Los Angeles International Airport — early 70’s.

This is the neoliberal blob and it has been totally ineffectual at stopping Trump fascism because it thinks the world before Trump was great. Meanwhile, most Americans have thought the country was headed in the wrong direction since 2009.

Something I find simultaneously fascinating (and tiring) is the “heads Republicans win, tails Democrats lose” school of analysis. High turnout? Well that’s bad for Dems, because that means lots of Rs are voting. Low turnout? Sorry, that’s bad for Dems too, b/c it means enthusiasm is low.

This, 💯

Ya know, last year NJ had its gubernatorial cycle. We in the Bergen democrats were absolutely shitting ourselves. Vibes grim. Turns out that was just local reddening and the state swung blue hard

I work in manufacturing. I know everyone loves to complain thst “they don’t make them like they used to” but in most cases things are made both better and cheaper, as well as much more safely for the people building them.