George Spiggott

MUST READ: Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush and son of another President Bush, explains why he voted for James Talarico. In part: “My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton's record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico.”

🚨SENATE BLUE WAVE ALERT: Nate Silver’s model now gives Democrats roughly a 75% chance of winning the Senate — with the current polling map pointing to a possible 54–46 Democratic majority. Even a 2-point polling miss still leaves Democrats ahead, 52–48. Keep pushing. Vote. Volunteer. Donate.

You're a guard at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and Donald Trump is being mauled by a tiger. You can either save the president or shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo; do you select high contrast color film, or do you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

Man, no kidding.

In our house-- for years-- it has inexplicably been graham crackers.

Just despicable people. All of them. It’s not just that they’re corrupt and shitty at their jobs - they’re terrible humans.

Very much agree with this. The Trump admin has purposefully attacked mail in voting from multiple directions and continues to make threats of law enforcement at voting sites… their goal is to create confusion, distrust, and fear… to suppress votes.

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

Trump is a greedy, stupid, incompetent, sadistic, serial sexual sexual abuser, and traitor. The idea he was a successful businessman who was (even remotely) qualified to serve as POTUS is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

Trump inherited an economy The Economist called “The Envy of the World" and ran it into the ground, just like everything else he inherited.

It's enraging to watch them pretend to be patriots while they fully support and endorse the anti-Constitution regime.

We still have to get out and vote but, wow, this is encouraging.

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.

The same idiots who think Trump, who dodged the draft five times, knows how to win a war also think Trump, who declared bankruptcy six times, knows how to run the economy. That's what Trump Derangement Syndrome actually looks like.

It is time to come to terms with the fact that is an absurd waste of time for me to use all the belt loops. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

“The President may be brought low this fall not by the Democrats who would crawl over broken glass to defeat him but by the very voters who sent him back to the White House in the first place. Iran, it seems, may finally have done what Jan 6 and all the rest of Trump’s countless misdeeds could not.”

Here's a good test case for our framework, demonstrating how a real incident can be turned into a false "rigged election" rumor or narrative. Here the DOJ highlights a case where a postal worker discarded mail that included ballots, and uses that to suggest voter fraud and untrustworthy elections.

It is horrifying to watch the daily psychiatric emergency that is Donald Trump and the relative silence that follows. The media must confront this ongoing reality and we the people must demand his removal. www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...

The entire Trump administration should be in prison for what they’ve done to our country.

If true, this may be the first office where the ethics training required breath mints and a safe word.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.

Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

If I posted something this stupid I'd be sure to limit who can comment, too. bsky.app/profile/char...

Took my first— and last— ride in a Waymo. Should have been maybe five minutes, and after 25 minutes of aimless wandering it dropped me 2 miles from my destination.

Seems the Orange 🤡's renaming Lake Ontario is just as popular as his renaming The Gulf of Mexico, which is... NOT AT ALL. Instead of working on lowering prices, his focus on B.S. like the Ballroom, Helipad & putting his name on the Kennedy Center is the perfect Midterm strategy...for the DEMS!

Part 1 of a 3-part strategy. First, delegitimize real polls (that show Trump and his party struggling). Second, promote fake polls (that show the opposite). Third, deny election results they don’t like using fake polls as the “evidence” of election malfeasance. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

I hope it’s clear to everyone who cares about the survival of our democracy that we need massive turnout and landslide margins to counteract the lies and cries of fraud that are coming after the midterm vote.

I always admired how Dolly Parton epitomized grace, good humor and an accepting attitude, even while enduring sexist nonsense and navigating clumsy efforts to draw her into culture war craziness. I never bought an album, but always remained a fan. RIP to the queen: loom.ly/oZvgPRA

Trump has done more harm to America than any of our foreign enemies ever have.

Across our Navy, Army, Air Force and beyond, the Trump Administration is failing our troops who are forced to carry out extended deployments in this never-ending Iran War. This cannot continue. They must answer to the American people in a public hearing immediately. meidasnews.com/news/senate-...

Republicans are losing because they can't run on their record. They can't run on covering up the Epstein files. They can't run on cutting Medicaid. They can't run on stripping SNAP or imposing tariffs. Americans see what is happening - and we are hungry for change.

You know who I’d like to personally feed into a wood-chipper feet-first and very slowly? The product tamperers who have made it so now my only course of action with any consumer package is that of a deranged racoon.

I gather it's Black Cat Appreciation Day, so...

Trump has taken a look at North and South Korea and concluded that Kim Jong Un and the North Koreans are the good guys and we should be with them. Fuck MAGA.

After nearly 40 years I have just realized there is a hint of almond extract in Cherry Garcia.

CW: dog injury / attack Ive been real quiet lately because ive been dealing with stuff, lil man (our dog) was attacked by a loose dog and was hurt and went to the emergency vet two day ago. It was non-life threatening luckily. Just, please keep your dogs on a leash. No matter how nice they are.

I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.

This is our moment to pull together and build a strong coalition that can win, govern, and deliver a better everyday life in America.

“Russia must lose the war. There’s no other way for change. Any notions of reforms in Russia are an illusion. History of Russia over the last 200 years clearly shows, that changes occur only after a military defeat. The more severe defeat, the deeper subsequent changes.” Gary Kasparov

When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.

At some point you just have to conclude that the Trump supporters who are still left just knowingly love the lies, corruption and incompetence and have accepted it as their brand because nobody can be that naive and stupid.

From racist, xenophobic propaganda to racist, xenophobic policy.

Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"

Canadian life expectancy is 3.3 years longer, and our crime rate is a third of yours.