Guy Baddis

It’s amazing that MAGA labels every election result is doesn’t like as “stolen” or an example of “fraud “, but when Putin “wins” almost 90% of the vote in his crooked elections, they don’t make a peep.

Small-dollar donations to Republican candidates are just apocalyptic. Selected examples here. Our forecasting research found in-state individual contributions are a strong predictor of results. Way stronger than PAC spending! votehub.com/2026/10/24/2...

Join me on Thinking Live... for a conversation with Michael Weiss about the current state of affairs between the United States and Russia and the war in Ukraine. Today, 10/22, 3pm ET. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social snyder.substack.com

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Had a thought: Bessent & Trump Admin blame Biden for the current inflation. Under their standards, the 2021-22 inflation surge is Trump's fault.

@emptywheel.bsky.social I kinda assume you've seen this video, but if not, I'm sure you'd be laughing by the end. Tommy is former Hawley staffer, etc. www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teep...

This is a masterclass in effective communication while also not being afraid to point out bigotry for what it is. We should be so lucky to have someone like this in our government.

Beating up a woman at a Trump rally is ghastly. But she didn't exactly inspire civility when she arrived in a shirt reminding the crowd of their icon's ties to child sex trafficking. by David Brooks

Excellent summary of the present state of relations between Russian and American oligarchical clans. Please read and share. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.

And now, onboard footage from a Ukrainian B-2: drone’s appearance causes a traffic accident as drivers get distracted, then it flies directly over the heads of a Russian mobile air defense team, which fails to stop it, before slamming straight into the windshield of a Russian military truck.

Agent of a Foreign Power emptywheel.net/2026/10/10/a...

Si la migra te detiene, ¡recuerda esta canción! No tienes que firmar ni decir nada. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio, y tienes derecho a un abogado. ¡Mantén la calma y recuerda tus derechos! #conozcasusderechos #knowyourrightssong

He's not talking to Donald like a man who has no cards.

Theatre of the absurd! Trump announces US will buy diesel from russia even though he signed a law mandating sanctions for any country buying russian energy. Meanwhile russia actually has a diesel export ban because they can’t meet domestic demand.

1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Heartbreak in Springfield, Ohio. Please read this important reporting. It all begins with big lies and it ends with ethnic cleansing and deaths for which we must not only mourn but feel ashamed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Imagine how frantically Natalie will tweet if this happens. Will set a record for caps used at any one time. apnews.com/article/carn...

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

www.adamkinzinger.com/p/the-space-...

Diesel at record prices www.eia.gov/petroleum/ga... that will spill through to other prices.

Kushner claims there’s a peace deal if only Ukr withdrew from Donbas. Thats not true. Ru wants Ukr withdrawal as the condition to begin peace talks not to end the war. Ru has not agreed to a single thing Ukr wants: NATO membership, peacekeeping troops, reparations, return of kidnapped children, etc.

bang up work from the Michael Whatley campaign!

Trump promised $5,000 stimulus checks from DOGE cuts. You got 0. Trump promised $2,000 stimulus checks from tariffs. You got 0. Trump promised $1,000 checks from Obamacare cuts. You got 0. Trump promised $1.98 gas. You got $4+. Trump now has more promises for you.

@cultexpert.freedomofmind.com Does this Elizabeth Holmes trailer give you hypnosis vibes? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJS...

Here’s an observation. For the last few years a lot of people would come tell me thanks, and say they were Democrats. I’m now getting a lot of people saying “I’m a Republican but…. Thanks.” Something is changing

Mitch who? Never heard of him.

One other thing: The three major pillars of Trumpism/MAGA/right wing populism are tariffs, cruelty toward immigrants, and America First/destruction of international alliances. All three have proven utterly catastrophic and have been roundly rejected by the public. This is the story of the moment.

If you think AI has gotten out of hand you may want to read this

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

US defense policy has reached a special stage where it has two main tenets. The first is to make it clear to allies that it either can’t or won’t help defend them. The second is to threaten said allies if they therefore do the logical thing and stop buying US weapons. Genius.

To quote Harry Reid on Collins, "always there when you don't need her."

Receipts! DOGE Fails an Audit emptywheel.net/2026/08/07/r...

This is the difference between a winner and a loser. “Yeah you wanna try? Go ahead and fucking try. I’m gonna kick your ass anyways, and if I lose, I’m coming back twice as hard. If you’re on my team, we’re gonna smoke em.” vs. “WAAAH WAAAAH WAAAAAH” <fifth place benchwarmer diarrhea noises>

A good way of thinking about Ceuta and Melilla is that they're Spain's dangling nuts which Morocco likes to squeeze every so often

End of an era.

Once upon a time, men bought sports cars to help them get women. Now, they buy Teslas to tell the world that they are incels.

Best bits in the Musk interview: when he admitted he hadn’t been to London in a decade or more but insisted he knew it better than people who lived there and it was an Islamist hellhole. And with his cognitive dissonance screaming, he denied his literary hero Iain Banks was a socialist. Banks was.

One world, one dream

Last year only 16% of US adults read a book. 57% placed a sports bet. You have no f***ing excuse for not getting rich in America over the next ten years. These people literally cannot think straight. You should be running circles around them.

@chadbourn.bsky.social #ETTD As you might expect, the Trump Curse is real. World Cup, Super Bowl, College Football National Championship, NBA Finals, Ryder Cup...

My new one, read and spread widely if you care about the Constitution! www.contrariannews.org/p/reining-in...

A day late but one of SNL’s best:

Internet 101 PSA - before you respond to an inflammatory something in my (or anyone’s) replies, please check the person’s profile If the follower and following counts are both over 1k, their profile is a smorgasbord of hashtag nonsense, and all their replies are confrontational, it’s a foreign op.