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Hey there! I’ve missed you. Good to have you back, but here.

The angel on one shoulder doesn’t want the baseball season to end. The devil on the other shoulder just wants to go to bed.

ICE Announces Third Detained Death in 8 Days, 60 Under the Trump II Administration austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-announ...

Dear Milwaukee, I jinxed it by trying to watch online. Sorry. Tomorrow I won’t watch. Promise.

If we had a nickel for every time a Bolsonaro fled to the United States after losing an election, we’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

Dr. Jennifer Shuford, a former state health commissioner whom President Trump appointed to a top post at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help steady the agency, is leaving after just four months in the job. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/h...

Talarico: "If you've seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you've gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon. If you've received a text message saying scary things about me with scary black and white photos. That was Elon too."

Hacked VMS board spotted in Nashville on Korean Veterans Boulevard.

Today Oct 27@ 7:40am masked ICE agents violently abducted two neighbors in Corona and threatened bystanders with pepper spray. This is not normal. NYC will continue to stand up and protect each other. Abolish ICE.

theyre bringing crime, theyre bringing drugs

Bolosonaro is being investigated for being on honest to God Brazilian crime lord who was running to do for him and his crime family what our President did for his, lost, then fled Brazil illegally, and if Dems aren’t running this story 24/7 for the next week they are leaving real votes on the table.

A month ago I watched witness video of ICE agents tearing a man out of a car in Chicago. There was a child in the back seat and the woman in the passenger seat was crying and praying to God for mercy

"A day after the Brazilian police asked him to hand over his passports because he was being investigated in a money-laundering case." Bolsonaro is being investigated over links to a Brazilian lawyer who is accused of laundering more than $1 billion through a vast fraud scheme. Trump's kinda guy.

“Businessman & politician Simón Levy,” a Trump ally, “claimed on social media that a US operation was underway to ensure Bolsonaro’s security & identified [Rubio] as its alleged coordinator. Other media…picked up the claims, but none has provided independent evidence confirming Rubio’s…involvement.”

erika hilton is a trans politician from the PSOL in brazil. she's a badass

Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

NEW collab w/ @theshoestring.bsky.social: Records I obtained from a lawsuit offer a rare window into the secretive world of sheriffs’ offices, where misconduct is often shielded from outside scrutiny by #Massachusetts’ weak public records law.

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Sign up for Disroot if you can’t host your own. Then encrypt your email using the @fsf.org Email Self-Defense guide. You can ask me how… #FreeSoftware.

I am minded once again of the principle that if a company has to force its employees to use a tool, that tool is probably not fit for purpose

The moon is a giant tonight.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Know your rights at the ballot box! Whether you need to double-check your registration, find your polling place, or know what to do if you face long lines or intimidation, we've got you covered. Learn more about your voting rights before making it to the polls, visit ACLUM.org/Vote

Remember antitrust law? That was nice

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

please enjoy this incredible example of local journalism shared by my friend in Wyoming cowboystatedaily.com/2026/10/23/s...

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

voter guide* for my massholes in the chat

This is for you #Massachusetts!

Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic, a nationalist who has cultivated ties to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and has downplayed his country’s 1990s war crimes, conceded defeat in elections Sunday to a slate of candidates backed by a student-led anti-corruption movement.

Audi’s CEO drew heavy criticism for appearing alongside US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the battleground state of Georgia, with the head ‌of Germany's top union saying it violated the automaker's company guidelines reut.rs/4zdZlj0

Trump has a rally tonight in Mississippi, in case you're wondering how things are shaping up for Republicans

It’s peak Trumpism when Republicans blow up a school full of Iranian Muslim girls and then call an American politician a terrorist because he’s Muslim.

Serbien, Brasilien, Menschen auf sen Straßen, die sich mit einer wahl ihre Demokratie zurück erobern. Ungarn vor kurzem. Mag sein ich brauche gute nachrichten, aber nach Jahren der Achse der Autokraten als Bestätigungschleife ist das ein Durchatmen. Und zeigt: nicht nur analysieren. Pumpen!

US government officials paid by our tax dollars manipulated US policy to interfere in Brazil's election, to punish Lula and push Flavio Bolsonaro to power: insurrectionists supporting other insurrectionists. But they failed. archive.is/7C52g

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

argentinian TV roasting the fuck out of bolsonaro LMAO - the loser speaks - family tradition: complaining about the results - a classic: the right alleges fraud

I believe Emma became M.

「3歳のボーイがサッカー上手すぎるから他の子達の親に警察を呼ばれ、家族ごと試合場から連れ去られ、リーグから追放された」。ほんまかいなと思ったら本当だった。 こんなの近年の米国スポーツ界でのFTMトランス排除のロジックが言うところの「フェアネス」と全く整合してないし、それって結局（自分たちが考える）respectableな主体以外は全部競技から排除したいってことなんでしょ？と感じてしまうま。 blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli...

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Oil importers have saved billions since the start of the war in Iran because of electric vehicles.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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 federal judge struck down a Trump administration ban on issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, but immigrants continue to be stuck in their countries. Attorneys say the federal government is slow-walking the processing of visas on purpose. n.pr/4i89mYP

The road to safety will never be paved with collective punishment. Inflicting widespread trauma will never be a pathway to peace. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/25/w...