Ian Jamison

If Israel's current exit polls hold, the parties representing the Jewish center will have to make a choice: partner with Arab parties or else keep Bibi in power. A pretty clear metaphor for the choice facing Israel more broadly.

NEW: My midterms cheat sheet features 670+ races—up and down the ballot, & why they matter. Now it's in PDF, printable form! Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the Senate map, & use it your worksheet on election night. Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

It’s been some time since I checked bc I think: D+8-11 for the House (we have 81 out of 91 needed) D+12-15 for the Senate (brutal gerrymander but we have 23 out of 28)

Attention mail-in voters: TODAY (Tuesday, Oct. 27) is the U.S. Postal Service's recommended deadline for mailing back ballots in states where they must be received by Election Day. You can also consider returning your ballot at your local election office or any available drop box instead.

The early voting blog is updated! Dems are rolling and outlook looks bleak for most Republicans in contested races. Gov's race is still up in the air and Election Day, where GOP does well, could save Lombardo and maybe others. Som perspective: thenevadaindependent.com/article/the-...

It's now in People people.com/former-miss-...

The #SaveMassEffect petition is nearing 130k signatures. Regardless of what you might think of the efficacy of petitions, there's no reason for EA to get away with this without some more bad publicity. Consider signing if you haven't already. 👇 www.change.org/p/savemassef...

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

“.. a stunning comeback, sealed late as voters in Lula’s northeastern stronghold rallied behind one of Latin America’s most prominent opponents of Trumpism.” @bloomberg.com 🇧🇷 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

On Monday, I'm recording a podcast with @ketanjoshi.co. He's going to present the strong version of THE CASE AGAINST (AI) DATA CENTERS. Tech company fuckery, discarded green pledges, the rush to gas, the empty promises that AI will help reduce emissions ... all of it. Got questions?

I met with Finer, Sullivan, and a bunch of Biden's senior people several times throughout 2023-2024 and I cannot stress enough how maddening it is to watch them reposition now after spending the time they were actually in power gaslighting the shit out of everyone

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

ALERT: Live data showing that #GasPrices appear to be rising to $4.69/gal in #Wisconsin today.

We would save a lot of time and really get to the business at hand if we could stop dancing around the fact that what's happening with Yglesias, Neera Tanden, the Democrats and their stewards and subordinates at large, is an attempt to maintain power and wealth gained from wealth class partnerships.

To heal, there must be accountability, apology, reparations, and a recommitment to treating every human with dignity. There is so much work to be done.

Re-professionalizing and de-politicizing DoD will be crucial. And doable, as this thread with specifics shows. Add Thiel-Palantir to Musk-SpaceX and Luckey-Anduril review. Courts martial for boat bombings. Problem is, it’ll take political will, and there’s at least two more years of damage to go.

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

In our poll of battleground state voters, 60% said it should be congress' TOP or HIGH priority to investigate Musk and hold him accountable. The people pulling the strings are the voters, dude.

He should not be allowed to have any government contracts--he is operating like a rogue state.

It makes sense, if your entire project is maintaining traditional hierarchies, to try to immunize people against empathizing with the people you’re trying to harm

American political institutions are outdated compared to peer democracies in ways that make us less resilient to authoritarianism. Trump couldn’t have amassed authoritarian power without: - The electoral college - The two party system - An out of control Supreme Court - A useless U.S. Senate

This past week I've seen Pan's Labyrinth, Verity, Digger, Primetime, The Devils, and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother in theaters. Some I liked, some I didn't. But this is such a healthier state of affairs than 9 screens of Captain Glurpo 14.

Alpha male wolves basically: - Follow the pack’s top female’s leads - Take on the most punishing parts of the hunt - Make miles long journeys to feed their pups - All for the “privilege” of going kamikaze to help females/pups escape if there’s trouble “Alpha” aint what these chuds think it is!

“Moral panic” is the right term here, because those raising the alarm make no effort to ask: -how frequently is this happening? -is it more frequent now than in the past? -what do the children of these parents say? -what, exactly, constitutes “cutting off”? -how often are parents disowning children?

A lot of my policy & political positions are informed by an underlying view that the status quo is carrying us at an accelerating rate toward various intersecting apocalypses, that hopes of changing course are pretty slim, & that the urgency of the situation warrants taking some big risks.

On deep level these people are just rejecting society itself. They do not want to participate. They do not care how society has benefitted and continues to benefit them. They don't care what happens to anyway else.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Under conditions of fascism, "polarization" is not bad. It is, in fact, imperative, lest government of the people, for the people, and by the people, not perish from this earth.

democrats in Congress really need to start building the case to lock Elon up and be ready to hand it to the next attorney general on January 20th 2029

This is a consequence of the impunity given to Israel and directly connected to Israel's mass assassinations of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. All perpetrators must be brought to justice, and mainstream media must end its complicity with this brutal, anti-free press regime.

Call me an old asshole because I am but College Football's decision to kill its regular season is somehow worse than the NCAA's decision to fuck with the NCAA Tournament College Football is absolutely nothing without a meaningful regular season. Instead it's a long-winded TV show only niches watch

Have been waiting for this article for years!

will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.

Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment."

This strongly worded letter better not be the end of it from them

ok heres one democratic senator being clear and unambiguous about this. anyone else want to step up?