Ida

Ida

@idaem.bsky.social

Wife, mother and grandmother thankfully living in the blue state of Washington in the beautiful PNW. Enjoys gardening, hiking wooded trails, feeding the hummingbirds, cooking and reading.

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Looking forward to reading, Princes & Thieves. it's hard to know where to look. Dt’s 2 presidential terms generate so many outrages & depredations that they become a giant kaleidoscope of ever-changing distractions.

The book alleges previously unreported activities by Jared Kushner. Matthew Cole's focus is on the collection of oil-rich sheikhdoms known as the United Arab Emirates.

Nail the rapists.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

Now it's Islamophobic fearmongering. At a Michigan rally Sunday, DjT claimed Dem Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed would invite hordes of jihadis to our shores, creating a nightmare of violence &terror until you can't even have Christmas, calling the US born Muslim a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member.

El-Sayed, who holds a narrow lead in a race that could decide the Senate, fired back: “My name and my faith are not the reason you can’t afford your gas.”

BC Canada got bad news, Lorne Doerkson led the BC Conservatives to a historic majority, defeating David Eby’s NDP. They plan to cut taxes, expand LNG production & logging & cut red tape like it’s never been cut before.They plan to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act DRIPA.

Ilija Srdanović wins the election in Serbia. Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw the increasingly authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government.

Please get out there and vote.

Ken Martin@kenmartin.bsky.social

Traveling across the country, I’ve heard from so many voters excited to vote for Democrats because we’re focused on one thing: making life more affordable. In 9 days, if YOU elect Democrats up and down the ballot, we will work to build a better future for you and your family.

67,000 voters are returning to Israel for its “Fly&Vote” initiative. Half are flying in from the USA, others from Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand. Hope they vote Netanyahu out.

DjT called a Senate nominee “Mohamed” again, in a state that has nothing to do with the Michigan race, because mocking an Arab man’s middle name is now a bit he does on tour.

Obama defended Abdul El-Sayed, the Dem Senate nominee who would be the 1st Muslim ever elected to the US Senate, against a 2week campaign by DjT &Mike Rogers to paint him as a terrorist sympathizer based on nothing more than his name & a sister’s old Facebook post. They'll use lies, fear & division,

Obama "they may even use your name or your faith to somehow suggest that you are dangerous and less than trustworthy and less patriotic and less American than they are.” He paused. “We have seen this movie before. I starred in it.”

Obama "the election is the best chance Americans & Michiganders had to at rein some of this in. Its the circuit breaker in the system; we’ve got to flip bring accountability to this government, start showing the American people who are hungry for solutions what real leadership looks like.

It's what concrete plans look like that actually lower costs, make health care more affordable, make housing more affordable, get utility bills under control. Obama's tired of the country’s anger and division and urged Americans to look toward the future.

Trumpism is a machine for finding someone to hurt &charging admission to watch. 2 yrs ago Vivek was a punchline on a presidential debate stage. Now he’s the Trump-anointed heir in Ohio. The base wants a sequel. Vivek is auditioning by proving he can be just as cruel. The Acton ad is his screen test.

If people get out of Oleshky alive, that’s the only thing that counts. In Washington what counts is that the Kremlin just taught the Trump family it can hand them a win whenever it needs one,the family responded by erasing the Pope & sending Newsmax to film the occupiers as 1st responders.

Putin picked Melania . That’s the story. He had 3 options for who gets to own the Oleshky ceasefire: the Pope who asked for it, the Ukrainians who’d been grinding on it since summer, or the Trumps. He chose the one that pays dividends.

Merrick Garland's role as a mafia state enabler follows a long line of DOJ coverup operatives marketed as saviors of American democracy: James Comey, Robert Mueller, Bill Barr, Cy Vance.

Americans are told the prosecutors will get Trump dismantle his criminal network. Their real role is to run out the clock allowing elites to escape accountability.

China and Iran are using AI tools to plan large-scale propaganda campaigns. US officials & researchers worry the same tactics will be turned on the election, though it isn’t clear yet whether that is happening. The reporting rests on people familiar with US intelligence & independent researchers.

Researchers have linked a network of AI-generated celebrity videos and false claims about candidates on X to a Russian state-backed operation known as Matryoshka. That attribution is the researchers’ assessment, not a confirmed finding.

Musk is not taking that threat calmly. In response to a report by Calen Razor in Politico that Democrats intend to investigate Musk’s role in cutting Ukraine’s access to Starlink communications networks, leaving Ukraine vulnerable to Russian attacks,

Musk posted on social media: “Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …”

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg gives Dems $80 M in 11th-Hour Midterm Push. The $$ from the former NYC mayor is focused on ensuring a Dem House majority, will help cut into Rs’ financial advantage. Let’s hope a lot more mega-wealthy folks can rush in the money needed to counter douchebros like Musk.

Texas lost 19,000 jobs in Sept, largest decrease since '05. As the country faces economic headwinds, high energy costs, interest rates on homebuilding & an immigration crackdown restrict hiring. Now government, construction, education,health services, financial services oil & gas, all shed jobs.

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Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

Elon Musk said Tuesday that independent directors at Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to explore combining the two companies—a deal that, at current market values, would create a roughly $3.5 trillion giant. Musk said he can’t take part in the talks because he is a “conflicted party.”

Stephen Hubbard 74, retired schoolteacher from Michigan. Russian troops grabbed him in Izium Ukraine in 2022, charged him with being a mercenary. Moscow court gave him 7 years. Russia held him as a bargaining chip for 4.5 years, then walked him to the airport & Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian.

Ramaswamy got super-rich hyping a failed drug is now accusing his opponent of lying about living in a tent (despite a court record of it). And his campaign is using her estranged mother to do it—the woman who stayed married to the man charged with raping her daughter.

GOP is using the riots in France as a warning sign to American voters. Watch out, it might happen here, is what they are saying in messaging across the GOP races. Unrest in France is about high energy prices, increased inflation, poor conditions in schools, not about some liberal angry mob.

The fraud whistleblower incentive tool to turn Americans into informants who make claims & reports about their neighbors comes with a financial reward for accusing their neighbors of crimes of fraud, while also placing DjT in the position of deciding whose reports get paid & who gets investigated.

There's already a mechanism to report crimes like this and be rewarded financially, the False Claims Act, which was enacted all the way back in 1863. This act already pays whistleblowers between 15 and 30 percent of the money that is recovered.

So when the President of the United States tells a struggling country that they can become rich by turning someone in, he is exploiting their suffering. He's turning us into a police state.

"Musk’s decision to change the course of a war with a flick of a switch, taking it upon himself, with or without WH officials, to reverse the foreign policy of the USA for the benefit of Russia’s pres Putin, is a stunning assumption of power reminiscent of Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold".

Ya’at’eeh, Greetings from Jonathan Nez running for Congress in Arizona. The R running is Eli Crane & his billionaire best friends continue advocating & voting in support of water-draining data centers and the unraveling of climate-forward policies.

About 60 years ago my brother said I couldn't drive a car until the other cars flew.

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.

1st time seeing Albania in the news in awhile.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

140 days of protests triggered by a corrupt kushner/trump family luxury island deal… yet 🇺🇸 media is essentially crickets 🦗 🦗