Maria McGrath

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.

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

@darthbluesky.bsky.social 😹😹😹

Kars-5-Kids 🤣

Whoa! Great ad.

THIS IS CODE RED !! Trump’s politicized DOJ is now saying out loud that they may interfere in the election in a desperate, unprecedented, and completely unAmerican and anti-democratic attempt to keep Trump and MAGA in power.

Man. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Need a pick me up? Here you go.

@darthbluesky.bsky.social 😹

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Sure looks like the interior secretary is turning Yellowstone into his own Ballroom-like bribery scheme: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-behi...

🤣🤣🤣 side eye in gif form!

🤣🤣🤣 Josh has the jokes!

Daniel Boris

An old 1978 commercial produced by the I.L.G.W.U. (International Ladies Garment Workers' Union).

I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

Are Hegseth and Blanche the same person? 🤣

When JD Vance says Abdul El-Sayed should express "gratitude" for what America has given him, Vance is really saying he's lower on the American hierarchy than "heritage Americans" are. I asked El-Sayed to respond to this point. Here's his answer: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

This...

The Abduction of Persephone, by Nicola Maria Rossi, early 18th c

🔥 MEMPHIS to the city council: “YOU WORK FOR US NOT ELON MUSK” What a pic. (H/T councilman @jbsmileyjr.bsky.social — who voted for the moratorium, which failed 6-6)

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

Arghhhhh, I want to comment!!! I agree, Bill Corbett. Let's yeet him into the sun.

@scottbudman.bsky.social 🤣

@mollyknight.bsky.social fyi

Super interesting interview

Amazing.

It’s a record for a midterm in Georgia: roughly 185,000 people voted in person today, on Day 1 of early voting. The prior record was set in 2022, with roughly 130,000 voters.

More than 1.5 million people have watched our video on how the Roberts court has ushered in a new era of Jim Crow. See why youtube.com/shorts/QVBHg...

Snatch them flu shots, dolls. RFK Jr. is going around. 🤧🎲💊 #RandyRainbow #RFKJr #Parody

It’s Columbus Day, as Trump keeps saying. What to make of it, given Indigenous peoples’ wholly merited dislike of it? In general, it's a problem when a national holiday angers millions in that nation--especially when the reason for the anger has nothing to do with the reason for the holiday. 1/14

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Here is Trump's "policy" about investigative steps before an election: 1. If you are a Republican, there is never a time when such steps are permitted. 2. If you are a Democrat, there is never a time when such steps are forbidden. If legacy media is suggesting anything else, they are lying.

> @apnews.com #measles apnews.com/article/meas...

The Ascension, by Ford Madox Brown, 1844, 📸 by Kirsten Schmitt

Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty (flipped, detail), by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1746, 📸 by @madelinepcarter.bsky.social

Happy Italian American Heritage Month! From vineyards, ranches, and fisheries to entertainment, business, and civic life, generations of Italian Americans have helped write California's story.