Joanne Freeman

Be Strong And Of Good Courage.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

So…MAGA has decided that they’ll close their campaign on Islamophobia. On anti-Muslim hate. Let’s show them what we think of this racist BS. By voting against it. In BIG NUMBERS. Let’s go!

During the brazilian elections we learned one obvious but important tactic to defeat the far right on the Internet and I think everyone should know it: IGNORE THEM! DON'T ENGAGE WITH THEIR CONTENT! DON'T MAKE CONTENT REACTING TO THEM! DON'T HATE QRT! LET THEM ALONE IN THEIR BUBBLE!

Per a new report from House Democrats, Trump's DOJ is withholding evidence of his ties to Epstein and slow-walking the complete release of the Epstein files. It's time to end the cover-up and expose the truth. Remember this when you cast your ballot. www.ms.now/news/house-j...

What a surprise. Religious leaders used by DJT as props without their consent.

Ding ding fucking ding.

I discussed this last night. Who knew that it was possible to sink too low? Ramaswamy found out. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqC...

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

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.

From the same article. HOW IS THIS A VICTORY?

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

Just a playing Rosie birb. To make you happy. Because WE CAN ALL USE SOME HAPPY right frickin’ now.

Greetings all: My recent talk from Western Washington University has been posted online. You can find it here and on my YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwop...

Hey folks: My next event will be at the Concord Museum (Massachusetts), where I'll be discussing the Revolution in a conversation moderated by the great historian Bob Gross. It's on November 6. Register below: concordmuseum.org/event/joanne...

Regarding The Ad: It’s nice to know that there may actually be a bar too low. At least, for LOTS of us. Thanks, Ramaswamy.

"...where's the freeking line for treason?" www.youtube.com/live/FtiuQAt...

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

A plea. For future sci-fi writers and filmmakers: Could you find another way to signal “world in chaos” or “bad things coming” without showing dead birds? Please? Signed, Me.

I have not had a martini in awhile. And right now? IT IS TIME. No particular reason. Just because of …. now-ness.

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

1. I am very tired of being asked to be stupid. I know that is not the most important thing right now. There are many more serious consequences to electing a criminal president who is burning up the economy.

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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

“Dubious” I suppose it’s a start.

Trump’s goal is to intimidate me and get me to back down. That’s not going to happen. I will not be silenced, and I will not stop fighting for my constituents.

Dr. Amy Acton testified before a Grand Jury at 12 years old about the horrific conditions and abuse her mother and stepfather inflicted on her and her brother. She had more courage at 12 years of age than ALL the Republicans combined had during both of Trump's Impeachments. #VetsAgainstGOP

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

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El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"

Americans across the country respond to Trump's goon-like attacks on Rep Ilhan Omar with a torrent of campaign donations. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The level of hatred and harassment that Trump is directing at Ilhan Omar is appalling. He's inciting some disturbed person to commit violence against her. The entire Republican Party already has blood on its hands, and it's eager for more.

The bigger question is how Musk can hold a security clearance or oversee the operations of a company with supersensitive and classified government contracts. Several FBI agents bluntly asked that question. They all got fired or reassigned and their supervisors were unable to answer their questions.

New in PN: Strong & right "For decades, an article of faith among party apparatchiks was that if Dems simply published detailed policy platforms & then ran on those policies — or clever bywords like “affordability” or “abundance” — voters would swoon. Wrong. And Dems are finally figuring it out."

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Trump's Justice Department goes after blacks & Muslims. ICE goes after Latinos. Trump's allies at Meta try to undercut No Kings. The forces of authoritarianism are using racism, nativism, & intimidation to try to affect the 2026 vote. The public seems unimpressed. But will timid elites speak up?

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"Win or lose, Vivek Ramaswamy will be the candidate who took a woman’s childhood abuse and made it his closing argument." Read more from Rick Wilson here: https://bit.ly/4dN6ka0

Tomorrow on my live podcast "History Matters:" SWIMMING IN CORRUPTION Because....we are. How should we think about it? How is modern corruption different from corruption in the past -- or is it? Join us. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xof...

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Bad time to be maga. Hope you all enjoyed it. “The ride is coming to an end. please keep your hands inside the vehicle” www.the-sun.com/money/171908...

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Elon Musk is too big to trust. A THREAD.

Tomorrow on my live podcast "History Matters:" SWIMMING IN CORRUPTION Because....we are. How should we think about it? How is modern corruption different from corruption in the past -- or is it? Join us. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xof...

This about sums it up.