Joel Brown

Kennedy might be the worst of them, and that's really saying something

50-50 this is astroturfing by some Gen Z "creative" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/25/m...

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

In Serbia, MAGA influencers from the US were dispatched to Serbia to whip up enthusiasm for the hard-right Alexsandar Vucic who had held power for 12 years. They failed too and the students' movement won.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Incredible what Brazil did tonight, a lesson to many supposedly mature democracies. When confronted with the possibility of having back in power those who had already shown their authoritarian colors, the Brazilian people, surprisingly and beautifully, said no.

He should go all in on this closing message I think it’s working

"Mr. Trump’s message in Michigan seemed aimed at overtly stoking a fear of Muslims to get voters to the polls." SEEMED AIMED AT?? Overtly? Really? Ya think? DO BETTER @nytimes.com @sangernyt.bsky.social

Elon bought Twitter so nobody could stop him from embarrassing himself.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

US officials say they see the highest threat level from Iran since the start of Trump and Netanyahu's war. They say intel shows Iran is in the "advanced stages" of planning to attack US officials — not only in the Middle East, but in Europe and the US too. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Attention @actualnames.bsky.social - in today's @nytimes.com story about teen sexuality: "Jean Twenge has made a career out of studying generational differences."

And....we're off!

Almost all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs have now been classified as critically endangered by experts who assess ecosystem collapse. The classification, announced Thursday, means that the reef ecosystems face an extremely high risk of collapse within 50 years. nyti.ms/4yIyYR7

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Fuck these people

Meanwhile, Americans were forced to spend $100 billion more on gas during trump’s Iran War.

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

Powerful words from @aoc.bsky.social. America does not belong to any one race, religion, or creed. It is big enough for all of us who believe in democracy and in our Constitution and in leaving a future that is better for our kids.

His eyes are dead. The only emotion he displays is a sneering, vicious rage. Also, (obviously) he's completely effing insane.

this is like a reverse "daisy." an ad so reprehensible that it detonates the candidate's campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

JD Vance comparing his administration's economy to the Titanic means Yale definitely owes all of us an apology.

this is how oligarchy operates. it’s not just billionaires dictating political choices, bad as that is. it’s his literal exercise of an authority that belongs with government. this should be his undoing but he exercises unaccountable power and trump allows it.

Now that we know Elon murdered the Ukrainian children reminder that Andrew Puzder aggressively threatened the EU after they started talking about divesting in the aftermath. www.ft.com/content/d1e2...

The agency built to protect the vote got gutted by DOGE, and the Trump admin asked what was left to hack a voting machine. In secret. Imagine if this came out about Joe Biden. Trump would call it one of the greatest crimes in American history. Full story covered in today's show, link in comments ⬇️

If you gave a nickel to a crow that crow would have made more, by billions, than Anthropic

Inflation has hit the Trump merch store. MAGA hats are selling for $55, a 120% increase from 2015. His "Victory 47" perfume, which debuted in February 2024 for $99, now costs $249.

This is the most important story of the year. Everyone must read this article from the Wall Street journal. Musk is manipulating Starlink/Starshield to slow down the offensive capabilities of the a Ukrainian military. Congress MUST act now to stop Musk. #RedactElon archive.is/2026.10.20-2...

If Trump wants to go to war with the media, I wish he would start with the @nytimes.com user experience designers who came up with that "thing that slides up over the thing" format. They think it's arty but all it does is make it harder to read.Thank you for your attention to this matter.

the challenge all my fellow mini-golf stans have been waiting for 🙌: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Siding with Putin should be a bridge too far for any patriotic American. As should supporting Bibi’s atrocities in Gaza. As should letting the oligarchs buy our federal government and prey on the working class. These aren’t policy differences. They are betrayals of our history and our values.

Russia is cooperating with Iran. So why is Trump cooperating with Russia? Like the diesel deal, this decision is a gift to the very forces attacking our service members.

Maybe the EU should intervene because this is actual technofascism. Mark Zuckerberg must go! Meta calls it a glitch, but it’s election interference. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...

Nobody hates free speech more than the fascist tech oligarchs who claimed to care about it more than anyone. What an absolute joke. P.S. they also hate democracy. As we hand them control of the country. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

ICE has put the future of a vital community resource in jeopardy by kidnapping Aleksander Nilaj. #mutualaid #food #pantry

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

And just yesterday: Meta restricted Brazilian president's Insta accounts during the election while "recommending the profile of challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro." What's it going to take people to get off Meta products? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Donald Trump set another record. There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry. Until now.

OSSOFF: At a rally, the president egged on supporters who assaulted a woman demanding the release of the Epstein files. Because if you can count on one thing about this White House, it's their tireless commitments to war, inflation, and covering up sex trafficking.

Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

Robert Garcia In Huntington Beach: American patriotism is not screaming and yelling “America First.” American patriotism is that you love your country so much that you actually want to help the people in your country.

Unacceptable. Meta took down the No Kings Instagram today and kept it offline for well over an hour. Censoring free speech to appease Donald Trump? We the people deserve answers, but regardless, we will not be silenced.