Jim Witkins

Jim Witkins

@jimwitkins.bsky.social

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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

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Another person has died in ICE custody — this is the 28th known death this year. The cruelty of this rogue agency is beyond unconscionable. Abolish ICE.

“Communist” fizzled as a scare word. Young people are fine with “socialist”. People have “Muslim” neighbors and friends who aren’t that scary. I guess “racist” was next up on the spin the wheel scare monger list. Have I mentioned republicans are pathetic and liars. Vote them out. 🗳️🌊

Serendipity@serendipityinfl.bsky.social

Omg thats a real campaign ad 😖You got to be kiddening!!

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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...

ms.nowHouse Judiciary Democrats release 50-page report on Trump’s alleged involvement in Epstein filesThe report — issued just eight days before the election — makes multiple, uncorroborated allegations against the president while also detailing discrepancies in his statements about Epstein.

Dems planning for trump to try a Jan 6 style coup again, if republicans lose house and/or senate. FYI, Tom Tiffany was in the trump coup camp in 2020 when trump lost. Do not vote for that traitor, who wanted to throw out your votes and our democracy. #wivote #earlyvote #VoteCrowley @wisdems.org 🗳️🌊

#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

‘Break glass’ scenario revealed if Mike Johnson makes nightmare move before new House #RawStory

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Robert F. Kennedy Sr. spent his time in government fighting *against* racist bigots who said these exact same things, except their rants were against “Africans”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

The body language of these people says they are miserable. They came in miserable, were miserable while trump lied to their faces and called them dumb (with a b) and they will go home miserable. Don’t be like these people. Vote for Dems who want to help Americans thrive. 🗳️🌊

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Empty seats are seen as Trump speaks in Mississippi tonight (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

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Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

Hope so. It shouldn't take something so vile to shake voters out of their outdated tribes. It's no longer R vv D, or Red vs Blue... it's billionaire and their pet politicians v the rest of us. They're eating the cats and dogs should have been another wake up moment. #Ohio 🗳️🌊

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

This guy belongs in jail. That's the only way taxpayers should be on the hook for this murdering psychopath. 🖕#Hegseth

Ewindham3@ewindham3.bsky.social

Whiskey Pete Hegseth is reportedly Angling for Marsha Blackburn’s #TN Senate Seat to Escape the looming House Dem Impeachment 🐓 He’d be Terrible #TN 👉Another Reason to Vote Against Corrupt Marsha #TN VOTE @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social Governor #DemsUnited #SheShed www.mediaite.com/media/pete-h...

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How the streets and social media drove Lula to a historic comeback in Brazil A viral WhatsApp channel and student-led protests played a key role in the veteran Brazilian leftist’s election victory www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comHow the streets and social media drove Lula to a historic comeback in BrazilA viral WhatsApp channel and student-led protests played a key role in the veteran Brazilian leftist’s election victory

Needs a pardon. Probably cheats on her taxes. Criming Nicki we like to call her. She found her daddy.

Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social

This is the full Nicki Minaj experience at Trump's rally in Michigan on Sunday. Minaj is not a U.S. citizen and is ineligible to vote in any election. Her chant "when I say Mike you say Rogers," could change everything for Republicans.

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Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede, "I am going to request the annulment of these elections." US right wing accounts linked to Trump attempting to push disinformation to help Bolsonaro's narrative. Flávio is more likely to face a criminal investigation for corruption instead.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Lula wins Brazil election! Stops Latin America right wing wave!

Well, the billionaires control everything and are all in the transhumanist cult of accelerationist AI fascist world, where only the elites are worthy. They have to be destroyed, taxed, exposed, charged, convicted, etc.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social

The core of everything is corruption. The cruelty, the fascism, the destruction of democracy and reality itself, it's all a means of self-enrichment and empowerment of a class of people that do not give two shits whether we live or die if it means stuffing their pockets. It starts there and expands

I saw an add in WI claiming white people can’t show their face in public (out of fear or something) and that liberals are racist. I guess calling everyone who disagrees with you a communist didn’t work, so republicans moved on to “racist” as a scare word. Meanwhile gop ICE targets brown people. 🖕🗳️🌊

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EL-SAYED: "I get that the President of the United States takes personal offense to my first name - he doesn't mind as much when it's a shared name from the Saudis that are funding his son in laws private equity. Mercado Media

It’s not just ramaswamy. Trump, Vance, maga world all backed the ad. Fuck these pedo protecting sickos. GOP will sell their souls for power so they can get rich and sabotage America for billionaires. 🖕🗳️🌊🌊🌊🌊

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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Ramaswamy may have pulled his horrible ad featuring Amy Acton's mother, but it doesn’t erase that he publicly punished Acton for the horrible cards she was dealt, which is parents who provided an unsafe, unstable home. His moral compass does not exist and he’s unfit to lead Ohio.

Shyster. 🖕🍑💩🧠🤡

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher'... we're making a frickin' fortune"

Guess I won’t be going there. Smoking indoors is so last century.

the theis must flow@frenchdipset.bsky.social

Having just visited Las Vegas, it is incredible how jarring it is now to be in a public place where people are smoking inside. Even with everything the nicer casinos do to minimize it, they can’t filter it all. Crazy to remember how recently everything was just Like That (or usually much worse)

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The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

nytimes.comPublic Colleges Are Passing the $50,000-a-Year Mark. For Locals. (Gift Article)At the University of California campuses in Berkeley, Irvine and Santa Barbara, students get an unwitting education in navigating the housing market.

Elon musk is a criminal. He has no business in govt with access to all our secrets and data. #LockHimUp

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Musk is panicking about his recent anti-Ukraine moves following bi-partisan demands to bring his business under scrutiny, and perhaps control.

Jim Witkins reposted

In addition to the economy and the war and Epstein it really feels like the gerrymandering push really fucked the GOP. It was a Pearl Harbor attack on voting rights and now the targets are punching back.

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MUSK IS A WAR CRIMINAL #TheHague

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...