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Awesome. Now turn all police stations into public spaces, permanently. Turn them into libraries and day cares and open office space and Internet cafes.

Don't know about you, but I'm dog-tired of drug-addled trillionaire rapists complaining about what's wrong with anyone at all. Don't they own mirrors?

In a striking move, Ohio’s largest newspaper has decided to overhaul its established editorial guidelines to publish a critical piece on Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy....

🚨🚨🚨New RAPE Accusation Against Donald Trump Former beauty pageant contestant Beatrice Keul previously said Trump tried to force himself on her but she rebuffed him. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beatrice-keul-donald-trump-rape-allegation_n_6adb428ce4b04787f03a7bdc

Brazilians beat back fascism by... voting harder? Organized offline and online around an election, using a mix of strategies aimed at both turnout and persuasion. Showed up in large numbers, and despite some very wealthy interests arrayed against them, succeeded? Huh. Pretty neat how that works.

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We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

So @lilianasegura.bsky.social and I just co-wrote a piece about the bodycam footage in the Kohan Wiley case. theintercept.com/2026/10/23/k...

If we can afford tax breaks for the richest people in this country, don't tell me we can't afford to pay public school teachers and support staff a living wage.

Let’s do this in America.

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.

It's one of the biggest positive signs that you are talking to a morally and intellectually lazy asshole, or somebody acting in bad faith to pose as morally and intellectually lazy in order to disguise the worse thing they actually are.

Nothing quite like doubling down on rape.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Trump's plan to reinstall Bolsonaro (junior edition), with support from Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, has failed

Reportedly 10 current and former US officials said State Department appointees Darren Beattie and Ricardo Pita led campaign to restore the Bolsonaros to power in Brazil. Three said the pair told diplomats that it was US policy.

Elon Musk has spent over $180 million on the Texas senate race. “There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator,” James Talarico said. www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

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:

Obama: "This election is our last best chance to at least rein in some of the foolishness of this administration"

It’s the first day of early voting in Michigan, and I’m heading to Detroit for a rally to support @jocelynbenson.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, and Democrats working to create change. Make a plan to vote at MichiganDems.com/Vote.

It's weird how Barack Obama can get through an entire speech without blurting out weird noises, lying, or admiring other men's backsides.

Barack Obama: When you've been campaigning as long as I have, you can tell when an election comes along that just feels a little bit different. After 2 years of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and incompetence, the likes of which we have not seen in modern times, you get a chance to say enough is enough

Thousands of Ohioans showed up today ready to make their voices heard and show their support for @amyactonoh.bsky.social. The energy was incredible, and we’re carrying that momentum all the way to November. 10 days.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

New in PN: In defense of empathy "Being aware of other people’s feelings, sensitive to them, and able to put yourself in another person’s shoes is pretty much essential for humans to function as a community. But the current conservative project has zero room for that sort of thing."

BC conservatives: 1. "Jews died because there were LOTS in Europe, NOT because he hated them specifically" of Hitler, then reposted (the N word) more than 40x. 2. "Make the West Great Again" image of Trump, Musk and several European far-right leaders. #cdnpoli #BCpoli

Sen. Peter Welch asked the FBI director a yes-or-no question about agents at polling places. He didn't get a yes. He didn't get a no. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/i-followed...

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Dear reporters: Please stop asking if they're going to do things that are illegal. It's not helping at all.

I continue to think that originalists like Justice Alito have gotten off waaay too easily for uplifting a legal method that literally emerged as a backlash to * Brown v. Board * Like what are we doing here? (A: being racist, pretending that's being objective) ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

Q: The president is coming back to Georgia on Saturday-- OSSOFF: Good. It will remind Georgians of the president's failure

The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.

We desperately need a journalism that understands that balance is useless if maintaining it requires sacrificing interrogation and observation; that what people *claim* must be mediated through the facts about what *is*; that its 1st mission is not to fairness but to accurately informing the public.

🇺🇸‼️ Hillary Clinton: Trump is a willing Putin puppet to help Putin. Putin's not going to stop with Ukraine. I guess Trump has this idea that he wants to divide the world. He gets the Western Hemisphere, Putin gets Russia and Europe, and Xi Jinping gets the rest of the world.

Adam Schiff is calling for a full Senate investigation into Elon Musk. I feel as if I've been waiting fifteen years for this.

SCOOP: I've obtained documents showing an ICE flight is scheduled to land Thursday or Friday in Equatorial Guinea -- where Ahmed Soliman is still imprisoned and seriously ill, despite a federal judge ordering his return to the US more two weeks ago. prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...

Meta gave $1M to Trump's inauguration fund — and Mark Zuckerberg himsef has helped bankroll Trump's ballroom. Now Trump's DOJ has halted a years-long criminal investigation into allegedly enabling and profiting from illegal drug sales on its platforms. Funny how that works, huh?