kat, but spooky 🎃

This just does not seem politically realistic to me. You cannot expect the general public to accept as legitimate the removal of a sitting president by a secret vote. Especially when premised on the idea that you’ll allow Republicans to vote to convict without publicly admitting it.

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

Scoop: The Israeli company Discover-Tech -- alleged to be at the center of a vast web of ad tech surveillance -- has been heavily targeting users of Elon Musk's Starlink, sources tell me. www.reuters.com/business/med...

A high-turnout election! Bradford got more votes losing than all but 2 winners in Toronto's post-1997 history, and both those cases were incumbents running against relatively weaker challengers. Olivia Chow, of course, won *even more* making her the most vote-getting politician in Canadian history.

One of the most important financial stories out there if you want to know how and why the same five evil guys wind up owning everything.

This is what I meant when I said in 2024 that when I looked at the incoming administration, all I could see was rape. It’s the heinous act itself, yes, but also a mentality, as deftly explained here:

For my last Better Win a District, I wrote about TN-09. Republicans gerrymandered Memphis, the Blackest city in Tennessee, out of a seat in the House. Or at least they tried. Then along came Justin Pearson. Now TN-09 is a real fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

Russia has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and human trafficking during its almost five-year invasion of Ukraine, according to a new UN report 👇

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

"The government has decided, in its haste to redefine peace, order, and good government, and its zeal to build, baby, build, to pick several fights at once ... that haste has manifested itself in fatal arrogance" thewalrus.ca/bill-c-39-ma...

oilprice.com/Energy/Natur... Incredible things are happening in Alaska

Mississauga just ushered in a historic, long overdue generational shift. Alvin Tedjo skipped the political games and spent the campaign meeting people where they are: cafes, restaurants, community spaces Now he’s the first racialized mayor of Canada’s 6th largest city. www.cp24.com/news/2026/10...

wsj is wsj'ing at unprecedented levels

BREAKING: Preliminary injunction granted in the golf course case by Judge Reyes! The threat to close & destroy this historic property is the latest act of Trump corruption that the courts have responded to Kudos to our wonderful clients & cocounsel @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates

USPS workers’ greatest concern about Trump’s mail voting plan was a requirement that they reject ballots for an array of reasons. “That’s not what we do. We deliver mail. We don’t decide what goes and what doesn’t.”

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICYMI

Throwing spaghetti at the wall

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court rejected DOJ's extraordinary request to bypass the district court in its effort to bar California from counting the ballots of around 20,000 people the Trump administration alleges are “likely” noncitizens. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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.

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...

No. That's not what happened. Claude didn't do that, the company Anthropic did that and they should be held accountable - but it's been apparent for a while now that these companies can do whatever they like and they will never be held accountable www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Adding to Chanda’s point here: this level of action and optimism can likely be attributed to the fact that Lula and the Workers’ Party are leftist and they believe that better things are possible.

Elizabeth Holmes is not the face of motherhood for incarcerated women. Jazmin Valentine wailed in agony for 6 hours in labor while staff and nurses LAUGHED at her. She had to resort to sliding her amniotic sac under her cell door to prove she was in labor.

Standing in a long line to vote in the Ontario municipal election. Someone came out and told us everything would be held up for ~20 minutes for a “quick tally”. Has anyone encountered this before?

Instead we should focus on which messages, ideas, and visions beyond "we need to beat the far right" have mobilized large parts of society. We should understand the organizational structures behind these victories and acknowledge that they are about more than defending the status quo.

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca notes that in the early 1970s, funding for post-secondary education represented more than 3.5 per cent of all federal government spending. By 2024, it had fallen to just 1.9 per cent. #cdnpoli www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2026...

"Both top-shelf reporting and top officials in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, have said that Musk made this decision on his own. That would be treason. The traditional way to figure out the truth of such a matter is with a trial." prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...

Anthropic accessed voter data in Georgia. FTFY.

Please vote today if you haven’t yet! Links to election info and our own candidate questionnaire in our last news roundup:

WATCH: “It’s not too late for Canadians to rise up and ask this government, what the hell is going on here?” At a joint press conference, Elizabeth May demanded answers over the sweeping rollback of pesticide protections in Bill C-31.

This thread from @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social has solid recs for Kitchener and Waterloo: bsky.app/profile/scot...

The Prime Minister called Bill C-39 the most consequential legislation in decades. This is true. It tramples on environmental protections and Indigenous and workers’ rights, while handing ministers king powers to override constitutional safeguards in the name of the “national interest.” (🧵 1/2)

Rewrite every headline about an AI doing something illegal as the owners of the AI doing something illegal. Strict liability could end this madness.

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.

And, most importantly, thanks to the vital mobilisation of young people. Students took to the streets the day after the first round elections, kickstarting massive movements that saw the largest public demonstrations in Brazil since the days of Diretas Já at the end of the military dictatorship.

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice