Amanda Katz

porchpartynews.comVoters want to live in a better realityStoked to benefit AI stockholders by toiling in a 'digital factory' on a grim, treeless Earth? Of course you are!

NEW in Porch Party: Dudes, no one wants to toil alone in a box on their screen for the enrichment of others. Unlike, say, Mamdani, the masters of AI and Trump seem strangely oblivious to the fact that Americans want to live in a better reality, here on Earth www.porchpartynews.com/p/voters-bet...

Wow, to a lot of Americans this is special-occasion, fine-dining hair, elitist much

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

vivek's hairstyle kind of looks like dessert at the cheesecake factory

Guessing two things are going on: 1) the need to verify an extremely serious allegation, which I respect; 2) this story being “more of the same” or what we already think/know about Trump, which is problematic. Him being a good guy would be news, but him being accused of rape is just Tuesday

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

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.

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There is a ton of pressure and sensitivity for news orgs in how they handle a revelation like this so close to an election, and I would guess high-level discussions are happening. Even if it’s a story that just confirms our priors about a man elected AFTER bragging about sexually assaulting women.

Anyway, we will see what the Times does with it, if anything.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

The Times included an account from Béatrice Keul in their big Dec 2025 piece on Trump’s often nonconsensual relations with women in association with Epstein. At the time, she told them directly she wasn’t revealing the whole story of what he did due to threats www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

This news may be “old” in some ways, and it’s a huge deal to air an allegation of a violent rape by the man now president—who is litigious and on the warpath toward any accountability media. But it’s still big news, esp if a prior NYT source who said she wasn’t talking due to threats IS now talking

Omgggggg, genuinely alarming

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️@arepublic86.bsky.social

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

washingtonpost.comBolsonaro effectively concedes in Brazil after Trump suggests he won’t helpTrump says the presidential election looked “rigged” but did not say he planned to intervene on behalf of the right-wing politician.

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We’re so used to impunity we don’t even know how to process punity

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social

“Flávio has given up,” a Bolsonaro family adviser told The Washington Post. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week, and that he may have a long prison term ahead”

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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.

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Well, sure, like that classic book “What’s the Matter with Sexus”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance tries to say Kansas but it comes out "Sexus"

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

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Whenever he has kids they are going to make him tell this story again and again and again

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Name a more wholesome scandal. I’ll wait

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Har har, our president is real sexually disinhibited as he hits 80, amirite, folks

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "We're self-confident men in the Trump/Vance administration. The president has been noticing a lot about the physiques of everybody lately"

nytimes.comHow New York City’s ‘Furniture Queen’ Lives on $48,630 in the Bronx (Gift Article)By day, Regina Carter works for the city. By night, she canvasses convention centers and closed businesses to find goods that she can donate to neighbors in need.

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What a rock star. She aged out of the foster system and went onto a job with the city and finding everyone else the furniture they need

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social

1/ Holy shit, this woman who earns less than $50K is spending her nights and weekends finding furniture for NYC public housing residents, aka God's work www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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What’s in the new report is more graphic, but Keul has been speaking out about this alleged 1993 rape by Trump since October 2024 www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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Yeah, I dunno

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com

If the golem becomes ensorcelled, the coven may need to assume operational burdens related to ensorcellation and the golem’s fel status. This may cost extra mana points.

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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IN: algorithms OUT: you

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

CNBC: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

I mean I don’t keep a list, but dang

amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz

this is maybe the hardest anyone's ever fucked up in the history of ohio

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Jonah Blank

@jonahblank.bsky.social

independent.comICE Detains Special Needs Student, U.S. Citizen Near Santa Maria High SchoolRapid Response volunteers witnessed the student being tackled and left with injuries requiring surgery.

As former Congressional staff: ✅ Nearly every op-ed published under the byline of any Member of Congress was drafted by a staffer. Some Members participate in the editing or revision, others are barely aware of what goes out in their names. I think I know which camp Mitch is in.

Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social

In my experience, Congressfolk’s staff usually write their op-eds. Maybe more so in some cases than others

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Chris Ingraham

@cingraham.bsky.social

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...

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amy brown 👻

@amybrown.xyz

in ohio this is basically like being shunned

Kirsten Bladh@kerstanley.bsky.social

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Even more wow

Kirsten Bladh@kerstanley.bsky.social

cleveland.comPlain Dealer/cleveland.com endorses Amy Acton for Ohio governorThe Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's chi...

Wow

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

wsj.comOpinion | Coddling Putin Won’t Bring Peace to UkraineTrump’s obeisance to the Kremlin also imperils his legislative agenda in the lame-duck Congress.

In my experience, Congressfolk’s staff usually write their op-eds. Maybe more so in some cases than others

Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org

Mitch Mconnell to Trump in WSJ Op-Ed: “Ending the obeisance to Mr. Putin may be table stakes for the end-of-year legislation. The president should plan accordingly.”

It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

I can’t find it now but I think a lot about that post about an AI that can drink a beer with your buddy at a table by the river on a sunny day so you have time to make more spreadsheets

If you’re coming into this thread to “well actually” me about how women DO need digital assistants to be their wives I will block you

Was just at the Humane Rescue Alliance in DC and there is the cutest pair of kittens there looking for a home, including this one who kept trying to play through the glass

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Christina Samuels

@casamuels.bsky.social

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

It's so romantic during a wedding ceremony when the woman promises to love, honor, obey, "answer questions, perform tasks and make suggestions" and serve as an "emotional labor bot" 🥹

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Kyle Griffin

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.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

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Michelle R. Smith

@bymichellersmith.com

If you need AI to plan a child's birthday, you have a problem that AI will not fix

Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social

What if women were humans. What if men were humans

Raise your kids to be humans and to like and want to be with humans

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Quinta Jurecic

@qjurecic.bsky.social

this is very "oh my god, he admit it" re the gendered dynamics around AI

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈

@rygraham.bsky.social

This is just the creepiest shit from the creepiest people. What are we doing?

Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social

I have a wife and I am a wife and…this ain’t it

@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Fascinated by reading multiple accounts of this today. This could be Democratic mobile-phone outreach here but they’re too busy letting scam companies text your grandma for “donations”

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

Probably the guy who's going to come out of this one looking like a hero is André Janones, a deputy (congressman) from Minas Gerais who just kind of... decided to take the reins of the situation, more or less, and people were feeling so aimless after the first round that they went along with it.

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Guy Shrubsole

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comLula wins fourth term as Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio BolsonaroLeftist incumbent Lula stages unprecedented comeback weeks after narrowly losing first round of election to Bolsonaro

to.pbs.orgCuts to SNAP benefits push many Americans to seek help from food banksMore than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. The bill cut SNAP funding, e...

It’s a decision to spend fewer dollars on SNAP while funding random elective wars and ICE and ads for Trump

PBS News@pbsnews.org

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

Ok, this is rad. I don’t even think of these things as being that near each other

Andy Woodruff@awoodruff.bsky.social

First time seeing this phenomenon on approach to Logan at apparently just the right time and place yesterday: a beam of sunlight reflected all the way to Franklin Park from the Hancock. @universalhub.com