Kevin

Kevin

@kevinllong.bsky.social

Beer lover in wine country. Lefty, ally, loves music and dogs. Data and Policy Analyst. Former academic. Union member. Law junkie. Reads a lot. Cooks a lot. Trying not to lose my shit on a daily basis. Mostly succeeding.

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Please, talk more bigoted shit about Arabs. I’m sure that will work out well for you.

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."

“Protect Elon Musk” is the most absolute cursed midterm slogan that has ever been developed

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

If they can do it, so can we.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

He’s spiraling

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Racism-a-go-go at Trump’s Michigan rally tonight: “If Abdul and the Democrats win, they will open the floodgates and invite hordes of jihadists to our shores, creating a nightmare of violence and terror until you cannot even have a Christmas.”

How is Yglesias still a thing? Who on earth does he appeal to?

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

This whole fucking thing is just a treasonous plot. Removing the sanctions, buying the diesel, slowing down Starlink, all of it. A calculated and deliberate betrayal for self-serving ends.

Gia Monroe 🇺🇸@giamonroe.bsky.social

Voice of Putin.

Please don’t do this thing that I definitely did not see you do if you did, which you shouldn’t do. Good talk.

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com

The FBI is investigating an incendiary device reportedly thrown at Atlanta's ICE building Tuesday night. No reports of injuries or significant damage, the FBI said. abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

Do these people really think that they can just shrug it off and live a normal life after this? Because if so, they are in for a very bitter and incredibly painful disappointment.

Petisia@petisia.bsky.social

The idea that a child would devise an alias to use throughout adulthood is absurd! Now that the DOJ’s initial financial fraud claims fell a part, Jeanine Pirro is claiming that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been using an alias since childhood.🤦🏾‍♀️ Gift Link👇🏾 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u... #PINKS

Hero

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

MINNESOTA: “I don’t think about myself. The youth are the most innocent. Anything you can do to save them is worth it.” ♥️ Endless stories attack the MN Somali-American community— but Ebro Ahmed🦸🏽‍♂️saves a bus 🚌 full of kids and stories mostly leave out that he’s Somali? 🤔

Their role in funding and enabling the horrors unleashed on our country cannot be simply dismissed as “just politics.” Forget all the lies, people have fucking died. Lives have been ruined. It would be an immoral and irresponsible act to not hold them accountable.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

I’d almost prefer they do this instead of their usual misconduct.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

Go ahead. Attempt to put a human face on these people in an attempt to garner sympathy for their deliberate choice to be an asshole, and it won’t erase their embrace of the corruption and the cruelty. Fuck him and his regret.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Michael Fusella supported President Trump for nearly a decade. But as the Iran war drags on and the cost of living continues to climb, the 21-year-old Republican said he feels betrayed by a president who said he’d end overseas conflicts and lower prices.

He’s happy that Russia and China are helping kill and injure American troops. Happy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have been pretty happy with Russia that they have not gotten involved in Iran ... Russia and China have not participated or, participated in a much smaller way than they could have." (Both Russia and China have actively helped Iran fight America.)

This. Should. Not. Happen. Ever. What in the ever-loving fuck went wrong with us? We used to be a proper country, or at least aspire to be one.

Scott Smith@canaansdad1987.bsky.social

I'm certainly not okay with this. Children need a full stomach to be able to learn properly. All children should receive free lunches. #USDemocracy

The Running Man But with oligarchs and Trump administration officials as the hunted. Every resident gets $100 to place as a bet.

Anyone else notice that gas prices are ticking down. Almost as if the oil companies are collaborating to reduce the negative vibes around their legislative gravy trains in hopes of minimizing midterm damage. It’s not for you or me, it’s so they can preserve their power and profits.

Solidarity ✊🏼

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Mike TeSelle reports from the front line of what is being called the largest state worker strike in California history. SEIU Local 1000 taking to streets and sidewalks throughout the state.

Vance is no better than Trump. He’s just a throne sniffing, unprincipled liar and bigot propped up by assholes who think they can buy whatever and whomever they want. The message of defiance we send should rattle and frighten them to their fucking core.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.

Trump is not our president. He’s a self-serving traitor who should be dealt with accordingly.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

TRUMP: The United States, out of respect for President Trump, was not required to give anything in return - an unprecedented situation for Russia TRUMP MOMENTS LATER: If sanctions would have been placed, certainly those negotiations would have come to a complete and total halt

Reminder, Vance and Musk endorsed and campaigned for the AfD

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Unknown hackers claim to have stolen 421,179 emails from Germany's far-right AfD, exposing Nazi greetings, swastikas and threats against a photographer. The party confirms a breach, but the explosive allegations are still largely unverified. If proven this could be grounds to ban the AfD.

People will be held accountable for their actions. They’d do well to remember that they still have to live amongst us, and we can make that experience a living fucking Hell if we so choose.

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

🧵 New ICE facility for kids in Louisiana: More questions about prison contractor "though the public and the board were given the impression that the contract would go to a charitable group" LaSalle Family Foundation, "it ultimately went to an entirely separate, for-profit entity,"owned by LaSalle.

A white police officer shooting a black infant sitting on his mother’s lap in response to a report of shoplifting and being told that it was justified is EXACTLY what it fucking looks like. Sherman should have made multiple passes and Reconstruction should have lasted until 2065.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

Meanwhile, what actual leaders are doing.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday that New York City will expand free child care for 2-year-olds to Staten Island and across the Bronx as the city moves to add 10,000 seats next school year. nyti.ms/4zMQQLL

This is exactly where we are and we all know exactly who is to blame. The sooner he is removed (by whatever definition or means best suits your current level of anger) the better off we will all be.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

J: i rec'd aa number of texts on the break from my mother and my brother because CNN is reporting i'm getting a lot of death threats. this is where we are. a federal judge getting death threats over a golf course. i really dont think this is what the founders envisioned. adjourned. /210

Motherfuckers. Abolish ICE. Hang every employee.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

Ricardo Gonzalez, a 40-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding his e-bike in Long Beach, California, when ICE agents struck him with an unmarked vehicle and tased him twice. ICE thought he was someone else.

Great news, ladies. Finally, the women’s health expert you’ve been waiting for.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LOL -- Trump announces a women's health task force to be led by ... ... ... RFK Jr

This thread is just amazing. The person who represents themself may have a fool for a client, but it’s far preferable than the one the DOJ is dealing with right now. Yikes.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

At 10am Judge Ana Reyes will begin an evidentiary hearing in the golf course case at 10am. I'll try to live-blog from the US Courthouse media room for @lawfaremedia.org . This is a case to stop Trump from converting a historic public golf course, open to all, to a Trump style championship course.

Natalie, you in trouble, girl.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

and his people ... studying very dilapidated golf course. ... AL: "Burgum and people" -- that refers to you? GW: don't know. AL: you see others? you said someone identified on left who was part of President's staff. who was it? GW: natalie harp. AL: post says work will begin 9/1 GW: yes. /75

The modern day GOP position is that grandchildren will be legally forced to interact with their MAGA grandparents. Take all the time you need to process that.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Gov. nominee Byron Donalds promises a Florida Republican voter "his word" that he will work on a 'grandparents' rights' law so her daughter stops estranging her

Murder. This is called murder.

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.