An Average Joe

🎥 LIVE NOW: The 9th Circuit just heard Trump DOJ’s brazen request to stop California from counting 20,000+ ballots. Why? They're claiming widespread voter fraud in an effort to rig the midterms. Marc Elias goes live to break down what happened and what comes next. 👇 https://demdock.com/48ezr2v

Bad Art response to bad art

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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Name a Film with a Car Chase or Shootout. The French Connection

"I'm BLACKPILLED on POLITICS" makes it sound like a position of cynical disenchantment, a philosophical stance that rejects any possibility of a functional state. No, wrong. You're fucking dumb. You're a dumb guy who made a dumb choice and now you're too embarrassed to admit it.

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.

Unacceptable from anyone organising a con, but from one of the people in charge of the biggestUK event? At what point did he think this was a) good comms strategy? & b) not going to get spread far & wide? Then again, I've always felt that the organisers have utter contempt for traders and attendees

ALERT: Stay away from Vote Safe . Org, which pretends to be a voter resource, but is funded by Elon Musk's PAC, and appears to be harvesting voter information.

Remember "Tommy" who grilled @abdulelsayed.bsky.social about his faith? #ProudBlue #DV1 #USDemocracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Man who heckled El-Sayed is son of Republican adviser who was paid for ‘influencer marketing’

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

October 20, 1961: Twilight Zone's "The Mirror" airs. Peter Falk plays a despot who keeps seeing the faces of his assassins in a strange mirror. It's often deemed a misfire. But while it's no classic, I think it teaches a valuable lesson about the destructive nature of power.

Diminish an anime Cowpie Bebop

This is a simply astonishing video. Americans should watch it for decades as they try to understand this historical period.

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

The Republicans have NO POLICIES BUT HATE. if you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired #VoteBlue #VoteEarly #Pinks #DemVoice1

Nothing quite sums up the abhorrent violence inherent in the state (anywhere, everywhere in the world) than a video of the cops tear gassing an orchestra playing music at the Place de la Republique in France yesterday

For the Trib, Robert Loerzel has the great story on how South Water Street, Chicago's Les Halles, its anarchic, smelly wholesale food market, was demolished by Charles Wacker 100 years ago to make way for the double-decker roadway that would bear his name. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/18/w...

Really not the most important thing here—that'd be the egregious racism and abuse of power—but the state with the most Mercedes sales is CA, and highest luxury cars per capital are NJ and CT. Lies within lies. A whole party geared around lying and trying to make everyone else live inside their lie.

If you’re unclear Amanpour’s exit from CNN after 43 years has to do with the Ellison takeover and her coverage of Israel/Gaza you’re not paying attention. Fascism is taking hold in 🇺🇸, as the Trump-friendly pro-Israel oligarchs buy up the outlets.

Still nothing.

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

Wonderful! @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social publisher Jacob Smullyan kindly shared this ~Wikipedia page devoted to American Diner slang. There's way more to it than 'ham on rye' and 'eggs over easy'. A whole world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diner_l...

The DOJ thought they could remove the Jan. 6th attack on our Capitol from memory, we're making sure that doesn't happen. The Jan. 6th Memory Project is a searchable, fully accessible archive of the files that they wanted America to forget. jan6memoryproject.org

$TSLAQ

Big Tech will not broadcast your dissent

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

Rule of thumb: when billionaires start pulling the plug on protest accounts, it's because the protest is working. 🏳️‍🌈👑🚫 Screenshot your No Kings photos. Post them here. Post them everywhere.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

The Trump regime wants to make it illegal to criticize them or vote them out of office.

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

NEW: The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey:

A few quiet words of praise for Jess Kingswell, and by extension all non-AI commercial art. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/jess...

What changes would you make in a new constitution?

Love Love Love this “Denial” of DuhFascist 💧 💧 💧 💧 💧 💧 💧 💧 💧 💧 💧 Only ignorant and fools ignore the REALITY of climate change. #Pinks #Voices4Victory