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@jordanklepper.bsky.social finds out that Texans have more in common with James Talarico than they'd like to admit. Jordan's new special, Red Flags, premieres tonight after The Daily Show at 11:30pm ET on Comedy Central

Lina Khan on how Mayor Mamdani is tackling the affordability crisis: This administration has a willingness to confront powerful interests that are making life unaffordable and call out companies that are driving up prices or giving workers the short end of the stick.

LINA KHAN: “This @nycmayor administration has shown a willingness to confront powerful interests.” How @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s affordability agenda is centering workers, not the rich and powerful.

Great GOTV message, no?

"In order to change someone’s mind, you have to change their life. You have to change their network of friends and connections. You need to change the experiences they’ve had in the world," says @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social.

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

4/ Goddamn hero, who aged out of the foster care system and is a single mom. I donated. And @mayor.nyc.gov, gotta be a way the city can help her do this at real scale.

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.

FIRST SERBIA!! NOW BRAZIL!!! This is turning out to be one helluva day for liberal democracy. 🥳 'Brazil's left-wing President Lula is elected for a fourth term, beating Flávio Bolsonaro in a knife-edge vote.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Look at the MASSIVE support for Amy Acton today in Cleveland, Ohio. We stand with Amy. Blue tsunami is incoming. VOTE EARLY AND VOTE BLUE 💙

El-Sayed: "You might've seen that earlier this we had a debate. More like I had a debate, and he played MAGA's greatest hits. But there's really only one line he said that's worth paying any attention to. He said that the last two years have been 'amazing.' So Detroit, let me ask you ... "

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Join me and my @propublica.org colleagues on Tuesday as we discuss our investigations into the Trump administration's attempts to assert federal control over elections.

Democrats won, Democrats lost. Republicans won, Republicans lost. Until this tinpot fascist lost an election, this republic and our ability to select our own government was presumed. It was the cornerstone. Now we no longer believe in our own process. He is destroying our democracy. With intent.

That he would call that woman a mother and walk away from the young child who was raped -- and the two children who were abandoned when the woman fled with the rapist rather than show up in court -- is entirely on-brand. Sociopath. Narcissist. Liar. And yes, rapist.

'Speakeasy Corner.' (1928) Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; he found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression leaving him to spend last three decades teaching etching including his famous pupil Edward Hopper.

Beinn Alligin again

Ladies, and allies of survivors 👀

Elizabeth Warren Is 💯% Correct...

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Right okay that’s an inflection point.

Balboa Park San Diego, watercolor and gouache. This painting will be available for sale at my LightBox Expo booth number 100. See you there!

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

While we're talking about Dwight Eisenhower...

Working on a bunch of new small landscapes to be released soon.

On April 5, 1977, people with disabilities occupied government buildings across the country with simple demands: access to education, jobs, and public spaces. It has been fifty years since the Section 504 sit-ins, but the fight for those with disabilities continues.

I can’t imagine being this kind of loser, on purpose and in full view of others.

Imagine being more outraged by people condemning the ad exploiting a candidate’s childhood sexual abuse than by the exploitation itself. That’s where too many Republicans are. Bottom of the barrel. Amy Acton speaks out.

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...

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Blocking press outlets is blocking US. We the people. They are OUR access to what’s happening. There’s a reason why the founding generation saw the press as virtually a fourth branch of government. It endorses accountability—essential for democratic governance.

No place to Go-by Maynard Dixon(1935)

My flower art

Nice, easy to understand (and sobering) 'internet is broken' explainer from @matteowong.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This is what "media capture" looks like.

🚨 New episode on YouTube with Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) @abdulelsayed.bsky.social ! 🚨 We discuss: ➡️ Battleground Michigan ➡️ America’s Immigrant Roots ➡️ Principles Versus Politics ➡️ The Weekly Questions! Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmod...

'Early morning' linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt #Reframingwomenprintmakers

Jon and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed discuss how the immigrant story that inspired his public service has become a political target, with opponents focusing on his name rather than their policies. New pod out now! @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

Artist Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952 #womensart

Folks! If you're using a mail-in ballot, TRACK ITS RECEIPT. Someone just told me her ballot was never received. She's being sent a new ballot. DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ON-SITE BALLOT WHEN YOU VOTE CHECK THAT MAIL-IN BALLOTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED Sad to say--but double-check EVERYTHING in this election.