Imwiththebanned

Imwiththebanned

@lguzik.bsky.social

Los Angeles. Former Gilmore Girls writer. Proud Dem. Pro-Democracy. Soft and fuzzy feminist. Mom. Public school Librarian. I put books in tiny human hands. I use salty language. #freepeoplereadfreely📚

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Accountability.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

1. More news today in a case I have been covering for nearly a decade (and the reason some of you first followed me). A California appeals court today unanimously upheld former actor and militant Scientologist Danny Masterson’s two rape convictions, leaving his sentence of 30 years to life intact.

We don’t want him.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme ​Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said. @reuters.com 🇧🇷 $EWZ www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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The fact that Trump keeps claiming voter fraud in the 2026 midterms before a single vote has been counted is wild to me. Reminds me of how he won all seven swing states in 2024. If you and I were planning to cheat, we’d say, “Let’s do five, not seven. It’ll seem more believable.”

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EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

Stories like this should make me happy but they just make me fucking furious.

AndrewMissesPogo@andreworangecounty.bsky.social

She voted for Trump three times. Her issue was her opposition to abortion. Then she got cancer and the bills started rolling in. This is a picture of her drinking a home remedy after experiencing side effects from an anti cancer drug. Today she voted for James Talarico. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

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I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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Muslims didn’t storm the Capitol on January 6, try to steal an election, or overthrow our government. White Christian nationalists, racist militia groups, and rabid Trump supporters did. We need to stop pretending the biggest terrorist threat to this country is coming from somewhere else.

Stop this fuckery and get out the VOTE!

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social

Trump & co said the quiet part out loud today: these BOGUS lawsuits are about subverting elections & it’s because he’s scared of YOUR vote Suing now bc your guy might lose later? Like all their election shenanigans: sow chaos & cling to power It's not going to work -TN

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NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

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Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt

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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.

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“We don’t have a drugstore. We don’t have a high school. We don’t have a grocery store.” Pauline Colston, 89, has spent decades serving her community. She knows exactly what it needs. A massive data center sure as hell isn’t on her list. #RepublicansLoveDataCenters

I love this for him!

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

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🚨 NEW: A bombshell 44-page Senate investigation obtained by MeidasTouch reveals how Trump is opening the floodgates to corporate megamergers, raising fears of higher prices, job losses, and media consolidation. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social reports.

meidasnews.com‘Paving the Way for Job Losses’: Senate Investigation Finds Trump Is Opening the Floodgates to MegamergersSenate investigation warns of Trump’s lax antitrust enforcement.

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NEW: Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker, wife of Governor JB Pritzker, announces she’s sending $500,000 to Amy Acton after Vivek Ramaswamy’s truly vile ad featuring Acton’s estranged mom.

This seems like an admission that Trump‘s October surprises are pure bullshit. 

Raw Story@rawstory.com

Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, is pushing back hard on a New York Times report about her work for the family of a billionaire who was seeking a pardon. “We are 14 days away from the election - this is just another October surprise,” Habba wrote.

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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.

Be thankful for the food you eat. Somebody had to work really hard to get it on your plate.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social

"Josephina" is picking tomatoes in Santa Clara county. "This is hard physical labor. We spend hours picking tomatoes and hauling the 35 lbs buckets to the trailer. We make about $180/day." #WeFeedYou

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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

GTFOH

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: You urged Congress to pass this law in Sen. Graham's memory. Do you agree with President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russia? LANKFORD: He is choosing the American people first is what he's doing

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Replying to @niedermeyer.online

I started a TikTok account and just scrolled a default feed, and it included a very steady mix of Charlie Kirk and Clavicular and Christian influencer clips, so I know this "no politics rule" stuff is absolute bullshit

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Please call your reps and demand that we stop helping the enemy.

The Shallow State@ourshallowstate.bsky.social

GOP Rep. Don Bacon (NE) announced today that he and other GOP lawmakers WILL block Trump's lame-duck priorities, INCLUDING supplemental funding and reconciliation, due to his pausing of Russia sanctions, propping up Russia's economy, and betraying a democratic ally. Good for him!

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We are so close to linking the west coast blue states to the east coast blue states on the map

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social

elections for governors, other statewide offices, and state legislatures will be critical to maintaining vital services and provide urgently needed protections when it comes to immigration, privacy/data collection, and voting and civil rights.

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Californians, we know what to do: VOTE “YES” on Prop 40!! Easy assignment - LFG!!

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

In case you thought the billionaires weren’t running the world and pulling all the strings…

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org

No corporation is gonna silence our message! ❌👑 Keep helping us amplify #NoKings today so we can drive HISTORIC early vote turnout, and overcome Trump’s election sabotage.

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Just wait until he hears the story of James Donald Bowman. Who came home from school one day and said that now he wants to be James David Hamel. Then he started wearing eye shadow and said he'd rather be called JD Vance. These things happen.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later. It's true. And teachers make a decision. 'Goodbye Timmy I love you so much, I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine?"

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There are estimated to be 70 million people alive today because of USAID. "Thousands" doesn't begin to describe the needless death that Musk, DOGE, Trump, Vought & Co will ultimately be responsible for.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Thousands of dead children: the remarkable effects of Elon Musk's cancellation of US foreign assistance policy.

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One day after posting an ad recruiting paid canvassers for a dark $ funded libertarian political pac, local fascist Anthony Cabassa reminds his followers he is not smart and has the political sensibility of a goldfish with a taste for boot leather.

Glendale Extremist News@glendaleextremists.bsky.social

A little afternoon follow the $ adventure with local fascist, vocal accelerationist and big Franco fan indie “journalist” Anthony Cabassa. First, a little taste of Anthony’s politics: