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Basically, I think Trunk or Treat teaches people, or encourages them to lean into, in most contexts the worst kind of "stranger danger" fear of neighbors that is corrosive of community and often grounded in entirely Urban Legend level dangers associated with Halloween.

Three moments broke Trump 2.0: 1) Kimmel and other attempted censorship after Charlie Kirk. Made public see the attack on speech. 2) Minnesota anti-ICE protests, Goode and Pretti killings. Made public see the attack on rights. 3) Iran war. Made public see bad foreign policy affects them directly.

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The key takeaway for the two EU Member States who are about to fight the hardest 🗳️ battles in 2027 - France and Poland - is that the rule of law matters (something Polish centrists forgot about during the 2025 presidential election) and that young, angry people are a force to be reckoned with.

really great thread about mobilization in brazil both on the streets and on social media:

couple of things: (1) people have been whispering this since he lost; (2) joint nominations are new to this selection process, meaning someone with real knowledge has been pursuing it; it’s not just an idea Trump has ad libbed; (3) I suspect pigs will fly before France and the UK sign off on Orbán

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

I’d love to get back to a timeline where elections were about “I think Joe has better policy ideas than Bob,” rather than our current “THE FATE OF DEMOCRACY IF NOT LIFE ITSELF REQUIRES BOB TO LOSE MY GOD WHY ARE MORE BILLIONAIRES FUNDING BOB?!” elections of today.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

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most people here already know this but it’s still worth underlining. we live in a world where our fates are tied together; our politics have to accommodate that

Vucic concedes defeat! Political earthquake in the Balkans!

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while this is good, this only matters if the executive branch faithfully executes congress's demands.

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

i also grew up in a family where certain restaurants were for special days.

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the thing to focus on is how few democrats are actually doing it. the vast majority of democrats running this fall are not cutting bigot ads, which is good because it means we can crush these people in the future

El-Sayed: "Don't get it twisted. I love America. I'm so grateful I get to raise my 2 daughters here in America. I just love America enough to call on her to be America for all of her kids."

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

If you want to understand the "red undertow" theory, it is likely a product from the northern tier states being less diverse so they're not seeing as much as a Democratic shift as the more diverse southern tier states, which are seeing big turnout increases among communities of color

Hispanics under the age of 30 have not only exceeded their total turnout at this point in 2024, they have almost doubled it.

The life expectancy of someone living with Cystic Fibrosis more than DOUBLED (26 to 66) from 2008 to 2025!

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

one of the core causes of the issues in our country is that the median voter fundamentally fails to grasp that their vote can determine the outcome of an election

Wow! Make Amy Acton governor. “I am making a promise to Ohioans...that no one in my state will ever, ever be invisible to me."

reading books is an act of resistance!!

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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Brazil election Sunday, Israel election Tuesday, US midterms the Tuesday after that. So much in a holding pattern until those resolve.

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The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

There was an annoying trend #onhere when someone would say that white evangelicals aren’t “real Christians” or something and get flooded w “yes they are, you have to own them!” replies. But their views are legit outliers, when viewed across denominations.

you dont have to be some sort of religious scholar to get this. im a barely christian who mostly knows about the bible from some stuff i learned as a little kid and from my mother. jesus is empathy, empathy is jesus. that's the whole point of the entire book. the entire faith.

there is no rational way for a sentient human being to be a part of a religion where jesus christ is arguably the most important figure and be anti-empathy. no possible way. at all.

Hungary's April 2026 elections presented a pretty clear choice: continue down the path of becoming a vassal of Putin's Russia, growing more and more like it, or reject that path. It seems to me that American voters are increasingly facing a similar choice.