🎃 🎃 Brian Mulligan 🎃 🎃 🎃

Asked how he felt about President Trump suggesting he would have to go through a metal detector, Abdul El-Sayed joked, "He knows I got those Wolverine claws." Mercado Media

Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Well how's he supposed to fill a venue in a Democratic stronghold like.... [checks notes]... Mississippi

Motherfucker, you eat roadkill and snort heroin off of shit covered toilets

Kevin Hassett's financial disclosures show assets with a total value of $6.1M–$25M+ projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

Roughly 1/4 of its workforce. $MSFT

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Buffoon

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

What a disgusting pig.

Elon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason. He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.

If you need any more evidence that MAGA and Trump-authoritarians are going to refuse to accept the results of any US election they lose, just listen to the growing chorus of MAGAs calling for a coup and military overthrow of a newly elected Brazilian government they don't like.

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

Very useful history here, delivered very efficiently:

Lord I see what Brazil and Serbia have and I want it for myself

I'll save you the trouble of watching... 1) Most racist bile yet on Somalia 2) 40 minute aside on Husted's ass 4) Giraffe, whale, snake, monkey. None of you could do it. I never get credit for it 5) Economy is great. Ignore prices. Better indicator is phony Venezuelan plunder

Hell yeah!

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

"We’ll be working closely with our Appropriations Committee partners to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to cut off money used for political persecution," Jamie Raskin tells me. “Everybody involved from top to bottom will be subject to legislative investigation."

Bon voyage

Trump's attack on free and fair midterm elections that should be familiar to anyone who has lived through the Trump era: The severity of his threat to democracy is matched only by his pure absurdity.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Essential to spend 20m to watch this interview

In the great news from Brazil, don't sleep on this Reuters investigation which found that Darren Beattie, a racist activist who was fired during the first Trump administration, directly worked to increase tariffs on Brazil to harm the country in hopes that it would elect Flavio Bolsonaro

📌There's no way all this is just some damn coincidence: 1. Ukraine whacks Russia. 2. Lindsey Graham leads bipartisan efforts hitting Russia w/ more sanctions. 3. Graham suddenly drops dead. (Like so many of Putin's enemies.) 4. Trump immediately cancels sanctions, and buys Russian diesel. <more>

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

A Lula-voting friend in Rio writes “my sadness has turned into pure unfiltered anger and rage”

How much longer Jesus?

Despite orders for polls to remain open for an extra two hours, results are already coming in, including from states with the strongest evidence of voter suppression, like Bahia. This will be a long night. What is happening is an unprecedented crime against democracy in Brazil.

Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

Have you voted early?

Mmm hmmm

Larry Kudlow looks like he's about to cry as Trump rants and raves on the phone like a complete lunatic

Was on the road yesterday with Democratic Kansas Senate candidate Adam Hamilton, who did 3 stops on a bus tour. Met a lot of Republicans for Hamilton, people fed up with the direction of the country. Hamilton would be the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Kansas since 1932.

Small-dollar donations to Republican candidates are just apocalyptic. Selected examples here. Our forecasting research found in-state individual contributions are a strong predictor of results. Way stronger than PAC spending! votehub.com/2026/10/24/2...

Using the Presidency to manufacture himself billions in tax breaks through golf courses. Scam artist doesn’t even begin to describe this President. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Trump wanted to create an Orban style autocracy & take away everyone’s liberties. But Orban knew u need to be popular when u put that into effect. But in just 20 months Trump failed so hard he’s more unpopular than any midterm Prez in 80 yrs. Chump just doesn’t have the cards. 🤣

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

El-Sayed: Trump's bill gutted health care for millions. President Obama passed the legislation that expanded it Crowd Member: Obama is not in the Epstein files either Crowd: Cheers

This is a murder.

I cannot stress enough that we’re going to need to shut down Meta www.commondreams.org/news/meta-al...

“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

A bit of a turning point. Creators of all types of media are no longer allowed to criticize America's wealthiest people.