mary angela perna

Hi new followers & folks checking my page! I’m a podcaster for yrs—interview journalists, writers, academics. Lush Left Media, now Constant Politics-on all platforms I’m in political science, study the radical right. Monitor Bannon et al Disinformation major driver to this loss. We must counter.

NEWS A federal judge just agreed to FAST-TRACK her decision on whether to dismiss Trump DOJ’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s election if the GOP incumbent loses. She indicated that she will rule by Wednesday at 5 pm local time. Doc buff.ly/YeQtu5n

Lula won by 3.5% and 4.4 million votes lmao not even all that close

Lula has taken the overall, countrywide lead back. With 62% of precincts counted, he is ahead 50.6% to 49.4%, which is an edge of roughly 900,000 votes. He is also getting the shift he needs (compared to the first round) in virtually every state that has reported most of the vote.

the cheesecake factory is camp

Republicans will almost certainly pass Democrats at some point in Florida but everyone said that would be today and nope. I still expect like a ~5% loss for Nixon and Jolly but it’s fun to dream a little and follow this.

He’s such a racist piece of shit

NEW: A woman featured in a Republican attack ad accusing a Democrat of being “dangerous” for children actually PLEADED GUILTY TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT after driving drunk with her own kids in the car, per the Washington Post.

Every DOJ attorney involved in this should be disbarred.

It’s Stop the Steal 2.0, everyone. Remember: last time they tried it, they lost 63 times in court. This is also yet another signal that their internal polling is even worse than what we’re seeing.

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska's Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.

If republicans lose big on election night one of the stories will be the giant backlash among black voters to the redistricting, rightly called Jim Crow 2.0

AOC: "They call people communists, they call them this or that. But really what it is is they're afraid of a waitress in the House and a logger in the Senate"

Todd Blanche won't rule out trying to block states from certifying midterm results. Asked whether the Trump DOJ might try to block a state from certifying results, Blanche said: "Yes. Of course there are scenarios that we could all come up with hypothetically. Some doomsday scenario, for example."

I asked the great @electproject.bsky.social to sum up the early voting thus far. His answer: More than 16 million have voted early, Dems and indys outpacing 2018, Rs lagging. "We’re looking at really modern historic rates of voting," he says. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

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...

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest.

new from me today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NYT-Siena poll: Trump approval: Likely voters 36% approve 59% disapprove That's Trump's lowest approval recorded in any Times-Siena poll. More than two-thirds of independent voters said they disapproved of the way Trump has handled his job.

Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

we gotta stop rich people from buying our shit and taking it away from us

Big batch of House Dem internals out today showing Dems 10-15 pts ahead of Harris numbers. 40+ Repub seats are being contested. By Election Day it might be 70+ Not crazy to think we could pick up 55+ seats Net gains: 1994 R+54 2006 D+30 2010 R+64 2018 D+41 We could be looking at over 270+ seats.

Dems play the expectations game by, e.g., saying private polls are closer than public ones. What they should say (because it's true) is that they're up against aggressive cheating by the richest, most powerful people in the world, and winning in spite of it. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

Its actually insane that centrist pundits see direct evidence of right wing grifters making fake polls to try and manipulate the narrative, and they blame it on… leftists?

They can't. That's part of the reason why we have a federal government

There it is! Vivek Ramaswamy is taking credit for that attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother, who fled the state decades ago with her husband after he was charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old Acton. www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

Super cool post of how @fiftyplusone.news busted Wedgewood pollster for fake polls. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

Tech billionaires like Musk, Zuckerberg and disgraced Elizabeth Holmes aren't just super-villains at the multiplex Silicon Valley is spending $500 million to buy the election, and, as that isn't working, resorting to crude censorship Why it's totally backfiring www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

MAGA-Inspired shitheads get rinsed in November preview www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/maga...

Honestly, the world would be a better place if more people told Susan Collins to shut up.

12 agenda items to save America: - Medicare-for-all - Trans civil rights - ICE abolition - Accountability for Trump corruption - Break up big tech - Pack SCOTUS - Let IRS target political nonprofits - Ban partisan gerrymandering - Real gun control - Undo DOGE cuts - Overturn Buckley - Basic income

Excuse me sir do you denounce the Doobie Brotherhood?

I guess Mike Rogers campaign staff is done trying to pretend they’re not racist. Why does the Black man need to be asked about a woman who sued the US? You can tell this chic is from Alabama and loves Israel.

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.

The boilerplate racist and far-right gaslighting around the Paris protests is legit hilarious. As if setting parts of France on fire isn't the most quintessentially French experience in existence.

Dems offering College Republicans $400 to heckle Al-Sayed

Tommy stands up. Tommy takes a deep breath. Tommy asks a question. Tommy gets his ass handed to him. Tommy skulks off. Tommy realizes he might not wind up as the hero of this story.

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

Here's a supercut of JD Vance having a hard time answering questions about the sluggish economy, Trump's corruption, why the US hasn't already won the Iran war, and more during the CBS town hall that aired tonight