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my first byline in Rolling Stone (!) edited by the amazing @andrewperez.bsky.social. How exactly does Musk's privately held empire run? on the backs of retired teachers, firefighters, cops and bus drivers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

can you confirm receipt @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social?

Crypto titans have a strategy: feed tens of millions of dollars into Ohio and beat Sherrod Brown. But the dogs aren't buying the dog food this year, perhaps because they've seen the ravages of crypto and tech in their own communities. Good piece from Eleanor Davis-Diver. prospect.org/2026/10/27/o...

A Democrat will finally hold the storied office of Arizona State Mine Inspector, inshallah. (yes a separate statewide elected)

🚨NEWS: A new poll shows a majority of voters in major swing states and districts want Democrats to replace @schumer.senate.gov as Senate leader, and a plurality want Democrats to replace @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social as House leader.

Once again, Susan Collins is showing she's out of touch. New Englanders are literally buying cords of wood because they can’t afford their heating bills. Working Mainers support @troyjackson207.bsky.social because he knows what it’s like to have to make ends meet. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/27/m...

This event is today at 3pm central/4pm eastern. For folks who wish to join, here is a direct zoom link. umn.zoom.us/j/9886291489...

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

The president is demanding that Republican Senate candidates stand next to him at rallies where he talks about asses (mostly one man’s) and brags about making gas prices higher. If his candidates lose, it’s because the elections were rigged.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

Grocery stores aren't just places to shop. They're sites of class struggle: low wages, high prices, corporate monopolies. Come to this event with author @annlarson.bsky.social, grocery workers, and labor journalists. Oct 27, 3pm central, online event.

Check out this event tomorrow (Tues Oct 27) at 4 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. CT with Debt Collective co-founder @annlarson.bsky.social

I read @annlarson.bsky.social's book, CLEANUP ON AISLE FIVE, and it's very good. This event tomorrow will be an opportunity to explore the book's themes—low wages, surveillance, corporate price gouging, solidarity, antagonism—with a panel of grocery workers and labor journalists.

Here's Lula celebrating tonight with Erika Hilton, a transgender politician who led the drive to end the six-day work week in Brazil. Erika showed workers solidarity, they showed her solidarity back. Solidarity is how fascism loses.

Rep. AOC & I toured the Culinary Health Center in #NV04 with leadership and workers from @culinary226.bsky.social This union-negotiated healthcare model is an example of what we’re fighting for, and proof that NV can lead the way to improve access to high-quality, affordable care for working people

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

Wangari Mathenge, “Re-membering XI (To Leave This Steady Unendurable Land)” (2026), oil on canvas, 63 1/4 x 63 1/4 inches www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/10/wang...

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Lula defeats Musk, Zuckerberg and Bolsanaro!

Lula Goes HARD

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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I visited MLK Community Hospital in South LA, the only safety-net hospital serving poor patients in the area. The ER was built for 25,000 patients a year; it gets 120,000. I saw patients getting treated in the gift shop, the chapel, in tents, even outdoors. And this is before the Medicaid cuts.

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

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:

🚨NEWS: After raking in a $3 million payday as a corporate lawyer, Obama's former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is spearheading the campaign to block a ballot measure that would raise taxes on his fellow millionaires, cut taxes for 95% of voters & prevent huge health care cuts.

🚨INVESTIGATION: @levernews.com for the first time exposes the secret network of shadowy groups allowing AIPAC cash to flood into elections with no disclosure of its involvement. Cash boosted candidates through groups branded to popular causes that had nothing to do with Israel.

Tom Barrack rapidly emerging as the most honest American diplomat since Andrew Young, but without a moral compass

yes. i would like a county attorney who appreciates nelly

On the same week the DCCC released its first anti-transgender ad, popular Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince words. When asked about anti-trans Democrats, she called them "shameful," "wrong," and decried them for "scaring so easily." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Good morning from American politics wapo.st/4ieRiLA

I have spent a lot of time reporting on eviction court, but this detail in @theguardian.com's investigation of Louisiana's justice of the peace courts is truly jaw-dropping. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The indictment of the Minnesota 15 is obvious retaliation and blowback for mass labor and community resistance to ICE. Here is a short documentary placing the defense campaign in context, and examining the importance of solidarity—and refusal to let individuals be isolated and picked off.