M. Anton

M. Anton

@mdotanton.bsky.social

a mirthless chuckle (he/him)

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It Happened Again: Watched Cape Fear, wondered where I heard that score from, and realized it was Cape Feare. The Bart, The indeed.

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There is truly nothing you could do to make fun of the NYT covering the Obama Cheesecake Factory quip instead of Trump being accused of rape. It’s completely beyond parody.

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alright they updated at 9:00- we have passed the minneapolis early vote total for 2022 officially

functional moron@fiveburger.bsky.social

one exciting question for me tonight- will minneapolis still update their early vote total at 9 pm or will the extended early voting hours push it back?

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grand juries are holding up better than any of the three branches of government tbh

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

There was a time when no bills from federal grand juries were unheard of, now there’s a certain type of prosecution where it’s more likely than not. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

Friends! Artisans! Small business owners! #mywife is starting up her own jewelry business and us looking for recs for small biz specific banking options. Any you really enjoy? Having Zelle would be preferable but we’re open. Much appreciated!

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Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

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if you liked you can see everything and are thinking about the nature of documenting the objective truth and what putting an event into the historical record does to both subject and observer i have suuuuuch a cool book for you,

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My dad loves telling me what it was like to read something in the newspaper. Like, the entire process of reading it. "Ron Dugay died! I had no idea! I saw it in the Daily News. I saw the headline and was like, 'Ron Dugay died? The Rangers goalie?' And it said 'Rangers goalie Ron Dugay passed."

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Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Micah@rincewind.run

chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek

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I cannot stop thinking about "giving no quarter to the greens"

Matthew Gillikin@mtgillikin.bsky.social

Starting my day with @ifbookspod.bsky.social letting me know that Politico wants us to be clear: Rahm Emmanuel eats salads just like the rest of us, but harder

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I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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So far, remarkably high turnout by young Black voters in Georgia. Eye-popping chart.

Dj@djsoke.bsky.social

18k 18-29 voters in GA today, 53% of the same day in 2024, by far the highest %24 day so far. Today only: Black 18-29: 77.3% of 2024 White 18-29 voters in blue ATL counties: 51.9% White 18-29 in the rest of the state: 31.3% Cumulative numbers below

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A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social

Via @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social, who really should post here more than there, I'm counting $8.52M from Jeffrey Yass to try to preserve a GOP state senate majority in PA (candidate giving, SRCC, and State GOP) and another $1.1M to stanch the bleeding in the state house, where Dems lead 103-100.

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have they ever fucked up in the opposite direction, quoting some guy they say is a rando but is actually a dem operative? why is it always republicans?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

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

gloss over the ellipses, it's funny that his big attack line on the Democrats is to alleviate the need on oil. Like, they have beyond nothing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

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the relief isn’t coming before election day. gas holding at $4.24/gal, diesel at $6.34/gal — Great Lakes spiking on a refinery issue, Hormuz at a fraction of normal traffic, and every policy lever has been pulled. weekly update is live!

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Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

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Replying to @beshearstan.bsky.social

BTW This is the same answer Gov. Andy Beshear made in the 2023 race when facing these attacks, and he won by 5% in R+30 Kentucky Its not that complicated, yall

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Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Weird to not say this is Alito but you do you, Bulwark

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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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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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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Replying to @taniel.bsky.social

Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

nytimes.comAleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat in Serbian Election“It is clear that we have lost these elections,” Aleksandar Vucic said in a surprisingly early speech congratulating his opponents.

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

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Replying to @lebassett.bsky.social

The governor of Bahia calls out the election sabotage, which has been reported in at least 10 states now, and demands extended voting hours. This is a shit show

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Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."