Note: In 2016 Trump won with the help of coordinated messaging amplified by bots. He still relies on that coordinated messaging, tho the Epstein schism undermined that some.
But this SEEMS to say you don't stay off Xitter and Facebook--you coordinate to game it.
Pro-Lula Brazilians doing en masse digital organizing against the platforms is interesting. Basically took website/influencer growth hacking techniques—eg everyone go like/comment/share this, get the algorithm to pick it up—and applied them to electoral politics at a grand scale.
Thread:
Jimmy Kimmel: What do you do when your presidency crashes and burns and may very well take Congress down along with it?
You make a phone call to the totally stable Nicki Minaj. 😂
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Adding: since Welch claims Jan 6 shook her to the core, it's odd that in 2022, while J6 volunteers were frantically trying to stop fascism, her new podcast focused on "bridezillas, etiquette.. toddlers.. Peloton.. Real Housewives".
And now 1 week before an existential election, she shits on Dems.
Welch closes her Jan 6 essay not on indicting fascism but by sneering "Joe Biden and the Democrats didn’t meet the moment"
You know what was all over the Capitol that day? "Fuck Joe Biden" signs. Welch's message. She sounds so much like MAGA: the same smug, preening ignorance and self-importance.
🚨 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA VOTERS!
More than 7K voters had their registrations flagged over questions about their residential addresses, & the ACLU is raising serious concerns about errors.
Check your voter status NOW. If it says “Challenged,” contact Fulton County Elections.
Breaking news: Brazil’s leading right-wing politician, Flávio Bolsonaro, effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president, after President Trump indicated he wouldn't intervene despite saying that the vote “looked like another rigged election.”
In his latest, @jasongarcia.bsky.social looks at just how much money billionaire Ken Griffin is pumping into Republican races in Florida.
"... these latest donations are one more reminder of the farcical nature of Florida’s campaign-finance laws..."
Sorry: This should say FL.
As he describes, Florida changed its law to make it harder to get mail-in ballots. But that may be hurting GOP more than Dems.
Michael McDonald, who does some of the best turnout analyses, shows that Dem and (especially) nonaffiliated voter turnout is up over 2022, while the GOP is down.
michaelmcdonald.substack.com/p/florida-ea...
🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump DOJ ILLEGALLY fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ordering retroactive reinstatement and backpay.
The judge ripped the DOJ’s defense as bordering on “frivolous” and rejected its sweeping claims of executive power.
KNOXVILLE: “This is the sound of Tennessee… and this is how it sounds under Jason Zachary.” 👀
Wow — Jason Zachary’s TN house opponent Lindsay Honaker dropped this 🔥 ad with (under-discussed!) facts about Tennessee under Republican *leadership*
This is one good example of how appropriations hardball can work if you're willing to not blink first. Another: take your pick for demands and restrictions on funding Executive Office of the President. Yes, literally defund the White House. EOP is the central hub of the assault on the Constitution.
House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.
Alternet: Dr. Oz lashed out at a reporter after she challenged Trump's effort to shore up rural health care with a new $50 billion fund, despite the much larger Medicaid cuts included in the same law.
Dr. Oz to self-quarantine following exposure to being fact checked.
#ProudBlue#Pinks#SheShed
Hakeem Jeffries has already spoken to Mike Johnson about the transfer of power WHEN Democrats take the House. ☠️
“The elections are going to be decisive enough that it’s going to be clear that Democrats are going to be in control of the House of Representatives.”
NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2171...
Jealous of this story. Most notable bit is about the appetite for investigations into defense contractors and rare earth mineral companies
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.”
Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:
This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”
Former attorney-general Avichai Mandelblit arrived at the Jerusalem District Court on Monday to resume his testimony in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial, as the defense continues to question whether investigators acted within the approvals he gave them.
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating.
Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.
The Trump administration keeps changing how it describes the more than 20,000 people it wants California to block from voting.
Why does it matter?
It’s basing extraordinary election relief on a list whose certainty has been described in markedly different ways: https://demdock.com/4iDbuId
The Trump administration keeps changing how it describes the more than 20,000 people it wants California to block from voting.
Why does it matter?
It’s basing extraordinary election relief on a list whose certainty has been described in markedly different ways: https://demdock.com/4iDbuId
AK Dem Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family suffered minor injuries Saturday in a car crash while driving to a campaign stop.
Wishing @marypeltola.com a swift recovery 🙏🏼💙
Protect this woman at all costs!
apnews.com/article/alas...
In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
EL-SAYED: "I get that the President of the United States takes personal offense to my first name - he doesn't mind as much when it's a shared name from the Saudis that are funding his son in laws private equity.
Mercado Media
WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda?
MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan
Laura Ingraham was outraged that Sen. Elissa Slotkin implied that Trump might not leave office when his term is over or that he might pull some shenanigans during or after the midterm elections. I've added some footage from Jan. 6th that Ingraham seemed to forget about.
I don’t know what Newsmax was thinking, trying to defend the indefensible.
I guess Trump sent them on a suicide mission for Vivek Ramaswamy.
It failed pretty miserably.
BEHOLD:
Bill Maher: Democrats are really fed up with not being the macho party.
Andy Beshear: What I think is hysterical is Pete Hegseth is running around talking about testosterone, but he has a makeup stand and wears more hair gel than a boy band.
x.com/BlueGeorgia/...