A cat like that

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Alex Pretti's father: We wish Alex was alive. This administration has taken that away from us. What we've been treated to is cruelty. By Dan Rosen in the US Attorney's office, from the Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has ignored our letter begging for information. They've shielded Alex's killers.

Need to find this patriot and buy him a beer.

Jon Levine is in this picture and doesn't like it.

Damn good question.

“Smoking weed in the all-gender bathroom” sounds like a metaphor for Bluesky tbh.

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

Kudos to TIME for getting it right time.com/article/2026...

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.

There is no reason to ever take anything a Republican says at face value. Their entire worldview is hidden behind a veil of falsified preference. They lie constantly about everything to everyone and themselves, to protect their own self-image and regard.

Oh bsky.app/profile/sama...

I'm sure the conservatives attacking transgender athletes will be condemning this insult to women's basketball any second now.... Any second now....

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

There is no outcry when they do stuff like this because all Republicans are like this. That's why they're Republicans. If they didn't want to be like this they would leave the party. People stay in that party for the only reward it ever returns, permission to be their worst self.

This is a great article. And it's basically what I've been saying the media is creating misleading headlines and refusing to contextualize Donald Trump's activity is illegal because they want shares and clicks from conservative spaces. Simple edits would clarify but they won't make them.

This is gross on multiple levels but that aside, this is just completely inexplicable to me. Why? What does it mean? How is this bad? It looks like it would have been fun.

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

Oh.

I'm sorry this is fucking hilarious I love that he can't help but blurt out the thing he's not supposed to say.

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

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

In case facts still matter

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil between my legs.

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

Trump has a rally tonight in Mississippi, in case you're wondering how things are shaping up for Republicans

CORRECT! This is how elections work! I take full accountability for sending @scolom.bsky.social and Cliff Johnson to Congress.

This meme needs to die before it becomes another unkillable onilne zombie. John Roberts successfully stalled the prosecution by refusing to issue timely rulings, and ultimately inventing broad immunity powers for the executive in the 11th hour. Stop letting Roberts hide behind Merrick.

It's not like they're being secretive. We must get a majority. And one that is terrifying for Republicans.

Rightwing politics is a smash and grab operation. Crude, violent rhetoric to get attention. Grandiose promises. Chest-pounding to convey energy. Menacing the polls. Once elected, bullying and defiance of all restraint in order to hold power. People are sick of it.

This is the kind of talk I like.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

He knew EXACTLY what that disgusting woman was alleging - that Acton lied about the abuse she suffered. And if the media and conservatives had taken Ramaswamy to task back in April when he first weaponized her being raped as a child, he would not have been free to do this.

I know I keep yelling about this, but Ramaswamy was criticized back in April for characterizing Acton’s openness about her abuse as her “complaining.” He has had plenty of time to calibrate his messaging on this issue. He thought this ad was a winner, and he said it with his whole chest plus $4M.

The attack on trans athletes is a direct attack on Title IX, and Democrats who play footsie with it are dangerous to all women, not just trans athletes. We have GOT to be clear about what the danger is here, it's not trans athletes, it's the end of women's equal access protections in education.

Remember, being white is still not enough to confer citizenship. They think citizenship, and the protections of the Constitution, should only be available to adult white men who are party members in good standing.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

If, as expected, Democrats sweep this election,the already growing movement in MAGA to repeal the 19th amendment will get louder. It's tempting to dismiss this as just talk. But while they can't just end women's suffrage, this movement is dangerous. www.salon.com/2026/10/26/m...

And this is why Turek owes an apology. It is really not that hard to not be part of the problem.

Check out how easy this is.

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.

This is very important. Especially since the main story in these two elections is clearly about the mobilization that Tarik talks about herue:

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.