Oliver Willis

theguardian.comDefund Elon Musk | Robert ReichNo private individual should have the power to determine US foreign policy, as Musk has attempted to do in Ukraine

My godson’s parents just early voted today. It’s his first time at a polling place. Please vote. If not for yourself, for his future. Thanks.

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Regina Schrambling

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Persuasive from @rbreich.bsky.social: Defund Musk. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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theguardian.com‘They wanted to make a scene’: the 72-year-old paraded in dramatic arrest for ‘voter fraud’Omar Muñoz, one of 28 people charged in California, speaks out about being dragged from his home in front of cameras as DoJ accused of ‘disgusting’ PR campaign

Nothing funnier than DC republicans, the fucking elite of the elite, pretending to take umbrage on behalf of Joe Sixpack in flyover country

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Sam Levin

@samtlevin.bsky.social

NEW: Omar Muñoz, a 72-year-old LA grandfather, was dragged out of his home by DHS agents and paraded in front of cameras for Trump's "voter fraud" crackdown. The DOJ used footage of his arrest for a promotional video. Omar is a green card holder in the US for 50+ yrs W @samrlevine.bsky.social

dailykos.comMusk’s massive election spending has an ugly motiveThe racist billionaire appears to believe that dumping money into bigoted campaign ads is the equivalent of saving a civilization.

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“Racist billionaire Elon Musk appears to believe that dumping nearly half a billion dollars into weird, bigoted campaign ads is the equivalent of saving a civilization.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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I think a 2028 Democrat would go a long way with a crusade to “regulate Elon.”

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Tim Scott, Nicki Minaj, Byron Donalds, Herschel Walker…

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Andrew Lawrence

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it feels like its kinda being ignored but outside a couple outliers the only thing republicans are running on in the midterms is that theyre white and democrats arent

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Meanwhile Elon spends half a billion to buy an election for the party that cuts his taxes

CNN@cnn.com

American workers' piece of the economic pie is shrinking. By one official measure, their slice is the smallest in almost 80 years. https://cnn.it/4yNqckO

Nothing funnier than DC republicans, the fucking elite of the elite, pretending to take umbrage on behalf of Joe Sixpack in flyover country

These assholes wouldn’t be caught dead at Cheesecake Factory or anywhere that didn’t have a Michelin rating

I grew up lower middle class and even though I’m from the east coast I’m a middlebrow vulgarian.

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

I should say that while I do not like Obama’s “don’t boo” lines I fucking love him in campaign mode when he’s talking shit

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Boo!-per Lund

@cooperlund.online

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

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Brendan Nyhan

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Trump has made ICE way less popular than the IRS www.pewresearch.org/fact-sheet/h...

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Ben Collins

@bencollins.bsky.social

shut the fuck up meatball man

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."

@jamisonfoser.bsky.social

Living in his head 24/7

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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Jamison Foser

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corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tim Scott calls Annie Andrews "tranny Annie"

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Aaron Rupar

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Empty seats are seen as Trump speaks in Mississippi tonight (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

The administration makes releases like this understanding the mainstream media will absolutely never put it in context. It’s like saying Government Issues Alert On Possible Ghost Attacks. The first time I realized this exploit was when Bush did his terror alert bullshit.

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social

The system was designed for a government where the basic functions are run by bureaucrats, not hardcore ideological monsters. The right has totally changed this dynamic and the media will never pivot.

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Pat Bagley

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When Republicans know what they want is unpopular, they lie. They deceive. They blow smoke up everyone’s ass It’s what they do. Half a century covering America’s reddest state taught me that

ProPublica@propublica.org

Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its ads focus on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign website never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.

propublica.orgMissouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans SentimentTwo years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

Area Mayor Plays Basketball On Public Property

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

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...

Talk about media bias. This is it but it’s right wing.

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This is basically what this story is

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

Area Mayor Plays Basketball On Public Property

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

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God the breathless way in which @politico.com reports this EXCLUSIVE story you would think Mamdani was murdering puppies on the court

propublica.orgA Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little JustificationProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

Expanding the court is the moderate centrist position

Riki Wilchins@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

This is the sort of thing Americans have spent decades mocking African and South American nations for doing

NBC News@nbcnews.com

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey charged is with transmission of national defense information and conspiracy, the third case against him by Trump’s DOJ. nbcnews.to/4yKQww1

republicans are in such a strong position that a week before election day the president of their party is campaigning in ... mississippi.

this is like a democratic president having to campaign in hawaii, the blue state that most resembles trump's 2024 win in mississippi

the mainstream press isnt communicating what a defensive posture the gop is in right now

republicans are in such a strong position that a week before election day the president of their party is campaigning in ... mississippi.

ya know, mississippi, that purple swing state that both parties are always laying claim to and not the most rock-solid gop territory where youd say a republican is facing major problems if they have to campaign there

this happens way too often in @nytimes.com for it to be a happy accident

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dailykos.comNew York Times caught passing off GOP flack as average Black voterNYT quietly edited a story after omitting a source’s GOP ties—read more and question who’s quoted in your news.

i caught them doing it last year to overstate black support of trump www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

i havent really been around young kids a lot so i sometimes watch my (one year old) godson like im jane goodall. the thing with toddlers constantly picking shit up and dropping it is funny. seven months ago he barely had any motor control. now that he figured out how fingers work, its nonstop.

yesterday the hand control got to a really funny point where he decided that a good use of the new plastic toy he got was to constantly shove it in uncle oliver's mouth. i was basically waterboarded with plastic by a toddler.

this was not a light tap against my lips. he's very strong. this was a full on shove into the mouth "suck on plastic, old man" power move by a very determined young man.

he especially loves sitting in his play pen, picking up a toy, then dropping it over the top. but he hasn't yet made the logic connection that "if i drop the toy out there i cant play with it." so he starts crying that the toy is gone. hilarious.

if democrats win one of the biggest strains will be the drive to hold them accountable for holding trump and the gop acountable. every time for the last 40 years when the dems have won they took their foot off the gas and we suffered. we must push them and their boot-licking defenders.

"they just got power, be patient" "they dont have the votes" "focus on the republicans" shut the fuck up.

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Jason Karsh

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Even if they completely live in their own bubble, and only watch Fox News, etc., Republicans have to know how unpopular they are right? Every time they’re out with the general public, this happens.

JM =^D@jm539581.bsky.social

LOL. The boos from the crowd 😂