Patrick Fenelon

Yes. I am calling for a purity test. Nothing will matter if we nominate someone who won't: • Attempt aggressive institutional reform (SCOTUS, DC statehood, ICE, etc.) • Hold the criminals of this administration accountable • Rebuild and expand the social democratic institutions Trump tore down

🧵 Minneapolis early voting thru Monday. 7 full early voting days to go, but precincts in blue at/above 2022 *total* early vote. Orange = below ‘22’s total , but again, full week to go. Only 1 precinct (7-10 in Stevens Square) is below 70% of ‘22. Pace seems certain to smash 2018 midterm record (52k)

Now that you've seen years of "AI exec says within 5 years everyone will be using AI" you're ready for the next week of "political operative says constituency they specialize in is at risk of not turning out"

Backlash to data centers might very well be the biggest issue in the midterms, with nearly 70 percent of Americans opposing them. Is it any wonder why?

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

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.

I’m sorry but whoever at Fox programmed that horrible “I can’t show my face because my skin is white” commercial to lead directly into Sidney Sweeney showing lots of white skin 💋🤌

"trump raped more people than expected" lacks the eye-grabby novelty and sociological depth of "in red state diner trump supporter supports trump" or "president's behavior presidential"

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Okay, I deleted the original post because people didn't check the link at all and mistook my typo of "young men" seriously. I clearly meant young women. Not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but I read this entire report today. It's gutting. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Vile stuff. Perfectly clear that Robert Kennedy Jr. is a fascist and trying to position himself as Trump’s heir apparent. I just want to take this moment to shout out all the post-left contrarian types who embraced him as some kind of independent voice for truth. Good job, losers.

there is no bigger takeaway from this game. truly, sometimes you just lose.

He should do it either way, the reffing at Target Center last night was beyond terrible

What an dumb end to a good game. Refs fucked it all up.

LMAO. Ok. Sure, refs.

I'd probably choose to get fined with my post game comments if I were Finch, depending on the game's outcome

Ayo should have drawn the foul there & that was a clean steal by Ball. Again, aggressively bad officiating against Minnesota here

i'm pretty unhappy with the officiating in this one

These refs are horseshit lol

Aggressively bad officiating against Minnesota down the stretch. Wow.

Suck ass, The Economist

I really hate NBA injuries at any point, but ones that end a guy's season on game 3? Fucking brutal.

Williams is undoubtedly out for the remainder of the season. Shoulder labrum repair usually takes 6-9 months.

Good lord this sucks

Per the Wolves: Anthony Edwards is available tonight against the Cavs

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

To all Democrats in Congress who want to give Trump an "opportunity to save face" via not impeaching him again...please stop being stupid. He will never stop until you fight back with all you've got.

Lula's message was we have power and we're going to use it.

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

Three moments broke Trump 2.0: 1) Kimmel and other attempted censorship after Charlie Kirk. Made public see the attack on speech. 2) Minnesota anti-ICE protests, Goode and Pretti killings. Made public see the attack on rights. 3) Iran war. Made public see bad foreign policy affects them directly.

The same guy who endorsed tafoya in the strib today wrote that "70 percent of the teams in the NBA could fold tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference with the possible exception of increase in street crime." He's considered a moderate.

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.

Called by @ndrew.bsky.social

SLO❤️MO

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.

I too am very accurate when I am given the answer

Betting markets are very accurate at the VERY LAST MINUTE (like...the second polls close, basically). That's when the smart money always makes its move. They are very, very, very bad at predicting elections any time before that.

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Adam Silver works for the NBA owners, so we probably should focus our ire on them, but… the Line Must Only Go Up strategy is not gonna be good for the league in the long run if they keep courting funny money like this.

Anything that makes people realize Polymarket/Kalshi are bullshit packaged as “wisdom of the crowd” is a win 👍🏻