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I voted for her, but I didn't want her to be our nominee last time and I am horrified at the thought that she might be our nominee this time; and this sort of thing is why.

CNN Brasil reports that Flávio Bolsonaro’s whereabouts are unknown after he failed to surrender his passports to police A source close to Bolsonaro says the senator is currently flying to the United States

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

10 days until Election Day! This is when the political mail gets WILD. Make sure to submit your mail to paidforby.info: 1. Instantly find out who is really paying for the mailer — and their donors (federal elections only) 2. Get your mailer reviewed by an independent journalist (all elections)

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Nice, if minor, shoutout to Holyoke here. More broadly, an interesting perspective on New England's long tradition of local control, and how it's still useful today.

Daniel Pemberton and David Byrne wrote a song about Elon Musk for Alex Gibney's documentary. TikTok took it down and canceled the entire account for the film. So Pemberton encouraged those of us lucky enough to see him perform today to share it. youtu.be/WAvdN-JSUFU?...

A wonderful thread. I'm not going to spoil it for you. We primates may mess things up, but this world we live in? It's an amazing place.

Marjorie Taylor Greene comes out with a statement opposing the raid on Ilhan Omar before Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Party

It's what we're supposed to do when our political opponents are Nazis. A lot of decent people aren't political junkies, and we don't really teach history, and our national media have for the most part turned cowards. Somebody has to tell voters when candidates and their supporters are Nazis.

I'm not surprised. Newsom is not who we want for president, despite all the people fluffing him.

Unfinished piece for a current commission. The client has requested a modification that will take this illustration to a different direction, but I wanted to shred this one before moving to the new version. #birds

The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.

apparently nappy.co, an invaluable stock photo resource, is shutting down in a few months because, well, AI destroys everything. this blows. their statement: nappy.co/future just fucking sucks that AI dipshits essentially get to take away our choices because they're incapable of making their own

Fanboys. These people are very rich Culture fanboys who badly want Claude and its ilk to be proto-Minds. But Iain Banks did that by authorial fiat. The Culture books aren't extrapolation, and longing is not going to make Claude grow up to be the Sleeper Service, or even Flere-Imsaho.

"Yes, we do know it, but do You really want us to tell them so?" Or, alternatively: Allegory of my city council. Only none of us, and none of our constituents, have the halos.

"This is Nenya, the ring of adamant, and I am its keeper." Or, package 2 from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. (Did y'all know this stone has significant color shift, from faintest blue-white to this blue?) Photography can't capture what this does with light. If I'd known I'd have tried to buy all 3.

The stupidest Republican talking point used to be their claim that intercepting drug shipments proved nobody was intercepting drug shipments. But amazingly enough, this one is even stupider.

It’s grotesque and infuriating.

Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

The question is "how would you FEEL," not what would you think or how would you respond. That being the case? You might not tell a pollster that you're in favor of the military stepping in, but still acknowledge that your first and second response would be, America, fuck yeah.

When you get a package from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social, I think it's traditional to show off the shinies? These synthetic-ruby spikes are everything I love about modern jewelry, and the way it doesn't have to be precious about materials; and they're FABULOUS on. Thanks, team!

My memory reaches back even to the Elder Days. I remember when AO3 and the OTW were glitters in the founders' eyes, because commercial platforms had proved over and over that fandom was just too weird for them. And now look at it. You reference it, you don't even have to explain.

Saoirse is in an afterschool program, and today she excitedly told me all about the SMART test for evaluating the credibility of information (source, motivation, author, review, two-sources). I can think of a lot of adults who would benefit from this class designed for 4th and 5th graders.

Going to say it one more time: We did not ban new data centers in reaction to the Chestnut River proposal. Yes, we like the MGHPCC, but we were concerned with the kinds of projects and impacts we'd seen elsewhere, and the ban proposal was filed prophylactically.

Maine's Royal River flows freely for the first time since the 19th century! 🎉 Our Northeast Regional Director, Andy Fisk, gives an update on the Bridge Street Dam removal progress. This restoration project will improve community safety and help restore migratory fish runs in the greater watershed.

This is maddening. WTAF is any journalist or media outlet pretending this is anything but what it is: A blatantly illegal fantasy, that would get anyone else investigated and likely indicted before we even get to the impossibility of doing it?

For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad.

Underlying article is from Ha'aretz. I can't evaluate Israeli news media-I just don't know enough-but Marshall isn't as ignorant as I am, so I think this is worth passing along. Detailed, plausible, and in any normal universe would end Netanyahu's political career. He denies all of it, of course.

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

@markey.senate.gov? I love you, I voted for you, I closed a polling station for you; but you're wrong about KOSA and this is why. Could you please revisit this, and regulate algorithms instead of trying to age-gate? That goes for you, @warren.senate.gov, too.

Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵

nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times

I'm just utterly disoriented by any democratic staffer that is smart on media reform the party hasn't had a coherent media reform strategy in 50 years, which culminated in the right wing and their corporate friends building the biggest and most effective propaganda machine in human history

Welp. We don't need to worry about Seth Moulton any more. (Not until he finds another office to run for, at least. I have no confidence he won't. That thing about 'Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man'? If there's a dictionary for sayings, Seth's picture is next to that entry.)

As a former healthcare recruiter at 2 of the major insurance companies, I sometimes try to mentally calculate all the salaries of the jobs that are involved in gatekeeping care All the support staff, infrastructure, prior auth departments, all of it what if we just used that $ to pay for care?

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat