Vanessa Enriquez-Rios

Mapping our Political Divide ➗ My thesis: A 20th-century fracture—driven by the merging of market tactics and political strategy—locks in voters, treating a democratic republic like a corporation competing to brand a new generation of loyal consumers.

$446 million of his (sometime) reported net worth of $1 trillion means he’s still only spending 0.0446% of his net worth to try to buy elections. put in more concrete terms: if you had $100, this would be like spending less than 5 cents. now tell me again why i should vote against a wealth tax.

Always a sign of a healthy society.

I think Musk being in regular contact w/Putin for the years preceding the 2024 election followed by him getting a key position which shredded our government in numerous ways to Putin’s benefit followed by US now betraying Ukraine & Musk’s company playing a role in that deserves some closer scrutiny.

With the express goal that those casualties would increase pressure on Zelensky to cede territory and future security to Putin.

does the media ever—ever—ask republicans to disavow this open white supremacist?

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

🎁🔗The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

“The Broligarchs are all in for MAGA, spending ungodly sums of money this cycle to dominate American politics and attempt to ensure that elected officials’ agenda is their own.” open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...

A good summary here of how much Meta is in the tank for Trump. And a reminder that the authoritarian threat comes not just from within the Trump administration but from its oligarchic allies. Oligarchic power is now a clear and present threat to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

"Trump, fully in his own imperial era, has jettisoned such provincial thinking. He just argues, openly and explicitly, that it’s better for the United States to be allied with Russia." www.thebulwark.com/p/happy-birt...

"Democratic candidates can acknowledge voters don’t have to love everything about their party. But they can bring home to voters that they need, at least this once, to walk away from the Republican party in order to check Trump for the rest of his time in office." www.thebulwark.com/p/happy-birt...

"If 2028 is a red-letter date in the history books, it will be due in part to groundwork that was laid this year. So if future historians write of a No Kings era beginning in 2028, those of us who are still around can quietly interject to say: Don’t forget 2026." www.thebulwark.com/p/fasten-you...

We need ads that are a montage of Trump administration fuckups punctuated with JD Vance asking people if they've said thank you

oh look! it’s not impossible to give someone credit for breaking a story! who knew

76% against, in latest tally.

“.. It was the second time in two years that the president authorized billions of dollars in bailout money for farmers harmed by his administration’s policies.” @nytimes.com #KSsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/b...

Neighbor: But Paris is burning. Me: If Paris wasn’t burning, it wouldn’t be Paris. Hasn’t anyone seen Les Miserables?

It is disturbing how much political rhetoric in Taiwan is now “we have to cut our own deal to submit to Beijing before Trump sells us to China.”

“The reason it’s hard to think of a precedent of America switching sides in a conflict like this is that there really isn’t one,” said Richard Haass. (…) “What’s unprecedented here is the decision to reverse course and penalize the victim of the invasion — Ukraine — while rewarding the aggressor.”

I prefer to think of it as an amusement park and religious site.

ICE agents tackled a U.S. citizen riding his bike, tased him, and broke his arm. Note the reaction from Trump’s attorney. No contrition. No sympathy for the victim. Just ire for the congressman who had the audacity to criticize the agents.

In a U.S. Army war game in Germany, Ukrainian drone pilots playing the enemy caused about 70% of an American tank brigade’s losses in the first three days. Three days later, that figure was under 30%. defence-blog.com/ukrainian-dr...

Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

Yep. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare AND there’s no real pattern in who does it; it can be people of any political viewpoint. That’s because it’s not some grand “voter fraud” conspiracy, it’s almost always what law professor Benjamin Plener Cover calls “voter mistake.”

Despite the Trump administration's best efforts, Alberta votes not to break up Canada

So the United States Secretary of State doesn’t know anything about global warfare satellites besides what he reads in the paper?

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

Bari Weiss has been an avowed anti-Palestinian anti-Arab racist and anti-Muslim bigot her entire adult life. It’s the one true through line since she was a college student and now she is running one of the most important news organizations in the world in the same way.

Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

Worth checking they’ve actually passed the bar

🎁🔗https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putin-floats-a-summit-with-trump-and-xi-to-decide-ukraines-fate-1cf6acc1?st=5K28nB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

You Can See Everything is just as much of a must-see film as everyone is saying. Definitely the best film I’ve seen this year, and maybe one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen?

On the one hand, Trump is telling Ukraine to abandon their leader, while telling Israel not to abandon theirs, with the not-so-veiled threat that they will be unable to defend themselves if they don't follow his direction.

Yes, it is easy to criticize when you do something every other President, Republican and Democrat, was smart enough not to do.

The Trump administration told an appellate court that a president could do whatever he wants with records that include the nation’s most guarded secrets — and potentially even sell them on eBay. https://www.washingtonsun.com/legal/trump-records-ebay-doj

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The attitude of Silicon Valley extraction is like a man on a date with a woman who is legitimately interested in him, but he roofies her anyway and blabs about it on his socials.

Hearing from my sources that this "over the top" tweet from Jan Crawford is being discussed internally at CBS. At the same time, as those same sources noted, "Jan is protected by Bari" and has been a very vocal acolyte of Weiss. "She just can't help herself," one network insider said.

It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.

unbelievable style on this frog

failure to learn this lesson does not make you a bold, optimistic innovator, it makes you a fucking idiot

Trump is once again focused today on the many difficult issues facing Americans.

[1/3] UPDATE: Blanche has finally filed his Notice of Compliance and states that he provided at 10:55 am ET today to Judge Sullivan a binder containing the "handwritten notes underlying the typewritten [FBI interview reports]" in marked-for-redaction form. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WHY does Todd Blanche fight so hard to keep unredacted (and now even redacted) handwritten interview notes from the American people? Is it because they have to do with Convicted Felon Donald Trump and allegations of his sexual and physical abuse of a 13-year old girl?

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling on Ukraine's battlefield communications: “When that Starshield goes down, the screen goes black. You don't know what's coming at you. You don't know where the things you've launched are going.” His warning: “People will die.”

Lawyers for Rep. Ilhan Omar have accused federal authorities of ignoring key restrictions that a judge placed on the search of Omar's D.C. residence this week and demanded the immediate return of all property seized from the home.