dave bonner

Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

If you're a D or D-adjacent voter in NC and haven't voted yet, you have the chance to help deliver truly historic curb-stomping to the R supermajorities in the NCGA Please go vote 😄

This whole statement is incredibly damning but gosh this part especially. Very much worth reading.

It's that special time of year when they give the danger-kitties pumpkins to play with at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota. A much-needed timeline cleanse. 🐯🎃 (📷: wildcatsanctuary.org)

Hey folks - I need to get our power bill paid by tomorrow, and we don’t have nearly enough to cover it. If there’s anything you can do to help, it would mean the world to me. Thank you for all of your help. PayPal.me/MaeGodHaveMercy Cash.app/$MaeGodHaveMercy Venmo.com/u/MaeGodHaveMercy

When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Israel forces have seized Scottish politicians for attempting to enter land that is not part of Israel. www.thenational.scot/news/2667202...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This Sunday, Historians At The Movies takes on THE 13TH WARRIOR (1999)! Join us as we talk cultural encounters, the making of monsters, and what happens when Hollywood throws Ibn Fadlan and Beowulf into the same longship. Prime Video, 8pm eastern. #HATM Hit the share button.

The set came together so beautifully I cried

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

I’m back in Boston and will be speaking at MIT tomorrow! Thanks @jasonbjackson.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social and @clasp.org for putting this on!

Reading about the Blue Qur'an today, and...just...wow. Gold Kufic script (likely gold leaf, not shell!) on indigo-dyed parchment (technique uncertain! Brushed? Dipped? Pressed? No one knows!). Written in the early ʿAbbāsid period (ca. 800), place uncertain. 2024 research suggests Cairo or Baghdad.

let's fucking go

sitting down to give visionquest a try, and it's...pretty boring. spader is good enough to keep me watching, tho.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

One of my very favorite games. Just an absolute delight.

Some amazing experimental work on #Roman glass here Love the quote from Dr Lisa Hollands: “If the Romans could have seen me experimenting, they’d probably laugh and ask: ‘Why does she not know how to make this?’” - I think this would be the case! #AncientBlueSky www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

good lord, that was just a fucking *beating* from Jeannot.

This seems like a big deal

it really is amazing how the video quality in nesn360 is consistently terrible.

These are incredible!

Noah Adams, Longtime Host of ‘All Things Considered,’ Has Died at 84 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/b...

at this point i'm counting down the days to the election just so i don't have to deal with the shittily-made political ads sucking up every commercial spot not already taken by the gambling assholes.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

In Istanbul, a cat went viral for politely asking a tourist for food. Original post

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

It's been over 10 years since the "detransition wave" was just around the corner. it is tremendously effective cope for the phobes.