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Used to be that the political media would play up the salaciousness of a sex scandal but for Trump they cover it like he got caught turning in his TPS reports late bsky.app/profile/dgst...

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Poisoning our air to make even more money for his oil and gas industry paymasters

yup.

When you've been sold the same crock of shit for as long as you can remember, why would you even consider buying it one more time, especially when it's being resold by the biggest bullshit artist of all time.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

We all knew who Blanche was— he covered up the Epstein files. Republican Senators confirmed him anyway. The corruption of our Justice Department is on them.

Felon Trump advertises favorable treatment can be bought; the wealthy are lining up to pay. Illegal, unethical deals to benefit Trump & his family help destroy our democratic, legal protections. Fight to stop Trump regime's current & future corruption.

There is a massive corruption scandal unfolding in the US, with top American executives abandoning a $25 billion gas project over allegations of secret Russian investment and control. ​All of this is happening just as the US administration moves to ease sanctions on Russia. ​

If you were waiting for your sign to donate to an insurgent campaign for Congress in Missouri...this is your sign. I'm current polling 5 points ahead of 14 yr incumbent Ann Wagner in a seat held by the GOP for 34 years. I need you now. We can take this across the finish line and change Missouri.

Imagine being more worried about a hypothetical trans kid than the systems making life harder for ALL of us. 😭 We need solidarity and material support, not scapegoats. Some of us are literally crowdfunding just to relocate somewhere safer.

This. This. This. This.

$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.

People don't remember that gay marriage was really polarizing, not only politically but even in the LGBTQ community. The people backing the court cases were considered by many in the community to be mavericks drawing negative attention and wasting goodwill on a losing issue.

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

On Friday, I'm recording a pod about *repowering*, ie, replacing solar panels & batteries that are nearing the end of their lives with new, more efficient ones. A new report claims it could unlock 67 GW of solar capacity and 92 GW of battery storage by 2040, with no new land needed! Got questions?

Not just the fastest, or the cheapest, or the best, but the *only* possible solution to climate change is a rapid global buildout of clean energy infrastructure. If you're standing in the way of that, you're not working on climate change & should be honest with yourself about your priorities.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, a new Brattle report finds that batteries have up to 66% *more* system value when placed at the grid edge, distributed, rather than centralized in large utility-scale installations.

Trump has been given more grace for his outrageous behavior than Joe Biden ever received for even the most minor faux pas. Biden could stumble over a word and it would dominate the news cycle. Trump can insult reporters, curse, mock people, and go into unhinged rants and it’s glossed over.

This is what we were posting about earlier. Please take your time and double-check your selections before submitting your ballot.

National Democrats are suing President Donald Trump, accusing his administration of intimidating election officials and asking a federal court to block him from interfering in the midterm elections.

🚨NEWS: Roger Marshall's top donor, 30-year business partner and good friend is a private equity mogul who has bankrupted hospitals across the country. Marshall and his wife have invested in several funds from the private equity firm, known as Nueterra. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/21/a...

If you're not watching Al Jazeera investigates live now, you *really* should The most remarkable undercover footage I've ever seen. Turning Point UK actively involved in soliciting what they think is a hit UK police really need to be watching www.aljazeera.com/video/live

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Dan Drezner has a plea for the Wall Street Journal to stop publishing “steaming piles of horseshit” until they figure out what is actually going on with the op-ed contributors... (1/4)

Manafort has been on a crime spree for my entire life.🤬

The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

NEW: America Next—the PAC paying plants to heckle Abdul El-Sayed at events—gave $1 million to support a Missouri ballot measure that would reimpose an abortion ban and prohibit youth gender-affirming care. Vote Yes on Amendment 3 is new group by former FBI/MO AG Andrew Bailey w/ ties to Josh Hawley

Meta gave $1M to Trump's inauguration fund — and Mark Zuckerberg himsef has helped bankroll Trump's ballroom. Now Trump's DOJ has halted a years-long criminal investigation into allegedly enabling and profiting from illegal drug sales on its platforms. Funny how that works, huh?

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of North Carolina voters could be disenfranchised over minor technical issues with their ballots after a court upheld new GOP-backed rules, new data reveals. Ballots are already being rejected at a rate of ~3% — double the rate seen in 2022. https://demdock.com/4ivnewh

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

Nationalizing SpaceX may be necessary temporarily, but the ultimate solution is to re-establish NASA in its place. No more overreliance on the private sector. Bring it all in-house. Fully fund the government. Make American space exploration . . . great again.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Right, the problem was that it showed this correspondent was (1) biased & bigoted and (2) unable to understand what had actually transpired at the event, both of which are disqualifying for a reporter.

Whether it’s luxury fishing trips, yachts, or private jets, the SCOTUS justices are long overdue for some strict scrutiny. SCOTUS reform must be a priority for any incoming Democratic majority and @kateshaw.bsky.social has handed them the 4-step plan to make that happen: youtu.be/PBxxGI-IRXQ?...

Marisa's entire piece is terrific, but this part has really stuck with me. A group of College Republicans decided that El-Sayed wasn't "welcome" in the Senate and set out to stop him.

Vice President JD Vance likes to cite food stamp recipients who he says drive Lamborghinis. But the White House ignores a far more prevalent form of fraud: transnational gangs stealing money from SNAP recipients.

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

Why 👏 aren't the journalists 👏 who relentlessly questioned every 👏👏 minor Biden health issue 👏 asking 👏👏 about this 👏👏 daily?

So…is someone gonna ask them about this? It’s been obvious since the summer that he’s wearing some sort of mechanical braces on his legs that seem anchored to something not insubstantial around his waist & ass. Other presidents would absolutely be asked about this! Do we have a bionic POTUS? Fair Q!