Paula Schaap

I was today-years-old when I learned that Amy Acton's mother also killed kittens.

Fuck all the way off, and then do it again.

THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM: Black students in Greensboro turned out on the final Souls to the Polls Sunday in North Carolina. Their turnout might make the final difference on everything from the state supreme court to the balance of #NCGA #NCPol #NCSen thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

Nothing and no one should stand between New Yorkers and their right to vote — least of all the government.
 Early voting is happening now through November 1. Election Day is November 3. See you at the polls!

Every photo of this man looks like an unsuccessful clone of Matthew Rhys

Reading @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's helpful excerpts from the Risk Factors section of Anthropic's S-1 and I have to say it reminds me of so many of the bad sci-fi novels out there, which is why I stopped reading sci-fi when I was *check notes* about 13.

The federal debt chart here is absolutely disasterous. And definite proof that Trump's economic policy is not working. taxfoundation.org/blog/liberat...

Most places will let you look up a sample ballot before you go. Do it. Know what's on it, top to bottom, so nothing surprises you at the table. Check your registration. Pick your day: early, by mail, or Tuesday, Nov. 3. And bring a friend. Fill in the oval. Make your mark. 🇺🇸

what

This is Trump and Rubio's nightmare scenario, because it forces them to either back Delcy's crackdown or plunder Venezuela less criminally.

Never thought of it that way before, but now, yeah.

So, Musk lied when he accused Ukraine of violating Starlink’s terms of service. What a surprise. NOT.

If Christianity wants to stay relevant in the 21st century, they're going to need all kinds of new theodicies to explain how it is that the worst people in the world keep gathering in the same place at the same time, and yet no meteor falls.

Gov. Katie Hobbs has spent her four years in office with a hostile GOP legislature. But Hobbs' lead in the polls gives Democrats their best chance in generations to break the GOP's hold over the state Senate and state House—a body the GOP flipped in *1966* and has yet to lose.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

I hope it has a happy ending

it's literally this simple - I mean, have you SEEN the fucking idiots progressive parties keep getting beaten by? Stop engaging with them in good faith (they don't), and just start incessantly repeating what you will deliver - homes, healthcare, childcare and dignity for all.

📊 A new poll reveals voters overwhelmingly reject Trump’s election-meddling tactics. Voters were given potential scenarios outlining how federal or state officials might respond to the 2026 election process. Overwhelming majorities disapproved of every tactic: https://demdock.com/4yIGP19

A judge recently said she was “furious” and “beyond disappointed” as she grilled Trump’s DOJ over whether they lied about plans to overhaul a historic golf course in D.C. It could signal that the “presumption of regularity” days are coming to an end: https://demdock.com/47VYRlH

How many sex offenders does the Republican Party have???? local12.com/news/local/q...

Yup, that whole “MAGA isn’t racist—it’s merely expressing economic anxiety” media meme was an astoundingly awful lie

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

💪🏽🎉 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

And so it begins. This happened on Saturday at a town a bit down the highway from me. Temporarily closed the polls during early voting.

18 early voting sites in rural Alaska have not been opened .. @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov

compared to the usual one or two other people at the early voting site in Flatbush, today was a crowd. one guy leaving with a sticker summed up the mood when he yelled to his friend, "we got to get these racist motherfuckers out of there"

I'm reading @gilduran.com's The Nerd Rech and have gotten to the part where he's explaining TESCREAL ideologies and I just keep thinking, wow, these tech bros are so scared of dying.

I regret that I have but one like to give to this post.

Lula Goes HARD

lmao apnews.com/article/braz...

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NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.

Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since the woke mob closed the old Cheesecake Factory. So when Vivek Ramaswamy promised to legalize child rape, they finally had something to cheer about again. But then Obama said something elitist.

literally just in the news today

Apparently, in one district Dems hope to flip, the wait online for Early Voting is an hour at some poll sites.

look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

NEW: DOJ just admitted in court that their lawsuit against California is not about outcome determinative issues, it's simply saying that a single non-citizen voting causes the government irreparable harm. That's bananapants.

EXCLUSIVE: GOP candidates could have stopped Wall Street from driving up gas prices with speculative trading. Instead, some of them said they KNEW the oil markets had been compromised ... but did nothing about it. Here are the details...

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted