Rob Levine

Still living with the trauma from Metro Surge, and one of the two major political parties is filled exclusively with electeds and candidates who endorse, or wouldn't lift a finger to oppose, a campaign of racial terrorism if their leader ever decided to turn up the dial on us again.

Are Elon, Trump and Pete just taking turns helping Russia slaughter Ukraine so that no one of them takes all of the heat for too long

#DoomedToFail - An Analysis of Charter School Closures from 1998 to 2022. Charter school closures, often chaotic & abrupt, take parents by surprise. 1 million kids stranded shows that risk is far from negligible. networkforpubliceducation.org/doomed-to-fa...

Totally against this. Historical still photos are historical artifacts of a moment. This is made up!

Note the key phrase "so many people." Yglesias thinks it's fine—good in fact—that American billionaires are very interested in foreign elections and routinely influence them to promote corruption and fascism. His concern is that filthy plebs like you and me might want better things for everyone.

Lula Goes HARD

Levine v FAA update: We submitted our brief (which is awesome - written by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press) in August. DOJ/FAA was supposed to file their brief in Sept but asked for and got an extension. Their brief is now due on Wednesday. They have so far not offered ANY real defense

The money grubbers always say, 'This time is different' - it never is

Imagine the money worshipers of the Republican Party uttering such heresy!

As Lula told the Steelworkers Union in 2018, "The powerful can kill one, two, or 100 roses, but they'll never stop the arrival of spring." A must read from @lebassett.bsky.social who is on the ground in Brazil. open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...

Iowans deserve clean water & air

Just an example of how bad our health system truly is….

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

Jesse Ventura: “If Donald Trump would have gone in the military, he would have been the guy that wet his bed, cried for his mom, went hysterical, and would be carted out in the middle of the night. The man’s a coward. He’s a bully. All bullies are cowards. That’s why they’re bullies”

Brazilian media has now called Lula’s victory.

"Bananapants" FTW.

Delta is still helping ICE and there are still 2 flights moving our friendals and neighbors out of MN each week, so we're back at it again across from baggage claim 10 at MSP until 10pm tonight.

Truly the only way to describe Trump & the Republicans is despicable

The governor of Bahia calls out the election sabotage, which has been reported in at least 10 states now, and demands extended voting hours. This is a shit show

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Lula has called for the arrest of two officials in connection with the election sabotage and asked to extend voting hours in places where the vote was suppressed

Symptom of our perverted polity that this asshole has made it this far: zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...

Republicans lie whenever they want - this is a HUGE problem in discourse. @startribune.com & @mprnews.org will never ever tell you this crucial fact because both are owned by the same revanchist, Republican political billionaire family, who run the two places as Republican protection rackets

The goal of propaganda is not necessarily to get you to believe false things (though it is that), it's to muddy the waters to literally destroy the notion that anything is true

Cops are supposed to "serve" and protect - not hand you over to armed Republican goons www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Silly talking head - everyone knows the DOJ exists so nobody is ever confused

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

Meanwhile in Brazil, Catholics bishops say they "cannot remain neutral" if they are to ensure that "conscience or history will not condemn" them in the future. #PrayForBrazil #PrayForDemocracy www.ncronline.org/news/brazili...

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

and the term "Homeland" came from the Nazis

So a group is actually gonna bring Thomas Friedman to town to talk about PEACE. Truly Orwellian www.youtube.com/watch?v=0teZ...

This is so on brand for Republicans www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Good work here by Molly Priesmeyer. Star Tribune is about what you would expect from a revanchist Republican political billionaire owner www.thisisbydesign.com/how-the-star...

Hey, it’s Howard and Mitzi Black! Trump's got the Black vote in Georgia! This is a real photo! It's from 2019 at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. Here's the @snopes.com link www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

After the ricing season ... yesterday over a lake near the proposed Talon / Rio Tinto nickel mine

Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

this is not a person. you cannot watch this and think that thing sitting across from Mehdi is a real human being. it feels nothing and believes nothing. it has no immortal soul. there is nothing inside it. if you cut it open you'd find old fiberglass insulation and mouse skeletons.

IOW there will be no $8 billion - it will be forgotten after the election, because Republicans just lie whenever they feel like it.

Your regular reminder that Wall Street banksters made Musk rich enough to do this; and then stuffed his shit stocks into your retirement.

This afternoon on a waterway near the proposed Talon / Rio Tinto nickel mine near Tamarack

Is it just a coincidence that all of a sudden Republicans have unleashed vile ads all over the country?

Major corporations could shut down this authoritarian regime real quick if they wanted to. Make them want to. www.womenspress.com/minnesota-ac...

Ramaswamy is a perfect Republican - a truly vile human being

This is a special kind of idiocracy - claiming you don't do something then bragging you did just that moments later. That kind of shit actually works with Republican voters.

Cathy Young: "It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that Ukraine is being stabbed in the back....what makes this fiasco especially infuriating is that it takes place at a moment when the momentum tilts in favor of Ukraine, which has scored some impressive victories."

So with faking and manipulating polls in the news again can we talk about this huge campaign by the Rs that has now thrown 73 polls into the Senate battlegrounds in the last 6 weeks? We think this is all on the up and up? 1/