Rebecca Kennison

@enzoreds.bsky.social and I wrote about this for @journalspectre.bsky.social a while back. But if you don't have the patience for long reads you can just remember that before cynical corporate appropriations of "wokeness"/DEI there was open support for apartheid spectrejournal.com/whats-new-ab...

I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

When Donald Trump launched his campaign, he was caught hiring paid actors to pad the audience. (I also happened to be the one that busted him doing so). www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

with all of my heart i hate this rat motherfucker

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!

Yesterday we brought the spirit of the beautiful game to life at the Cost of Living Classic, where New Yorkers came together for an afternoon of free soccer and friendly rivalries.

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...

The next 10 days will be monumental, with elections in Serbia, Brazil, Israel and the US. This one was a victory for democracy.

Like many others I assumed this was funny hyperbole -- "call in the national guard!" type of thing -- but no it's a description of events.

The dumbest takes are MAGA trying to claim Obama’s line about Trump making the WH look like a Cheesecake Factory is somehow elitist because CF fans will be offended that someone doesn’t want the WH to look like a chain restaurant. Even their culture war BS is lame this cycle.

Two critical elections tomorrow: the runoff for the Brazilian Presidential election which could cement Trump’s influence over South America if Bolsonaro wins; and the snap election in Serbia which Putin will be closely watching.

Tens of thousands of Lula supporters rally on eve of Brazilian election runoff

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

When there’s finally an effort to hold these criminals accountable for the crimes they committed, we‘re going to see a lot of pundits wring their hands and say it’s politically motivated and insist we need to turn the page and look forward and a lot of other cliches that dumb assholes like to use.

the only white people in the US scared to show their faces are klansmen, nazis, and ICE agents

“I feel like I’m being penalized by the campaigns that I’ve supported.”

one thing I will say about the preemptive pardon bullshit is it is not the behavior of a group of people who have a definitive plan to retain power forever

The Supreme Court ruled that the President cannot do this. But nice try, Donald.

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

Elon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason. He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.

Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

Using AI to take her out of her hijab (and then pretending she’s bald) is fucking sending me to a level of molten rage I never knew existed

Obama points out that while we may be struck with Trump for two more years, we are not stuck with a spineless Congress

This is amazing! Most endowments go to buildings, sports, or students. Very few go to faculty… almost as if they are not really important. 🙄

Voted. Fuck those guys

the tacit admission that they were the old racists makes this the most progressive GOP ad of the century

Unlike their motives for creating, funding and airing the ad, which was solely a public service

After sitting on the account for a few years, I finally set up an affiliate link on Bookshop.org -- if you use this link to pre-order my new book, you both support independent bookstores and give me a bit of an extra boost! bookshop.org/a/104234/978...

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Looks like the old racists have once again turned to their usual old, tired racist playbook.

Voters are begging for economic relief and Republicans are running dumb, sloppy campaign ads like this during the Michigan-Indiana game.

Start spreading the news- early voting starts TODAY! Find your poll site at vote.nyc

And don’t forget to flip your ballot to vote on 5 questions about making government run faster.

Happy first day of early voting, New York!

Mississippi police officer Hunter Foster has resigned after shooting into a moving vehicle, resulting in the death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, while pursuing two women suspected of shoplifting from a local Walmart earlier this year, Senatobia Mayor Greg Graves said. Read more: https://cnn.it/4zIlzJM

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

not the biggest thing but I wish we had a Secretary of State who spelled “discreet” correctly

This is "A.i." bullshit and if this account doesn't take it down within minutes, you should block the account.

Flat Armb. My favorite subway station.