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David DeWitt@daviddewitt.bsky.social

A Tennessee Democratic lawmaker is calling for election officials to resolve complaints that voting machines are defaulting to candidates they didn’t want to select but stopped short of saying ballots are rigged. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/27/r...

ohiocapitaljournal.comTennessee officials urge caution amid reports of ballot problems • Ohio Capital JournalA Tennessee Democratic lawmaker calls for election officials to resolve complaints voting machines are defaulting to candidates in error.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired. trib.al/lHGC6bl

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.

Nathan Newman@nathansnewman.bsky.social

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Kenny Lauderdale@kennylauderdale.bsky.social

This PHP stuff is so depressing because there's gonna be 15 Years worth of old sites that are going to become lost media now.

John O’Donnell@jodami.bsky.social

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social

This could be turned into a movie and just as easily be a comedy as a tragedy as a thriller.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social

Mega-donors giving $1M+ make up 54% of GOP fundraising so far this cycle. It’s not just billionaires lining up for Trump’s open air auction of federal policy and contracts. The GOP also spammed and grifted its own small-dollar base into oblivion.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🚨 WILLIAMSON COUNTY: Reports of Tennessee voting machines flipping Democratic/ @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social votes to Republicans/@marshablackburn votes 🤔 (Folks in Memphis have said the same)

James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social

Bad news the Eagles starting left tackle is out for the season too after team doctors drowned him to see if he was a witch

Link 💪🎀💪@labmem765.bsky.social

jesus christ

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

One of the Republican party's most prominent voter-registration activists has paid multiple people with criminal records to run get-out-the-vote operations in Pennsylvania since 2024. Want to meet them? ICYMI Brendan Hartnett:

lnk.thebulwark.comGOP’s Top GOTV Operative Employed an Organizer Convicted of StrangulationAnd that’s not the only person with a criminal history who we found on his PAC’s payroll.

Cas Mudde@casmudde.bsky.social

The National Security Strategy already made it crystal clear in word, now the U.S. intervention on behalf of Russia confirms it in practice: the Trump administration has transformed the U.S. from an ally into an enemy of the EU.

Drew McWeeny@drewmcweeny.com

Once again, Variety runs an uncritical advertisement for AI slop dogshit that doesn't even have a distributor. Jay Penske is obviously invested heavily in AI, and the trades are suspect from top to bottom because of such obvious conflicts of interest. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

variety.com‘Merry the Christmas Witch’ Director Estimated Movie Would Cost $80 Million — but Says With AI, He Made It for $1.5 Million (EXCLUSIVE)Director Tom Walsh said he produced the two-hour film for $1.5 million, perhaps serving as a test case for the types of projects AI can help make.

Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com

A lot of people are gonna jump to saying "this is so ESPN and the Big Ten and SEC can get paid." Sure but that's the 100 level course version. The root is that this sport has a fat administrative and coaching class that doesn't wanna look bad for spending money on players without playoff berths

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

WAPO: “.. all the major donors to .. Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com

EXCLUSIVE: Four years ago, the NFL pledged $7 million to non-profits as part of Deshaun Watson’s suspension. But that money didn't all go to outside charities. Instead, the league steered some of the money back to itself to pay for its own internal "training." www.foiaball.com/p/nfl-deshau...

foiaball.comWhat happened to the NFL's $7 million Deshaun Watson fund?It didn’t all go to outside charities.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.

peter wilt@pwilt1.bsky.social

Fine. How 'bout this?

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

US 10-year Treasury yields risk hitting 6% for first time since 2000, Pimco says www.ft.com/content/a752...

ft.comUS 10-year Treasury yields risk hitting 6% for first time since 2000, Pimco saysBond giant’s investment chief warns that further sharp rise in borrowing costs is ‘feasible’ as market participants are forced to unwind losing bets

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

This seems to me like a kind of formalism - one side isn't sure, the other side is, ergo the latter has more hubris, unwarranted certainty etc. But the substance here deserves a hearing. The serious suggestion that LLMs might be self-aware/conscious etc is the pretty huge claim that requires some...