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the actual reason is that the media likes Trump and wants to help him. They didn't like Hillary and they didn't like Biden and wanted to hurt them. That explains why Hillary's emails was covered as a nuclear-level scandal and "Trump is a violent rapist who is best friends with Jeff Epstein" isn't

why it's almost as if wholesale corruption and a refusal to pass a privacy law or regulate data brokers poses a national security risk the U.S. government largely ignores because it's wildly corrupt and enjoys buying much of this data to avoid getting warrants

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

"I am not Cassandra. I accept only one nickname: Cosa Nostradamus, because I see organized crime." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/cosa-nostr...

I know it’s really distasteful and dispiriting and gross to think about, but you won’t understand Trumpist politics or the status of women if you don’t understand that a lot of people aren’t just in denial about the prevalence of rape; they are affirmatively pro-rape.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

And that poisonous worldview is to top to bottom, from the president and oligarchs and dictators down to the corporations and businesses and Inatitutionalists betraying their coworkers and neighbors and communities. It is the issue and it requires so many sea changes, much more than elections.

Democrats refused to invest in media, despite being begged to for decades by everyone from Chomsky to Gore. There are millions of people who get sucked into right wing media without knowing much of anything about politics. www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Everyone is so happy here in São Paulo. Lula won, fascism lost!!!

#PhoneBank #EarlyVote #Oregon Indivisible and Gaslit Nation Halloween Phone Bank Party! Virtual event Join from anywhere Wednesday, October 28 6 – 8pm EDT www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

our system is set up to favor the major parties we have to push out ken martin and all the democrats who want it to be the party that will throw trans people under the bus and defend israel’s genocide and continue to fuck over working people

Election being stolen in Brasil in a major way

"...where's the freeking line for treason?" www.youtube.com/live/FtiuQAt...

Grab some coffee and read this. I actually hate how often Sarah has to reshare this. I do appreciate though; for when I read news and people say "I can't believe this!" And I am not surprised at all, I have this reality confirmation.

Democrats don't want to have these public debates though because they hate their base and don't want to hear from you. This is why they don't post much on Bluesky. This is also why Klein, Yglesias, Smith, etc. are too afraid to post here also. They know that they would lose.

The other reason why popularism is the Democratic Way is that most American left elites are actually libertarians or moderate conservatives. They don't want large welfare spending, restrictions on police misconduct, high taxes on corporate robber barons, or free healthcare and college....

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

The looting of the country by Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, the Trump sons, and their orbit of aides and friends is directly tied to *your* inability to afford housing, health care, child care, and more. It's their illegal wealth versus our ability to live.

America's media environment is being bought on the cheap by far-right oligarchs because Democratic large donors won't invest in media. I just recently heard that a very, very famous person associated with Democratic politics has begged donors for years to invest and has been ignored.

Love this: reading books is active resistance

So the same month that Elon Musk throttled Starlink to run his own military policy, he's also seeking more control over your flow of information. Musk and the Ellisons will control CNN and CBS for news; HBO, Warner Bros, Paramount & more for entertainment; Twitter (X) and TikTok for social media.

At a time when fascist tech zillionaires are using their obscene wealth to fund the entire Republican Party, it's absurd and self-defeating for any Democratic politician to oppose this. This isn't rocket science. They're the bad guys! The people want you to fight them!

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Americans are done with these chaos monsters. Leah Greenberg on how they're fighting back, and how you can join the movement. Listen on Gaslit Nation: https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes/theyre-trying-to-sabotage-the-election-heres-the-plan-to-stop-them/

Trump’s effort to undermine the midterms is already underway. His Justice Department wants California to set votes aside based on claims it admits it can’t verify. The right to vote means little if those in power can decide which votes count. Vote early.

What’s extremely important to remember in this is that for a fascist/authoritarian regime to take hold, it requires the population turning on itself. The government does not have the numbers to do it on its own, it needs people willing to sell each other out and others living in constant fear.

It is so important that European leaders acknowledge the truth as Kaja Kallas does here. Trump and the USG have been trying to force Ukraine to surrender for almost two years. There has been no recent pivot to Russia. It’s been a constant US policy www.euronews.com/2026/10/20/k...

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

🧵Remember when we were told Russiagate was a distraction? That concerns about Trump's relationship with Putin were just political hysteria? Nearly a decade later, all we see is continued aid and comfort to an adversary. We're revisiting what we published in 2018.

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

I’ll repost this and I’m happy people’s eyes are opened but as Sarah Kendzior says in one of her bestselling books—They Knew! The people who could have stopped this in 2020 knew and did nothing. Putin’s puppet—yes from the very beginning. bookshop.org/p/books/they...

the consolidated ad-engagement based U.S. corporate press does not serve you, democracy, or the public interest. It increasingly exists exclusively to coddle the interests of the extraction class, with just enough real reporting peppered in to sell the con.

The Trump administration is reportedly conducting raids in California using its unverified list of 20,000 people it alleges are “likely noncitizens” registered to vote in the Golden State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A good summary here of how much Meta is in the tank for Trump. And a reminder that the authoritarian threat comes not just from within the Trump administration but from its oligarchic allies. Oligarchic power is now a clear and present threat to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

No Kings: Vote Early overcame censorship from Meta, threats of election interference from the federal government, & the LAPD's attempt to shut down the downtown Los Angeles No Kings rally before it started to become the largest single-day early voting activation in American history!

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest