Benj

"...some of the state’s most rural counties have rejection rates ranging from 16% to 30%..." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

What is crazy is about these requests is that DOJ will not reveal its methodology for matching names; it would be interesting how much is reliant on breaking individualized privacy silos at the various agencies.

I think what’s going on here is that Trump is sending lists of names that sound immigranty to state election officials and claiming - with no evidence - they’re non-citizens as a pretext to seize ballots.

Can’t wait until a Democratic president is called out of touch with real America for scraping all the gold shit off the White House.

How is it that another credible rape allegation and multiple assertions of further wrongdoing emerge about the president the week before an election and no one were to care? New concessions to the Russians? More revelations about his family Russia ties? About Kushner Trump corruption? How? How? How?

Amazing how well "hey, I'm a piece of shit, but vote for me anyway" works for the GOP.

Never before has a friendless, shitty, lesser power that is in the middle of LOSING A WAR been able to extract concessions from its stronger, more powerful (ostensible) opponent. This is a mind-boggling level of stupidity on Trump's part.

A microcosm of everything with this administration lnk.thebulwark.com/4yJeY0I

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

What’s the range of a Ukrainian sea drone again

JD Vance: I don't know the names of countries I'm doing war diplomacy with and won't learn, put me in charge of foreign policy Susan Collins: I have no idea what any judge will do, I don't look at their record, put me back in position to oversee judges GOP voters: Thank you, this is what we want

Our media is utterly broken

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

the thing that has changed big time is most of the media companies are owned by straight up MAGA chuds doing outright propaganda. the NYT is one of the few that has old fashioned MSM brain bsky.app/profile/pope...

Trump has been the consummation of many long term Republican goals: killing Roe v Wade, bombing Iran, undoing the civil rights movement, killing the administrative state. He's also managed to leave a party apparatus small enough you really could drown it all with just one bathtub.

Back in the day I spent way too much time debating conservatives on cable TV. That question was my go-to: They'd say something outrageous, and I'd say "What are you talking about? Give us a specific example/evidence of the wild claim you just made." They'd sputter and dodge. It worked every time.

Reporters who have access to people like Vance, I beg you: The necessary follow-up is "That's a pretty serious charge. Can you give us A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE of El-Sayed expressing 'anti-white racial bigotry'?" Asking for specifics from people like him is a magic accountability tool. Use it!

Todd Blanche—the President’s personal lawyer—went to a prison to arrange hush money to be given to a sexual predator and place it on the record, because he knew that the Republicans, who control Congress, would nominate him to be AG anyway.

This right here was the most damning part of the report; Todd Blanche interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell to signal to her the following: (1) we know that there is material related to Jane; (2) we know that you have information related to Jane; and (3) we will move you to a minimum security prison.

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

In Jared Kushner, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman found an American partner he could steer in whichever way he wanted.

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

This is the sort of thing Americans have spent decades mocking African and South American nations for doing

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

More evidence emerges linking unrest in France to large-scale Russian influence operations. Both Macron and Merz discuss it. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

gonna lose his mind when he discovers where english numbers come from

Bigotry & stupidity is the republican brand...

Lol congrats to all the chuds who spent the past 24 hours clutching their pearls pretending that Obama insulted Cheesecake Factory just so Trump could actually insult it.

She wants to know what Biden did for farmers? 🤔

I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

This is a lawsuit only in the same sense that any old crazy person can roll up to the courthouse and hand in a napkin scrawled in crayon about how the lizard people are eating their thoughts.

The time to determine whether Dan J. Sullivan Jr. could appear on the Alaska ballot for U.S. Senate was months ago, and Alaska courts did so. What's additionally batshit about this is that the candidates' names are printed on the ballot in a way which makes abundantly clear who's who.

A reminder also that this office has no U.S. Attorney, and the guy running the office — as first assistant — was ruled to have improperly served too long as the appointed U.S. Attorney.

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.