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there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

I wrote about Mark Teixeira, former New York Yankee and longtime resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, who's running for office in Texas as a "Retired Texas Ranger" (gift link 🎁)

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

House Committee on the Judiciary released a report detailing “evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities & DOJ’s cover up. Specific accounts involving 11 Women provide more evidence of potential sex crimes.” #TrumpCrimesOnYourDime

one of several things making me crazy about the latest report on the president being a rapist is that the response more or less comes down to "we knew that already"

It’s the Monday Morning Pawpdate! In this video you will find: ✅ Joy in the snow ✅ Frolicking Fun ✅ Gnawing Cat ✅ Fool Around Town ✅ Snowpocalypse ✅ The Best Way To Start Your Week

Check out how easy this is.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Honored by the support of so many people and organizations in my campaign for Lt. Governor of Texas 🇺🇸

Three days after the August primary, election workers in one Washington county went to check for late mail-in ballots. They expected no more than a few dozen. Instead, there were more than 500 — each a vote that wouldn’t count.

James Talarico: Before I was ever a candidate, I was a public school teacher. I taught 6th grade language arts at Rhodes Middle School on the west side of San Antonio — one of the poorest zip codes in Texas.

I wrote about all the bullshit the Trump admin is doing to Ilhan Omar--and how Ilhan Omar is far from the only person to whom the admin is doing this bullshit ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

#vote #texas #voteblue @jamestalarico.bsky.social @ginafortexas.bsky.social

Welcome to Texas!

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

"We are looking at a second farm crisis, we're looking at a farmageddon. We lead the nation in farm foreclosures and seeing farm suicide rates skyrocketing." Iowa Dem U.S. Senate Candidate @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social highlights the urgent economic and mental health crisis facing Iowa farmers.

ProPublica is looking into the ways insurers’ continued use of prior authorization is impacting patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests, medical equipment or medication.

A military spouse was detained by ICE after she showed up to a Navy base to pick up her family’s military ID cards. Her husband, Pedro, applied for a program built to protect the families of people in uniform. That application appears to have been used to find her. apple.news/AGUonOd7GQbC...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

#ResistanceRoots “People have to vote because someone died for you to have that right. Someone marched for you, someone sang for you, someone suffered for you to have the right to vote, particularly people of color. That’s why we should vote, if nothing else.” — Tarana Burke

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1969: The coach of the University of Wyoming football team dismisses 14 Black players for requesting to hold a silent protest against Brigham Young University. The Black 14 incident spurred institutional change, but Repub policies are causing renewed friction. /1

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Texas, it’s officially time! 🗳️💙 Early voting: October 19–30! Don’t wait until Election Day. Make your plan, find your polling location, and make your voice heard. Find your nearest polling place at mytexasvotes.com. Let’s Go Texas! 🔥 #VivaHerAlliance #VoteTexas

It's hard to get attention when people are focused on the midterms, but politics will continue after November. On the horizon: a federal bill addressing "organized retail crime" and another addressing "carjacking." Both of these would be disasters and give DHS more power.

They defunded the data police, the financial police, and the tax police www.economist.com/business/202...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 These are the actual ax handles a white mob used to assault Black youth staging peaceful sit‑ins in Jacksonville, FL on August 27, 1960. That's right—children! True story.😪 Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

We live in the era of second generation school shooting survivors. “Mom who lived through 2001 school shooting comforts her sons who managed to survive Thursday”

Tomorrow we are going to vote, with some friends from our community, and then all having lunch after. Consider doing the same, fellow Texans. Celebrate doing your civic duty.

Voters across the state are competing to get the most folks to the polls this week... Reach254.com makes it easy to get out the vote with your friends and family. It's going to take every one of us to make history on November 3!

If you didn't grow up during the Cold War & the Cuban Missile Crisis, or practice bomb drills in school in case Russia attacked us, you can't really understand the slap in the face that Trump's embrace of Putin is to those of us who did. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

Nod to @marisakabas.bsky.social, independent journo who broke this. www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teep...

October 15, 2017 marks the nine-year anniversary of the Me Too movement. Me Too went viral with millions of women’s stories, & that movement began with Tarana Burke, while Alyssa Milano asked women to utilize the simple hashtag #MeToo. Nobody understood just how many of us there were. Nobody #Pinks

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

There needs to be serious accountability for this cop at a South Jersey HS who put a Black mom in a chokehold when she showed up to deliver menstrual products to her straight-A student daughter www.inquirer.com/news/new-jer...

Netflix is laying off 1,000 workers — its largest layoff ever. In 2025, Netflix had a net income of $11 billion (up 26%). Its CEO was paid $53M (255x more than the median employee). And it just raised prices for the second time in just over a year. Corporate greed in a nutshell.

CBS: Georgia voters set a first-day early voting record for a midterm election Tuesday, casting more than 188,600 in-person ballots. Myself, my husband, and my dad have all cast our ballots for Jon Ossoff, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Shawn Harris & voted blue down ballot. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

If you're a fraternity alum (from any school/state) who experienced sexual violence as a member, I'm here to listen. I understand this is extremely sensitive and I will treat your story with the utmost discretion and care. Reach out— Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co