God. Since @carolecadwalla.bsky.social left it, even the @theguardian.com gets it wrong. There weren’t just four meetings between Banks/Leave EU and Kremlin officials during Brexit: the judge in the libel case concluded at least a dozen
Trump: "Abdul Mohammed Al-Sayed. A fake doctor, he's a fake doctor. By the way, if he was using those credentials as a Republican, he would've been run out of the country by now."
NEW: I made some embeds to track Elon Musk's super PAC using FEC data. Our candidate tracker is polling daily so you can jump on this page any time before the election to see where those millions are going (mostly Texas, Ohio, and Michigan so far). Next report is Oct 22.
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009.
"My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead."
"My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."
Any who is advising Democrats to find the center, as they have for the last decade, should just go the fuck away.
Their time has passed. They don’t understand this moment and the dire need to not give ground—especially on stuff like trans rights.
Jettison their whole ideological project.
I think it’s interesting how many people think this post is aimed specifically at Talarico when there are a number of Democrats who have embraced anti-trans rhetoric this cycle.
It’s a horrific and craven move ethically that also happens to be a political miscalculation.
This is really well done, great tour of recent history for those who might not understand the rights trans people have lost or the devastation in learning some Democrats want to entrench those losses rather than reverse them.
When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose
#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using.
When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate
“Testosterone would be used in women only for one of the diagnoses for which there is evidence of efficacy, such as Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, characterized by a distressing level of low sexual interest.”
Now that rape is acceptable in the military again, they want you to enjoy it.
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was practically engineered to break MAGA brains.
American-born (sorry, no “go back” card), ridiculously credentialed (MD + Oxford PhD), explains policy like a normal human, and takes zero crap.
Good luck finding a script for that.
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include?
An abandoned scrunchy from an undisclosed female family member.
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include?
An abandoned scrunchy from an undisclosed female family member.
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include?
a mysterious key that does not unlock any thing
I never thought I would vote for a DSA candidate, but Dem leadership and the party as a whole has been a bunch of cowards against the corruption of the Trump crime family. Ill take a fighter over Stevens & her AIPAC and Panlintr money. Incumbent Dems better start reading the room & start fighting.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'" Hunter S Thompson.
"Stay Waggy!"
CTSD
In theory, the moral clarity and steadfastness demonstrated in this statement condemning Israel’s war crimes should be the bare minimum. But in the meantime, Mamdani is a giant among cowardly politicians.
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
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South Dakota’s No. 2 GOP Sen. Tom Pischke faces 2 felony charges tied to party positions. He forged 16 documents; 13 people filed affidavits saying signatures were forged. The state GOP chair said he will step away from party duties, calling it a bad look.
www.argusleader.com/story/news/p...
This is Richard. He's sometimes accused of not being a real dog because of his weird paws and inability to bark. Thinks his pack would say otherwise. 12/10 for all (IG: richardandtheguardians)
The Democratic donors & many party leaders openly supported and campaigned for Cuomo who has been accused of far worse and was kicked out of the party. That's how much they hated/hate Mamdani.
Also a genocide and supporting a genocidal regime is and was not a red line.
Some uncomfortable truths
An agenda for Supreme Court reform:
- 18 year term limits
- Expand the court to 13 Justices
- Binding ethics rules
- Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation
We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.
Our leadership is mentally unwell, and lots of good, already hurting people see it clearly. They understand the gravity of these moments for our nation, and they are rightly terrified by the lack of accountability, the absence of conscience, and the poverty of empathy.
The US was isolated in its opposition to the adoption of agreed conclusions at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, recording the only “no” vote at the UN on Monday.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
"You all got him McDonalds," says Rep. Brad Knott (R-N.C.), praising the ICE agents for this. "You all did not abduct him."
Hello, DARVO!
"Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim + Offender" is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing "may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior."
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"