Thor Benson

JUST IN: Judge Gleason in Alaska sounds deeply skeptical of DOJ's 11th hour lawsuit there to halt certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. She grants Dems' motion for expedited consideration and notes DOJ waited four months to sue over the ballot. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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"

Well how's he supposed to fill a venue in a Democratic stronghold like.... [checks notes]... Mississippi

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

I'm going to Mexico City for the first time in just over a week 🎉

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The Democrats are not selling Donald Trump??

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

James Comey arguably made Trump president and I guess his punishment is for Trump to indict him forever

#earlyvote midday update 10/26: at least 30 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳🎉 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

Dem Senate candidates have lost a little less than 0.5 pts of vote margin over last 2 weeks, while the generic ballot has trended up for them by about 1 point. Overall state of the race is unchanged: Dems have leads well below size of normal poll error fiftyplusone.news/forecast/sen...

If they actually want to get thru the next two years, there’s not really another choice

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

I wrote about our seriously damaged democracy and why things feel very shaky right now

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Told my husband that the vibe on Bluesky tonight can best be described as “Ewok party.”

Lula really had to defeat a whole family tree of fascists and he did it

The Bolsonaros will now have more time to spend with hospital

Lula Goes HARD

Went to a party tonight and made a friend

Yayyy 🇧🇷