Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎

Want to fix deficit? Then: - Medicare for All saves $1T/yr according to Yale. - Cut DoD to inflation adjusted FY2000 saves $250B/yr - 2% wealth tax on estates over $10M brings in $800B/yr. - Cato says immigrants net +$400B/yr. Make legal easy. - Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies & tax breaks.

“I don’t think anyone will switch back to diesel trucks,” said the 39-year-old, who has spent the last three years behind the wheel of an electrified hauler. “Nobody wants to return to a last-generation technology.”

As the article notes, he's running for the House in TN's gerrymandered 9th District against @justinjpearson.bsky.social, who was only four points behind in the polls when this story broke. Might be too late to pull it out, but wave elections can be tricky. If you're in the area, get involved!

EXCLUSIVE: Two books, sold inside two Christian nationalist conferences, provide arguments for followers of Christ potentially murdering abortion providers—and a warning for America. 1/2

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 recommend reading this www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Gina Hinojosa entered politic because she saw her son’s school closed & wanted to fight back. I know if she’s elected to the governor’s mansion, she’ll fight to make sure very child in Texas has a strong public school education so they can soar. @ginafortexas.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/aft....

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The genocidal state cannot stop itself from continuing to commit a genocide, and all the ‘ceasefire’ has meant is reduced media coverage. Israel has never stopped murdering civilians and destroying homes.

How much of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas (i.e. already found, pays to extract at today’s prices) can still be burned for a 66% chance of holding 2 °C? About 30%. The other 70%, 2,040 billion tonnes of CO₂, are stranded assets. Burn it all and CO₂ alone means roughly 2.7 °C Purple = added

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Nazi ICE agents are now terrorizing Brown people in Puerto Rico, demanding IDs from people who are Americans by birth. 🚨 Watch and Repost to everyone! bsky.app/profile/resi...

More of this 👇🏻

“They have dragged people from their houses, and prevented the media from getting into the district to cover up what is happening. “Netanyahu and his gang are using Palestinian land to displace Palestinian people, closing the city, closing the mosque, to achieve their political goals.”

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

More than 5,000 people in Gaza have lost limbs since October 2023. One in five is a child, according to WHO. Yet Israel continues to restrict prosthetics and rehabilitation supplies. How much longer will this inhumanity be allowed to continue? mondoweiss.net/2026/10/gaza...

U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was brutally detained by ICE in Long Beach while he yelled for help and said his arm was broken. This is a pattern of abuse and violence from ICE. No one is safe and our communities are being terrorized. We need ICE out.

Montgomery County Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Hyun Chen, a 74-year-old man who has been reported missing. Detectives from the 4th District Investigative Section are actively working on this case.

Rome has clearly put out word that any clergy who recently appeared with Trump must repent or else. www.archmil.org/posts/a-publ...

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

West Bank…

Phenomenal

NEW POLL: Overwhelming majorities of voters oppose possible efforts to disrupt or deny the midterms. The takeaway? Be ready to speak out against efforts to delay election certification or block official results — you won't be alone. Dive into the full analysis here: https://protdem.org/3UkxKgP

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Check out how easy this is.

I have found anecdotally that this is literally true, many people simply do not know that young people do not get the same break on college that they did

In January, a senior Pentagon official summoned Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador and lectured him on American military power. Then someone in the room invoked the Avignon Papacy. Vatican officials read it as a threat. The pope has not given an inch since.

Nailed it.

The power is with the people, and the people are with @scolom.bsky.social. Mississippi, make sure you are ready to pick another senator on Tuesday, November 3.

The "voter fraud" rumors out of AZ, based on an "undercover investigation" into voter registration efforts, are spreading via a slightly new arrangement (since 2024) of right-wing & conservative influencers. Interactive version of this graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...

ICE goons harassed a father, forcibly removing him from his vehicle while his wife and one-year-old child were present.

The students knew they would be marked with an unexcused absence for walking out. Still, about 430 did. "We don't care, because we've got to support our people," "We've got to support our people who belong here." The hundreds of students, who left their campuses from 7 Santa Fe schools.

In LA, police and federal agents are shooting out the eyes of people protesting ICE. I detailed the accounts of 5 young men who lost their eyes after protesting for @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/he-went-to-d...

www.chicagotribune.com/2021/06/08/s...

A one-year-old girl watched masked ICE agents beat her father on the roadside in Donna, Texas. He is a U.S. citizen, and his wife had already told the agents that they were Americans. The agents continued the assault as his wife watched helplessly. Repost this everywhere!

Service members, contractors, and military families are now coming forward with images they say the Pentagon hid, and the accounts behind them are brutal. From Saudi Arabia to Kuwait to Jordan, American bases were pummeled by Iranian drones and missiles. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

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At DCA. Flight delayed by 3.5 hours, about the same as flight time. Reason? Presidential movement. 😡

I feel like it should be a much bigger story that in early 2025 the MAGA regime requested a cybersecurity agency to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it and directed them to not alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws. That’s called setting up for rigging an election.

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My latest: Trump’s Capitulation to Putin Is Undermining U.S. National Security thedispatch.com/article/trum...

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?