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I'm not saying that recruiting a spoiler Dan Sullivan to run for Senate in Alaska is what *I* would have done, but "this is legal and actually happens a lot" is a wild To Be Sure paragraph to bury in what's framed as a big, splashy expose of partisan skullduggery www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

NEW on @zeteo.com Sources say Amy Acton's estranged mom seemed mentally unwell when Ramaswamy's ad was filmed & she had trouble keeping a coherent narrative on the past. Some wanted to vet her more, but *Ramaswamy himself* wanted to pushed ahead. From @jsweetli.bsky.social & @swin24.bsky.social:

I was curious if this had been polled, and yep, 71.5 percent of Israeli Jews oppose Arab party participation in government www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

before the election, doing dogpile coverage on Trump's heavily documented and extremely plausible rape allegations would be Political and therefore improper. after the election it's time to turn the page, let bygones be bygones, look forward not backward, bsky.app/profile/hoff...

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

AES going long on various OSU players he hates could win him both senate seats somehow

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

the ADL is more mad about Zohran calling a neighborhood Eastern European than Elon giving a Nazi salute Zohran derangement syndrome is real

Good summary by @evanurquhart.bsky.social: "While the screed goes on and on, there’s nothing more there, no subtle nuance, no legitimate concerns. There’s only hate, a few weak protestations that it isn’t hate, and even more seething, naked hate."

RIP

i think "vote dem across the board, but for the 4 very worst dems on trans rights you can leave them blank" is a reasonable position (& a reasonable compromise between vbnmw & fears about dems going full uk labour)

with all of my heart i hate this rat motherfucker

Do we think the sombreros were included in the prompt or did grok just assume they wanted it randomly racialized

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

In 2005 the chief concern of society should have been whether or not teen boys were too into puka shell necklaces

Imagine if Biden or any Dem said stuff like this. Front page headline gaffe for 3 days minimum

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

I will keep making this point: Center left liberals can’t dismiss El-Sayed as a “below average” candidate without acknowledging that 90 percent of the GOP rhetoric against him is outright racist. Ramaswamy will face a penalty for his race, I’m sure, but Acton is not running a racist campaign.

Over on X, an account with the handle @DemsForMike and the display name "Democrats for Mike Rogers" was created shortly after Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. A quick review reveals that the account is being amplified almost entirely by Republicans, however.

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

Lula was at his lowest... fat, nasty and broke. Electoral prospects in shambles. He came on this bitch mad as hell!!!

imagine if a democratic candidate anywhere said something like this about a jewish candidate, would be a ten-alarm fire in every media outlet for days. but the literal president promoting this sort of insane bigotry against a muslim won't even merit a story

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

for one sec i did think this was about Sherlock which is an incredible image

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

The plan: Instead of giving Knicks employees championship rings, use them as a lure to see who needs mandatory cybersecurity training

I enjoy a wild theory but Vance just straight-up hates women - HATES them - and is a guy so steeped in MAGA and Thiel nonsense he doesn't have any read on how this would play outside of those groups.

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Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

This, to me, is community ❤️

This is how it works repeatedly with Trump — something pretty much everyone agrees is fucked up then Trump jumps in to side with the fucked up thing, and the result is not a story that's like "Trump sides with fucked up thing" but to change the fucked up thing to instead become "controversial"

Ramaswamy is doubling down on the ad starring Amy Acton's abusive mother defending Acton's rapist and calling her a liar about it at age 12 because Republican politicians and voters ideologically support the physical and sexual abuse of women and children by men, whom they see as their owners.

Scandalously, Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, wants Dems to run things. They just think it’s nefarious for our side to want any amount of power. Like 2004, when one of the National Review guys wrote a book called like “The Plot To Bring Down A President” about Kerry trying to normally get elected.

The biggest danger to this administration is being a non-white person who is funnier and better at posting than them. That's why they're arresting this woman's family members for running a weed store two weeks before an election. She has the juice and that's dangerous.

At one of my earliest jobs, the editor-in-chief asked me to do an article with a lawyer who specializes in getting people out of speeding tickets about how speeding tickets are bullshit, and anyway, the eic had just gotten a big speeding ticket.

I wonder if there’s any group other than Muslims you could write this about and keep your column at @theatlantic.com

It's a choice (a bad one) to tell readers this driver "passed too close to cyclists" when there's video evidence showing he drove his car into them, made contact and hurt someone. Fellow journalists: we can explore the nuances of punishment for drivers without obfuscating their dangerous behavior.