While I don't think this will have a meaningful affect on Nithya at this point, it does make me question the decision-making of national DSA party leadership and really solidifies my stance on not identifying as any political party.
NEW: DSA's National Political Committee passed two resolutions today aimed at Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, beginning processes that could result in DSA-LA being forced to rescind its endorsement of her this weekend and/or Raman herself being expelled from DSA by January.
Just saw You Can See Everything and two things:
1. What the fuck.
2. I am deeply impressed that the Internet managed to not spoil it even though I waited more than a week to see it.
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
Seriously. Can we please stop with the male characters in relationships with powerful female characters who just whine the whole time about feeling ignored? It's so annoying.
In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.
People taking issue with the words “reduced to” is funny to me, since Bovino went from leading an army to giving a speech about how much he misses Border Patrol in a bike lane while dudes with foreign accents interrupt him to act as unwanted hype men.
Greg Bovino reduced to speaking alongside neo-Nazi and Hitler saluting loser Jake Lang. Check out this video from @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social for more of a breakdown.
Those do-it-yourself microinfusion serum things terrify me. Have we really become a society where we are injecting our own faces with unregulated mail order cosmetics?
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
Horrific.
Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...
Christopher Hale: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent
Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip.
The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century.
But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵
I'm calling it now: the worst fascist to have ever lived is going to win the presidential election in 2028 and the vast majority of people who voted for him/her will say it's because Obama made fun of the Cheesecake Factory.
This is the kind of thing that the right-wing propaganda machine completely latches onto and never lets go until it morphs into a radicalizing moment. It's dumb and no rational person cares, but we are long past rational.
I love the Swedes so much. And Alexander has always seemed to be one of the very few not-awful celebrity men. I just want to be a fly on the wall at a Skarsgard family holiday.
if you give a moment's thought to hitler's crash pad catching fire beyond "i hope the trees are ok" you need to be shaken until you don't even remember that moment. there are pictures. history is preserved there.
Hitler's Eagles Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) deliberately destroyed today.
Part of me likes history being preserved, but another part of me doesn't give a shit, it was a monument to one of history's most evil men.
Thoughts?
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.
every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist
but it's never enough for them to get off the train
Is... is this a cry for help? Because he basically just described at least part of the money laundering operation being overseen by the Trump administration and the transnational organized crime ring they are part of.
Dr Oz denounces "crypto thieves" who "back their truck up to the federal treasury, and dump cash out. And then they use that money to do really bad things."
It's the biggest penalty ever levied against Mark Zuckerbeg's Meta, something that will actually hurt the social media giant's bottom line www.jezebel.com/meta-25-bill...
People keep saying "But if we tax the billionaires once, California will just want to tax them more and more!" and yes, that is exactly why I'm voting in favor of Prop 40. Tax those monsters out of existence. It would be the greatest joy.
I've known the LAPD is horrible for almost my entire existence (I was 9 when the Rodney King beating happened), but living here is like an entirely different understanding of the fact that they are basically a pointless organization outside of brutalizing civilians, often for no reason at all.
The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!
The money on the center-left has no idea what it is up against. I see no sign they have wised up from "let's give our money to uncontroversial things" while cutthroat right-wing billionaires buy up media and politicians to ensure their businesses can exploit us unimpeded.