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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Hurrah! It’s the 534th anniversary of the day Rodrigo Borgia became Pope Alexander VI, proving his eligibility for the role by dangling his knackers through a special chair with a hole in, because that story is ABSOLUTELY TRUE* *well, apart from all the bits that aren’t

Fascinating -- I did not know any of this www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.

ICE killed another person in a vehicle, this time in Maine. Again, federal agents were not wearing body cameras. Expect the same routine: agents claim they feared for lives, the claims will be unsupported, and no accountability. Expect it to keep happening. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/13/p...

The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is asking for help with funeral and burial costs, legal expenses, everyday living costs, and the wife’s needs, who has lost her lifelong companion and sole provider.

Still one of the best films of this decade.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

Hope he’s ok.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

dudes rock

"The photo team confirmed the frog is real... The condition of the frog, however, is uncertain."

Hakeem Jeffries is absolutely worthless. His only demand is that Dems get a briefing on what just happened. “Far too many questions remain unanswered…”

And they have a plan

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Holy shit

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

The Beautiful Game

Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.

Trump is raising taxes on working people in order to lower the top tax rates on high income earners. His own economic advisors admit it, openly. Will the media tell voters this fact or will they steelman a more appealing, imaginary rationale.

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda

Many Dem consultants urge adopting bad GOP positions. Better to adopt proven GOP tactics. Republicans made issues out of nothing through repetition and outrage. A national security breach implying many more (Signal? Not DoD comms?) must be made into an issue by Dems. It won't just become one.

[with great and aeon-scoured weariness] but her emails

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

“We obstruct everything until Elon Musk is gone” is a clear message about an unpopular figure who is doing unpopular things

I still don’t understand why Democrats would negotiate a budget when the Trump administration claims unilateral authority to cancel any spending it dislikes. As long as congressional Republicans endorse that position, they are not legitimate negotiation partners! An agreement with them has no value!

I think multiple elected officials just nonchalantly being like “Elon Musk is not a government employee and has zero authority so his words are basically toilet paper” would probably result in one of the most epic public breakdowns and illegal threats against federal officials we’ve ever seen

It’s not the fucking bird flu. That would cause some price fluctuations, but not a lot. It’s the fact that bird flu provides an excuse for massive corporations to reap unheard of profits by working together to fix prices.

DC! Join me today at 5:30 pm eastern. Stand up and fight back against the bulldozing of our rights and services. The federal government is working people providing services for working people. This is our government and our money. “Waste” is war and forced poverty.

A whole lot of incumbent Democrats in DC are simply not up to this moment and need to be both (1) shamed into whatever action we can get from them and (2) removed at the soonest opportunity.

Wrote about this recently. I sincerely believe Musk wants to be emperor of the world, and no I don’t think that’s hyperbole.

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup