I understand why people nationally don't "get" Troy Jackson. Truly. But. Troy Jackson could win in Alabama. Idk if Maine is his to win. But dammit man. He would win here.

This country is done, man. The right wing is too morally bankrupt to allow a peaceful and prosperous nation exist and function.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"

Abandoning Ukraine will be a stain on the United States for the rest of time

This is clearly not acceptable

If AI is being renamed "Supreme Intelligence" I believe it is only fair , equitable, and accurate to rename the Roberts Court to the "United States Artificial Court".

ARIZONA STATE: Tempe Police brutally push, tackle, and punch cheerleader Eryn Bonner in the street 😳 (They dropped felony charges but are still pursuing misdemeanors) 🤔 More: www.themarysue.com/arizona-stat...

Shoalsfest and Jedd Tweedy are the best October vibes.

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.

Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh yeah that’s the good stuff

The fact that there are conservative assholes at a Drive-By Truckers & Jason Isbell show is incomprehensible to me.

Restaurants are warning that the tariffs Ken Paxton supports could end free chips and salsa.

Nice evening for some DBT and Jason Isbell. Even if it requires me to be in Florence.

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...

‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.

prospect.org

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

documentcloud.org

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.

We fight for democracy by showing up, not just where winning is easy, but where someone has been told not to even bother. I ran in one of those places, and I lost, but the next Democrat won’t have to start from scratch. Now imagine doing that in every district. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

The Only Race We Can’t Win...

Is the one we don’t run

open.substack.com

Cell phone plans: famously non-predatory.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rick Scott: "Obamacare has been a disaster, so what we gotta do is we gotta go back to let the private sector work. Give you the choices ... treat it like a cell phone. You know what plan to buy."

This is going to move the needle in Alabama. Just... Not the way we want it to. Right now would be the perfect time for a Aubie/Big AL "Black or White" video.

NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?

I can absolutely imagine a scenario where this government attempts to claim people who hold multiple passports and people who hold no passport are not part of the official "citizen voter roll".

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 3w ago

NEW: The Trump administration will start using passport records, which include the private data of everyone who has ever applied for a U.S. passport, as it hunts for noncitizens on voter rolls. The report comes amid pro-voting challenges seeking to block the creation of state citizenship lists.

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

propublica.org

These people don't know how insurance works. But sure, go ahead and kick out the people who make the system actually (barely) function. And how, exactly, is it fraud to pay for something but not use it?

Byrum Brown seems confused about what he is and what his best qualities actually are. If he would embrace them earlier in a game it could turn Ls into Ws. He wants to be a pocket passer to convince NFL scouts. But he's not a pocket passer. At his best he is bootleg Chambliss. I'd take that.

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

thehandbasket.co

The family of my 5th Grader's best friend is self-deporting this weekend despite legal status. The kid was born here. They've been here 20 years. Gutted.

I wouldn't consider myself a violent person. I'm not prone to conflict. But multiple times over the last week I have found myself thinking about how easy it would be to absolutely beat the shit out of everyone in Trump's orbit. They like tests of "Masculinity". I assume they'd be up for a fight.

Shameful. It's also just abundantly clear that Trump does not, and does not care to, have any clue what the American people want. Israel's (and specifically Netanyahu's) favorability in the US is at an all-time low. But I mean, thanks for giving Republicans another thing to defend.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w ago

The Trump administration is preparing a multibillion-dollar sale of 40,000 bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds each, including 20,000 MK-84s, one official said. An MK-84 explosion can rip through metal and concrete, and can create large craters in the earth. https://wapo.st/4xpN2hC