My response to Healy:

What billionaires are doing in California to fight prop 40 is a lot wilder than the Alaska multiple Dan Sullivan thing, which at least had the virtue of being funny.

Lois Beckett@loisbeckett.bsky.social · 14h ago

"If there’s an impediment, just buy it.” Opponents of California's billionaire tax tried to kill the ballot measure by PURCHASING THE FIRM THE UNION USED TO COLLECT SIGNATURES, so they would *own the signatures* @darakerr.bsky.social reports. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · yesterday

Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.

there was a new rape allegation against the president of the United States *this week*

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · yesterday

it actually is making me a little crazy to see people treat “got a guy with the same name to get on the ballot” as the height of scandal. people have used more cutthroat tactics to win student council seats!

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

The weak version would be to quantify and repay losses. A more radical version would have the federal government assume a permanent liability to the institutions and sectors DOGE damaged, which would be a structural endowment with which they can finance their own reconstruction and expansion.

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · yesterday

reparations for victims of doge

The U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted By Sabrina Imbler

The U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted | Defector

This week, one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s most malevolent plots was finally brought to a halt when police in Guinea-Bissau raided the offices of Danish researchers who intended to carry out a hepatiti...

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Corporate consolidation means higher prices, harsher exploitation, and greater economic inequality for New Yorkers. We’ve stood up to these giants before. That doesn’t stop now.

Just last month, DoorDash couldn’t seem to find the money to pay their deliveristas — until our administration forced them to give back $131M+ in stolen wages and penalties. This week, they’ve managed to find $17 billion to acquire one of their main competitors.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: DoorDash just agreed to buy Instacart for $17 billion. Here's what that means for customers and shoppers.

Once again - data center opposition is not some ginned up op or social contagion, they are *demonstrably bad neighbors* run by companies *acting in bad faith*. We are not obligated to be marks.

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · 2d ago

"62 gas-fired generators became public in August after a Floodlight/Guardian visual investigation found them operating without permits." Turns out that "real world constraints" slowing the data center boom include the asthma, heart disease & premature death resulting from the air pollution.

"Shaka, when the walls fell. Picard, on the ocean. Kiazi's children, their faces wet." RIP

Oh captain my captain.

Picard Star Trek

Alt: Picard Star Trek

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what it must feel like to be the apotheosis of a thing loved by so many. The captains’ Captain.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Goodbye to the best to ever do it

Patrick Stewart's passing feels a whole hell of a lot like Dolly's. It's hard to imagine that singular talents found in people born in the working class or working poor will get fostered the ways theirs were. The things that nurtured those talents have been stripped for profit by assholes.

Sejanus has dropped his Gladius. King Leodegrance has taken off his crown. Captain Picard has handed over command of the starship. Safe travels Mr. Patrick Stewart. 1940-2026

no amnesty

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday

ICE paid CoreCivic $495 million for a prison in Minnesota that's only worth $75 million. Asked why, CoreCivic said, “The federal government ultimately determined the sale price following its assessment process.” CoreCivic donated half a million dollars to Trump.

This one hurts. 💔 Rest well, Patrick. 🖖🏼

Investigate all 40 for abdicating their public responsibilities

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · yesterday

First they came for Ilhan Omar—and forty House Democrats didn’t do jack shit.

This kind of censorship is deeply, deeply fucked up @moderation.bsky.app You say you want journalists and high profile accounts to come here. This is a way to erode trust and chase those folks away.

WIRED@wired.com · 2d ago

Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.

This is such an accurate assessment not only of Trump and Vance, but of the fear of standing up to bullies, and what happens when you actually do. (Also, let’s bring back the insult “cur”!)

Laboo👻boo👻 Doll@matchbox30.bsky.social · 2d ago

I haven't seen this Abdul clip posted here yet, and goddamn this is the ENERGY

This is why we can't go backwards. We need to clean house. These are Republicans. Have always been Republicans. They're running as Dems because it's a hustle, not because they believe in anything. No more branches of the Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Schumer party. Make them run as the Republicans they are.

The Detroit News@detroitnews.com · 2d ago

Jason Turkish, a Democratic mega donor, described his decision to back Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed as "putting country before party."

this is literally the first no regret move that would reap INSTANT benefits. low hanging fruit. day one you take this guy out back and put two in the back of his balance sheet and start the deportation proceedings. the rest of them will perk right up. this is easy, easy stuff

putting this guy in the economic dirt would be the easiest thing in the world. all his money is based on either regulatory credit arbitrage or straight up government largesse. you could wipe him out with a stroke of a pen. you could also then jail him. and then deport him.

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: Elon Musk gave his super PAC $76 million in just two weeks of October, and more than half of its new candidate spending went to one race: the Texas Senate fight against James Talarico. He’s now given more than $445 million this cycle, far more than he spent electing Trump.

This is the read. Because this and crypto are what this has all been about.

David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s." Incredible reporting here from @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

University leaders trying to engage the right wing assault on higher education is such a bad idea because the criticism is bad faith, good faith will never be reciprocated, and they have the demolition of the university as a core movement goal. You can’t make peace with it, you can only defeat it.

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wild and revealing interview with Steve Bannon about Trump's attack on universities. ""Universities, Bannon said, are the only reason that Democrats are “able to compete with us.”" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/27/n...

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

in the two weeks since online gambling was banned in Brazil, nationwide retail spending rose 6.5% and 10% in the South and in areas of the Southeast.

exausta@gojosi.bsky.social · 3d ago