Please stop lobbying for high-profile Dems as Speaker of the House or Senate Majority Leader. You don't actually want that. You want people like AOC to be able to be very visibly dismantling the current regime, and communicate both their needs and intentions.

How the rest of the world sees us. And our new Congress doesn't convene for two months.

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 5d ago

Stephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled The battle outside ragin' Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'

Someone claiming to be me and saying they work at Broken Binding Publishing has been contacting authors. They are using the address: simonspanton(dot)co(dot)uk(at)gmail(dot)com. It's NOT me.

Everytime I hear “no political retribution” I think of our country blowing up fishing vessels in the Caribbean and then going back to kill the survivors. Until now, the republicans have owned that unspeakably evil behavior. If the democrats do nothing about it, they are collaborators.

“The results of these elections don’t demonstrate a mere interest in accountability for what Trump and his administration have done to us the past two years; they represent a demand to begin the arduous task of reweaving the fabric of this country from scratch,” writes @marisakabas.bsky.social:

The midterm mandate

Winning is just the beginning. Now's the time to seize power.

thehandbasket.co

OK, Dems. IF this is as great a night as we're all hoping it will be you folks are going to have to actually DO THINGS in the next two years like A LOT OF VERY GOOD THINGS please attend the Zohran Mamdani school of GET SHIT DONE FOR PEOPLE over the holidays because you will have ONE SHOT

If Trump resigned tomorrow, he would have a real chance of not dying in prison.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump has been spectacularly rejected by America and should resign the presidency. Republicans should recognize his position is irrecoverable, on account of his mental condition, his criminality, his broad moral unfitness, and his extraordinary unpopularity. Do they really want him to stick around?

Job One is replacing Schumer. Job Two is replacing Jeffries.

El-sayed was born October 31, 1984 in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last wk.

Fox's Stuart Varney and Jimmy Failla have a meltdown over Bruce Springsteen endorsing Abdul El-Sayed. Stu: I will never play that man’s music on this program again! Jimmy: The idea that Bruce Springsteen’s sticking up for people who weren’t born in the USA is why I'm never watching him again!

When Trump says he's sending 1000 FBI agents to monitor elections, he doesn't mean the polls. He means them to intimidate the people counting the votes at the centralized county and state election boards. Far fewer sites than polling places.

My man looks like a formerly beloved child actor on trial for murdering his family.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

My man looks like he runs HR for the Keebler Elves

When Trump says he "doesn't give a damn" about Americans paying record gas/diesel prices because "we're making a fortune!" he really really truly truly does mean it literally: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/b...

Watching it this afternoon, in memory. The PBS bard-a-thon production of MacBeth. An astonishing production, with Patrick Stewart in the title role.

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Quote tweet this with your favourite Patrick Stewart performance that isn't Star Trek or X-Men.

Just got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns

We can only hope so.

4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 2w ago

Perfect 👇

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

URGENT: Our No Kings Coalition Instagram has been taken down. At about 1:30 PM ET, Meta froze the main No Kings Coalition Instagram account. This happened at the peak of our national day of action. We need your help to spread the word. Tell them to RESTORE the account. #NoKings #NoKingsVoteEarly

Amerigo Vespucci. It's his name on the maps, not Columbus.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last yr.

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Rachel Gluckstern@rgluckst.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Papoon for President! Not Insane!

If the USA must endure this new Reign of Terror, we must remember how easy it is to build a guillotine and use it.

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archive

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

heritagedaily.com

Anyone remember 25 years ago when the people who sent out videos of themselves executing people were the bad guys? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...

Daniel Pearl - Wikipedia

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Apparently Marjoe Gortner died a couple days ago, according to Wikipedia, though there are no news articles about it. From a child preacher to an absolutely unhinged villain in Earthquake to the Luke Skywalker to Hasselhoff's Han Solo in Starcrash, Marjoe had a fascinating life.

For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.

The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban

Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.

lawfaremedia.org

While we are discoursing about spicy autocorrect, this happened. The past is not past.

Air Budd Dwyer@airbudddwyer.bsky.social · last mo.

we are levels of things going well not seen since the like Avignon captivity

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

Destroying Quitobaquito Spring? That is a crime against the O'odham nation, against archeology, and against the Earth herself.

Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Now the bulldozers are back. Crews are clearing land near Quitobaquito Springs, a sacred O’odham place in Organ Pipe. And the Tohono O’odham Nation is fighting a separate wall project along its own reservation boundary. /5