Behold Michigan’s new Senate delegation: A Muslim American man from the left of the Dem Party, and a more centrist Jewish American woman. While Haley Stevens was sucking out oxygen, Abdul El-Sayed and Elissa Slotkin were modeling coalition work. Together, they can do a lot of good.

The US South could become for Democrats what the Midwest was for Republicans over the past decade: a region full of disaffected voters capable of forming the basis of a new political coalition. Sustained D inroads across the South would scramble the electoral map, ending R's structural advantage.

Hearing that in a southern accent hits hard in a way that I wish it didn't. The messenger matters, folks.

ESG Hound@esghound.com · 3d ago

Chuck Hubbard, who just scored one of the biggest house upsets last night in ousting Granny Demon from Hell Virginia Foxx, apparently opened nearly every campaign event with this anecdotes about protecting the rights of his lesbian daughter. He's delightful

Received a small payment from the FTC’s settlement with Amazon over improper Prime membership charges. Hardly the most effective way to hold Big Tech accountable, but at least it’s something! And note how Donald J. Trump is taking credit for the FTC’s work.

My essay on how LBJ's daughter hugging James Talarico captured a profound story of hope and change in America. Her father's civil rights crusade lost the south to Dems—and then, on Tuesday, Dems won across the south BECAUSE they're the party of civil rights. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/election-n...

Election Night's Most Poignant Picture

One photo captured a 60-year story of how change happens in America

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What I love about these victories in the South is that they are truly fusionist, made up of not only Dems but anti-maga republicans, socialists & econ populists. Many challenges ahead but I’m inspired by this broad coalition committed to decency, democracy and working together to solve problems

Now would be a good time for the LSE to re-up its messaging about Ossoff’s alumnus status. He may be the next American president.

Whats the matter with Kansas? Not a damn thing.

VoteHub@votehub.com · 3d ago

VoteHub projects Adam Hamilton to win the Kansas U.S. Senate election.

progressive populist politics uniting Black, brown, and white working people has always been possible in the American South. That’s what last night’s election shows so clearly. Now imagine if the Democratic Party built real infrastructure in a state like Mississippi.

It won’t happen but NC is within striking distance of flipping every single US House seat and sending more dems to Washington than Massachusetts

We may see the first African-American elected to the US Senate from Mississippi since Reconstruction. Absolutely incredible.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d ago

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The 1890s Fusionists in NC proved a Black-white populist coalition could win in the South… until a violent, race-baiting campaign destroyed the movement. Tonight, Georgia and North Carolina are reviving that promise. SC looks likely to follow, and maybe even AL and MS. Anything is now possible. .

Reminds me a lot of Google’s early motto, “Don’t be evil.” Perhaps sincere at one point in time, but mostly meaningless in practice in a country with no institutional foundation for stakeholder capitalism. When push comes to shove, shareholder value always wins out. www.ft.com/content/a6c4...

the way hope is alive in the world again ❤️

Great point! It was incredible to see Brazilians counter Meta’s anti-democratic algorithm. Yet this still relied on another Meta-owned platform (WhatsApp). We need fully autonomous communication platforms that are not owned by Big Tech monopolies and which are decentralized across countries.

Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 2w ago

It sounds like Brazil was won not just through overwhelming voter turnout, but by skillful, coordinated algorithmic guerrilla warfare. It shouldn't be this hard, but democracy can be saved from the broligarchs.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

If there is one thing Trump has taught his imitators, it's not to accept election results they lose. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Brazil Election Live Updates: Lula Wins Re-Election as Flávio Bolsonaro Rejects Result

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s win ended a string of conservative victories in Latin America. His opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, called for the election to be annulled.

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So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

Progressive candidates around the world, please take note. This is how you turn a personal attack into a broadly resonant call for workplace safety and dignity.

@okpoke.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lula Goes HARD

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Different countries, different elections. But a year that has seen Orbán, Bolsonaro and Vučić defeated (and the GOP likely routed at the midterms next week) doesn't exactly fit the narrative of a relentless rightwards shift. Good candidates, campaigns, movements can still win.

Another giant victory for prediction markets being only 80% off the apparent final outcome two hours ago.

Lula leads Brazil runoff election with 50.14% of the votes after 50.12% of the votes counted

encouraging news from Brazil. The Brazilian's swing state is 50/ 50

Analysis Update: Betting markets think Lula is favored because the states are swinging to Lula in the 2nd round compared to the 1st. Both Kalshi and Polymarket have Lula winning the election right now. Monitoring.

Let's have a moratorium on early elections.

quote of the day. www.ft.com/content/8f1e...

I forgot the rule for quadruple negatives. www.ft.com/content/8832...

Let’s revive aesthetic appreciation to overturn the national malaise. Its what Keynes would do. www.ft.com/content/c13f... John Maynard Keynes and the search for the good life

John Maynard Keynes and the search for the good life

Playwright James Graham on an economist who asked the right questions in bad times — and why he matters so much today

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