That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?

Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.

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“300 billionaires accounted for 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in the 2024 election. And these are only reported, cash donations…” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk Shows Us Why Oligarchy is a Danger

Mega-billionaires are more dangerous to democracy than the merely rich

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If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: –Kansas –New Jersey –Oregon –West Virginia –Louisiana (online only) Go to IWillVote.com for more info

Almost every hobby or passtime I've had my entire life - comic books, action figures, trading cards, personal computers, even *the movies* - has been consumed by a bunch of gambling addicts desperate for some new speculative market and we should make gambling illegal because it's their fucking turn

- I don't think people are taking this seriously enough - There'll be no economy on an dead / un-inhabitable planet. How much evidence will it take ? #MajorPartyDisconnect #GovtHypocrisy #OutOfTouch #ScienceDenial #Ecocide #TakeRealAction

John Holmes@jhaue.bsky.social · 2d ago

Humanity continues to foul its fragile nest Seven of the nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as human pressure on the Earth accelerates, yet Australia continues to expand fossil fuel extraction while presenting itself as a climate leader. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...

This year two “small businesses” who heavily market to the queer community and have BOTH put out apologies in the past for licensing a certain famously transphobic IP decided to plop down the 6 figures+ to do it again because they figured the business would > the backlash. So I welcome the inverse

beep beep i'm a sheep@foxkvells.bsky.social · yesterday

I don't care if The McDonald's Corporation truly cares about transsexuals like me in its heart of hearts, I care that the soulless CEOs and numbers crunchers have realized that their customer base largely supports LGBTQ+ rights bc that's a sign the tide is fucking turning

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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

🏳️‍⚧️ Decomposing Princess Jackie@jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 2d ago

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

an interesting and, imo, important read. what does capitalism begin to consume (and/or accelerate its existing consumption of) as it exhausts material avenues for expansion? how do we (as workers, as storytellers) push back?

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Around the world, people are pumping themselves full of caffeine, amphetamines, and other performance-enhancing drugs just to survive their working hours. This isn’t sustainable. www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-socie...

I came out as queer when I was teenager. I came out as trans 10 years ago. Coming out can be difficult, but I truly believe living as your authentic self is worth it.

A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules

The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

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Welcome to #TransTuesday! Don't know the trouble with JK Rowling? Think she's just said some insensitive things? Or do you just pretend to not know? Well! Now you'll know. You'll KNOW. Send this to every cis person in your life who doesn't get it Here's all the receipts: JK ROWLING, QUEEN TERF

TERFs, PART 2: JK ROWLING, QUEEN TERF - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! Let me tell you, the last thing I want to be doing is an entire essay about this, but so many people don’t know, or claim to not know, or pretend it’s not the huge problem th...

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“I don’t want to go”

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7d ago

Wrong answers only. My bet: thanks for all the fish.

Note that these emails are from 2020. They know.

Gale Galligan@galegalligan.bsky.social · last wk.

i bought the podcast underwear for years! never looked back after this. they are fully aware. there are one billion other underwears

Just like Unique Vintage, it needs to be stated that MeUndies absolutely knows the issues with HP, has collaborated with them before, and has apologized before due to backlash. They know and they’re doing this again anyway.

Celine@celineloup.bsky.social · last wk.

talk about a brand that started out basically perfect and then proceeded to saw its own legs off for the next 15 years until the final strip of flesh finally parted from the gangrenous stump this morning, and we can kick the body over into its grave:

I think the polls are absolute bullshit because I have no idea what anyone in this country will do in the next 12 hours much less in November. But I also am gonna run at these midterms screaming with 100% conviction that we can win. Not that we will. But we can! But there's a trick to that.

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Sometimes I go to friends’ birthday parties and drink green beers that were definitely supposed to be blue but idk I just like sours.

Well. If you’ve got some extry I sure would like a taste!

Saying “Skydance” is the new name for Paramount and WB is like saying the pizza I had for lunch today is now called Riley because I’m who devoured it.

"As an adult I was too stupid to read instructions to make tacos... and thats why trans people shouldn't have access to healthcare."

If you're on LA and looking for something to do tonight, @rileysilverman.bsky.social and friends are doing an improvised Dungeons & Dragons show at the Elysian Theater! Get tickets at the link below.

When I was still presenting as male (mostly), I was doing a standup show near the UCLA campus. A woman in the audience one night was flirting with me when I was onstage and afterwards we went downstairs to talk and have another drink.

I know I’m like the millionth person to talk about this. But casting Daisy Ridley’s actual husband in the Love Hypothesis movie is such a brilliant meta joke.

I don’t know if we will, but I really hope S5 of SNW features an appearance by Yeoman Rand.

I think this season of Ted Lasso is the best since the first. It has definitely won me back after being skeptical about if a 4th season was a good idea or necesssary. It’s had a lot of good jokes and some heartbreaking moments, and I just am really loving it.

Cough…John Roberts did this…cough

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2w ago

What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...