There’s cake at this party? Well good news: I BROUGHT TOOTHBRUSHES!
Kate Burns@katerqburns.bsky.social · 8h agoNANCY STOP RUINING THE VIBE!
Thinking about the hundreds of folks in Houston who left their I VOTED stickers at the memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo after Lorenzo's son, Ronaldo, did so. Ronaldo said he had always voted with his immigrant parents in mind, and this year, he honored his father, who was killed by ICE in July.
RESULT: Democrats have flipped control of the local government in Hillsborough County, a populous county in Florida that's home to Tampa. They had to sweep all four commission seats on the board, and they have.
More history tonight!! Georgia didn’t just send Jon Ossoff back to the U.S. Senate. Voters elected Bentley Hudgins as the first trans, nonbinary lawmaker in the state legislature. www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
Bentley Hudgins wins Georgia Assembly seat as first out trans and nonbinary state lawmaker
The longtime organizer made history in the deep south.
advocate.com
What I said this morning. Angie Nixon is a very very good organizer. She should have gotten so much more money to run.
Unlike their anti-trans coverage, where they try to avoid taking credit for the consequences of their coverage, the NYT sure seems eager to take credit for empowering this lawlessness.
2010 Google motto: don’t be evil 2026 Google motto: we are now holding your kids and their schools hostage
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23h agoGoogle is now threatening America's schools, saying they will turn off their core search functions if schools choose to entirely block AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/u...
Perennial reminder that the US helped Saddam Hussein use chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand.
foreignpolicy.com
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h agoOh fun we get to relive 2003 again
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: ICE is re-arresting immigrants even after federal judges order their release. The Guardian identified at least 20 cases nationwide, including seven people detained again before they could leave a Minnesota facility. Some arrests allegedly violated court orders. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
ICE rapidly re-arresting immigrants released after winning court petitions
Many are challenging their detention using habeas corpus filings only to be arrested again, in violation of court orders
theguardian.com
I'm heading out to some sites and I'd love to hear what you're seeing too. If you see ICE, DOJ monitors, or any other weirdness anywhere in the country, please let me know. wwimbish.07 on Signal and wwimbish at prospect dot org.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · yesterdayHere's where DOJ monitors will be in all 50 states. >> "Election monitors will be checking for compliance with the federal voting rights statutes that fall within the jurisdiction of the Division."
People have said that Angie Nixon is "too left" to win Florida. OK. But the fact that she's going to get at least 45% of the vote suggests that she was absolutely a credible candidate in Florida. The fact that she may get more than that in the end suggests that she's a very good politician.
Why is the FBI falsely telling people that the election is on Wednesday?
we gotta unplug the appliances from the internet, folks. not worth the risk. you can just have a button that turns the temp up and down www.ft.com/content/2526...
European supermarket freezers overheat in fresh cyber attack
Freezer temperatures surge to as high as 55C in dozens of stores across Sweden, Belgium, Ireland and Estonia
ft.com
The evangelists don't want converts, they want conflict.
Wyoming tribe reclaims access after asking church to leave Wind River Reservation - WyoFile
Workers dismantle the driveway to Foundations For Nations Church where the pastor criticized sacred Northern Arapaho spiritual traditions. It’s the latest in a standoff that’s seen months of protest.
wyofile.com
Elon Musk’s $445M spending spree tops 2026 midterm donor rankings (from @opensecrets.org) arkansasadvocate.com/2026/11/02/e...
Elon Musk’s $445M spending spree tops 2026 midterm donor rankings | Arkansas Advocate
Tech mogul Elon Musk once again led all political donors, contributing more than $445 million to Republican candidates, political action committees and outside spending organizations ahead of the 2026...
arkansasadvocate.com
Terrifying rumors are swirling about Israel pressuring Trump to launch a nuclear strike on Iran immediately after the midterms or some other major escalation. I wish I was sure that this was too unhinged to take seriously, but we do not live in sane times where these kinds of dismissals are possible
I see we've moved to the 'white women tears' part of this saga.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d agoHaley Stevens: "I gave [El-Sayed] an opportunity...to unite around something that everyone could agree on, and then I got disinvited instead...This is what happens to women."
Nov. 1, 1926: Fascist Blackshirts whip up violence against anti-Fascists and foreigners throughout Italy a day after Benito Mussolini escaped an assassination attempt by a gunman who was then lynched. Mobs trash newspaper offices linked to leftists and attack French nationals in a border city.
“I think heaven now holds Renée Good, a queer woman, a Christian and a mother who stood with immigrants in her neighborhood. I believe Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse who died trying to protect a woman, is there, too. Both were killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3d ago“If you ask me, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is in heaven. Lorenzo was a 52-year-old Mexican immigrant who had spent more than three decades in the United States, raising a family with love and dedication. He was traveling to work when an ICE agent fatally shot him in Houston in July.”
these folks are doing really incredible work, doing blind deep canvasses of the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed facility
the san antonio DSA committee working to stop an ICE warehouse here made a beautiful ofrenda for all of the victims of ICE across the country today every butterfly has a name and obituary
I respect Sen. Schatz, but I 100% disagree with him here. Even if we win the midterms, Democrats have far to go to win back the trust of working people. If Democrats don't understand that, we will sleepwalk into President Vance 2028. No one in America thinks the status quo is working.
"Haley Stevens does not speak for Michigan’s Jewish community. Mike Rogers is running a script we’ve seen many times before: claiming to stand for Jewish safety while trafficking with antisemites and perpetuating bigotry against all minorities" Read a statement from Michigan Jews for Democracy). ⬇️
Statement from Justin German, (former) Chief of Staff to Rep. Haley Stevens: “We are shocked and heartbroken by Congresswoman Stevens' decision to support Mike Rogers. As of this morning, many members of our team have resigned, including myself”
Investigate and prosecute the technofascists AND everyone in the Trump administration. Anyone saying the Dems can't do both is advocating for the status quo neolib approach to govt. that brought us Trump and (gestures wildly at the mess.)
David Sirota@davidsirota.com · 3d ago🚨NEW: Inside Big Tech's new Democratic front group and its plan to shield tech oligarchs from scrutiny after the election The front group that helped kill blue-state AI regulation is now pressuring Dems to commit to not using congressional power to investigate tech companies.
One of my main concerns about how the media covers climate is its uncritical treatment of climate solutions. This does the opposite, and I think everyone should read and share it.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 5d agoIncredible work from @katieworth.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @themadstone.bsky.social on how unproven carbon capture and storage (CCS) came to be legitimized. Popular CO₂ removal (CDR) methods, bioenergy w/CCS (BECCS) and direct ocean removal, also rely on CCS actually being a thing.
St. Louis Public Radio reports on the high rate of deaths in the city’s jail:
‘It’s just so dangerous’: Why people keep dying at the St. Louis city jail
A Marshall Project and St. Louis Public Radio analysis shows the top causes of death at the jail are untreated medical conditions, drug use and suicide.
stlpr.org