This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)

The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.

nytimes.com

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November

Okaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather.

inquirer.com

People can draw whatever conclusions they want, but the conclusions should make sense: (1) this scenario is precisely what the material misrepresentation defense is made for and Trejo has the means to back out of the project (2) Trejo worked on another Shapiro project in 2024 (Mr. Birchum)

Ant@agramuglia.bsky.social · 17h ago

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

Yes, Hakeem, just like the South Carolina militia’s bombardment of Fort Sumter raised serious questions about the southern states’ declarations of secession, this is a situation where the problem is definitely a ::checks notes:: lack of transparency.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 15h ago

jeffries has released a statement on the omar raid

Whether you want to accept it or not, the only way to deal with Nazis is to ban their existence altogether. Yes that's authoritarian. I don't give a fucking shit. If you want to protect Nazis and their human rights, you're a nazi. I want to see these people bowing their heads and keeping quiet.

Give Lina Khan a gundam imo

Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, not fascism, was the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right." bsky.app/profile/donm...

Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.

Charlie Kirk was not an elected official, but Melissa Hortman was. Very telling which of those two people NYT names in this article.

Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 2d ago

A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

If Gavin Newsom has zero haters I am dead.

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 2d ago

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

Athul K. Acharya@athul.acharya.cc · 2d ago

Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream

“Give us the money we need to make Stephen Miller cry on national television”

escapedexplorer.bsky.social@escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Honest to god a DCCC text saying "[Name], we are going to crush these motherfuckers in November. I know we've been sometimes desperate sounding in these texts before but right now I'm telling you if everyone kicks in $30 we can rip their still-beating heart out before their eyes" would work on me rn

if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Elon Musk’s PAC is running anti-lgbtq+ midterm ads on X. Not surprising but incredibly unsubtle

Being on the same side as the Catholic Church over the last few months has felt like the third act trope of bitter rivals teaming up to fight the Bigger Bad.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d ago

POPE LEO: “The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment…”

Oh my god

Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wait til you see his opponent’s name

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

the year is 2028. the pledge of allegiance now has corporate sponsors: "...for liberty and biberty and justice for all..."

A portrait. #birds #greatblueherons #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

I just heard a doctor get asked what the lived experience of long covid is like for patients and he said “imagine a few months after a covid infection you go to a party and you can’t remember anyone’s names” and to me, this is like describing having cancer as “imagine you have a mole that’s itchy.”

we went through the whole ballot box thing during primaries, they should have known this was coming

ICE is a militia of serial abusers.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Is it a BAD thing actually that all (American) politicians/voters wait until a problem is LITERALLY destroying everything within their country and society until they actually fucking do something about it??

White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.

There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years

Funny how it's never on the far right family member to be tolerant of others....

Another textbook entry for stochastic terrorism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

I once joked that “socialism” is whatever the GOP says it is. I never expected they’d be so obvious about it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry

I see all the jokes about that lady on the plane and I just want to say, I love a good joke. I’m also going to say I never forget that public masturbation — especially in an environment people cannot leave — is sexual violence, whoever does it.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 6d ago

Once in college, I was in the window seat on a flight talking to a lovely older woman who had just come back from Greece. We talked the whole flight in large part because I didn’t want her to turn and see that the man across the aisle was jacking off the entire flight.