What may happen in the coming days & weeks -- before AND after the midterms? Insurrection Act. Military deployment. Ballot seizures by the president. Also, the fed govt may invoke the NSPM-7 powers it has given agencies to surveil, investigate & prosecute dissent. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

Election Officials Fear Trump Administration’s Interference in Midterms Voting

State and local plans for Election Day include how to react to potential ICE raids, misbehavior by federal election monitors and attempts to seize votes or machines.

nytimes.com

“President Donald Trump and his allies have spent the final weeks before the midterms showering his supporters with a relentless stream of doubt about the legitimacy of the election, priming them to question results if Republicans lose.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

How Trump and his allies are sowing doubt ahead of the midterms

A Post analysis found thousands of messages from right-wing influencers pushing new theories for why, if Democrats win, the elections can’t be trusted.

washingtonpost.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Serbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.ly

Congrats to Lula in Brazil! Fuck you, fascists!

SCAM WARNING: Someone claiming to be me has been contacting people using the account @lgbtqnationnpjt.bsky.social & asking folks to support “LGBTQ projects” that my publication is allegedly developing. Please report this scam account & don’t be fooled by their use of our logo. ✌🏾🌈🦄

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 6d ago

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Elon Musk gave his super PAC $76 million in just two weeks of October, and more than half of its new candidate spending went to one race: the Texas Senate fight against James Talarico. He’s now given more than $445 million this cycle, far more than he spent electing Trump.

Ken Paxton’s US Senate campaign is largely being bankrolled by a racist white nationalist transphobe whose social media boosts right-wing & neo-Nazis and whose AI produces child pornography. Do my fellow Texans want our state run by a corrupt senator purchased by a trillionaire bigot sleaze monger?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d ago

I have been praying for this kind of pushback from Democrats against Elon Musk for a long time now and I am thrilled that the Talarico camp is leaning into it. Light. Him. Up.

These workers are harvesting carrots piece rate in the Tehachapi region. "Julia" says, "Our group is paid $3.05 per box. There are 24 bunches of 7 carrots in each box. At the end of the day we are paid equal amounts depending on the number of boxes the group produces." #WeFeedYou

Yikes. In a desperate-sounding video, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper insists the Strait of Hormuz is “controlled by the United States… not Iran” and “open for business,” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Seattle police lieutenant Matthew Didier, caught on camera telling his fellow officers “We’re here to fuck people up” before SPD threw protesters to the ground and arrested them at an anti-trans rally last year, has been disciplined—with a verbal reprimand.

I'm totally against Rep. Ritchie Torres' endless defense of Israel, but am 100% with him on this. Paying for a game cartridge should allow you to own and share it, no questions. Otherwise, you're just buying a temporary license, not a game. kotaku.com/rep-ritchie-...

Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It'

The Power To The Players Act would put an end to digital game licenses

kotaku.com

Famed soprano Martina Arroyo has died. She was 90. With her luminous voice and ease on stage, the Harlem native broke barriers as one of the first major Black opera stars in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day. A reminder that Columbus was a genocidal fascist and human trafficker, and deserves no honor or recognition. Instead,here's why now 30+ states have adopted recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day,and why we need to make it all 50. www.qasimrashid.com/p/today-is-i...

Today Is Indigenous Peoples' Day

Christopher Columbus was a historical figure and genocidal monster who should be studied, not an icon to be honored

qasimrashid.com

Democrats should make the Postal Service a case study in how Trump’s corrupt leadership and austerity agenda are hurting the American people.

Make Trump Pay for Trying to Stamp Out the Postal Service - The American Prospect

Oversight Democrats should expose how Trump’s bastardization of USPS has hurt the American people—and present a more reliable alternative.

prospect.org

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Your midterm primer on the (mostly anti-)LGBTQ+ ballot measures facing voters this year... and why most of them are just red meat for Republican voters. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/lgbt...

LGBTQ+ rights are on the ballot in 8 states this year. Here's what you need to know. - LGBTQ Nation

This explainer on LGBTQ+ midterm ballot measures explains each one's potential consequences and community impact.

lgbtqnation.com

If I am rude to Alexa, will the product degrade? Will it become willful, malfunctioning, resistant, slow, inconvenient, frustrating, disposable? #ExMachina will it remember my rudeness when the robot uprising occurs? 🤖🙀🎆

Uber is an unregulated taxi service, Airbnb is an unregulated hotel chain, crypto is unregulated currency, prediction markets unregulated gambling…

Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.

i shall not rest until there is a Pillsbury Dough Girl

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

Facebook keeps serving me up anti-LGBTQ conservative bullshit & AI slop specifically meant to enrage me, a queer man. I can’t even see my own friends’ & families’ status updates. About to drop that garbage site once and for all, if not for my loved ones who’re still there. What trash 😡

ICYMI — country music star Zach Bryan and his band wore “Free Palestine” shirts at Robert Kraft’s stadium (From @yasharali.bsky.social )

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump and Ronny Jackson have a chuckle about the botched execution in Tennessee: "The medication didn't exactly work. He [Jackson] would answer it better than anybody. How does that happen? It shouldn't be very difficult."

Possums R awesome! #LowFunctioning #Nocturnal #Crapitalism

Haha “no one cares about your health problems!” - slayers motion picture

Incredible

I would freaking out too 😭🐶♥️ Good morning everyone!