Shocking development: Felito Cruz makes a true statement.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTed Cruz: "Right now, if you are left-wing transgender witch, you hate Donald Trump"
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Streisand effect: We should all ask, what is so important about this film that powerful people feel the need to try to suppress it? bsky.app/profile/thev...
The Verge@theverge.com · 24h agoLarry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. www.theverge.com/tech/1013453...
The Early Vote effort has begun! Find an event near you. www.takeactiontucson.org
TAKE ACTION TUCSON
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Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · yesterdayDonald Trump wants to sabotage the midterms. Today, millions of Americans will make it clear that’s not happening. Find your local No Kings event and join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
“Videos of the attack, verified by The Times, show that the photographer, Heidi Levine, 63, who was wearing body armor with large press tags, was trapped behind the settlers. They began to beat her with bats and sticks, kicking her as she was prostrate on the ground” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/w...
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and Washington Post Journalist in West Bank (Gift Article)
In the latest surge of violence, settlers targeted Palestinians during the olive harvest, a cultural touchstone and economic lifeline in the Israeli-occupied area.
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Israeli settlers burn olive trees, injure journalist in West Bank attack reut.rs/4yod45k
Israeli settlers burn olive trees, injure journalist in West Bank attack
Clad in black and their faces masked, dozens of militant Israeli settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on Friday on a West Bank village's annual harvest that injured at least two people including a journalist.
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Since there’s an opening for press secretary, I know a great candidate who’s not only a lawyer, but a neurosurgeon, a Grammy-winning recording artist, and the inventor of the Post-It Note.
Bike ride, 6.5 miles each way, mostly level terrain. 15 minutes outbound leg (25 mph average) 1 hour return leg, retracing the path (6.5 mph average) I had to pay close attention to keep the wind from knocking me over. 25 mph gusting to to 40. Gusting to 45 this evening.
you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5
Wise, wide-ranging analysis of a world I've seen but never understood.
Rebecca Solnit’s (Mis)Adventures in the Manosphere
The writer, historian, and activist explores an America where the right has turned hatred of women into an ever-expanding, multi-platform Internet grift.
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🚨BREAKING: DOJ sued California on Thursday just moments after the 48-hour deadline it gave election officials to review an unverified list of thousands of alleged noncitizens the Trump administration claims are illegally registered to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump administration sues California in bid to squash ballots it claims went to thousands of noncitizens
The Department of Justice sued California just moments after the 48-hour deadline it gave election officials to review an unverified list of thousands of alleged noncitizens the Trump administration c...
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🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump
In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
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Once you make the category distinction between voter rolls and actual ballots already cast or soon to be cast, the seriousness of the threat from the federal government becomes a lot more obvious.
Trump DOJ Now Targeting Ballots, Not Just Voter Rolls
A Quick Heads Up For transparency reasons, I like peeling back the...
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Important! When it says "Vote for not more than 2" you should vote for 2. Otherwise the bad guys win. In Arizona, vote for one state senator and *two* state representatives. Also vote for two seats on the Corporation Commission, the powerful "fourth branch of government". 🧵1/3
As a reminder, the most dangerous period in the tenure of any dictator or would-be dictator is often the stretch of time when their regime is imploding but hasn't been removed from power yet.
If you see 2024 as being in large part about big capital punishing Biden/Harris for prioritizing a recovery that empowered workers, this would be evidence that they'd won.
Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social · 4d agoReal wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.
I've watched this ad like 10 times. It's just the best
Scott Colom@scolom.bsky.social · 5d agoShe done lost her damn mind.
I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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These 35 States Are Deciding Who’ll Run Their Elections The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump’s orders and how to shape mail voting and registration. boltsmag.org/guide-to-con...
Katie #Zachaliar the new WH press secretary The #pussygrabber judges people by how they do on TV, and she doesn't.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoKatie Zacharia makes Karoline Leavitt seem like Winston Churchill
Excellent interview with Timothy Snyder, who always sees things clearly. His wisdom greatly exceeds the conventional wisdom. 42 minute video. www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...
Timothy Snyder says Trump is weak. Can Democrats take advantage? – Stateside with Kai and Carter
As the midterms approach, Donald Trump is continuing to make strongman moves. But historian Timothy Snyder tells Kai Wright that what this really is, is a sign of weakness. And even as the Democrats s...
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Also, the Alberta independent movement basically disappeared after the Yandex site was bombed. Fancy that.
