If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

Jake Steisel@jsteisel.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

as much as i’d rather build something new, we have to takeover and gut the democratic party all that infrastructure belongs to the people, not the loser ass DCCC consultant class that has reduced it to nothing since the clinton era

It will never not be insane to me that republicans would rather applaud this as proof of genius while simultaneously insisting Black people are too stupid to be pilots

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "In Washington, all the restaurants were closing. People were being held up. They'd walk into a restaurant. Like Jesse James. 'Stand up! Give us all your money.' They're eating dinner at a fancy restaurant. All the restaurants were closing."

I would super love it if we could elect a government that would make it possible for my daughter to safely visit her loved ones in America, thankyouverymuch.

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

hey #NZPol Remember .. Gangs didnt do this to your kids. Don't fall for the distraction #DitchThePricks26

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

this is the exact right energy to bring to a “hear me out” we’ve been losing the thread on this. people will post “hear me out” and it’s literally a smoking hot person we all agree on. we need to bring it back to its roots as a way of confidently announcing that something is deeply wrong with you

priscilla page@priscillapage.bsky.social · 3d ago

too many guys are bad-weird now, we need more with this kind of good-weird energy

My daughter just referred to “The Scientist and Meeper” on The Muppet Show. Where did I go wrong.

This is right up there with “couscous alsacienne” which I saw at a cafe in Strasbourg.

Michael Baumann@baumann.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wisconsin is one of two states I've lived in whose insularity leads to the kind of evolutionary cultural craziness you find in animals in the Galapagos or language in isolated settlements. This is what hath been wrought in the name of sausage

Wait, what? I must’ve missed the biweekly bisexual memo. The only time I played Sims, I was so good at romance that my characters had a baby, delivered to the patio, before I knew how to move objects, so it cried until CPS came to take it away. If you didn’t know that could happen, neither did I.

Greg@mrsfeatherbottom.bsky.social · 4d ago

Any coincidence that LGBTQ+ favourite The Sims is one of the first big victims under the ownership of the Saudi state?

If steady regular income that's one of the bedrocks of your business is insufficient to pay off the people you borrowed from in order to buy that business, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BORROWED THAT MONEY YOU FUCKING WEASEL TIT

Maxis fucking prints money. They do it cheap and they crank out packs and updates on the regular, and Sims fans devour them. They are the proverbial cash cow. So why lay those people off when you're trying to cover an $18 billion buyout debt? This is why leveraged buyouts should be illegal.

EA closing BioWare and cancelling Mass Effect 5 wasn't the only hit: Another 350 cuts landed on Respawn, Motive, and Maxis

The $55 billion buyout finally has a body count. Ironically, the studio that defined the modern RPG is the first to go, but its not the only victim.

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We're just ONE Backer away from 800... Anybody out there a fan of cool roleplaying games and round numbers?

Evil Hat@evilhat.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Rangers are gathering. Will you heed the call? Channel the power of your Deilith. Weave your spell notes with the magic of the land. Destroy, redirect, and outlast your enemies. Rangers of a Broken World Live now on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e... Get the full rules when you back.

DOJ filed a lawsuit to block Alaska's Senate results if the Republican candidate loses. I spoke with four lawyers about the crucial effort to protect the midterms from attacks just like this one. Check out the Talking Feds roundtable episode here:

How to Stop a Steal

YouTube video by Talking Feds with Harry Litman

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You can have children that have enough nutrients to be learners or you can have billionaires. You can’t have both.

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 5d ago

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

The illegal voters Scott Presler was trying so desperately to find in Pennsylvania were living in his own home Really is the perfect distillation of the election denial movement

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 5d ago

NEW: GOP operative Scott Presler built his reputation registering Republicans and accusing Dems of voter fraud. But a review by The Bulwark found GOP operatives from other states voting from his home—and evidence raising questions about their residency. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

In 1972, a group of Harlem Renaissance cultural icons gathered at Duke Ellington's house. The afternoon was captured on 16mm film by William Greaves, but the footage remained unedited in a vault for 50 years until David Greaves restored his father's project, releasing the documentary it 2026.

The literal metaphor

we should all be pissed off at this btw. if not because sex work is legitimate work and should be treated with respect, then because you should be concerned at attempts to gentrify online spaces as pretext to court investors and force out minorities so those spaces can become part of a portfolio.

🔞Allie Boo - Pumpkin Breeding Arc@allie.blue · 5d ago

Went ahead and confirmed with an onlyfans link. Looks like Bluesky decided sex work isn't something they want seen now that they have a user base. SW and furries were a lot of the early user base because they weren't censored. Now they aren't appropriate for bsky's ai bro culture goals.

Even if the Republican wins, as remains likely, this is a huge amount of change that doesn't just evaporate after the election.

Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 5d ago

🚨NEW STORY🚨 Farmer Jamie Davis is closing the gap as he bids to be Louisiana’s first Black U.S. Senator since Reconstruction, leaving Julia Letlow without the sure victory Republicans had hoped for. "This is not going to be a slam dunk," a pollster warns. thelensnola.org/2026/10/23/j...

This is spot-on from @rickhasen.bsky.social as usual. I strongly suspect this Alaska move is only happening now because the White House is finally admitting to itself that the House will flip on Election Night. So they need a Senate race to call into question.

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social · 5d ago

From my @slate.com piece on Alaska: slate.com/news-and-pol...

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5d ago

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

“Remember, our goal isn’t simply to defeat evil. It’s to defeat evil in a way that won’t force us to then listen to the people who helped us win.”

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 6d ago

"Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-earth by five seats than have the Fellowship win by five, because then we’d be hostage to the Ents." buff.ly/9WluK1y

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-1457, has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III clinical trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY cut the risk of death OR recurrence of melanoma by ALMOST HALF.

Breakthrough vaccine for the deadliest skin cancer cut risk by almost half

The skin cancer vaccine is based on mRNA technology that helped end the coronavirus pandemic.

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This is getting weird as hell man I’ve never seen a fictional character get blackballed before.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

Put Blade in the bag and nobody gets hurt! https://kotaku.com/arkane-devs-say-blade-is-nearly-finished-but-if-it-cant-find-a-buyer-soon-the-studio-will-close-2000749096