Sam Eifling
@sameifling.bsky.social
I'm the national editor at Voice Media Group, which owns Phoenix New Times, Westword, the Dallas Observer, and Miami New Times
Really, really important for Democrats to understand that if we allow "enforcing the rule of law" to be redefined as "getting even" we are cooked.
MS NOW@ms.now · 3d ago"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
Thanks to Ken Paxton the Cybertruck is now only the second dumbest failure Elon Musk has wasted hundreds of millions on.
There is no moving forward without accountability. We cannot build tomorrow until we have a full reckoning with yesterday
texas's top law enforcement official is a volunteer human rights lawyer 😭
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4d agowhat is one result that is really resonating with you? or the one moment from tonight that will really stick with you?
From September: The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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4 black governors (so far) at the same time. We’ve never even had two at once before.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 4d agofirst black woman governor, a latina governor, a native american woman senator, an openly gay senator…woke is back folks
Not to be a hater at this time but I wish I'd kept screenshots of all those old Bluesky posts about how all Southerners should just be abandoned to fascist wolves. If that was you, libbing it up tonight will be allowed once you fill out your Apology Form. Get your paperwork done
Democracy was on the ballot today and $6.50 diesel may just save it
the ballot on Maricopa County's voting sticker has a distinctively world-weary, the-shit-I-could-tell-you look in his eye. dude looks like he just woke up in a hospital bed to pose for a GoFundMe pic.
The administration is deporting people to Afghanistan who came to the US as refugees when they were toddlers, and who have a realistic expectation or torture or death upon their return. I don't even know what to say anymore. Go get your "I VOTED" sticker this week. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/w...
U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution (Gift Article)
The Trump administration plans to fly the Afghan immigrants from Louisiana to Pakistan, where they are expected to be expelled over the border to Afghanistan.
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NEW: The DOJ is probing Dem-aligned voter registration efforts in Arizona just days before the midterms. It's based on an undercover video from a right-wing outlet with a checkered history.
Just four days before Election Day, DOJ probes Arizona voter registrations
A former GOP election official questions the timing.
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“brutal harvard class” & it’s just what literally every english class looked like 5 years ago
The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take
It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?
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Just heard someone outside a crowded bar say "work on yourself, bitch," and it might be the Gen Z'est clapback I've ever encountered
You'd be forgiven for thinking this is some sort of cry of existential agony but nah they're just like that and they're having the time of their lives
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Fun fact about the 1982 edition of the Milwaukee Brewers, the last time they went to the World Series: they were such offensive terrors they got a nickname that I promise you will remember
Different but the same. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/m...
Taliban blow apart 2,000 years of Buddhist history
Fighters begin job of demolishing Afghanistan's statues.
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tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · 4w agoThe Las Playas Intaglio is a 272-foot fish carved into the Arizona desert 6,500 years ago, older than Stonehenge, the oldest geoglyph in the Americas. It survived every civilization on 2 continents. In April a border wall contractor scraped a 50-foot path through it. CBP: "inadvertently disturbed."
this @newrepublic.com joint is as funny and lively and insightful as it's cracked up to be newrepublic.com/article/2164...
Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one?
imagine being so horny for austerity that you talk yourself into believing that the hundreds of thousands of developing world deaths and total gutting of life-saving medical research were unfortunate excesses of DOGE and not the entire point
Mindblowing that two men speaking under the banner of Charlie Kirk, of all people, would insinuate that a victim is ultimately at fault for their own savage attack. New from @morgfisch.bsky.social www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/turning...
Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk podcast hosts accuse candidate of lying about her rape
The men called the assault on Bernadette Greene-Placentia a “hoax” and part of some politically motivated “Hail Mary.”
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My *dad* died. The end came after a grinding decade of ghastly health and hard decisions and still the past two weeks walloped my family like an avalanche. He lived a tempestuous, ribald, Ozarks tall tale of a life. We will miss him every damn day. www.westfieldchapel.com/obituaries/J...
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