The Hard Hat Riot is the single most important and consequential independently organized labor action in post-Gilded Age American history but the entire left-of-center has deliberately chosen to completely forget it because of how utterly embarrassing it is to us
“Zeteo can now reveal more on how the ad came together, and who else was involved. Somehow, the depraved, sleazy story of how this happened – a new low in a race that [NYT] has declared likely the “ugliest” in the nation – is even worse than you already think it is.” zeteo.com/p/republican...
Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · yesterdayThis daughter passed away in 2024, after working as an assistant to kids with special needs.
1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets
I think as a society people just don't want to face what it means about us that Trump is a rapist and even though that was public information he was still elected President
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · yesterday1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets
100% this. What the Dem tea parties want isn’t victory, they want Liberals and other parts of the Democratic Party to bow to them and say they were right. They want to is to feed their egos. That’s why they’re so bitter about El-Sayed. He threw Hasan away and ran to Harris and Obama
GPT-Ern Malley@denam.bsky.social · 19h agoIt's mostly that everyone came together without bashing on each other plus AES immediately threw Hasan to the wolves. They don't want power, they don't necessarily want to even just critique power, they want their enemies' obsequence
The central questions of the Republican primary in 2028 will be (1) Do you want to make Marco Rubio Caudillo of the Western Hemisphere vs (2) Do you want Tucker Carlson’s Nazism in One Country?
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 18h agoWASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.
the core Republican voting base is made up of people whi struggle to pronounce "Egypt"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoJD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"
My most incredibly pedantic bugbear is that America has: -too many elected offices -too many elections -not enough actual legislators
“how dare you want your country to do better, you rightoid”
It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours
George Pearkes@peark.es · 22h agoAw nuts *BOLSONARO EN ROUTE TO THE US, FOLHA REPORTS CITING ALLIES
"We should divorce the person of Elon Musk from this conversation. Musk is a uniquely dangerous individual and the fact that he controls SpaceX increases the national security risks. But the risks would still exist no matter who controlled the company."
Nationalize SpaceX
Live by the government, get regulated by the government.
lnk.thebulwark.com
it's not entirely clear from this whether West was aware where the money was coming from? not that it matters that much. either he's an ignorant fascist stooge or a knowing fascist stooge. Just pretty depressing either way.
Sludge@sludge.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...
Jolene Riessen, who NYT falsely presents as a regular voter because they love Republicans & want them to win, is president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association (has donated exclusively to Republicans since 2024) and Corn Sector Director at the US Grains & Bioproducts Council
Diedrich Bader@diedrichbader.bsky.social · 2d ago*shakes head sadly* Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
We are going to send him back to die in a cell and it's going to be great.
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 20h ago
it is extremely related to our current political situation!
Kevin A@kba26.bsky.social · 2d agoI can’t say if it’s related to our current political situation or not, but this guy leaving UC Berkeley for China over the summer is a real kicker to this story
Apparently bears repeating these days that the American scientific and technological dominance from the 1940s until the Trump Era was in large part a product of very smart people wanting to come here to work and us making that easy for them
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d agoyou might also note that he’s additionally 1) an American and 2) a refugee, if you wanted to develop a theory of sociological mechanisms quite frequently produce Nobels
ICE have held a US citizen born in Florida in detention since January because they refuse to acknowledge his birth certificate and other documents provided by his mother and legal team. The man has paranoid schizophrenia and believes he was born in Jamaica, but the nation has no record of him.
Man born in Orange County has been detained by ICE since January, report says
The findings suggest that a cursory investigation, lax oversight, and possibly a refusal to admit a mistake may have ensnared a Florida-born U.S. citizen for nearly all of 2026.
orlandosentinel.com
Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.
Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning
Young ‘uns: this stuff happened once a week during Obama’s presidency. Dijon mustard. Moving a bust of Churchill. Inviting a rapper to the White House. Putting his feet up on his desk. They’d scream and cry for days about how effete and snobby and Black he was and how misinderstood they were.
zeet (irrigation engineer)@zeet.bsky.social · 2d agoRepublicans are so weird, man.
Yeah, this is really bad. It's good that El-Sayed distanced himself from it, but I am in awe at how Cenk's left-wing PAC managed to combine antisemitism with transphobia and pitch it as *supporting* the Democrat in this race.
El-Sayed campaign disavows PAC ad linking US inflation to Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Backed by Cenk Uygur, the spot drew criticism for invoking antisemitic tropes about U.S. support for "killing Palestinans."
jta.org
Cenk and to lesser degree Piker have done everything possible to wreck this campaign for El Sayed
harrington was right, you all fucked up by allowing marxist-leninists and other ultras into your organization
Peter Sterne@petersterne.com · yesterdayNEW: DSA's National Political Committee passed two resolutions today aimed at Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, beginning processes that could result in DSA-LA being forced to rescind its endorsement of her this weekend and/or Raman herself being expelled from DSA by January.
NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...
Musk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot Push
People Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.
readsludge.com
I was assured that the spineless Democrats would not defend their colleague, etc.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov · 2d agoThe persecution of @repilhan.bsky.social just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated. I'm leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.
