🇺🇸 BREAKING: US Democrats are reportedly preparing a new $15 BILLION aid package for Ukraine, according to FT! The proposal includes tougher sanctions on russia, more Patriot interceptor missiles, support for Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and stricter oversight of Starlink.

I suspect the real place for Democrats to solidify this win will be at the state and local level. That's where Ds have the chance of IMMEDIATELY making change and helping people in their everyday lives. Push your local pols to Mamdanify the shit out of the entire country, y'all. And BRAG about it.

100% agree. The Democrats need to hire the best vertical-video producers in the country and fund them to put out a CONSTANT stream of social media Content about the ongoing investigations into GOP crimes + how Democrats are rebuilding America. I am deadly serious about this.

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 12h ago

They've gotta make content! Do well-produced videos about the investigations that people can share

Is the NYT ever, ever going to do these kind of safari trips to blue areas? Talk with latino hotel workers in Vegas? Middle-aged suburban resistance moms? Young black men? Does the paper ever extend its empathy to anyone other than disgruntled white people?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 10h ago

In deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.

This is the energy.

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock@warnock.senate.gov · yesterday

Unless RFK Jr. is interested in spending the next two years in front of Congressional committees, he should go ahead and resign now.

Gotta say, Dan may have just dropped the most robust post-election analysis to date. Props to Dan.

Who hasn't dreamed of visiting *all* the Bodleian Libraries? This social media admin confesses to only having managed a paltry 10 of 22, but loved reading about Jade's successful quest!

Kat Steiner@kastrel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lovely article in the student newspaper The Cherwell about visiting all 22 Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk: "Beyond the Rad Cam" cherwell.org/2026/10/24/o... Very pleased that @bodleianhcl.bsky.social and my old home the Education Library are so well reviewed 😊

Remember: "Stephen Miller got into politics because his arms were too weak to strangle prostitutes"

Hey, no one who's unfamiliar with Michigan should be commenting on Abdul's supposed "underperformance." 🙄 El-Sayed beat Rogers by 7 in a state that has struggled to elect BIPOC folk to statewide offices. The idea of someone not white being elected Senator or Governor here was a dream until Tuesday.

Luci Baines Johnson came to celebrate last night. We just took back her dad’s Senate seat.

winning the midterms feels like defeating a mini-boss and watching it explode into gold coins

chat is this ideological moderation?

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2d ago

This is a great chart from Kevin. And some more evidence along these lines in my linked piece. The Callais decision may end up being the reason Democrats win a Senate seat in Mississippi. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-11-10...

Turnout among Black voters surged in the Deep South

Black voters made up a larger share of the electorate than in 2024, helping to (maybe) flip Mississippi's Senate seat

gelliottmorris.com

Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is shocking to me. I study this for a living and am having a hard time wrapping my head around it:

Oh this is TOO good not to alt text

Thank the black women@offbydesign.blacksky.app · 2d ago

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Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yep. This from the former Polish ambassador to the U.S. Marek Magierowski:

I have been watching both Jeffries and Schumer for the past two years and I have said publicly: Jefferies has been a good Minority Leader. Healthcare Hakeem singularly raised the BBB Bill into healthcare salience. I know the members and have given them nicknames.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hakeem Jeffries is not YOUR leader. There are actually people leading the resistance well already. He is the leader of 255 incoming Members of Congress, more than half of whom are more conservative than you, than me, and even than Hakeem Jeffries. emptywheel.net/2026/11/05/o...

There’s a real irony in Republicans hoping that the late mail votes in Mississippi will rescue Cindy Hyde-Smith — just months after the RNC sued to void Mississippi’s ability to count late-arriving votes and lost at SCOTUS, 5-4.

Damn it would really stink for Trump & co. if there were a whole bunch of top-quality former government lawyers with huge grudges against the administration available for this. For some reason.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Raskin is hiring up. I can’t imagine a better place to work during the next two years. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/about/job-op...

Staffer: Senator, an email came in that says, "I would like to inform you that your name and email address have been added to Editorial Manager, the online submission and peer review tracking system"

Mike Cowburn@mikecowburn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dude…

Times like today that I remember that within weeks of the 2024 result Facebook rewrote its moderation guidelines to allow calling gay people mentally ill

I don’t think he’ll be framing this one. Cover of Libération (French daily). Image from @australia.theguardian.com

Good on Lucas. Quality individual based on my interactions with him, so not surprised.

Josh Thomas@joshthomas.bsky.social · 3d ago

based Lucas Giolito! 😮

My statement on the 2026 midterm elections:

Another defeat for El Trumpo today: U.S. federal prosecutors moved to drop charges against Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova rather than provide evidence about similar cases after a judge granted her broad discovery on claims of vindictive prosecution over frog embryos.

Prosecutors Seek to Drop Charges Against Russian Scientist Accused of Smuggling Frog Embryos

Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard, has argued that she was vindictively prosecuted after her arrest in 2025.

nytimes.com

i legit think "no one gets left behind" is really powerful messaging

seancurry1@seancurry1.bsky.social · 3d ago

"don't abandon minorities" is the whole game for culture war horseshit. Trans issues? "We don't abandon minorioties" Immigration issues? "We don't abandon minorities" Gay marriage? Equal pay? VRA? "We don't abandon minorities" Democrats win when they adopt that blanket message.

I am so fucking tired of "seeking justice" being framed as "getting even." Arresting and/or impeaching people who are legitimately guilty of actual crimes is not revenge. It is justice. Innocent people should be released from detention and guilty people should be in prison. Again, that is JUSTICE.

with the benefit of hindsigh, yeah, you could have just taken the small dollar donor map from vote hub to the bank 2 weeks before the election votehub.com/2026/10/24/2...

This gave me chills www.ajc.com/politics/202...