Read this thread. An election is being stolen in Brazil in real time.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · 13h ago

I haven’t slept a full night in three weeks ahead of the polls opening in Brazil today. I might be shouting into a void here, but if you can spare a few seconds to send good energy towards our elections today and for the largest country in South America to beat fascism, please do so. 🇧🇷

Relevant bit of history today. ACT UP poster against anti-queer bigotry from both parties. 1992.

Though you may sincerely believe it, not voting is not a bold statement of virtue. It is not a brave ethical stance. It is not a strong message to a corrupt system... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

To The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,

An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election.

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

@sanho.bsky.social began posting this thread of quatrain-inspired "recall poetry" almost 3 months ago. It is really something to take in when you start from the beginning (both his creativity and the amount/variety of recalls).

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · yesterday

Roses are red Regard the situation gravely

Your daily affirmation: To avoid burnout, smolder instead. Become a deep red glow in the darkness and wait for the right time to ignite.

“Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey is now asking for folks to understand that ICE has separated a good man from his family over a paperwork issue.

Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.

Bauhaus students Martha Earps-Breuer, Katt Both and Ruth Hollos-Konsemüller. 1927 #WomensArt #BauhausWomem

punkin dunkin

This guy has the scared bravado of an absolute booger eater who’s gotten in with the school bully. He’s been told to brazen it out, and is only half convinced that it’ll work, as the current strategy depends on selling child rape as a character flaw for the child.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago

NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”

This dude rules. This is positive masculinity, fwiw in case anyone is wondering. Rocking this at his age? Goals.

June@rittsq.bsky.social · 3d ago

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

🚨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...

Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨🚨🚨 Just got info from the Jamie Davis (Louisiana US Dem candidate) campaign that a poll taken from 9/17 to 9/19 shows he's within 4 points of US Rep. Julia Letlow (the R senate candidate) in the Louisiana US senate race. Of note, Letlow's name recognition is double that of Davis. (82% vs. 41%)

More than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds.

Europe's killer heat this summer claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deaths

More than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds.

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#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1963: More than 225,000 Black students boycott the Chicago Public Schools system to protest systemic segregation and severe overcrowding. Thousands of students, parents and community organizers marched downtown to demand integration and equal resources. /1

Seeking sunshine.

At least a dozen Dark-eyed Juncos foraging in the side yard this morning. Winter is around the corner whether we like it or not. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-e...

Dark-eyed Junco Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Dark-eyed Juncos are neat, even flashy little sparrows that flit about forest floors of the western mountains and Canada, then flood the rest of North America for winter. They’re easy to recognize by ...

allaboutbirds.org

“A Popular Information analysis of campaign finance records reveals that the [Ramaswamy] ad was funded, in part, with contributions from the PACs and executives of major American corporations, including Bank of America, Deloitte, DraftKings, Kroger, and Nationwide.” popular.info/p/the-corpor...

Post from GOP nominee for Florida state House seat, calling for “Remigration” (ethnic cleansing) & touting protests against “Sharia.” He was active w/ white supremacist group; marched at infamous Nazi rally in Charlottesville; advocated executing LGBTQ people No pushback from GOP. Expected to win

"There is no ground the party can cede that will satiate fascism, and a party that espouses equality but fails to defend it is morally hollow."

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

The State Board of Elections’ last-minute changes to voting by mail are leading to thousands more absentee ballots being rejected this election - at a rejection rate twice as high as in 2022. It’s infuriating. North Carolinians, please make a plan to vote this year, in person if possible.

Very valuable and very sober analysis www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti...

The plot against Ukraine (and Europe)

We are now part of the axis of evil.

publicnotice.co

A friend of mine told me earlier this afternoon that her 12yo son expressed concerned about his grandpa who he said has been spending way too much time on TikTok, watching it at an absurd volume, & thinking all the AI crap is real. Son told mom "It's not appropriate!"

amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · 4d ago

genuinely i think this is about half of what's going on in my town. the seniors are alone in their houses getting radicalized by AI slop

I cannot believe in 2026 people are still tossing cigarette butts out their car windows. (But also I can, because people are assholes).

Ohioans across the state are speaking up and pushing back against this ever-watching government eye and demanding that our right to privacy be respected and upheld. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/18/the-fight-against-flock-cameras-in-ohio-is-just-the-beginning/

Commentary: The fight against Flock cameras in Ohio is just the beginning • Ohio Capital Journal

Government surveillance isn’t new, but new technologies that can detect our faces and track our movements are making it more ubiquitous. In fact, Ohio is one of the most heavily surveilled states in the country, with 62.4 cameras for every 100,000 residents.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

Once again, “the republicans can’t steal the election” is a category mistake. They will try and they are already trying. The correct questions are “how much damage can they do?” and “what are we going to do to punish them for this?

Kelly Carlin-McCall@kellycarlin.bsky.social · 5d ago

The shenanigans are in full swing. Justice Dept. Charges 28 in California With Voting-Related Crimes www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/u...

Yes. This is disgusting. The Trump admin manufacturing the evidence to support their conspiracy theories of widespread non-citizen voting. They arrest a tiny number of people (arrests crafted to draw attention), at least some of whom having no idea of the crime they’ve been accused of.

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social · 6d ago

Must -Read LA Times Story on DOJ’s Despicable Conduct in Its Los Angeles Voter Fraud Arrests electionlawblog.org/2026/must-re...

More Halloween costume ideas: - sentient pile of sweaters - sexy owl god - living embodiment of darkness - Mothman's cousin Terry - person who enjoys soup

Imagine if America had a government that wanted to help its citizens?

Important to ask what it says about policing that the law insists that shooting and killing a baby because of an alleged case of shoplifting is just the job.

Police Shooting of 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi Attorney General Says

The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s of...

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