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serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

BTW Cory Bowman didn’t just lose, it was a murder. Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval won 78% of the vote to Bowman’s 14% or 51,698 votes to 14,383 votes.

Welp. That’s embarrassing.

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Ghazala Hashmi has just become the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S.

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Dems in ARRAY

Three urinals in the men's room, each with a small digital screen above it showing the Cuomo campaign logo.

A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti

This is the kind of thing that lost you the election @kamalaharris.com. This naïve, tone-deaf commitment to "moderation." No one should act like Dick Cheney wasn't a war criminal.

#centrism #Democrats #dickcheney

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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If anyone wants to help me liberate Dick Cheney's grand jury transcript, LMK.

[He had a June 2004 interview with Pat Fitz, and then a later August 2004 interview, in Jackson Hole, that was treated as a GJ transcript. The latter is what I want.]

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue."

Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Link to full interview and timestamp of this segment: www.mediaite.com/media/paid-m...

#OvertonRatchet h/t @drnotta.bsky.social

With me it's the effect of repeated, nonstop retraumatization. The irony is I knew this would happen when I exited the medical industry 17 years ago. Returning for palliative care, the only reason I'm continuing on is because my dog depends on me. There's nothing else in this world.

@demlabs.bsky.social (which stands for Democracy, not Democrats) has great, free, as-secure-as-it-gets, micro-organizing tools.

Utterly consistent. It's only been very recently that having been raped *didn't* stigmatize someone for life, make them unmarriageable, make them unfit for any work other than prostitution.

That's another part of those "good old days" they want to take us back to. Disease can do the work for them.

You weren’t “low-maintenance”.

You were starving yourself of care.

You weren’t “resilient”.

You were burned out.

You weren’t “bad at intimacy”.

You were forced to perform it.

They thought you didn’t want connection.

But you needed it more than anyone.

That’s autism.

Organize people at their moment of need: At food banks, hospitals, unemployment offices…

Organize people at their moment of need: At food banks, hospitals, unemployment offices…
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When I got out of college, I rented a room in my buddy’s double-wide. He was a firefighter. I was a firefighter. I made $26,000 that year and had 0 kids. He had 3 kids, 2 jobs, rented out a room - and still needed food stamps to make ends meet and put good food on the table for the kids.

Photos of UFW martyrs who gave us the most precious gift they possessed — their very lives. Nan, Nagi, Juan, Rufino, and René are very special human beings. We will never let the sacrifice they made for us be forgotten.

On #DiadelosMuertos the UFW wants to honor the martyrs of La Causa who gave us the most precious gift they possessed — their very lives. Nan, Nagi, Juan, Rufino, and René are very special human beings. We will never let the sacrifice they made for us be forgotten.

“This is a problem everybody has been attacking as a STEM problem,” Mr. Kobek said in an interview, referring to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics that underlie cryptography. Cryptographic science, he argued, could not solve Kryptos — “but library science could.”

Archival research 1, STEM 0

(why does this remind me of "Cold Mountain," the movie, not the book that I never read - whose main thesis seemed to be that slavery was bad because white people didn't learn to take care of themselves?)

Trump's plan to seize Iraq's oil: 'It's not stealing, we're reimbursing ourselves' Strategy of taking oil in Iraq and from areas controlled by Isis presents huge issues from almost every angle and ‘would amount to a war crime’, experts say

5. Trump has long called for the U.S. to steal other countries’ oil. He said that repeatedly about Iraq in 2016. And in 2020, he said: “People said to me, ‘Why are you staying in Syria?’ Because I kept the oil.”

The US warships off Venezuela aren’t there to fight drugs Washington’s Caribbean build-up isn’t about traffickers. It’s about projecting power and pushing regime change.

4. “The United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Drug Threat Assessment of 2024 does not even mention Venezuela.”

Drug crackdown or regime change - what is Trump's goal in Venezuela? President Trump says he wants to tackle the drugs trade but many believe he is trying to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro.

3. “Donald Trump … said one vessel the U.S. struck, on 16 October, was ‘loaded up with mostly fentanyl.’ But fentanyl is primarily produced in Mexico – not South America – and comes into the U.S. over the southern border.”

Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao Zhao served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.

2. More proof that Trump doesn't care about drug trafficking: He pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose cryptocurrency exchange was used to move money connected to drug trafficking and other crimes. (Zhao and Trump have financial ties.)

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison in 2015, given ‘full and unconditional’ pardon by president

1. Trump doesn't care about drug trafficking. If he did, he wouldn't have pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of the illegal online drug marketplace known as the Silk Road.

Trump’s military moves against Venezuela are not about drugs. They’re driven by something else that’s addicting Americans: oil. Venezuela has the world’s largest known oil reserves. Trump wants it. In this thread are …
🧵 FIVE REASONS IT’S ABOUT OIL, NOT DRUGS 🧵

tech bros keep promising self-aware ai when they haven't even cracked making self-aware tech bros