Seeing many takes that Tuesday's Big Beautiful Blue Wave was all about #affordability. 10m Californians voted for only 1 thing & it was free+fair elections. PA voters turned out in droves for the rule of law. Affordability is important & motivating, but it isn't the only thing on voters' minds.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Just as the Founders intended!

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

And there it is….. Announcement is made that the U.S. House will be out of session AGAIN next week Two full months since their most recent vote

This article from the @miamiherald.com is from Nov. 2020. The Herald's investigative team did some excellent (& infuriating) reporting from 2019/2020... see also: www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr... www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...

As an extremely lazy person who does not like waking up early, I am considering running for Congress.

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time,” [E.B. White] wrote. “It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor.”

To Trump, the illegality of his unilaterally imposed tariffs seems to be a feature not a bug — part of a concerted effort to barrel through the remaining checks being placed on executive power by Congress and the Supreme Court. bit.ly/4qGlrqf

Wearing my shocked face...

The Trump admin is making the planes run on time in the same way that Mussolini made the trains run on time—by not actually doing it, but by pressuring everyone to just say that’s what’s happening.

I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

THIS IS SO GOOD

@electproject.bsky.social I'm thinking that b/c Texas is already gerrymandered, while CA is less so, the margins in the new TX districts will be thinner & therefore less reliably red, while CA's new districts will be more reliably Dem. Am I way off course, or is this sound reasoning?

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

#Gerrymandered and fired up? Fight back—run for office, even when the map is rigged. Can’t Win Victory Fund helps “can’tidates” in impossible districts make noise, grow the vote for up-ballot races and push for fair maps—and yes, we make it fun. Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office. Democrats swept all 13. That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular). They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

Already reducing the NYC budget deficit, and he hasn’t even been sworn in!

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

An excellent read. Have a look.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

The prosecutor could not, in fact, indict a ham sandwich.😂

The US president was ordered by the courts to use designated funds to FEED qualified citizens and he is FIGHTING TO KEEP THEM HUNGRY

Let's keep the blue wave momentum going, y'all!

Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?

This seems...accurate.

It’s scary, but I think a combination of hope and spite will save us.

"Politics is not something done to us, now it is something we do"

You heard it here first: Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania are blue states now!

on God a lot of people whom i otherwise respect very much need to stop using their depression as a replacement for thought and also block out a weekend a month to play wargames or mahjong or sth because your strategic acumen look like a dishrag and many clearly can't remember what winning looks like

Follow @boltsmag.org if you want the news the huge media conglomerates aren't reporting.

What would scare them even more is if @aftynbehn.bsky.social has a good showing in her Special Election in Tennessee on Dec. 2nd. And if she wins, they will be terrified. It's a Trumpian district, but it's possible. tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/30/c...

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

WOW: Jayden Williams, a 22-year-old recent graduate of Clark Atlanta University, just defeated the incumbent Mayor of Stockbridge, Ga., a southeastern Atlanta suburb of nearly 30,000 reisdents, to become the city's youngest-ever mayor! www.fox5atlanta.com/election/geo...

A big result: Maine voters have rejected the conservative ballot measure that'd have restricted ballot access. The measure was going to impose voter ID, and restrict mail voting significantly. It lost easily, a year before the crucial midterms there. Our coverage: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

You want a better house or car or job. You think you’re poor. But you need food and shelter and you have that. The poor do not have what they need. That is poverty. Not having what you need to survive. Not just not having it as nice as you would like.

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

CARTA offers free rides to polling locations on election day #chsnews

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Lol maga mike theonion.com/mike-johnson...

Sens. Rand Paul and Tim Kaine said they will keep pushing to limit Pres. Trump’s ability to act without congressional approval on Venezuela and cartels. “We don’t go to war without permission of Congress.” https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-rand-paul-tim-kaine