Israeli Jewish supremacist settlers armed with US made rifles detained a sitting US Congressman in the occupied West Bank and held him hostage for more than an hour before being forced to release him.

Ken Paxton has been involved in several Scandals.He also is now being investigated for Voter Fraud as he lists his address in another County in Texas but votes in a Different County ⚖️😱😡.Recently caught taking a Mistress on a Whirlwind Vacation while married.Repost to Texans, VOTE 🗳️ James Talarico🗳️👊🇺🇸

Disingenuous Fox News. Spreading stupidity purposely. And…repeat.

Mitch McConnell has consistently demonstrated questionable integrity. He is often referred to as "Moscow Mitch."

For years Hungary's state TV fed the country propaganda every night. This week the channel went dark and signed off apologizing for years of lies. What made it happen? Voters threw the liars out. That's what one election can do. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-does...

Vance: A lot of the people who are going and getting 4-year degrees, they're not like engineers and doctors. They have fake jobs. (What's a "fake job?" Maybe like Vice President of the US?)

"Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78 after the machine, which dates back to the 1940s, began to break down — and no one could repair it." www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/

Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed away 2 days before McConnell plotted to find her replacement. This comes after he refused to hold a vote on Obama’s’ pick for SC justice. It’s time to fill McConnell’s seat. If he’s alive he can object in person. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.theguardian.com/us

The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.

White supremacists who are upset that a black woman was cast as Helen of Troy in the new movie The Odyssey “because it’s not historically accurate” have drawings of a blond, blue-eyed Jesus in their homes.

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.

“The IDF is on their side,” Khanna remarked, “not on the side of the Americans.”

I'm God but not even I can figure this out.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Exactly 🎯 “Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.” • Douglas Hofstadter “Gödel, Escher, Bach: Eternal Golden Braid”

Elder Chavez was following the required steps to gain permanent legal status when he was detained. He carried his papers everywhere so he wouldn’t be mistaken as undocumented. “I’m legal in this country,” he told officers. It didn’t matter.

Have you noticed that some of the most effective ads for the Dems are written by the GOP? I love when they say the quiet part out loud! #AccountabilityIsComingNovember3rd

The longest, cruellest term, with the least amount of pretending to be normal: @sifill.bsky.social @nikobowie.bsky.social, @stevevladeck.bsky.social join @mjsdc.bsky.social and myself to wrap up the term that was devastating in too many ways to count

“I’m just saying [FBI Director] Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G5 jet for vacations. Maybe we should ground that plane. It costs $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.” — Kash Patel, 2023

Vote El Sayed, Michigan. You've got a gem there.

Things right-wingers concerned about the birthrate won't touch: "If you’re worried about population collapse, then I have two solutions for you: attract many more immigrants, and figure out how to loosen the patriarchal bargain’s grip on the masculine imagination."

I'm so sorry - Haley Stevens is so weird, Michigan. Can you please not subject yourselves or us to her dreams, voice or strange expressions?

Every media outlet in the country and every citizen should stand with The Times, its reporters, and the First Amendment. Trump can take his attacks on the Constitution, his petty cowardice and grievance, and go shove off.

Great. Let's set up more data centers for them.

ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)

Before I was Governor, I worked at Oregon Food Bank. I know the stories of what it means when families can't put food on the table.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP. DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

ICE "Final Removal Order" (even if they've found wrong suspect) means Murder then Lie!! ICE is a horrific militia that Ruben Gallego champions.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. (Published Oct. 2024)

And the boys were adopted by Abel Meeropol, the poet and teacher who wrote "Strange Fruit."

thelefthook.substack.com/p/mitch-mcco... Every voter wants to be understood; you can understand someone you don't agree w/ or approve of & watch them melt. I wouldn't say "give to men". It's "dude I'll make this accessible for you & everyone else". Housing, food, education, gas & yes, hope. Power.

“The paramedics showed no sign of concern or panic…” Seems like that’s either a good thing or a VERY bad thing? Proof of life now or gtfoh (Also jennings saying he sounded “strong” is pretty rich, he didn’t sound “strong” even before the stroke)

Congress is considering provisions that would deepen US-Israeli military entanglement and insulate the Netanyahu government from accountability. Email your elected officials and demand they don’t hand over any part of our military to Netanyahu.

Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor. Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded. (Published March)

Trump officials sought ways to sidestep election agency before firings, sources say - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

🛑 Stop chanting USA ... there is no longer UNITED in the States of America according to Trump.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social So glad @ms.now gave you some mics so you wouldn't have to yell. My eardrums are grateful. You seem to be doing better at not talking more than your guests or interrupting them - lean in to that. I may start watching again.

Sickening and un-American. Watch authoritarianism work.

Republicans are utterly shameless with their hypocrisy.

Amber Tamblyn claims that at age 16, she and a friend were approached by James Woods at a diner. She says he invited them to Las Vegas, and after she disclosed her age, he allegedly replied, “Even better.” Now Woods has locked his account. Truly the sign of an innocent man.

You can tell a lot about someone when their morality isn’t conditional.

People can’t afford healthcare, bills, or groceries, and tone-deaf JD Vance is bragging that government employees buy groceries for him, cook his food, and help him avoid airport lines. We don’t hate them enough.

The MAGA Election Heist Is Coming open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Donald kidnapped the leader of one country and assassinated the leader of another. This isn't an "escalation," it's payback. #FAFO

Why are we allowing this driverless car to take us over the cliff? “For me, I think it’s over” - his subconscious knows he's dying.

Perhaps you’ve already seen this—my 2020 open letter. “Allowing the unauthorized use of images & other content to inform the development of AI is part & parcel of the erosion of human agency & would represent a form of indentured servitude for those contributing to a future beyond their control.”

We are in a fight to save our children from his sick greed.

It was an honor to join a home-based providers round-table at Xiomara Family Day Care in the Bronx.   While Wall Street execs make $1,796/hr, child care workers earn a median of $6/hr — a reflection not of their value, but of a system that has failed to value care itself. We're changing that system.