This is a strange hack punditry, in which everything anyone does is the Democratic Party's fault. Dems' mistakes are their fault. Repubs' mistakes are the Dems' fault for not stopping them. No party is perfect. But we should examine their actual actions. You can't learn anything from this punditry.

This is a sensitive topic, but an important one: when we talk about disinformation & propaganda we (rightly) think of Russia. But how should we react when our partners - specifically the US - uses its information channels to attack our values or laws and aims to increase societal divisions?

Exit polls say Abigail Spanberger won young men 56–42 today. Talk about a narrative buster.

Congratulations to Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com! Virginians turned out in force to reject Trump’s regime. We’re proud of every Indivisible group who poured their hearts into this campaign to win back the Governor’s Mansion.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Mikie Sherrill (D) has been elected Governor of New Jersey.

Decision Desk has called both of Georgia's statewide races, for public service commissioner, for Democrats. If confirmed, this would be a really huge win for Democrats: It'd be their first statewide win in any non-federal race since 2006!

Love to see it 🗳️

Larry Diamond sounding the alarm about the threat to free and fair elections in 2026 www.persuasion.community/p/taking-sto...

If this man is not checked for flagrantly violating the law like this he will continue to do it in worse and worse ways

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald .. @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The ICC ditched Microsoft services and is using #Zendis OpenDesk instead. Zendis is Germany’s publicly funded center for #digitalsovereignty. OpenDesk is open source. This is fabulous news! So impressed by the folks who are & have been involved with Zendis www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

Trump just congratulated himself for someone else’s Nobel Prize win and let me tell you this shocks - nobody. It shocks nobody. Remember, nothing is normal.

same poll had harris winning ca by 22 and she ultimately won by 20 so good news for prop 50

Big tech dramatically increased their lobbying budgets. @corporateeurope.org & @lobbycontrol.bsky.social put out the numbers and big tech's budgets just keep ballooning. Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta's increased the most. Meta = biggest spender (10€ mill); Google, Apple, Microsoft, in the tech top 10.

If you are a federal employee with a gun, Trump will find a way to pay you even if he has no money for that purpose. If you depend on SNAP, he will use the shutdown as an excuse not to pay you, even though they have money specifically for that purpose. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-risks-...

Republicans think denying food to poor people is a smart strategy because Democrats care more about the poor than Republicans do. Consider what that says about Republicans.

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape. Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Kann irgendjemand mir erklären was Richard David Precht nur remotely relevant macht? Who even are you?

It’s like they are running ads for Mamdani

Loved this episode of @guruspod.bsky.social w @philippmarkolin.bsky.social on the Covid origin conspiracy. It’s wild the lab leak theory has almost become mainstream - this will help you understand how organized conspiracy theorists plotted the discourse and won influence pca.st/episode/eacb...

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My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

Berlin, see you tomorrow! Saturday October 18th, 2pm, Pariser Platz #NoKings @demsabroad.bsky.social

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes. Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on! Boss: I have an idea

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Like this, please

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Are the reasonable Republicans in the room with you right now, Hakeem?

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.

Pete Hegseth: - we don’t do human rights or international law - we’re not woke we’re violent - beat up your subordinates - women bad - we do war for justice not to protect Americans - actually our war is on Americans super impressed by all who stay on to be there to oppose this man

Republicans are shutting down the government because they don’t want to fix the health care crisis they created. They’re holding the entire government hostage so they can raise health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throw millions off their health care. NO.

I am so freaking sick of people downplaying anything that is happening right now.

Donald Trump's militarization of our city streets isn't about fighting crime or public safety — it's about consolidating power in his hands. What he plans to do with that, now or during the 2026 elections, should worry all of us.

the Dem leadership are diabolically bad at their jobs.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

What Vance is saying is that you must give up your constitutional right to seek redress of grievances. If they behave like Nazis and you say it out loud, then your words “caused” the violence. They want to prevent you from calling them out. If you can’t describe what they’re doing, you’re powerless.

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You need to know & internalize & act based on the fact that money talks. Disney cared about one thing and one thing only: money. They need to feel from us over and over again that allying themselves with authoritarians will cost them more than the admin’s threats. #jimmykimmel #trump #disney #abc

batshit crazy

Welp how quickly the tides turn. Two weeks ago Trump and Co attacked the EU’s DSA bc it “censors people.” It does not. Now the U.S. wants to put people in handcuffs who hold the opinion that Charlie Kirk was not a good guy. He wasn’t a good guy. #authoritarian #techpolicy

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

yep @thestefansmith.bsky.social my thoughts then and now exactly. same same bc this is how it starts.

didn’t want to need to know what a groyper is

sadly, v first thought