Across NY & MD, I'm counting 12 Democratic incumbents who lost (or, in one case, are trailing) to a challenger to their left. —2 congressmembers (both NY) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —6 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD) A thread to break this down.

Skinny dead mouse! Thought it was my new wave band. politicalwire.com/2026/06/19/t... politicalwire.com/2026/06/19/t...

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

The Iran War and the End of the American Empire

Becerra breaking out from the crowd? ivn.us/posts/breaki...

Gallipoli has 4 Lessons for the Strait of Hormuz Crisis

We can do this here in the states if we stick to it!

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Also, the US President threatened genocide, and too many people treated it as "bluster" or passed it off. This is normalizing what should never be normalized. And, the real people to suffer here are the Iranian people (courtesy of the USA). It is time for the US to pull out.

Bondi’s photo has been taken down at the Justice Department. 🤣

Oilpocalypse is baked in; put up solar panels and buy an electric car

A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she'd never been to before. https://cnn.it/40X1LD8

Seen on the internet- follow Juan Cole's 'Informed Comment' http://dlvr.it/TRlXLy

REI also outfitted ICE in Minneapolis this winter, in case you need another reason to stop shopping there. The thousands of feds were easier to spot at first because they very obviously weren't dressed for the cold, and that stood out. Then, they went shopping, and REI was happy to sell to them.

Medical device maker Stryker reportedly hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivist group. So far only Irish news reporting, not here in US. "many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts" Stryker makes surgical equipment, defibrillators, imaging equipment

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

SEN. @hickenlooper.senate.gov : “Death cards left behind by ICE agents — cards with white supremacist history left in detained immigrants' abandoned cars… Imagine finding your brother's empty car with one of these in the driver's seat. Cruelty for the sake of cruelty." (H/T @lulacorg.bsky.social )

Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it. Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

great reporting of an under acknowledged threat. ICE participation in the surveillance industrial complex violates fundamental human rights. see 👇

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The date for the next No Kings Day is set. But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵

ANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.

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This is a powerful, loving, heartbreaking statement from the wife of Renee Macklin Good, who was murdered by our government. It amazingly seeks to rise above the hate to honor Renee and calls us to our best selves. Read and share. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Our investigation finds that Trump's actions in Venezuela and Greenland are the product of a long-running Russian influence campaign that began during his first term. Read + share the complete report. america2.news/the-russian-...

Gen Mark Hertling speaks with the experience that only being involved in "regime change" operations can bring. This is an essential read.

I am shadow-banned and was also banned-banned over Johnny Cash lyrics. If you like this new article, please share it before Bluesky nukes me for including a cross stitch I made of the movie "Die Hard". Thanks!

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Wild - the Tennessean woke up and chose to treat Musk’s Boring Company saying they want to tunnel from Nashville to Knoxville seriously 🤡 rather than covering workers walking out for pay failure and safety concerns (They also previously claimed the tunnel is popular 🤥 )

Local contractors say Elon Musk's Boring Company has paid out just 5% of what they’re owed for their work.

“Shane Trucking confirmed they are no longer working here with the Boring Company” WSMV on the NASHVILLE worker walkout on Elon & @GovBillLee’s Teslas only tunnel project over nonpayment and safety concerns (The tennessean has still not covered this 🤔 for some reason)

Musk Co gets NV OSHA case dismissed. Hmmm fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @deadder.bsky.social )

Article from a Construction publication on the risks to the contractors who tore down the White House. www.constructiondive.com/news/white-h...

Destruction equipment at the White House today.

It fits the bill.

It looks even worse by video 😢

“.. despite his pledge that construction of the $250 million addition wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing building.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

Cartoon by John Deering.

This is Portland right now. We’re“under siege” by pollen and potholes, that’s about it. We have a ton of live webcams if you want to watch us go to the farmers markets or walking our dogs, we love dogs. Release the Epstein files. www.camscape.com/webcam/pione...

’Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes

Different age, not a vengeful sociopath.

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