Sigh. Craving some real, grown up leadership.

Over 500 pages in initial Epstein files release were entirely blacked out.

At least 11 billionaires will be serving key roles in the Trump administration. Trump is truly a man of the people… Trump filled the swamp with rich Oligarchs.

Robert F Kennedy Jr has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US health secretary. BBC Verify has examined some of RFK Jr's most controversial claims on vaccine safety, water fluoridation, Covid-19 and food. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It takes until the *tenth paragraph* in this piece to introduce the phrase “thousands of children may die”

Public health experts and scientists say RFK could do "infinite" damage if he's appointed to lead HHS. It's not just vaccines or fluoride: it's Medicaid and Medicare funding, drug development, cancer research, funding for Indian Health Service... it's endless. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Your body, my choice” is useful because it makes clear the ways that abortion bans and sexual violence are part of the same project: compelling women into a degraded gender role via the forcible commandeering of their bodies.

We are the number one app in the United States. I repeat. We are the number one app in the United States.

German citizens who voted for Hitler had reasons (excuses) too, & they bought the same hateful policies that Trump spewed. But we don’t give them a pass! Bottom-line, voting for a guy purposely selling racist, misogynistic, homophobic, & xenophobic HATE means YOU BOUGHT & OWN that HATE!

Seems bad

Dovetailing with the Huckabee appointment, Israel recently named as its new ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, an advocate for West Bank annexation and former member of the Israeli Kahanist terrorist organization, the “Jewish Defense League.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Relevant to the issue of West Bank annexation: In 2015, Huckabee said that Israel’s claim to the West Bank was stronger than the United States’s claim to Manhattan. He also repeatedly calls the West Bank by the Biblical name of “Judea and Samaria.” www.timesofisrael.com/huckabee-isr...

I sincerely hope you're not in Canada, Mr Charles b/c, barring a miracle, we will almost certainly suffer the same fate in 2025. Ruzzian propaganda + faux notnews has also infected an equal % of Canadians. Grocery prices went up hugely again this week & according to Cndn MSM it's Trudeau's fault.

X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.

A few months ago, the conservative party came to power in Valencia, Spain with the support of the far right. One of their first acts was to eliminate climate emergency services. At the end of October, flooding exacerbated by climate change killed over 200 people in the region. 🧵⬇️

People are totally unprepared for what is about to happen to American higher education

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Elon Musk has invented something flawless: the world’s first perfect disinformation machine, turning money into lies and lies into money. As I explain here: open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

Democrats see “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a horror show, while Republicans see it as a template. — It’s as simple as that.

The Justice Department lawsuit to break up Live Nation reveals a repeated strategy of intimidation tactics, retribution, and all-around thuggish behavior. It really reads like a true crime novel. @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social breaks it down.

again, you can read 100 polling and political journalism pieces exploring voter behavior and not find a SINGLE ONE that mentions MAGA voters have a head full of mashed potatoes thanks to a massive and extremely well funded propaganda network across old and new media

Strongly recommend this @chronicle.com article. A detailed portrait of the reactionary assault on independent universities and the playbook they're seeking to normalize through political appointees, budget inequities, erosion of faculty governance at every level. www.chronicle.com/article/oath...

A State Department office that combats Russian and Chinese disinformation operations faces a possible shutdown weeks before Donald Trump’s return to the White House – WSJ: ‘The center’s possible folding comes as X and other social-media platforms have retreated from policing disinformation.’

Twitter's terms of service going into effect November 15 will move the forum for legal disputes to the northern district of Texas in front of a judge who owns Tesla stock and there are no anti-SLAPP protections. Elon will use it to sue his critics into silence. Get off of there by then.

🚨VA elections lead to Democratic control of House of Delegates, sustaining state Senate majority, a pivot from the GOP's prior win. @thehill. Click image below for story👇 theintellectualist.com/members/the-...

🚨Rick Santorum blasts "pure democracy", suggests it is unfair to Republicans. @thehill. theintellectualist.com/members/the-...

Happy to be one of the Jewish writers who's signed this letter. "We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand."

PLEASE READ @BrianKarem’s latest piece in Salon on how . . . “MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be” 🗞️ www.salon.com/2023/11/02/m...