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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 3h

Brom needs no reason! Fuck you that’s why is reason enough!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "When I talk about weak Republican men, I'm pretty much talking oftentimes about the leadership in the House and Senate."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

LEAVITT: It's absolutely true that there's fraud in California's elections

Q: What's the evidence of that?

LEAVITT: It's just a fact

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12h

TODAY is #ElectionDay! Here are the key races YOU should be watching:

🗳️PA Supreme Court
🗳️ME Ballot Measure
🗳️CA Prop 50
🗳️VA Gov/AG/House
🗳️NJ Gov

🧵Here’s everything you need to know about why these elections could be especially consequential to our democracy👇

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

Spending the evening watching this total shagger www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zY...

The Rockford Files Season 1 Intro

YouTube video by 1000 Mission Street

www.youtube.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

"It's becoming increasingly better not to ask, because it's becoming increasingly better not to know. If you know, then you have to do something about it. Thus not knowing has become a virtue among people who would rather not give a shit. Shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

The Death of Shame

Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

www.the-reframe.com

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 1d

Shocker

A meme with a split-screen image. On the left is a mugshot of a smiling man with glasses and a beard, identified as Joshua Kemper. Below his image is text that reads: 'A YOUTH PASTOR WHO SAID CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T 'FEEL SAFE' WITH LGBTQ PEOPLE IN THEIR CHURCHES, JOSHUA KEMPER, HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR S*XUALLY AB*SING A CHILD.' On the right is a second split image: the top half shows two adults and two children holding a banner that reads 'ALL OR NOTHING WELCOME' with a rainbow flag behind them, captioned '...A FEW YEARS LATER'. The bottom half shows three girls holding a sign that reads 'WE DON'T FEEL SAFE'

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 19h

The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars

If polls hold, Spanberger is looking more

likely to clear 50% in her more swingy state than Mamdani is in a city so Democratic that only 6 of 51 city council members are Republicans.

Dems nationally say that matters a lot for thinking what comes next.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

New in PN: Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts

"Nearly every time he appears before cameras to sell the GOP’s lies, he manages to unintentionally tell the truth. These admissions have advertised the fact the regime is intent on using the shutdown to torment vulnerable Americans."

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts

The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

www.publicnotice.co

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to stitch together an ad with clips of Leavitt's comment that the president is focused on the Epstein Ballroom and the "Great Gatsby" party he threw there interspersed with news reports about SNAP drying up and government workers going unpaid.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE

Does Mike Johnson Know...Anything? Anything At All?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

In Oklahoma, oil companies inject tens of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into the ground each year — enough to fill the Empire State Building 300+ times — frequently at pressures above the legal limit.

Regulators have failed to stop them.

With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 22h

If they have it late is it called munch?

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Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 1d

Look at Zohran, already bringing down housing costs

New York Post @nypost.com · 1d

Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.

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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 1d

If we can tweak this to No Nutjobs November, I’m on board

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization.
As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show.
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away.
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 2d

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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Donna Hopkins @vegandreamer.bsky.social · 2d

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody @mandykathryn.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t forget to VOTE!

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