Also, super related to my last post, maybe Jordan Wood is close enough to a good candidate for Senate from Maine, I don't know, seven minutes on my lunch break isn't enough time to vet a candidate in a state I'm not from and won't vote for. Still. He's there.

Anyone's actions. I wish we had a bigger pool of candidates who have money, charisma, a clean past, & an almost perfect vision. We don't. We are a minority fighting for a voice. The conversation that should surround this -unless & until that candidate appears- can't be had with one liners on socials

I think that there's some level of wanting to ignore how bad it has been for decades such that fascist elements have been normalized in the military, public ed being defunded into oblivion, and deprogramming is something to be understood as a process with no completion date, which does not erase 2/3

Idk. I'm still losing my mind over the Platner thing. Like of course it's bad. No one has to explain how bad it is, we know how bad it is. Small thread.

California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

Where are the right wingers asking where we'll get the money to pay for ballrooms and Argentine bailouts and a trillion dollar pentagon and bombs for Israel and bombing Venezuelan fishermen and a crypto reserve, and not collecting taxes on millionaires and billionaires and defending Cuomo and and...

Cutting SNAP is an economic time bomb.

End the shutdown & fund the services America needs.

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

Let's strengthen the Democratic Party by standing firmly on principle: (1) Medicare for All is a non-negotiable human right. (2) Demand leaders who can't be bought by foreign lobbyists, like AIPAC. (3) Stand for human rights, whether in the U.S, Palestine, or anywhere else.

Take away the Voting Rights Act and Jim Crow comes roaring back.

This has always been why Chief Justice John Roberts wants to take away the Voting Rights Act

Maybe the lesson once again is not centering the politician, but the policy. The campaign promises that made him popular are still popular. I don't know what to believe rn but don't want to defend a Nazi. Regardless of the truth, I think his campaign is over.
Anyways, here's that platform.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Ohioans shouldn’t have to choose between keeping the lights on and putting food on the table. Ohioans deserve energy that is affordable, reliable, and fair. That takes leadership that is willing to stand up to special interests and fight for working families.

open.substack.com/pub/amyacton...

Snapshot of recent polls show Rs struggling to defend seats they hold:
- VA Spanberger 51%-41% Earle-Sears
- ME Mills 42%-37% Collins
- NC Cooper 46%-42% Whatley
- OH Brown 49%-48% Husted
- TX Cornyn 48%-46% Allred, 48%-45% Talarico
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www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-have-15...

Some jerk on the other site posted this photo disparagingly but I think this person is brave.

Let’s get it together people!

Israel already broke the truce 47 times and killed 38 Gazans

I saw centrists praising him on here but not leftists. Was he being praised by leftists on other social media platforms? What I saw was leftists expressing caution and hoping the ceasefire might hold.

I personally said not a word on here about the ceasefire because I am old and I know Israel.

If I understand correctly, firing weapons at someone is generally not something you’re allowed to do during a ceasefire.

We were repeatedly told this would stop if only the hostages are released. We were also told Israel doesn't block aid.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/w...

Someone has informed the president about the existence of coffee.

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.