Moi

Liberal senior citizen (young-ish!) clinical psychologist, Red Sox fan, and musician.

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

The most disqualifying thing about Schumer, an OG opponent of Obama's Iran deal, is that he almost certainly wanted Trump to to launch a war against Iran - see the below convo with his foreign policy aide - and in fact kept deliberately goading him into it. Disastrous.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Maine’s new senator showed up to Washington in an $89.99 suit off the rack from Target — and it tells you everything about who just got elected, and the populist story behind this election.
Troy Jackson posted a selfie on the Capitol steps this week holding his U.S. Senate folder. People zoomed in on his sleeve, spotted the Haggar label, and tracked it down to Target.
It fits. Jackson is a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, Maine. His mom was 16 when he was born. He spent years working 80-hour weeks in the woods, and he got into politics fighting for loggers’ pay.
He wasn’t even supposed to be on the ballot. He stepped in with about 100 days to go and beat Susan Collins, who had held that seat since 1997.
The Senate is a millionaires’ club.
People whose last job before politics was blue-collar have never held more than about 2% of the seats in Congress. Most of the people writing laws about your wages have never had to live on one.
Jackson is a longtime Bernie Sanders ally. He ran Bernie’s Maine operation in 2016, and Bernie campaigned with him across the state this fall. He’s going to Washington to fight for Medicare for All, protect and expand Social Security, back unions, and make billionaires pay their fair share.
A senator who knows what a paycheck actually buys. In a $90 suit.

[Bag holder union @jieselong]

Can’t believe Jensen popped the AI bubble with his dick.

[jonbandit @OldManLefty1]

Question: “How are Democrats planning to work with Republicans?”

Georgia Lieutenant-Governor elect Josh McLaurin: "You’re asking the wrong question. The question now is: how are Republicans planning to work with us?"

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

I’m a progressive, but I think different subsections of the Democratic Party do different things very well, and the best version of the party moving forward takes a little bit from each of them.

This will vary by state, district, etc. but this is my ideal blueprint for the national party heading into 2028:

— “Name the enemy” progressive economic populism around billionaires, mega corporations, affordability/cost of living, etc. (à la Mamdani/Bernie/AOC)

— “Root out corruption root and stem” and litigating the case about how Citizens United is poisoning our country (à la Ossoff)

— “Love thy neighbor” empathy and tolerance on trans issues (à la Talarico/Hamilton/Warnock/Beshear)

— “America First, but not in a racist/assholic way” around things like tariffs, foreign wars, and spending our tax dollars at home instead (à la El-Sayed)

— “Reclaim patriotism and the American flag” (à la Ryan/Deluzio)

— “Get shit done” (à la Pritzker/Shapiro)

— “Humanely but effectively secure the border, treat immigrants with dignity & dismantle ICE” (à la Pulido/Gallego)

— “Protect our kids from preyed on by Big Tech” (à la McMorrow)

— “These data centers better pay the fuck up” populism (à la Hinojosa/Hong/Lawrence)

— “Let’s regulate the fuck out of these AI companies so we don’t all die” (à la Bores)

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Former NFL player Rob Gronkowski issues a statement that he doesn’t appreciate Erika Kirk’s Turning Point using a video of him at the polls for propaganda purposes.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Nothing America did yesterday can make up for all the harm we have done to our neighbors in Canada and Mexico, our allies in Europe and Asia, and vulnerable populations in South America and Africa.

Just know that we intended yesterday as the first step in a long-term redemption.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

BREAKING:

Susan Collins (R) Maine, lost her Senate seat tonight.

This news is absolutely, tremendous.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

For the uninitiated, Erin Brockovich is John Wick of environmental law.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

A Jan. 6 defendant — pardoned by Trump for threatening to "put a bullet" in Nancy Pelosi's head while driving around D.C. with guns/ammo — has been newly charged with threatening to assassinate D.C.'s federal judges.

Credit to @SeamusHughes for the find.
https://t.co/VZuWTVPMLH

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Last night Trump said he could have won Vietnam in a week. His plan was “going after Ho Chi Minh City.”

Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Our ally. The enemy’s capital was Hanoi. We bombed it.

He called the presidents who fought that war stupid, then explained how he’d have won it by attacking our own side.

58,220 Americans died in that war. Trump got five deferments. Now he’s telling the rest of us how easy it would have been.

He’s had more than fifty years to learn which side we were on. He still hasn’t. That alone should disqualify him from sending anybody else’s kids to war.

Instead, he’s weighing more strikes on Iran after Tuesday. His administration has reportedly considered using the “mother of all bombs,” the one he calls “like a tiny nuclear bomb.”

The man who thinks we should have bombed our ally’s capital gets to choose the targets.

[Moi @amusefugue]

@angelshalagina 🇺🇦🌻

[Team Pajamas @kfairwrites]

Need more of Kelly Clarkson and $15k bird she wanted at Art of Play store. Hope these two will be back on Weekend Update. #snl

[Bob Nightengale @BNightengale]

MVP William Contreras

[Moi @amusefugue]

@RJudge2464525 @Acyn MoCA certification is optional if you use the test solely for basic screening, triage, or referral purposes where interpretation is based only on the total score (such as determining if a patient is above or below a mild cognitive impairment cut-off).

[Moi @amusefugue]

Whoa!

[People's Daily, China @PDChina]

End of pretense

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Thousands of Israelis rallied against PM Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding a change of government and an independent inquiry into the security failures surrounding the Hamas-led October 7th attacks.

The election will be held on Tuesday October 27.

[Moi @amusefugue]

@Savageboston 🤫🤐

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

WE told you Trump would try to rig the election. Well, now there is evidence that it is actually happening. They have had plenty of time to reprogram voter machines & fuck w/ the democratic process. Look into the code of the machines/ballot readers. GET A RECEIPT FOR YOUR VOTE

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

France is currently working with Ukraine to do this as well.