Wayne Borders

@PSAbortionFund Intake Dir., TX’n, ❤️‍🔥civics & spicy food & science| past- SC House candidate @WBforHD89/ Bernie ‘16 & ‘20/@sc_newlegacy/@SCHTF/@ColumbiaNORML

[Wayne Borders @waybord]

Both my Senators- @LindseyGrahamSC & @SenatorTimScott- would have admonished & convicted former President Trump if only he were not a #Republican. If impeachment were a criminal, and not a civil, remedy, I still have little confidence they would support & defend the constitution.

[Fvck El0n Mvsk @_herodreamer]

The 43 who voted to acquit are highlighted below. #TrumpImpeachment

[Wayne Borders @waybord]

When she first ran for Congress, the House wasn’t #readyforAOC: her new generational energy genuinely inspired people far beyond her district; and, her win showed change didn’t have to take decades. We need more of this energy! We’ll have your back, bet!
https://t.co/VjepPZ2oYb

[2RawTooReal @2RawTooReal]

Thank you @AOC for breaking it down in layman’s terms on how the speaker is chosen and what their role is. Also the vote is November 18. If anybody wants to encourage a member of Congress to seek the position, you should call the switchboard number.

[Wayne Borders @waybord]

I can’t remember any other elected official taking us into the behind the scenes of House process quite like #AOC. I’m #readyforAOC should she make the leap I think we need from a politics of pay-to-play to one that delivers on the needs of we the people.
https://t.co/VjepPZ2WNJ

[progupdates @progupdates]

AOC: I am not running for speaker. It is not my ministry. And it's not to say that — and I know that might make some people mad or what have you, but I'm with the people. I am an organizer. And there are internal-facing jobs and responsibilities and leadership positions, and there are external-facing responsibilities and leadership positions.

For me to be speaker, I would have to give up my public platform, I would say, or it would be much harder. And my primary responsibility would be tending to the House majority, spending all of my time both doing these things. And it's not to say that I don't have capacities like this, but there are certain external-facing talents, internal-facing talents, and a combination of those talents.

[Wayne Borders @waybord]

November 3rd we, the people, demonstrated our power. We can’t stop there; our work continues! The generational change we need is both here and continuing! That’s why I’m signing the https://t.co/KH4FvEHNwZ pledge!

Join the welcome call!
Our first one is the November 12th!

[Ready for AOC @Ready4AOC]

AOC is the only candidate who can lead the working class movement to fight the oligarchy and transform America. We’re organizing across the country to build the grassroots support we need to win in 2028. Go to https://t.co/BHhCtjdjhz to sign the pledge.

[Nick Reynolds @IAmNickReynolds]

We probably need to spend more time dissecting this Joe Wilson race.

Zyon Khalifa raised less than $30,000 all cycle and came within a single point of unseating someone who has been in Congress since I was seven years old.

Wilson won by 19 last time, in 2024.

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Final spending figures from Senate Majority PAC (D) and its affiliates:

Iowa: $67 million
Ohio: $150 million
Maine: $65 million
Michigan: $67 million
Texas: $40 million
Kansas: $14 million
South Carolina: $750,000
Mississippi: $2.2 million

[The Post and Courier @postandcourier]

Four charts show how backlash against Republican U.S. Senate candidate Darline Graham trickled down into the rest of her party’s ticket, leading to 10 Statehouse Republicans losing their seats across S.C. https://t.co/CMfOijidZE

[Nick Reynolds @IAmNickReynolds]

Still have some more number crunching to do but some of the basics from last night were interesting

[Jacobin @jacobin]

One-third of voters aged 18-29 self-identified as democratic socialist in NBC's exit poll — three times as many as said they consider themselves MAGA.

[Rick von Hagn 🗽 @r_vonhagn]

GET IN BOYS WE’RE RESTARTING RECONSTRUCTION

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

holy shit

[Vicki Ringer @vickiringer]

Bye Felicia.

[Vicki Ringer @vickiringer]

God created Oklahoma to remind us we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us. For governor, they elected the man who wants to jail all abortion patients.

[Wayne Borders @waybord]

Wednesday morning at 9 A.M., the SC Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee will attempt to pass #S1095 to the full Senate. They failed to vote on it today.

Keep calling, emailing, and reminding your Senator that you, and most SC voters, don’t want more bans!
https://t.co/I2dFI2RmsV

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny. https://t.co/xNi9TrezBW

[The Intercept @theintercept]

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “lacks the competence” to review Trump’s campaign of deadly boat strikes, a State Department spokesperson said. https://t.co/ChSmIJ4DfW

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The promise of the early web was that all the world’s knowledge would be preserved and accessible. In the past several years we’ve seen attempts to destroy every major hub of the knowledge-based internet. The “information super-highway” is a dream that is nearly dead.

[WIRED @WIRED]

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” https://t.co/31Tw2wCTE4

[ProPublica @propublica]

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
https://t.co/3MV5uuYAzi

[helen @helen]

news outlets and reddit have banned the internet archive’s access to preserving their content bc they’re afraid AI will scrape it. if the archive — essentially a modern day library of alexandria — falls, it will be another casualty of the AI bubble. it’s collateral damage