If your parents are Jewish or Muslim and are suddenly seeing concerning messages about Harris, you should probably explain to them it’s the work of the world’s richest white supremacist who hates both Jews and Muslims and is cynically sowing division to help Trump www.404media.co/this-is-exac...

This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages

The Future Coalition PAC is targeting according to ZIP code in highly specific ways.

Look who's in my backyard! 🪶 Crows alerted me, of course.

Or that Trump can just pardon him and he can act with impunity (assuming Trump becomes president)

A useful WaPo report on the Russian scheming and corruption behind the manufactured Imane Khelif controversy at the Paris Olympics. A lot of people got played. Some of them, of course, just *wanted* to be played. (Gift link) wapo.st/4hdAvHu

The Putin-backed strongman who threw the Paris Games into chaos

Banned from the Games, Russia wanted to upend the Olympics. Enter Umar Kremlev and the boxing ‘gender controversy.’

👇!!!!!!

JNjenvictor.bsky.socialOct 19, 2024 9:35pm

Misinformation campaign: Elon Musk is backing a fake pro-Harris org, Progress 2028, with ads and products that appear pro-Harris but misrepresent her positions and stoke conservative ire. Incredible reporting from @opensecretsdc.bsky.social @annalecta.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/10...

Pro-Trump dark money network tied to Elon Musk behind fake pro-Harris campaign scheme - OpenSecrets News

An initiative called Progress 2028 that purports to be Kamala Harris’ liberal counter to the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025…

UPDATE: they're all gone, house is a disaster, 4yo is happy and overwhelmed, I'm ready for an espresso ❤️

Smehr.nzOct 19, 2024 11:26pm

In this house if you are turning four and ask for pink cupcakes with a cherry on each one then by God you're getting them

Emmerson on point as usual

Thank you Colin Peacock for a straightforward summary of the political and media hype around Wellington City Council. It's like nobody ever has a Council with opposing factions ever before. "Wellington City Council intervention claims run ahead of the facts." #nzpol

Wellington City Council intervention claims run ahead of the facts

Mediawatch - Media joined the chorus claiming the government will intervene in the council crisis in Wellington. Then they started saying they'd be better off out of it.

"No person in this country might better embody the idea of culture war than the current Minister for Local Government and Transport, Simeon Brown. Minister Brown is a strong opponent of any infrastructure expenditure that does not prioritise the movement of private automobiles as fast as possible."

HMharrisonmcevoy.bsky.socialOct 19, 2024 4:11am

Despite the increase in the number of cyclists in our city, cycling infrastructure has become a culture war issue. Why? Read more: foamerman.substack.com/p/the-copenh...

Episode #1 from Professor Timothy Snyder: snyder.substack.com/p/why-is-fas...

Why is fascism bad, Professor?

Thoughts from the road, #1