A reminder that the election isn’t about the person at the top of the ticket as much as it is about the thousands of people they’ll put in positions of power One candidate will give us more people like this idiot

Articles like this really bother me. I normally like Hayes Brown, but this article falls so far short of framing the real issues: it’s not that #JDVancewww.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Abortion bounties, book bans, forcing families with trans kids to flee their homes: Republicans are building a model of govt that forces people to live and act how conservatives want, enforced by the fear that anyone can be an informant. A Snitch State (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale

In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.

This is a helpful summary of Jack Smith's 180-page brief. When you see it all in one place like this, it's obvious that Donald Trump should never be allowed to participate in an election again. He could be allowed to vote. But nothing more.

Jack Smith Makes His Case

In a new filing, the special counsel sets out the most detailed evidence yet against Donald Trump in the prosecution of the former president.

“Other struggling people aren’t the enemy.” ~ Nathan Monk

Another fine thread by a writer who is able to put his thoughts into words much better than I. Give him a follow.

It's just a BS plan... it is just so oil & gas can kick the can down the road, on climate change Rustad is a loon who doesn't believe in the climate crisis. Here's hoping we aren't stupid enough to put him in power.

For those who could not read it due to the paywall The Russians had money The Canadian had far right influencers The US Dept of Justice says it has a criminal case /1 thread

Nobel Prize winners Ambros & Ruvkun “were looking at two worms that looked a bit funny and decided to understand why, and then they discovered an entirely new mechanism for gene regulation,” Kämpe said. “I think that’s beautiful.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobe...@tanyalewis.bsky.social

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Discovery of MicroRNA Gene Regulation

The award was given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for a discovery of an important gene-manipulating mechanism in cells

I think the deaths of the civilians killed in the October 7th attack are worth mourning. The Israeli state did not: it made them into an excuse for the mass killing of thousands and thousands of other civilians. It forged them into a call for death. It soaked their memories in shame and blood.