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  Due to Trump's horribly incompetent decisions and staffing, it looks like the White House construction he's done might have let hackers route traffic through the WH network. A perfect reason to tear down and gut *everything* Trump has done to the White House https://www.pcmag.com/news/white-house-network-possibly-exposed-to-hackers-via-proxy-services

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  I am enjoying reading various right wing media figures' very bad election predictions after the fact. Everything was pure vibes, so of course, Republicans were going to win, and keep both houses of Congress! Here's a favorite: https://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/11/03/its-election-day-screw-the-polls-and-go-out-and-vote-n2685788

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  An interesting side quest for those closely following the #Mississippi Senate results: The race featured an independent candidate named Ty Pinkins who is a black former Democrat. Did he take votes from Scott Colom or Cindy Hyde-Smith? He says the latter, and might be right: https://www.wtva.com/2026/11/04/what-i-actually-did-was-split-republican-vote-ty-pinkins-shares-why-he-stayed/

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  Breaking: Salon, one of the oldest websites, announced that it is terminating publication immediately. It has been in business since 1995. Official announcement: https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/

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  Rivals to Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition of extremists have reached an agreement to form a coalition of 67 votes, past the 61-vote majority threshold. The two largest Arab parties signed on with banning Netanyahu their top condition. The agreement must be certified by Israeli president Isaac Herzog, which seems almost certain. Once that's done, the parties will need to adopt official positions for the government. Netanyahu for prison is going to happen: https://www.aljazeera.com/new...

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  🧵 Raphael Warnock was exactly right. Democrats must never again listen to neoliberal fake savants who pretend to have expertise when in fact, they know little about political science or even causation. A savvy party never voluntarily tries to become a regional party. #uspol #georgia #election2026

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  Probably the key stat out of the 2026 #uspol elections right here: Former Kamala Harris voters were 49% of those casting ballots this year and Democrats kept 97% of them. Trump 2024 voters were 44% and only 91% voted Republican. A majority of former third-party voters backed Democrats and 70% of 2024 non-voters went for Democrats.

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  Shout out to Darializa Avila Chevalier who won big last night, as expected, 87.5% to 11.4% Working on a piece about how democratic socialist candidates like her are great for Democrats in ways that all Democrats should appreciate--even those who opposed her. Besides adding much-needed coolness, passion, and youth to the Democratic Party, social democrats like her shift the Overton Window and make it much easier for Democrats elsewhere to do good things.

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  In a new Xitter post, JD Vance has done a turncoat move once again, this time shivving Trump and his Iran war and tariffs. This guy seems to have no idea that his entire political career is over—even if he goes for a 4th name change.

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  I'll have a lot more to say about the Democrats' triumphs yesterday, but here are my initial thoughts: https://plus.flux.community/p/we-have-not-yet-begun-to-fight

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  You did a good thing tonight, America. Let's keep doing this.

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  And just like that: Susan Collins, the smarmy and corrupt fake moderate Republican who deceived the voters of Maine for decades into thinking she would hold radical Republicans to account has lost in Maine. The only question tonight is how big the Democratic Senate and House majorities will be. Susan Collins will be retiring to spend more time pretending to be concerned.

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  Congrats to Keisha Lance Bottoms who has become the first-ever black woman elected as governor of a U.S. state. She is going to be the 84th Governor of Georgia. https://apnews.com/article/georgia-governor-lance-bottom-jackson-midterm-election-67c22a38b9a6e4cad5584aa44acf106f

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  So what are congressional Democrats planning to do now that they have won Congress? Job 1 is going to be removing Pete Hegseth, a literal murderer who currently is destroying the U.S. Department of Defense. Hakeem Jeffries has said they will get rid of Hegseth if Trump doesn't. The DoD is filled w thousands of people who will provide evidence of his criminality and incompetence. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6172006-jeffries-democrats-hegseth-impeachment/

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  Adam Hamilton is going to win Kansas's Senate seat tonight. It's correct that Democrats have not won a senate seat there in decades. But nonetheless, Kansas has recently loved to have Democrats for their governors. The state's purple turn has happened. It will be the next North Carolina. Congratulations #Kansas progressives! Thank you for continuing to believe.

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  Deb Haaland makes history to become the first-ever First Nations governor of a US state. She will be the 108th governor of New Mexico.

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  NBC just projects Sherrod Brown for OH Senate. Jon Husted got his ass kicked. Which means Trump can spend more time admiring it. Maybe put him on a monument?

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  No Untruth Social posts from Trump in 3 hours. Is he watching Hitler's last days documentaries on the History Channel?

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  Drag queens, assemble! We're about ready to begin Operation Trans All Republicans and we need your powers. T-Minus 60 minutes. #uspol #midterms

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117549584947001191 The New York Times election projection site is matching my prediction below exactly right now. Just wanted to point that out ;-) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/03/us/elections/results-needle-senate-house-forecast.html

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  Total vindication for everyone talking about how Trump won low-information voters in 2024. Democrats are winning in 2026 because of low-info voters who didn't know what Trump wanted. Hillary Clinton was right: So many Trump voters do not support or even know of his horrible ideas. Democrats *cannot win* without at least some Trump 2024 voters. But the beautiful thing is: You do not need to change your principles one bit to get some!

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  Don't pay for cable TV to watch #uspol elections tonight? You can watch just the Steve Kornacki NBC feed here for free: https://www.youtube.com/live/b043z24ErQk Boost so others can watch!

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  Journalists sometimes think that asking partisan Republicans about their opinions is useful. Occasionally it can be, but most of the time, it provides no information because far-right people hate the media and will just lie rather than reveal their real thoughts. Looking at right-wing web forums like "Free Republic" is a better way to see into the MAGA mindset. Here's a FR discussion about a news article saying there are almost no voter fraud indictments: https://freerepublic.com...

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  Google is reportedly threatening schools who wish to disable AI on student Chromebook laptops. Many ppl warned this would happen when Chromebooks first came out. We were ignored. This is a leopards eating faces moment. Short term, there are lots of other search engines; it's easy-peasy to change the default across the entire fleet. Pure #Linux is the long term solution. Chromebooks have already been deprecated by Google. Don't get suckered again, schools. https://www.nytimes.com/2...

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  Have you ever noticed that libertarians often think their ideas are some magical undiscovered political technology? It's always fun reading older essays by libertarian writers after the people they cited as "grey," "meta tribe," or "rationalist" ended up being just far-right Christian Trumpers. This article was dumb in 2023, it's absurd in 2026: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/rational-magic

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  Let's see *your* Senate predictions for tomorrow. No tossups allowed. The winner receives a web browser cookie. Mine is below. You can make one here: https://electindex.com/mapper/#:~:text=Senate%202026,35 #uspol

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  I saw Non Binary God and Higher Taxes before anyone knew who they were. So amazing to see them getting booked at TalaFREAKon 2026! 🥹🤘

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  It's the end of Halloween here in US Pacific Time and I just was re-reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I think Gregor Samsa was human the entire time. He had a mental break. 1) He was not an "insekt," he was an "Ungeziefer," from the Middle High German "ungeziber," an animal unfit for sacrifice. 2) Kafka insisted that Gregor "cannot" be drawn. A great way to maintain that ambiguity. 3) The narrator is a third-personal Gregor until he dies. Then...

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  America's elite opinion journalists spend most of their time trying to get readers to hate them. And they also lament that everyone hates them. Only a complete asshole would write an essay like the below Atlantic article. And only a troll would publish it. #halloween

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  If you're a progressive and live in an American state where you vote for prosecutors and judges, try to vote for people who are former public defenders since they usually will be more understanding to people swept up in the justice system. Don't forget to vote also! You throw away your power when you stay home. The only message you send by staying home is that you're naive.