🌻 Welcome Back 🌻 @scotter.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h@JonChevreau @emptywheel.bsky.social Let's drop the duck and just call him LAME...and feeble. 011 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8hSome things that will happen in the Lame Duck: 1) Govt funding runs out on December 11 2) Tom Massie has promised to impeach Whiskey Pete 3) Republicans are going to try to push through judges 4) Leader elections 29949213 949
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 14h@gilduran.com :flan_evil:dice.campI may have peed a little while laughing at this. 004 4
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12hJoanna Whaley becomes the first trans woman to serve in the Michigan legislature! She wins her district 62-38! 133906575 3.9K
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Deborah Rose ❌👑 @deberupts.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19hChris Pappas (D) called for New Hampshire. First openly gay man elected to Senate. 002 2
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 16hI can't say how much I never want to hear of Susan Collins ever again, so this is some great fucking news, goddamn NBC News is not projecting it, but Democrats are now at 53 seats in the Senate #election #elections #election2026 #politics #maine #FuckSusanCollins 102 2
🌻 Welcome Back 🌻 @scotter.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h@gedeonm Probably continued to babble about his bad looks and clothes. 000 0
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Ged Maheux @gedeonm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16hTrump on FOX News via phone right now saying he had no choice but to back Paxton in Texas and he was a “good guy”. 😜😅🤣 #USPolitics 101 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16hThe larger fights aren’t over yet. We’ll have to make elected Democrats deliver. But for the first time in a long time I’m breathing a little easier about my country. 1013 13
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Process Parsnip @processparsnip.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16hWatching Chris Pappas hug his husband on TV during his acceptance made me cry Really big moments today. #uspol 000 0
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 16hSee also: Dummymander #election #election2026 #elections #politics #gerrymandering #gerrymanders #FuckTheGOP #FuckRepublicans #FuckTrump 011 1
🌻 Welcome Back 🌻 @scotter.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h@leahmcelrath.bsky.social And women and Hispanic 010 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17hMy 21-year-old daughter just called me from work sobbing and saying, “It’s going to be okay, it’s going to be okay!” (We’re in Texas.) 1238625 386
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17h[Someone is super freaking out. [I know the whole Nero fiddling while Rome burned is an amalgamation of real historical events in order to create a “moral of the story” — but still, yikes, this is some modern day celeb-u-wannabe neuroses on display . . . ] On this very consequential midterm […]masto.aiOriginal post on masto.ai 116 6
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19hThat sound you hear all across DC tonight is a lot of corporate lobbyists adding their pronouns back into their email signatures. 171474305 1.5K
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17hLike [unfortunately] millions of Americans, #Trump tuned into #FoxNews Tues for updates on the #midterms. He did NOT like what he saw. In the span of 95 mins, Trump lashed out 3X against FoxNews in posts on the social media platform he controls, calling its polling results “the worst” & […]masto.aiOriginal post on masto.ai 004 4
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026The weak, wannabe dictator will try and fail to bend reality to his will this week. He’s too much of a coward to abide the facts. Live in truth and keep track of the ones who aid and abet him. They will fascism’s standard bearers going forward. Resist much, obey little. #RMOL #democracy […]mastodon.onlineOriginal post on mastodon.online 001 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 17hSay that again for the people in the back 09727 97
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026Adam Hamilton in Kansas wisely makes an issue of how the Trump Administration closed 28 rural hospitals in Kansas. This cruel action by the Trump Administration harms rural voters who elected Trump in 2024. This issue works in many different states. copy: @renewedresistance #healthcare 004 4
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 02/11/2026I have said before and I will keep saying, what is saving us here is that fascists drink their own kool-aid, believe in their natural superiority, and as a consequence pursue neither strategy nor competence. They think those are gifts nature has already given them. They are... incorrect, lol 131907365 1.9K
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026Crossing my fingers that I live in the kind of country that would elect someone like Abdul El-Sayed and not the kind of country that would elect someone like Mike Rogers. Rinse and repeat across 50 states and so many seats and contests. A lot rides on tomorrow. 007 7
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026By STRA. Photo by Duncan in London, UK 🇬🇧 streetartutopia.com/2019/10/07/make… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural 01016 16
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/11/2026NBC: “What do you think Haley Stevens future is in the Democratic Party?” @MichiganDems chair @CurtisHertelJr: “I don’t think she has one. Or in elected office… she lied to me. She lied to Jim Clyburn… I don’t think anyone cares what she thinks. Abdul is going to win.” 19388612207 8.9K
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 02/11/2026Wow ! 57122 71
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026for once the panicky villager who wants to start a mob is right, so annoying #monsterdon #VillageOfTheDamned1960 003 3
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026Sarah Longwell: "Vote for Abdul El-Sayed. I think this is a mark of how important it is for me to defend liberal democracy. I will endorse candidates with whom I have big differences for the bigger picture of putting an enormous check on Donald Trump. I want this election to be a total rebuke of […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 001 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/11/2026An NYT review of the president’s public speeches finds that he is more profane, more absolutist, longer-winded and less coherent than he was in 2016.nytimes.comGaffes and Men’s Bodies: Analysis of Trump’s Speeches at Age 80 (Gift Article)A Times review of the president’s public speeches finds that he is more profane, more absolutist, longer-winded and less coherent than he was in 2016. 1111636 116
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Patioboater @patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026Good morning, November. November 1, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #michigan #fall #autumn #nature #naturephotography #sunrise #art #MastoArt 008 8
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026Scott MacFarlane: "Trump Administration lawyers face a growing crisis. They have lost credibility with grand jurors." And they lost credibility with judges. #DepartmentOfInjustice 001 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026"A federal judge has thrown out Pres. Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over the paper’s 2025 report about the president’s bawdy birthday note to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein": www.politico.com/news/2026/10/31/wa… […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 001 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Jason Beets @jasonbeets.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026The Washington Post tracked how members of Congress voted during the certification of the 2020 Electoral College Vote. www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/202… 17/x #Kansas #Politics #USPol #Elections #News 102 2
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026JD Vance said about ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win. That seems to be not what happens with ranked choice voting." Dan Pfeiffer replied: "Wait until JD Vance hears about the electoral college." 002 2
🌻 Welcome Back 🌻 @scotter.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026@ufwupdates Can't see picture. Just black with alt. text 000 0
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/10/2026In the time Kash Patel has been trying to prosecute 2 FBI agents who tried to protect US elections from garbage disinformation in 2020, the following have been hacked: Kash Patel The entire FBI Federal Elections Commission DHS emptywheel.net/2026/10/29/a...emptywheel.netAll Kash Patel's Hacks - emptywheelIn the time Kash Patel has made chilling any scrutiny of election fraud claims a top priority, hackers have compromised him, the entire FBI, the FEC, and DHS. 8568241 568
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻 California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 29/10/2026JUST A FACT…👇 Trump has NEVER sued anyone who called him a PEDOPHILE… Never. Instead… He's sues everyone else who says anything about him. This tells us he's a PEDO who's afraid it will be revealed with discovery in a lawsuit. Folks, IT COULD BE YOUR KIDDO! Now, go VOTE!! 😎🇺🇸✨ 211750 117
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026What would a wise #military leader do when he is fighting and losing a war such as the #IranWar? This is what Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed a top general* from his post, according to reports, the latest exit of a senior military official amid […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 001 1
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 29/10/2026Some campaign staffers are so incensed by the decision to run the ad - which featured Acton’s 82-year-old mother, Donna Arthur smearing her daughter as a “liar” over child sex abuse she suffered - that they have considered resigning 333 3
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 29/10/2026Vivek Ramaswamy was reportedly warned by Ohio Republicans and campaign staffers not to run the controversial attack ad on Democratic opponent Amy Acton that featured her estranged mother - but went ahead anyway. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...the-independent.comRamaswamy warned not to air ‘liar’ ad and now staff want to resign day: reportMAGA world figures describing the ad as a ‘self-inflicted wound’ in private, report claims 4146 14
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 29/10/2026Two simply horrible people 2145 14
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026If you’ve got to have long sub-Arctic winters, you should at least have a spectacular fall. 004 4
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026I can't get out of my head the fact that there may be an alternate universe where after Trump tried and failed to overturn the 2020 election, he was forced to flee to Brazil to evade prosecution. 1916 16
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻TC Won't Give In To Lies @tcatinreality.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026It's funny how some undocumented immigrants, who slip into the country "the wrong way", are welcomed by Trump's xenophobic government. #ThisIsAmericaNow BBC News - Defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro arrives in US after Brazil cancels his passports, sources say […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 003 3
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026The Cerberus quadruped robot sold by Radeco is a modified version of the Boston Dynamics robot Spot equipped with military-grade equipment 002 2
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026‘As I write this, the Washington Post has published at least four articles about Obama’s “Cheesecake Factory” line, and zero articles about a new allegation of rape against Donald Trump, who has already been found liable for sexual assault.’ — @jamisonfoser.bsky.social […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 2238 38
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 27/10/2026If Talarico wrote this, he’s a genius. If a Talarico staff member wrote it - pick up your Pulitzer on the way out. 520253 202
Reposted by 🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026Trump Is Already Undermining Confidence in Midterm Election Results from Alaska to California: ACLU A competitive Senate race has gripped the once reliably Republican state of Alaska. If Democratic challenger Mary Peltola wins the election against incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, it […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 001 1