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The worst-performing Democrats in competitive Senate races were the candidates Bernie endorsed. (link in next tweet, no paywall)
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Woodward’s reaction to the Nov. 3rd election and the overwhelming public rejection of Trump.
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MAJDANEK. No es un museo. Es un grito.
Estuve en Majdanek.
Y todavía no encuentro las palabras.
Entrás y lo primero que te golpea no es lo que ves. Es lo que pisás. Caminás sobre las cenizas de 80.000 personas. Cenizas. De verdad. Ahí, mezcladas con la tierra.
En Majdanek no destruyeron todo como en otros campos. Los nazis no tuvieron tiempo. Entonces quedó todo. Intacto. Y eso es lo más terrible.
Quedaron los barracones. Quedó la cámara de gas con el azul del Zyklon B pegado en las paredes. Todavía azul. Después de 80 años, el veneno sigue ahí, marcado.
Quedaron los zapatos. Montañas de zapatos. De nenes. Zapatitos de 3 años con la suela gastada.
Y después llegás al final. Al mausoleo. Una cúpula gigante de cemento que guarda 1.300 metros cúbicos de cenizas humanas. De nuestros abuelos. De nuestros tíos que nunca nacieron.
Y ahí entendí por qué fui.
No fui a llorar por los que murieron. Fui a prometerle a los que viven.
Estando ahí, parada sobre ese suelo maldito, entendí por qué mis hijos hoy visten uniforme en Israel. Por qué tienen un país. Por qué nunca más vamos a caminar como ovejas al matadero.
Ellos entraron a la cámara de gas gritando Shma Israel. Nosotros entramos a Majdanek cantando Hatikva con la garganta cerrada y el puño apretado.
Fui a Majdanek como judía de la diáspora.
Volví de Majdanek como madre de soldados israelíes.
Am Israel Jai. A pesar de todo. Por encima de todo.
לעולם לא עוד
Leolam lo od - Nunca más.
#Majdanek #Shoa #NuncaMás
Jay Hansen retweeted
Hasan is a Trojan horse for the Democratic Party. On a day where we have a singular focus on defeating Trump Republicans across the nation, Hasan is attacking Democrats in our state. He’s got no place in our party, and we should continue to reject this rhetoric.
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Sorry, this whole thing is making the Dem Party leaders look like pathetic and selective bullies. Did they do this to Rashida Tlaib when she said she would not endorse Kamala Harris 3 days before the election?
This isn’t a very good look.
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This isn’t about Haley Stevens. It’s about the basic question she raised: Why won’t El-Sayed just condemn the Jew-hating ad?
News flash: You can be for lower costs and stand up to hate at the same time.
jewishinsider.com/2026/10/el…
Sad but true. Self sabotage because of his anti-Semitic beliefs. Not fit for the US Senate
Haley Stevens was going to do a Democratic unity rally with Abdul El-Sayed and James Clyburn where she was going to encourage her supporters, many of whom have serious reservations about El-Sayed, to vote for him.
This was very important for El-Sayed, because Stevens is popular among Jewish and black Michigan Democrats and Clyburn is an icon among black voters nationwide. El-Sayed has weakness with both of these groups and needs to shore them up going into election day.
Stevens's condition was that he make an unambiguous, unqualified condemnation of the antisemitic rhetoric his friends, supporters and surrogates have been using, including in ads run in Michigan.
El-Sayed refused to do this, and instead asked Stevens not to appear at the event. At that point, Stevens realized that he was not interested in unity with her or her supporters and that she could no longer support him for Senate.
El-Sayed is an antisemite. He is friends with antisemites Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur. He will not condemn them. He will not condemn the awful things they say.
He has had multiple opportunities to condemn their hateful rhetoric, and he always says: "He is not part of a campaign, nobody speaks for me but me, and I'm not here to talk about that."
That's not good enough. If that is how a Republican talked about Nick Fuentes or Richard Spencer, it would be the biggest controversy in the race. The fact that so many Democrats are willing to tolerate this from Abdul El-Sayed is an indictment of the entire party.
There is no coalition that can include both the Jewish Democratic members of Temple Israel and supporters of the Hezbollah terrorist who tried to murder their preschool children. Abdul El-Sayed made a decision about who he wanted in his tent.
Haley Stevens was late to realize it, but it is admirable that she finally decided to be an upstander instead of a bystander. No Nazis in the US Senate.
Jay Hansen retweeted
At the core of every socialist revolution is a group of failed middle-class intellectuals and artists with a grudge against a world that won’t acknowledge their greatness.
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“El mundo no está en contra de ti. Tampoco está a favor de ti. Nunca estuvo pensando en ti”.
—Marco Aurelio, Meditaciones
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Xavier Becerra’s team gave us about 10 minutes for our interview.
Instead of asking about campaign promises if elected Governor, I asked him how he’ll handle 9 key issues he’d face in the first year.
You can watch the Full interview here:
kcra.com/article/xavier-bece…
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In 1976, the U.S. government funded one of the most psychedelic short films ever made.
It was filled with odd images and occult symbols.
🎬 from 200 (1976) by Vince Collins.
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"All 8 billion human beings alive today are brothers and sisters. We’re physically, mentally and emotionally the same. We all want to live a happy life and avoid suffering, and we all have a right to fulfil that wish. So, it's important to acknowledge the oneness of humanity," said His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. #MondayMotivation
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The only cult I was ever in, involved camping in parking lots & listening to live music
#DeadHeadLife
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Public safety has never mattered to voters more than it does today, and it can’t be trusted in the hands of someone as irresponsible and reckless as Mai Vang.
During her entire time in Congress, especially since I’ve been Sheriff for the last four years, Congresswoman Matsui has directly supported the Sheriff’s Office and has been a champion for public safety.
Make your vote matter, and join me in supporting Doris Matsui for United States Congress.
youtu.be/FQjzo-l1n50
