Hey Texans. Early voting starts Monday. Are you gonna let Elon Musk tell you how to vote?

#Musk poured $158 million into a key super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) Senate run.

Musk was the single donor to #TexasPAC, a political action committee backing Paxton’s run, in the third quarter, according to new federal election filings.

You remember #Paxton, he’s the one that let a child rapist go free after a day in jail, was impeached by his own party, has enriched himself to the tune of hundreds of millions, and was just photographed in Dubai partying with his mistress and some folks wanted for crimes in the US? Yeah, that’s who Elon is buying the election for.

The #Epstein class always hangs together…when they should all be hanged separately.

Edit: I've added AthenaCat looking unamused, as a placeholder to stop the link from putting yucky elon face on my timeline.

#texas #uspol #senate #kakistocracy

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/election-2026/2026/10/16/564553/elon-musk-is-the-donor-behind-senate-republicans-massive-rescue-mission-for-ken-paxton/

Hahahahahahaha, omg y’all. Fake lawyer, and apparently illiterate Press Secretary Katie #Zacharia didn’t even make it for half a scaramuchi. Bye bye Barbie. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/16/katie-zacharia-fired-press-secretary

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117447588056952786

The Trump regime is actively assisting Russia’s illegal and unconscionable war on Ukraine.

Civilians were intentionally killed yesterday by Russia.

The USA impeded Ukraine and aided Russia.

The USA aided Russia in war crimes.

#WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #ImpeachAndRemove

It is wonderful to see that not all businesspeople are cowards.

Virgin's Richard Branson:

RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117450107744135360

This is the kind of behaviour X enables and amplifies. It says a lot about the values of those who engage in it.

But what does it say about our democratically elected representatives who continue legitimising this platform because they don't want to lose their followers?

What values are they defending?

#Democracy #USPol #LeaveX

For the folks sliding into my DMs to say "he never published anything" and "there's nothing on his twitter now", I would like to say:

1. Do not turn Sauron's eye on you, you will be collateral damage.

2: This screenshot from his own goddamn website.

3. Stop talking to me, you're wasting oxygen or data bits or something. Go away, you wretched, pathetic little renfields.

American political commentator Michael Tracey , on Twitterx, doxed the victim of the #Cornell7 and published her name, her address, her phone number, her government id info, and leaked files that could have only come from defense teams.

Jane Doe has been swatted hour after hour. She’s getting death and rape threats by the minute. Her brothers were held at gunpoint during one of the swats.

#MichaelTracey should remember he is real fucking easy to find. And swat boys? You’re script kiddies. As the cybertruck of heavy metal James Hetfield would say; sleep with one eye open.

I am so angry I’m shaking.

#IamJaneDoe #WeAreJaneDoe

This, and please excuse my language, is absolute, bugfuck, pants-on-head, insane. One of UK's most critically acclaimed living authors (who isn't a walking hate speech or abuser), has had her books pulled by her publisher because of the laws against #PalestineAction.

#Irish novelist Sally #Rooney said her books can no longer be sold in the #UK because she financially supports the banned group #Palestine Action.

Rooney, 35, is the critically praised author of four novels: “Conversations with Friends,” “Normal People,” “Beautiful World, Where are You” and “Intermezzo.”

I remind you that all of this nonsense is happening under the nominally moderate #Labour party.

As an American, I say to fellow USians as we close in on midterms, remember that Labour proves centrists are better than rightwing, but they are not our friends. They're still bootlickers.

https://apnews.com/article/sally-rooney-palestine-action-what-to-know-caaf01b4b1968df5abee3c51832f3d31

Pet Shop Boys have released an album that follows the life of Alan Turing.

"A Man from the Future (stylised in sentence case) is the sixteenth studio album by Pet Shop Boys, released on 9 October 2026 through the band's own label x2 and Parlophone. It is a concept album that follows the life of Alan Turing and his legacy and is a collaboration with Turing biographer Andrew Hodges. The album is credited to Tennant/Lowe/Hodges."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_from_the_Future

#PetShopBoys #AlanTuring #Music

Secret list reveals all major donors to Trump's ballroom, including many benefiting from regulatory decisions, contracts, and more -- including major tech firms

gift link: https://wapo.st/4yiUDPx

I was just popping over to the vet to get cat meds, so I didn’t think to put on my brace. But, I was out, and it was a nice day, and I needed milk and cat litter, so I thought, well it’ll be a quick trip into the store, it’ll be fine.

It was not fine. I don’t know what I did, but my right hand has chosen to emulate a balloon and emit random lightning pain. So, that’s fun! And I forgot kitty litter. I came home with potatoes and apples and winter squashes, and berries and goat cheese, crackers and chocolate, but no kitty litter.

Aldi is dangerous y’all. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

Remember a few months ago when I told you that installing layers of ad blocking was basic #opsec at this point because #zeroday exploits were coming through the ad pipeline?

#CitizenLab brings the receipts.

#DiscoverTech, an #Israeli company that presents itself as a legitimate advertising company, but which we found operates as a facilitator for multiple mercenary spyware partners.

Discover-Tech operates a platform called #Controlium that enables its mercenary partners to de-anonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices the moment an advertisement is rendered.

Follow researcher Wolfie Christl https://mastodon.social/@wchr/117444965522636234

Ht: @KimPerales who surfaced the report.

#ads #malware #infosec
https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

#Inktober Flight of the #Condor

Y'all, the President of the United States is a deeply sick and demented man, and every member of the GOP who is not actively working to get him out of office is equally culpable for his crimes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/trump-shares-ai-tiger-video-of-himself-after-posting-real-footage-of-fatal-mauling/ar-AA2edlSw

Ahead of the Midterms, Meta Has Paid at Least 29 Anti-LGBTQ Accounts for Their Posts

The company’s invite-only program for content creators has accounts promoting white supremacy and neo-Nazi ideologies and with histories of anti #LGBTQ rhetoric.

https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/ahead-of-the-midterms-meta-has-paid

#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #facebook #meta #hatespeech #nazi

Huh, Orwellian nightmare laws, in conjunction with evil overlords bent on extracting all value from humans, turns out to have some side effects. Who could have known?

And for what it’s worth, these are the last people on earth I would trust collecting csam material. Why are we feeding the Epstein class fresh victims directly?

#palantir #eu #chatcontrol #csam #EpsteinClass https://arvidgrange.substack.com/p/investigation-eu-citizens-private

The Election Crimes of Elon Musk

“A phishing scam masquerading as official election information

In Colorado and Washington, two vote-by-mail states where there is no need to request a ballot, Musk is spreading misinformation and confusion with deceptive, official-looking text messages telling people "your ballot request is in."

The texts ask people to click a link so that Musk's operation can collect their personal information, including their cell phone numbers and email addresses, allowing Musk's America PAC to target them with follow-up messaging ahead of election day.

The texts are just one aspect of the sophisticated digital campaign Musk is running to help Republicans limit the damage in the 2026 midterms.“

https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/the-election-crimes-of-elon-musk/?ref=unprecedented-newsletter

#ElonMusk #Musk #Midterms #Elections #ElectionInterference #Phishing #USA

Y’all, this #NPR story is wild! It exposes a high-pressure sales scheme where a "free skincare sample" lures shoppers into spending thousands of dollars on expensive, non-returnable products.

NPR's investigation by Monika Evstatieva and Caley Fox Shannon traced the independently operated stores to Mazal Group, an Israeli and California based company. #Mazal Group controls numerous skincare brands sold across different store names and owners.

Over a decade ago, federal agents investigated similar "credit card overcharge schemes" tied to these brands, which also involved immigration and money-laundering crimes and led to more than a dozen guilty pleas. Despite this history, the sales tactics persist nationwide
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/14/nx-s1-6000621/mazal-group-investigation-documentary

#Inktober The cake is a lie, and #pie are square.

metaphor /mĕt′ə-fôr″, -fər/
noun

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles”, sayeth The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

I tell you that story to tell you this one. The SS United States will be intentionally sunk in November. (To create an artificial reef, but still...the metaphor is inescapable.)

https://www.stripes.com/history/2026-10-13/uss-united-states-largest-artificial-reef-23144494.html