This was such an essential defeat.
This is such a completely entitled, divorced-from-reality take. Collins is just reinforcing why she lost.
This is such a completely entitled, divorced-from-reality take. Collins is just reinforcing why she lost.
Susan Collins on criticisms that she hasn’t stood up to Trump: “Everybody ignores the fact that I voted to convict him in the second impeachment trial… What bigger break could there be? It is never enough. I want results and they want angry rhetoric.” www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...
‘It Is Never Enough’: Susan Collins Couldn’t Outrun Trump
The Maine Republican survived tough cycles in the past even as the political ground shifted beneath her. But the anti-Trump fever in her state doomed her this time.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
This was such an essential defeat.
This is such a completely entitled, divorced-from-reality take. Collins is just reinforcing why she lost.
This is such a completely entitled, divorced-from-reality take. Collins is just reinforcing why she lost.
That's the essential point - genocide is genocide.
Francesca Albanese: ‘Had I lived 100 years ago, I would do for the Jewish people what I’m doing for the Palestinian people now’ www.independent.ie/world-news/f...
Francesca Albanese: ‘Had I lived 100 years ago, I would do for the Jewish people what I’m doing for the Palestinian people now’
The UN special rapporteur on atrocities in Gaza, the sanctions imposed on her by Trump, and why Ireland’s vocal support for Palestine is undermined by its extensive economic ties with Israel
www.independent.ie
November 7, 2026 at 8:34 AM
That's the essential point - genocide is genocide.
Even for the Times this is impressive. Maybe the least essential effort to understand anyone in history
In deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.
November 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Even for the Times this is impressive. Maybe the least essential effort to understand anyone in history
Edith Deslaurier
November 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Edith Deslaurier
Katy Rundle. (b.1966, UK)
"Essential Worker"
fabric collage on a calico base (no paints used) 2023.
"Essential Worker"
fabric collage on a calico base (no paints used) 2023.
November 8, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Katy Rundle. (b.1966, UK)
"Essential Worker"
fabric collage on a calico base (no paints used) 2023.
"Essential Worker"
fabric collage on a calico base (no paints used) 2023.
This is a really essential point. Both need to step aside.
One extraordinary thing about this extraordinary election is that the party won historic gains *in spite of* national leadership. Does anyone think Jeffries (or Schumer, for that matter) *led* the party to this victory? Jeffries was meeting with Jared Kushner three months ago!
November 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
This is a really essential point. Both need to step aside.
When time was being tamed, winding was essential.
November 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
When time was being tamed, winding was essential.
A special respect for black women doing essential work in the hardest places.
Lakesha Womack (D) has defeated Republican Tim Moore in a R+15 district that Moore gerrymandered for himself. He spent $2.1m to her $60k. In the middle of the election, she got charged with a felony for not returning a rental car in 2020, when she says she was homeless. She won anyway.
November 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
A special respect for black women doing essential work in the hardest places.
It's simple AI Centres should not be treated as Essential Public Services.
When they are in fact completely optional, entirely Privatised businesses.
When they are in fact completely optional, entirely Privatised businesses.
November 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM
It's simple AI Centres should not be treated as Essential Public Services.
When they are in fact completely optional, entirely Privatised businesses.
When they are in fact completely optional, entirely Privatised businesses.
Two essential qualities for serving in the Senate and making a meaningful difference in people's lives.
November 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Two essential qualities for serving in the Senate and making a meaningful difference in people's lives.
Indeed! It is essential to disclose the specific data that is being collected.
November 6, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Indeed! It is essential to disclose the specific data that is being collected.
A mother’s attempt to cure her child’s autism using essential oils has only resulted in making her smell as if a cat has urinated all over her, witnesses have claimed.
Essential oils fail to cure child’s autism, succeed in making her smell like cat piss
A mother’s attempt to cure her child’s autism using essential oils has only resulted in making her smell as if a cat has urinated all over her, witnesses have claimed. Ellie Mulligan, seven, had just…
thedailytism.com
November 8, 2026 at 10:01 AM
A mother’s attempt to cure her child’s autism using essential oils has only resulted in making her smell as if a cat has urinated all over her, witnesses have claimed.
Sitting down and writing a 38 paragraph DM to my foreign honeypot explaining how Caroline Polachek was essential to the revival of late 2010s synthpop (she hasn’t responded)
the foreign spy in my DMs: saw in your bio aha what's your job like? you're so sexy
me: first let me tell you about why you should switch to linux
me: first let me tell you about why you should switch to linux
November 9, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Sitting down and writing a 38 paragraph DM to my foreign honeypot explaining how Caroline Polachek was essential to the revival of late 2010s synthpop (she hasn’t responded)
For all the oh-so-inspiring “I can’t believe people are celebrating the midterm victory, it’s not like Trump has been defeated forever yet” types:
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
November 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
For all the oh-so-inspiring “I can’t believe people are celebrating the midterm victory, it’s not like Trump has been defeated forever yet” types:
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
Senate Democrats will use their financial leverage to end the conflict with Iran and protect Medicaid. An essential step for peace and health.
#ProudBlue #DV1
#ProudBlue #DV1
November 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Senate Democrats will use their financial leverage to end the conflict with Iran and protect Medicaid. An essential step for peace and health.
#ProudBlue #DV1
#ProudBlue #DV1
let me be the first to ask the essential question: whos gonna smoke the millenium blunt
Archaeologists who led a dig at a monumental tomb in Siberia said they turned up evidence of the earliest known use of cannabis for psychoactive purposes. https://to.pbs.org/4kE9C3n
Seeds and preserved hair in tomb point to oldest signs of cannabis high 2,800 years ago, study suggests
Archaeologists who led a dig at a monumental tomb in Siberia said they turned up evidence of the earliest known use of cannabis for psychoactive purposes.
www.pbs.org
November 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
let me be the first to ask the essential question: whos gonna smoke the millenium blunt
7 essential 1970s NYC #FilmNoir books and films via @crimereads.bsky.social: crimereads.com/7-essential-...
7 essential 1970s NYC noir books and films
Noir fiction has been defined as a world of cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity. Although it may have originated between the two World Wars in Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco and Raymond Chand…
crimereads.com
November 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
7 essential 1970s NYC #FilmNoir books and films via @crimereads.bsky.social: crimereads.com/7-essential-...
Celebration is essential.
For all the oh-so-inspiring “I can’t believe people are celebrating the midterm victory, it’s not like Trump has been defeated forever yet” types:
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
November 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Celebration is essential.
‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root."
Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.
‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.
Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.
‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.
November 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root."
Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.
‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.
Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.
‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.
she's based on ms mowz and this little potato. and yes the heart shaped boob window is essential
November 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
she's based on ms mowz and this little potato. and yes the heart shaped boob window is essential
Saw a woman at the airport wearing a sweatshirt that said "My favourite essential oil is chloroform"...
November 9, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Saw a woman at the airport wearing a sweatshirt that said "My favourite essential oil is chloroform"...
Chewtoys are ESSENTIAL to joy sometimes.
November 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Chewtoys are ESSENTIAL to joy sometimes.
Essential little history lesson from Chatham here.
If you know the history it's very clearly rooted in segregationist & anti-New Deal rhetoric. It's a combination of words that activates the most hardcore right-wingers. But it's also children playing with their grandparents' things, barely understanding what they mean.
November 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Essential little history lesson from Chatham here.
An essential purchase when in Staffordshire
November 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
An essential purchase when in Staffordshire
Just an essential thread to read 🧵
Sorry, I'm still on this Simon Harris thing. Do you know why they do this?
It's because when they say these things, it deflates our belief that the government should do something about wealth inequality, that social benefits help those in poverty.
www.esri.ie/news/three-i...
It's because when they say these things, it deflates our belief that the government should do something about wealth inequality, that social benefits help those in poverty.
www.esri.ie/news/three-i...
Three in four individuals in Ireland support government action to reduce income inequality
www.esri.ie
November 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Just an essential thread to read 🧵