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Around 175 House Dems just called on Trump's DOJ and DHS to end "weaponization of law enforcement" against Rep Ilhan Omar. The letter is signed by numerous ranking committee Dems, showing depth of support for Omar in leadership and signaling how Dem House will act. newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Mozilla Foundation is betting-big on small. Applications for Mozilla Foundation's new Incubator cohort are now open with up to $500,000 available per project over three years. Human-Scale AI, built for the people and problems it's meant to serve⚡ https://mzl.la/47sNcKO

Villy Søvndal: member of the European Parliament for Denmark asks Americans to defend Ukraine by not voting Republican in the midterms. "Help defend the principles America has defended and believed in for generations: namely: freedom, democracy, and sovereignty."

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after the company was found to have misled users about its privacy practices in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meta says it will appeal. Read more: https://cnn.it/3W0a5CT

Hamilton: "Keep in mind that the president offered to pay voters $5,000 a piece to reelect Roger Marshall. He was gonna spend $1 trillion to do this. So we're talking $350 billion over 10 years to help people h ave their health insurance?" (Stay for the end of his response too.)

Vivek Ramaswamy wants Ohioans to judge Amy Acton's character. That's a dangerous game for a man with his record.

I don't think people fully appreciate what a sociopath JD Vance is. He's "disgusted" by R's distancing themselves from Amy Acton's mother. He's *not* disgusted by Acton's mother offering her children up to a pedophile. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-i...

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

This is a disgrace, and it directly impacts our military readiness. Some 1,300 Navy family members were evacuated from Bahrain during the Iran war. Months later, families are still displaced, separated from loved ones, struggling financially, and waiting for answers. #SupportTheTroops 🧵

Donald Trump Is a Traitor. www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

The federal government tried to turn our public servants into deportation agents and force New York City to carry out ICE’s cruel agenda. Today, a federal court rejected that effort and upheld our laws. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Constant chronic crying since the day they won all 4. The cult raced out to blow any kind of mandate, respect, leadership or integrity. Look at you now, Mike.

Dear Trump voters, You wanted mass deportations. Well, hundreds of thousands of people have been deported. NOW WHAT? • Did you get that job they supposedly took from you? • Did grocery prices drop? • Is rent cheaper? • Did your health insurance premiums drop? #TrumpsAbuseOfPower 🧵

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

"When Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity & appointed her as his new press sec, he called her 'an attorney.' This is also how Zacharia describes herself. But Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus DC, that she was admitted to practice law anywhere — & found none."

Two days ago, after Trump’s latest attempt to whip up violence against Somali immigrants in Minnesota:

I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

When we know our rights, we can defend them. Get ready for the upcoming elections with us — RSVP NOW. www.mobilize.us/noki...

@alexwagner4129.bsky.social and @katiephang.bsky.social bring the right kind of heat to the climate case coming soon to a Supreme Court near you www.youtube.com/watch?v=6usH...

At @atrupar.com's Public Notice by @paulwaldman.bsky.social: 🧾 “Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire: Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar...& are given the keys to the DoD. t2m.co/0w8GU7B 🤔 Why does the table of dangerous clowns of Project Meridian remind me of this?

The next No Kings Day is almost here. Let’s make it clear that We The People won’t let the fascists sabotage the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

“Altman said, ‘we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.’” How about we let them happen to you, exclusively, first, and then we’ll decide if we’re game? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

It’s batshit to me that the far left think they can win national, statewide, or even local races across this country w/out building a coalition that includes moderates. I’m a progressive. But I know calling moderates names doesn’t win them over, it just shrinks your coalition.

Something I’ve heard about during my trip to the Gulf? War profiteering. Often by U.S. companies. Let me tell you what I learned. And why a Democratic Congress should do something about it

ICE's shameless stupid cruelty continues unabated. Here's a truly wrenching account from our wonderful local Vermont newspaper, which I imagine could be multiplied a thousandfold every day across America. Many thanks to Liza Cochran, its author bravelittlevoices.substack.com/p/terror-in-...

As Trump and Republicans strip health coverage from millions (for tax cuts for the rich), Dems plan to expand Medicare. #MedicareForAllNOW www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...

Gift link to Lina Khan’s op ed on regulating AI. While existing law can provide some accountability, it is absurd to think private companies can police themselves. Give Congress funds to hire real experts and legislate, just as we do with other dangerous products. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

These are not products of an effective design process. Instead of starting with a purpose and finding the best way to satisfy it they are starting with a behemoth existing material and desperately trying to find ways to make it useful. This is anti-design.

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

Smart women make me smarter. @katiephang.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgu...

Republican senator's gotcha moment of confrontation against Jack Smith involving a basketball game backfires when it turns out the senator got the wrong game, wrong league and wrong state. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

A federal judge just blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don't change how they run elections. It's the latest blow to Trump's attempts to rewrite election rules.

@billmckibben.bsky.social and I have a double feature for ya today on the *What If We Get It Right?* podcast, recorded live during NYC Climate Week with Patagonia’s head of impact and the CEO of Protect Our Winters: The Fight for Public Lands. Wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1773809532