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Today, I’m honored to share that President Obama is supporting our campaign for the U.S. Senate. President @barackobama.bsky.social & I both started as organizers in our communities, because we immediately understood that real changes come from regular folks joining the fight. #AngieForFlorida

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

We often turn to industry outsiders for analysis, but traditionally when this is done, they're either former insiders or they're academics with advanced degrees who've spent years studying the topic. Yglesias and so many others have neither. They're just well-spoken bloggers and entertainers.

The Trump administration signed a deal giving the US a 35% stake in North American Blue Energy Partners, tied to corrupt Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, through a Barbados-registered parent company with hidden owners. Signed by Rubio and Hegseth, it sets a 7-member board with

US majority control for 15 years, designed to prevent future leaders from undoing it. While backers praise the energy security and discounted oil access, critics highlight Betancourt's reputation for corruption and the deal's opacity, fueling demands for more transparency.

Significantly, the deal bears almost no resemblance from the deal which was publicly described by Rubio and Trump.

The fetishisation of "debate" as some sort of grand public good that everyone should do is so thoughtless and jarring to me because the more you actually do it the more it becomes apparent that genuinely constructive debate is actually a pretty niche thing.

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

The power Musk shouldn’t have is entirely inseparable from the wealth he possesses.

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

Somewhere along the line, I understood that maybe my greatest asset was being willing to speak out for those who couldn't. Feckless attacks from the billionaire class aren't going to scare me out of fighting tooth and nail for working Mainers.

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

"Judge Williams, in her order, said that Trump's personal lawyers and the Department of Justice attempted to 'use the Court to provide some legitimacy ... to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law.'" abcnews.com/US/judge-ref...

A simpler description would be: a conspiracy to embezzle funds from the US Treasury, drawing on the authority of the US Attorney General.

This is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism.

Please indulge me while I post this once more for folks who may be too busy during the week and only peek at Bluesky on the weekend. The NY Times invited me to explain why I think they're failing in their duty to warn the public about the danger of a dictatorship. And they posted the video online.

'salt of the earth' voters only get media interest if they're culturally conservative

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

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"You fucking war criminal!" -- Hegseth's talk is interrupted again

🚨BREAKING: With the threat of federal election interference looming large over the midterms, Senate Democrats plan to send more than 100 congressional staff to observe voting sites in nine states — the first program of its kind for the upper chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

So they were killing fishermen after all.

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.

Navi Pillay receives the news while at the Courtroom 600, Nuremberg Palace of Justice The speech is worth listening to. Video by Sec Gen, Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard

There are about 100,000 people in Minnesota who are of Somali descent. A little over half were born outside the US, the rest were born here. So, citizens. And of those who are foreign born, the majority are naturalized citizens. The president is advocating violence against US citizens.

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Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."

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DELAWARE: "Nurse Monica Ryadi and her husband couldn’t wait to take their 3yo son to Disneyland... They didn’t get there. The Delco nurse has lived legally in 🇺🇸 since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her son to Disneyland." #AbolishICE www.instagram.com/p/DeAFDW5jEW0

The next Dem president must neuter him. I would suggest by taxing him, breaking up his companies and/or taking his money.

De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote

ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.

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This is so brilliant. Uncommon.

“I’m calling on all my fellow public servants — Democratic and Republican — to reject the corrosive influence of AI and Big Tech spending in our politics and our elections.”

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

The press wear “kick me” signs and wonder why Trump kicks them. If they had more self-respect, they’d get less disrespect. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Sensible words from the Texas and Oklahoma cattlemen, essentially ignored by US corporate media. Ask yourself why?

to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities