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Gen. Ronald Clark, head of U.S. Army Pacific, said this week at a defense conference that his command has prepared the Indo-Pacific theater under the assumption that China will have the capacity — and possibly the intent — to seize Taiwan by military force next year. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)

Extremely wild that the President came to Texas today and the sitting Governor who is running for re-election chose not to attend either rally…

Meta is suppressing progressives again! @angieforfl.bsky.social hosted an event in Osceola County, FL tonight where she spoke to the local Puerto Rican community. As her team was uploading content from the event, suddenly the Instagram account “latinosconangie” was shut down for well over an hour.

If they’re going to go on TV and tell lies then they need to be held legally accountable for those lies.

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

BREAKING: Nearly 3000 voters in one Georgia county haven't received their absentee ballots yet, putting them at risk of missing the Election Day deadline to vote by mail. They're asking a judge to order the county to overnight their ballots to avoid being disenfranchised.

Scoop: Fox News will finish October with its worst ratings in years, an ominous sign for Republicans ahead of the midterms. Compared to last October, Fox News is DOWN 27% in total viewers and 32% in the 25-54 demo. MS NOW and CNN are up. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/fox-news-r...

Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

Whole bunch of interesting indicators everywhere

The facts of Hasan's complaint against Scott Jennings are actually wild. Worst is probably that they hit Jennings with a C&D, his attorneys acknowledged it and promised a response, and then did nothing. I hope Jennings gets absolutely fucked. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Saudi Arabia is running out of options. Ansar Allah is hammering Saudi oil infrastructure, targeting airports, and threatening the Kingdom’s economic ambitions. MBS is begging for help. But the US is tied up with Iran, and the Houthis know how much leverage they have. There is no easy way out.

The Trump administration is split between smart people pretending to be stupid and stupid people pretending to be smart

Breaking News: The Alexander brothers, who ran a yearslong conspiracy to traffic women and girls for sex, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison. nyti.ms/4zS7d9B

Justin Pearson's response: "Men of faith––let alone men who are married, in their fifties, and in public office––have no business sending unsolicited nude photos to women."

Bounties, threat letters, lawsuits -- That’s what panic looks like Trump & his cronies are scared of voters & they should be--34M early votes are in & a record midterm is in sight Civil rights groups, democracy groups & election officials have voters’ backs, & Trump won’t get away w/ it @ms.now👇

Every Texas bar has that one guy. He’s loud. He’s obnoxious. He makes all the women feel uncomfortable. He adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Ken Paxton — and I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

​With the midterms coming up & everything that has happened the last 9 months, I felt like I needed to post something. Ignorantly, in the past, I only voted in presidential elections. Now I am voting in any election I can. Alex stood up for his community so now it is time we stand up & fight back.

"Journalists often use the words 'unsubstantiated' or 'uncorroberated' when referring to the allegations victims have levied against powerful men, like Trump. Instead of saying these women’s accounts are not corroborated, maybe it’s time we say they were not investigated in spite of clear patterns."

And so is stunning win for democracy in Brazil. Whatever junk they try will only strengthen the Resistance. Over 34M have voted early . Keep at it folks !

The Meta takedown of the No Kings' account on the biggest early vote push in history was bad. But it's encouraging that key congressional leaders are asking the right questions. www.ms.now/news/instagr...

One week until Election Day. America deserves better than the pedophile protection party. Knock doors. Make calls. Get your friends to vote. Let’s elect Democrats up and down the ballot and finally make Trump release the Epstein files.

Then stop starting wars in a place about which you are so ignorant

Don't let the nice weather fool you, winter is coming! Gotta make sure the kids have what they need. That's the doctor and the dad in me speaking!

Malik Beasley, a nine-year NBA veteran, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a Department of Justice investigation into illegal sports gambling, his attorney told The Athletic. He will plead on Dec. 9 in Brooklyn.

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

NEW AD: “Marsha Blackburn voted to block the release of the Epstein files… she always finds a way to protect billionaires and f*ck us over.” (From The Progress Fund)

The good news is that we are winning in court. The bad news is that we have to win every case. Trump only needs to subvert one election to break democracy.

Here's the schedule for briefing in Trump's attempt to steal Mary Petola's win. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This midterm electorate is likely going to be the most diverse midterm electorate in U.S. history

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

After defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is now overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here. For starter's it's offensively cheap. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

MSNOW: 'Impeachment Watch 2027' Jeffries: "Pete Hegseth needs to be pushed aside by the president, or we’re going to have to deal with that situation if he is not." www.ms.now/news/midterm...

I appreciate that Oliver spent his whole show basically testing the Ellisons tolerance for dissent.

Trump is considering mass pardons for his enablers. I have some ideas about how they could be undone. Liz Oyer

That book in Lula's hand: Brazil's Constitution.

GUARDIAN: “Lula’s win is bad news for Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for that botched power grab… also a blow for Donald Trump, the Bolsonaro clan’s most important international ally.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

New in PN: Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limits "This is the nature of today’s right-wing bubble, whose residents are not only acculturated to a particular political style — cruel, often hateful — but become convinced it’s the only effective way to do politics, & any other way is weak"

Putin is meddling in the midterms to help Trump by once again mounting a covert disinformation operation that’s spreading phony sex abuse allegations about a Democrat. Ought to be big news.

David Jolly: "The problem in this environment is not that I used to be a Republican. It's that Byron Donalds still is one."

“If this administration won’t follow this simple statutory directive, it is unclear why Congress or the American people should trust this administration to follow any of the other legal limits to Section 702," say @wyden.senate.gov & @schiff.senate.gov www.wired.com/story/the-us...

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.