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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...

A clearly frustrated federal judge warned President Donald Trump's administration it could face contempt sooner rather than later, giving its lawyers just hours to detail every step toward returning an unlawfully deported man.

‘Absolutely ridiculous’: Dallas still hasn’t received Republican midterm convention reimbursement

Some Sparrow studies in the sketchbook

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

Mary Ziegler argues that it may be hard for the Trump admin to ban abortion nation-wide, which is why attacks on abortion-related speech are gaining steam: Conservatives recognize that it may be more effective to attack shield laws by policing the information available to abortion seekers.

Lubbock County voted for President Trump by 40 points. Tonight 4,000 people showed up at our rally. Texans are ready for change.

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.

The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

Will Chamberlain of the Thiel-backed Edmund Burke Foundation (which organizes NatCon) says that “The Brazilian regime should look carefully at what has happened to Venezuela and Cuba, and remember that this hemisphere belongs to the United States of America.” 1/

The stakes are too high to take down pages encouraging people to vote in seven days, Meta & Instagram. #Meta #Instagram

La Resistencia received a letter from Marvin Arido-Sorro regarding the new segregation policy at the Northwest Detention Center.

🚨BREAKING: Nearly 2,900 voters in one Georgia county have yet to receive the absentee ballots they recently applied for and are blaming their local officials’ hiring of an out-of-town vendor for the delays, they charge in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

People held at an ICE tent facility in El Paso stayed an average of 4.5 days, well past the 72-hour limit it operated under, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said in a report released Monday. Inspectors also found unreported force, lost property, and missed showers.

The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells. (Published August)

The chemical industry has known for decades that ingested microplastics can infiltrate vital organs, an investigation has found.

Sixteen years after the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, life in the deep sea is showing few signs of recovery, new research finds.

DOJ has charged James Comey again . . . and this time they’ve reached a new level of desperation. youtube.com/shorts/Nsny4...

Everyone needs to see Randi Weingarten’s powerful and deeply personal endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed. At a time when fear and division are being weaponized, her message of unity, equality, and democracy deserves to be heard. Please watch and share. ❤️ #BlueWaveIn7Days

“According to a report published by Argentine outlet Infobae, Flavio Bolsonaro allegedly crossed the border into Argentina and planned to continue his journey to the US aboard a private jet. The report said the senator had arrived in Puerto Iguazu from where he was expected to depart for the US.”

Congress can restore the Voting Rights Act and create an enforceable right to vote, Eliza Sweren-Becker tells Astead Herndon on America Actually from @vox.com: “The Constitution gives Congress the power to set rules for elections. They should.”

"Some of the most grievous charges ever leveled against a senior U.S. federal official..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/b...

even NBC doesn't bother to put the substance in the headline though. naturally www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Just released: a new Nobel Prize lesson to share with your students. It's a deep dive into the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, which turned a giant block of ice in the south pole into a detector for mysterious particles from space. Use the Nobel Prize lesson in the classroom: https://bit.ly/4sB3oDp

Judge Reyes says this started as a case about golf -- now it’s about whether a president follows court orders @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are staying in this fight well past Nov 15 I’ll get into it w/ @aliciamenendez.bsky.social on @ms.now at noon👇 -TN

Trump: "We took over Venezuela very successfully, and they've sent me as a gift a boatload of a million barrels of oil"

COMING UP: Preliminary hearing before magistrate judge Faruqui in the criminal case of former FBI agents charged with false statements to Congress and obstruction. Things could get very interesting... I'm here in the media room for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along!

Paywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org

And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.

One of the most competitive House races in US is Wisconsin’s 3rd. Democrat, Rebecca Cooke, is ready to kick out incumbent and 1/6 insurrectionist, Derrick Van Orden. She joins me for the latest in her race, including Van Orden’s repeated use of AI-generated deepfake ads. youtu.be/vaWfahm9NLQ?...

Journalists if you can hear me, investigate Marshall’s staffers and aides like they are Hillary’s emails www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This report has a lot more information than that one less-than-credible accusations against Trump. If people read (I know, it's an impossible ask), you'll see there are three more I would deem extremely well-evidenced and credible.

Never let them tell you how to protest or that you shouldn’t protest. Never let them confuse protests and parades

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

#Photography Sebastião Salgado (1986), Serra Pelada Gold mine, Brazil.

“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

18k 18-29 voters in GA today, 53% of the same day in 2024, by far the highest %24 day so far. Today only: Black 18-29: 77.3% of 2024 White 18-29 voters in blue ATL counties: 51.9% White 18-29 in the rest of the state: 31.3% Cumulative numbers below

Remember 3 years who when it wasn’t common for immigration agents to tackle disabled American citizen students walking to school, beak their wrist, and then leave them on the side of the road? You want this madness to end? Vote. Organize. Protest. This won’t stop until we demand it stops.

Tonight in Mississippi, Trump becomes another nightmare for his security team as he walks past his predetermined left side stage exit (near the row of flags), and unexpectedly walks to the right, going behind the stage. Security scrambles.

Israel wants to be surrounded by rubble and is razing Muslim villages and 100 year old olive trees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...