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"The bishops, he said, were told it would be a private discussion of immigration enforcement, religious-worker visas and human dignity, with a possible chance to pray privately with the president."

Want to put the brakes on this runaway presidency? Here's a to-do list. Get the details in our new @brennancenter.org report: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

Hello Substack! This week, we’re filming an episode of The Briefing with Michael Waldman about the midterms. We’d love to answer your questions about voting rights, election misinformation, or anything related. Please share your questions below and we’ll try to answer them on air!

The Brennan Center is tracking the administration’s threats to elections and working to ensure that your vote is protected. Follow our experts to keep up with what you need to know about the midterms.

The Trump-Vance admin is attempting to block lawfully admitted refugees from obtaining permanent residency, subject them to mass re-vetting, and slash time to defend their refugee status. We will fight in court to protect refugees' work statuses, paths to citizenship, and families and communities.

In which Jeff Bezos explains what keeps him up at night. But no worry, the tech bros all know they're above accountability under law at this point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A shout out to our friend @camposmello.bsky.social and her colleagues at Folha - who broke the stories about Meta’s throttling of Lula’s campaign in Brazil, and other critical stories about corruption. All this despite the impending threat to their own freedom to report .

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

18/ Other Russian warbloggers have picked up the same line, arguing that Musk's manoeuvre was really about money: "The price difference is like the difference between a minibus and a business jet."

7/ A post by Musk on X in which he predicts a catastrophe if Russia attempts to destroy Starlink with anti-satellite weapons has been attracting a lot of commentary. Russian warbloggers have been calling for such an attack, which seems to caught Musk's attention.

4/ 'Up Periscope' says Musk did it to help the Republicans in the forthcoming Congressional elections: "[It] seems a new president has emerged in the United States, and that president is Elon Musk."

1/ Russian warbloggers are applauding Elon Musk for being sympathetic to Russia. They suggest that he crippled Ukraine's Starlink/Starshield connection for fear of Russian retaliation, dislike of the Ukrainians, and a desire to make Ukraine pay more for using it. ⬇️

Sen. Adam Schiff tells NBC that Pete Hegseth and "anyone who has knowledge of what happened" should testify before the Senate on Ukraine's Starlink disruptions. "Somebody is lying here. Maybe they're all lying in different ways, but we need to find out."

Curious to see if there is a backlash to the DOJ filing motions etc to benefit of Republican candidates ahead of Election Day. Murkowski has spoken out against it and she is the GOAT of overcoming ballot difficulties, having won as a write-in.

"The US military has given Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions re: whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor." The access also raises many new national security concerns.

Key States Where More Than 15% of Voters Have Already Cast Their Ballots Georgia: 41% Texas: 36% North Carolina: 31% Virginia: 30% Nevada: 27% Florida: 26% Maine: 25% Michigan: 21% Ohio: 20% Nebraska: 18%

‘Just wrong.’ Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tells Ramaswamy to immediately take down controversial ad. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/22/j...

This is going to be a fun one. New research sneak peak for the true nerdy nerds. Looking forward to connecting across the pond. I believe the start time is 11:15am EST.

Today, in a series of threads, I am going to walk through some of these documents and give you a chance to see from the inside what we found It is all there in black and white. The documents don't lie.

We used these documents to build a detailed chronology--it is 158 pages long--that pulls excerpts from key documents showing the sequence of chemical industry interventions, often with their former lobbyists who now are EPA bosses as they moved to deconstruct public health protections.

We have them all in house at The NYT. Of that total, about 10,000 pages were at the core of our story examining the Clean Air Act air toxics rules and the move by President Trump for the first time in U.S. history to exempt over 200 polluters from these rules www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

SHOW ME THE DOCUMENTS>>>>> We did something sort of crazy at The NYT this year, as we look for ways to dig into what has happened at the Environmental Protection Agency since Trump returned to the White House. We collected more than 466,200 pages of federal and state documents.....

Anyone else never gonna be able to unsee this? Or just us?

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Extraordinary, eye-opening, devastating feature by Maurice TAMMAN, Ben WELSH @palewi.re, Pete MCKENZIE, Charlie SZYMANSKI @mrmetlhed.charlieszymanski.com, Delgerzaya DELGERJARGAL, Robbie COREY-BOULET @rcoreyb.bsky.social, Loucoumane COULIBALY, Jeff HORWITZ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social & Joan FAUS 👏 🙏

Uncovering ‘heat storms’ “Reuters reporters set out to define a heat wave and uncovered something far bigger: "heat storms" that now blanket vast stretches of the planet. On this episode of On Assignment, the journalists behind the investigation, …” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

The toxicity that @ericlipton.nytimes.com and his colleagues have uncovered is everywhere but if you live in Texas, Louisiana, or Alabama pay special attention

Juana Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, took her 3-year-old son to a horse race in Wilder, Idaho when hundreds of law enforcement officers raided the event, zip-tying children at gunpoint and denying Juana and her son food and water. We're exposing these atrocities in a new short documentary.

who is a good boy

#Brazil

What's causing the DOJ freakout? Maybe it's the early vote Texas early voting is up 74% from 2022 & Kansas has more than doubled And DDF has a dozen+ national law firms ready w/ complaints drafted How ready we are, in this week's publisher's note 👇 -TN

Ukraine's access to Starlink and Starshield satellite links has been restored to the speeds it had before restrictions that disrupted front-line operations for more than a week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday. https://to.pbs.org/4yIfgF9

Today is #VoteEarlyDay! If you’re headed to the polls before Election Day, make sure you’re prepared. 🗳️ voteearlyday.org/vote

Hey New York, early voting starts TODAY!

German police detain suspect after fire engulfs Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest https://aje.news/qx0gcp

Why do YouTube videos for toddlers even have a live chat? 😱

UAE's Ras Al Khaimah shuts all beaches as neighbours grapple with oil spill www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

“Mr. Riddle is one of at least 3 Polar LNG executives who recently resigned. … Trump officials were notified about their concerns related to the secret Russian financing. Mr. Riddle said the executives had urged administration officials to investigate the matter” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

🤬"Trump’s diesel deal derailed Ukraine-Russia peace progress, says Czech president Czech President Petr Pavel said the U.S. diesel deal with Russia gives Moscow “new hope."" www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Michigan U.S. Senate 🚗 In-person early voting begins Saturday, October 24. As of Oct. 23, 2026 Total mail votes: 905,256 (+60,546) 20.6% of projected final turnout. Estimated share of cast votes: 🔵 Abdul El-Sayed: 56.8–64.6% 🔴 Mike Rogers: 32.9–40.7% VoteHub currently rates the race as Lean D.

Nothing like taking the bike out on a crisp sunny autumn day and casting my vote. Local precinct worker told me that early voting numbers are more than 2x what she saw during the general. There was a line but it moved quickly. Go. Do this thing to protect your country. "...foreign & domestic."

This morning the New York Times warns that administration attacks on voting are raising fears it will try to challenge midterms results. That’s why we are urging you to vote early. Questions? Call the multi-lingual Election Protection Hotline. 866ourvote.org @lwv.org @brennancenter.org @aclu.org

The E.P.A. knows how serious the cancer risk is from chemical plants that President Trump gave waivers to. There are thousands of pages of agency documents that detail this risk. We read them.

What we learned is that former petrochemical lobbyists now inside the EPA are meeting with former clients and then moving to force career staff at the EPA to rollback public health protections. We found the actual documents detailing these moves. Smoking guns. (Redlines striking protections)

During this investigation, we traveled to locations around the United States where President Trump has moved to ease pollution rules, including to Port Neches, Tx. where there is a middle school a few blocks from the chemical plant considered by the EPA the largest cancer threat nationwide.