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María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s Leading Opposition Figure, Returns Home After nearly 10 months in exile, Ms. Machado, a Nobel laureate, came back to challenge leaders who have sidelined her and press for new elections. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

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Nearly All of the World’s Shallow Coral Reefs Are Now Critically Endangered www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/c...

Youthful, ambitious Secretary of State looking for discrete connection

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

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A key climate science report was scrapped by President Convicted Felon. Scientists plowed ahead with the research anyway -- from outside the federal govt. wapo.st/4zbnXc3 via @washingtonpost.com

He should not be allowed to have any government contracts--he is operating like a rogue state.

Nothing like a Catholic nun to get to the heart of the matter.👇

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.

If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision. More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?

MAGA sees threats and violence as features, not bugs, drumming them up against political enemies. Yet also manage to lie to cast themselves as victims. As @gregsargent.bsky.social writes, Slotkin is standing up to this, and candidates such as Ossoff and El-Sayed are showing how to turn the tables.

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

The agency built to protect the vote got gutted by DOGE, and the Trump admin asked what was left to hack a voting machine. In secret. Imagine if this came out about Joe Biden. Trump would call it one of the greatest crimes in American history. Full story covered in today's show, link in comments ⬇️

Why does Russia always get "look what you made me do" excuses? Did former Soviet states seek to join an anti-Russian alliance for no reason? Even worse, NATO turned down Ukraine's request, and a main reason was concern for Ukraine's ongoing issues with Russia, even if they weren't Ukraine's fault.

He stopped Ukrainian interceptor drones in flight, letting Russian missiles and drones through that were aimed at civilians.

A cartoonishly evil, openly bigoted, serially lying, highly unlikeable enemy of democracy. Almost certainly a criminal many times over. Way-too-deeply embedded in the US government and national security architecture. And with none of the protections of elected office. Bring it hard and do not stop.

"I am confident that Iran's cause, like Russia's, is a just cause" -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, yesterday Rubbing it in our faces. Dog walking the US president for all to see. And still Trump kisses up to Russia, apes their propaganda, and tries to help their aggression succeed.

OH ad lying that Dem candidate Amy Acton didn't experience sexual abuse. Candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia raped in AZ, accused of a hoax. Online right campaign to dox the Cornell gang rape victim. Backing a leader found liable for sexual assault. Pro-rape party is an objective description.

They both did it, it was a joint effort, it’s one of the crazier things to happen in the national security space (which is really saying something) and every government should be scrambling to reduce dependence on—and as soon as possible get off—Starlink/shield or any Musk product, including the US.

Ossoff: "What worries me right now is complacency about this race in Georgia, overconfidence about this race in Georgia. There's no such thing as a landslide victory in the state of Georgia. This remains the crucial battleground state."

Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account

Oh, haha, he’s brown so he’s not a real American! I get it!

Trump is the one who filed this lawsuit. Now he refuses to participate in discovery while his sons and daughter duck discovery subpoenas.

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This would be a massive scandal in normal times: Trump’s stock portfolio benefited from investing in pharmaceutical companies that got Medicare exemptions from Republicans to avoid negotiating lower drug prices apnews.com/article/trum...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.

Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

Interceptor drones are defensive. They are used to knock down Russian missiles and drones targeted at civilians. What would be the justification for cutting them off?

The President of the US is now threatening to jail local election officials if they do not break federal law in the middle of an election in which hundreds of thousands of votes have already been returned. An unprecedented attack on our democracy — one we will call out every. single. time.

The president of the United States is actively helping Putin kill Ukrainian civilians.

Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

Trump wants to make sure it’s as easy as possible for his friend Putin to bomb apartment buildings and kill children. He’s not just the worst president in history, he’s the most evil person to ever serve at the highest level of government. Vote out his weak Republican enablers.

Was it Musk or Trump? Who intervened to hinder Ukraine's satellite internet access, protecting Russian targets from Ukrainian launches? Can stop debating, it looks like the answer is both. Both are Putin sympathizers who have acted to help Russia before, and it'd probably take both to work.

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

There’s a photograph from January of 2021 that still makes me angry to look at. Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy side by side at Mar-a-Lago, smiling for the camera, a week after January 6th. The moment that was tweeted out, Trump’s political career came back from the dead. (link in comments)

If Trump had done nothing but play golf these past 21 months - no tariffs, no war, no mass deportations- the economy would be humming along. But he’s a really bad person. And an idiot. And this is all on him.👇

BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN

🚨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/...

Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.