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With almost no advance warning, DHS has suspended its Acquisition Forecast Planning System tool. Contractors relied on this to see what new contracts the agency would be soliciting — and so did we. Now it looks like no new advanced notice will be given between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5.

Perfect

BBC covered it live though , a party with a handful of MPs most of who defected from other parties and are third and dropping in the polls ,gets more coverage than the Lib Dems. All uninterrupted or fact checked just pure propaganda, time to stop paying the licence fee…

A slowly-dying Far Right party.

In 2020, Ken Paxton’s office spent more than 22,000 hours on voter fraud cases. The result was 16 prosecutions. “That’s 16 cases in a state of 17 million registered voters,” Marc Elias says. The rules for voting keep changing. Follow us so nothing catches you off guard.

Two headlines in the last 24 hours: New York Times: "The New Worst-Case Scenario for Election Officials: Federal Interference" Me: "Republicans have cheated in elections for a long time"

Per a new report from House Democrats, Trump's DOJ is withholding evidence of his ties to Epstein and slow-walking the complete release of the Epstein files. It's time to end the cover-up and expose the truth. Remember this when you cast your ballot. www.ms.now/news/house-j...

Amount of tax they will owe on their $13,000,000,000 windfall for pushing out fatally flawed software: $0.00.

For my last Better Win a District, I wrote about TN-09. Republicans gerrymandered Memphis, the Blackest city in Tennessee, out of a seat in the House. Or at least they tried. Then along came Justin Pearson. Now TN-09 is a real fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...

Nearly half of the people confirmed to have the virus have died in DRC's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

More than 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools have been filed with the Education Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

Talarico: This is the last play of the last drive. This is the moment we leave it all on the field. We are the underdogs. It’s David versus Goliath. It’s the powers that be versus the powers that ought to be, and it’s time for us to start flipping over some tables.

Good question

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump has largely halted direct US financial and military aid to Ukraine, despite broad support from Democratic and Republican lawmakers as it fights a Russian invasion, - Reuters With a victory in both chambers in November, Democrats would be able to decide what gets voted on and when.

In just one week, russia launched thousands of bombs, missiles, and drones at Ukraine. Almost every day, these strikes took lives: last night, 4 people were killed in the Dnipro region. While diplomacy continues, russia keeps killing. Help protect innocent lives. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

I don’t get it. If the tariffs are great for America and are bringing back manufacturing and are one of Trump’s signature policies, why won’t the Republicans who refused to overturn them even mention them?

Maarten Wolterink

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Ohio, let's do what we can to elect @amyactonoh.bsky.social as your next Governor and @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social as your next U.S. Senator! They’ve dedicated their lives to fighting on behalf of all Ohioans.

Obama: "Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa. You got a Muslim man, a Jewish woman, fighting for you in the US senate. That's something, Michigan, you can be proud of!"

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...

Today marks the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history. In 2023, a gunman armed with a Ruger AR-10 rifle and high-capacity magazines opened fire in a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston. Eighteen people were killed, including four deaf people, and 13 others were wounded.

Talarico: You want to know why they are spending $200 million against me? Because I don’t take their corporate PAC money and I never will. I don’t work for them. I work for you. When we flip this seat in Texas, I’m going to vote to ban corporate PACs so billionaires can’t buy our elections.

It's not as if history didn't warn us what the sick fuckos would do if they got into power.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

BASH: On Friday, the president said 'I'm the one that said, do it.' Did the president direct you to sue Alaska? BLANCHE: So, the president has been talking about Alaska for months and months (That's a yes!)

WSJ's Alex Ward points to obvious logical incoherence in Elon Musk's claims. Keeps making me think of the two WSJ stories on Elon Musk's severe Ketamine addiction.

Blanche is not the people's attorney general. He's Trump's fascist enforcer.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. The AfD’s election win reflects growing support for far-right politics in Germany. Axel Reitz, a former German neo-Nazi, explains how the far-right attracts new followers — and how to counter its influence.

While in Springfield last night, I polled the audience and asked how many of them early voted. Out of almost 150 people, almost every hand went up. LFG!!!

For Trump, who is heavily invested in the fossil fuels industry, windfall profits for that industry are a wonderful thing. For US consumers, they're a nightmare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Last week, I sat down with Ambassador Talal Al Rahbi, the Omani Ambassador to the U.S., to discuss the long, historic relationship between the U.S. and Oman and how we can deepen the ties between our two countries, including through cultural exchange and people-to-people engagement. 1/2

“You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.” - Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal

Such a great interview/conversation with @jonesforar.bsky.social who is an actual Rocket Scientist running for congress in Arkansas. With @Heather Cox Richardson Chris Jones | www.youtube.com/live/3Lt8PGR...

Amazing how the Attorney General doesn't even pretend the job of the Justice Department is to enforce the law, it's just literally "If voters are confused and our party loses, that gives us a sad and it means the full force of the federal government must be brought to bear to undo the election"

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

Trump is gutting the Clear Air Act and poisoning our air by "prioritizing the economic interests of corporations and easing costs for polluting industries." Congress needs to end this administration's pay-to-play corruption.

Larry Kudlow looks like he's about to cry as Trump rants and raves on the phone like a complete lunatic

The Justice Department represents the United States of America, not the president. That’s what White House counsel is for. 

The great Oleksandra Matviichuk is absolutely right to draw attention to the horrible humanitarian crisis in Oleshky. All Putin, Witkoff, and Kushner can do is invert and traduce the meaning of “humanitarianism,” in the best traditions of Russian propaganda.

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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The Most Consequential Midterm Election in Our Lifetime | From American Conversations with Congressman Joe Neguse of Colorado. @neguse.house.gov @hcrichardson.bsky.social Watch the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/live/xzyynbxL9qU?si=TB9aNAMddEZgaMDz