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If Brazil and Serbia can do it, we can do it too. joycevance.substack.com/p/live-on-de...

A federal judge on Monday night indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from removing even a single tree from a public golf course in D.C. that President Donald Trump intends to immediately transform into a championship-style course. READ MORE: www.ms.now/news/judge-b...

Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.

Hey Alabama GOP—here’s the voter fraud youve been looking for, but it’s the GOP candidate for Lt Gov, being called out here by the Dem candidate @phillipensler.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DeR8AKh...

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.

🔥 BEN MEISELAS ERUPTS: The Cheesecake Factory faux outrage exposes the propaganda machine. They brainwash Americans into fighting each other while oligarchs steal our healthcare, send our kids to endless wars, and buy more yachts. Divide the people. Enrich the oligarchs.

We need a public and transparent accountability process.

When Anthropic was created, its co-founders pledged to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the company to philanthropic causes. As they prepare to take the company public, they appear to be walking back that pledge.

“Researchers received letters last spring about their federal grant applications from a Department of Health and Human Services employee who hadn’t worked for the government in months.”

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The @nihvigils.bsky.social is an accomplishment, 75+ consecutive weeks and counting. Daily for 700 days. Inspirational. Go Georgia.

YES, YES, YES!

Alaska. The Comeys. California. East Potomac Golf Course. All of today's key court developments in one place. Catch up here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-day-ev...

It’s barely even news at this point when the Trump admin breaks the law. But we should not let ourselves become inured to the administrations lawlessness. And we must be ready to hold them accountable. www.fedweek.com/federal-mana...

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

Here’s my article on the great Egyptian scholar educated at @sorbonne-universite.fr Taha Hussein journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Trump has influenced not just what the Republican Party does but what they actually believe is acceptable. “We need to understand how far they have shifted their thinking,” Marc Elias says, “and we need to adjust our tactics accordingly.” New rules, new fights. Follow us to keep up.

We can hope that after the midterms there will be a public transparent oversight process that turns this report into a series of high-profile hearings. Much of the public now gets news via video; Congress can use oversight to make compelling video so the country pays attention.

Bond traders are right to be worried about artificial intelligence, it’s coming for their job — but only some of it, and not all at once

Matty with another sizzler. Setting aside the obvious “we don’t want fascism to win anywhere” rebuttal, you know what’s in Brazil? A whopping 60% of the fucking Amazon rainforest. Jair Bolsonaro, Flavio’s dad, oversaw a surge in deforestation. Oh, and we already just missed 1.5 degrees.

Judge extends block on Trump plans to renovate Washington golf course reut.rs/3W80cTJ

Only in America can a president plan a coup and an insurrection & get away with it like Donald Trump did. Sadly not so for Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil & Trump pal, who attempted a Trump style insurrection. He’s now serving a prison sentence.

"Flávio has given up." A Bolsonaro family adviser tells The Washington Post he’s terrified his father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, will DIE IN JAIL, and that he could be jailed himself THIS WEEK. Flávio effectively conceded defeat after Trump stopped short of intervening, per WaPo

Taiwan rebuffs China's commemorations for post-World War Two 'restoration' of island reut.rs/4BrBw8L

So proud of our team at @democracyforward.org, co-counsel and incredible clients.

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

Former Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law Project ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

Donald Trump's deployment of California's National Guard in Los Angeles was an unlawful and unconstitutional abuse of power. It was done over California’s objection — all in an effort to intimidate peaceful protestors advocating for immigrant rights.

LIVE: Election observers speak after Serbia votes out Vucic www.youtube.com/live/4vI85AS...

COMMENTARY: AI gloom revives the specter of stagflation reut.rs/4smLN1S

Naturally. @axios.com $ANT www.axios.com/2026/10/26/c...

Tough chart: Home prices, mortgage payments and incomes since 2020 — all indexed to zero. (via JBREC)

If you haven’t yet had a chance to see or read Barack Obama’s speech in Cleveland Saturday night, please do both. And then share it as widely as you can. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/wise-and-important-words

Great reporting at the crossroads of fossil fuels and political corruption. Words by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu, photos by @lynseyaddario.bsky.social

Audi’s CEO drew heavy criticism for appearing alongside US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the battleground state of Georgia, with the head ‌of Germany's top union saying it violated the automaker's company guidelines reut.rs/4zdZlj0

A mystery found in a vanishingly small number of melanoma survivors helped power a new way to fight the deadly cancer. Merck and Moderna developed a vaccine personalized to each patient’s tumor.

'No fuel to keep babies warm': shortages push hospitals in Yemen's Taiz to brink reut.rs/4BsRxv5

There’s desperation behind these Republican ads. But there’s confidence too—that scapegoating Muslims taps into biases many Americans still feel, and that it will be enough to alter some outcomes. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social:

Canada stands with Brazil. There will be a growing alliance between Canada and Brazil. The response from MAGA is the language of violence and threat. "The time has come for the wicked and cowardly to meet their rewards." Unhinged nutbars.

Alaska Senate candidates rarely mention climate change, but they talk a lot about fish.

Head of Mexico's electoral authority resigns amid corruption allegations reut.rs/4dZM1pO

The most important point in this piece by the great Bob Rubin is not how the Trump admin will interfere with the election, but how that interference will torpedo the economy. In other words, if they interfere, they are destroying American democracy AND American prosperity. What a legacy.

You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge J. Michael Luttig: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

"The Cuban regime has stifled any viable domestic opposition. But the withering of the state—a process that has been under way for decades—has accelerated, and is shocking to see up close" From Robert Worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

‘I wonder if this discarded confidence survey is accurately indicating that the foundation under the contemporary bull market is far less structurally sound than most perceive.’ paulsenperspectives.substack.com/p/has-the-us... by @jimwpaulsen.bsky.social

President Trump's low approval ratings, voter concern over high prices and the Iran war led many analysts and opinion polls to predict Democratic gains. But six analysts and party strategists tell Reuters several factors could prevent a landslide victory reut.rs/4BsRhMD

LIVE today at 2p ET: Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-NM, on Epstein, ICE and what a Democrat controlled House might do. Link: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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