Dana Hull

This is legit wild. One of the Trumpiest GOP kooks we’ve had holding high office here in Texas makes an absolute spot-on, beautiful, non-partisan call for government transparency against the governor’s attempt to hide his emails with Elon Musk.

New leaked audio: Flock’s CEO tells a private conference of police chiefs he believes the opposition to his company isn’t real, full of paid protesters/bots. Says company is at “the bottom” but is waiting out criticism www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

Tomorrow at 1 pm ET I'm talking with the ProPublica team behind a database of 506 U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @propublica.org @cengizyar.com

Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

This is in the just filed Anthropic S-1

“Authoritarian governments may use AI to create high tech surveillance states” www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Anthropic filed its S-1

she told someone this story.

California! You can track your ballot via BallotTrax. I've used it for a while now and like getting the notification that my ballot has been mailed to me and that it's been received. www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ba...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins fourth term, according to electoral court.

A reporter asked to respond to Nate Silver attacking early voting, and here it is: I don't care. The dashboard has >1 million page views. I've lost count of the media orgs redistributing my data. My substack is blowing up. We're close to Election Day so there is no new info to learn from polls

I wrote this story four days ago and Musk's X posts this weekend, as well as the new Talarico ad, just strengthen the thesis all the more www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BART holiday sweater is out www.railgoods.com/2026-holiday...

"Elon, he's building some in Memphis."

You’ve seen "You Can See Everything." Now you can see everything Elizabeth Holmes said under oath. I rounded up the full transcripts from her criminal trial, plus video of her 2017 SEC deposition. See it on Slip Opinion, and subscribe (it's free) for more: annabower.substack.com/p/you-can-se...

We are talking about Halloween 🎃 costumes and my husband, who went to RISDI and takes costumes *very seriously* floated idea of being Jimothy

Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

gas >$4/gal for 168 days in 2026, old record 157. biggest monthly jump ever: +$1.13 in March (2022: 88c). Sept avg $4.33, a record (prev $3.83, 2012). $4.293 is highest ever for Oct 24. YTD avg $3.86 still trails 2022’s $4.07. highest prices ever heading into midterms.

Now is a great time to donate to @onthemedia.bsky.social

Breaking: Trump violated the U.S. Constitution in nationalizing California’s national guard last year during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, a panel on the 9th Circuit ruled 2-1, finding California is likely to succeed on the merits. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It is the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, and last night I went to a talk about Huey Newton as a scholar, philosopher and early critic of globalization. Learned that he lived in Cuba for three years and got his PhD from UC Santa Cruz. New book: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A small grove of historic American chestnut trees has become the site of resistance against an AI data center in West Virginia. @samleecole.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/west-virgini...

Musk doesn’t contribute to campaigns — he invests in them. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Citing my reporting, TX State Rep. Jessica Gonzalez sent a letter to colleagues in the state legislature regarding the fraudulent letters purporting to represent a transgender advocacy group sent to voters, calling for legislators to pass a new law to prevent such activity.

NEW: Musk has now spent $445 million on the midterms--more than 2024 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A *new* batch of FEC filings dropped tonight, and Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle. This is MORE money than Musk spent in 2024.

Whiskey Pete wanted to play with Eisenhower's famous globe, but his dipshit staffers dropped it while moving it and ripped a big hole in the side. christ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Major news this morning. Louise Lucas, a chief antagonist of Trump and Virginia Republicans (and one of the most vocal proponents of gerrymandering the state earlier this year) is criminally charged by the feds over her marijuana business:

What I would give for internal polling on the Texas Senate race

Crypto industry alone is now up to an insane $55 million spent trying to defeat Sherrod Brown. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

The bombshell campaign ad that Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy intended as an October surprise against Democrat Amy Acton has indeed exploded. Early indications are that it did so in Ramaswamy’s own face.

“Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas,” Talarico said during a recent rally. “In all likelihood, if you’ve seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you’ve gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The racism that Abdul El-Sayed is facing from Republicans, the press, and even some Democrats is so disgusting.

Itching to go to a swing state, just because

it's not a mystery why this guy is up 3 in texas. whether that will last or withstand polling error is another conversation. but clearly he's got the juice

Musk’s move to spend millions of dollars to support Republican Ken Paxton in his US Senate race is opening up a potent line of attack about money in politics from Democratic challenger James Talarico

NEW from me on how Musk’s money and megaphone is running straight into Talarico’s populism: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m curious if women will vote in far higher numbers than men this election cycle

What is “remigration” and why are ethnonationalists and white supremacists increasingly talking about it? PERIL’s new one-pager discusses how the concept has moved overseas from Europe and why it represents a dangerous call for violence. Read it here: bit.ly/4yk9f11

I can finally tell you all about this project that has consumed my life. I am so excited to announce this searchable dark money database aimed at exposing political influence networks. This is just the first phase of the project too. We have big plans.

The Nick Drake needle drop in Slow Horses 😩

So one thing I keep thinking about is: who is Elizabeth Holmes’s prison consultant?

Ohio governor’s race in uproar over video featuring Democrat’s estranged mother (see the court documents for yourself) wapo.st/4k7Hvcv

WSJ exclusive drops right before SpaceX earnings. Call is still going on but we haven't gotten to questions from analysts yet. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...