Damaris Ayuso

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/o...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

This just hit the @reuters.com wire: BRAZIL'S LULA REELECTED PRESIDENT IN RUNOFF VOTE, DATAFOLHA PROJECTS

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

nightmare in Brazil but this in Serbia

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Trump supporters delight in Trump’s cruelty, of course, but they also engage in their own vile speech and actions as a virtual initiation rite into the MAGA movement — it’s the way that they demonstrate that they have the "courage" necessary to take on the left. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

A little rich to see Republicans freaking out about Alaska like they would never.

Everyone has kind of laughed it off but there’s actually now an official investigation by multiple organizations into why my US election ballot hasn’t been released from US customs in a month without any explanation.

Trump’s appointees wanted a voting machine hacked, the findings sent to the White House, and its maker kept in the dark. And we’re supposed to trust them? Nobody in power should get a secret weapon to challenge the votes that could fire them. #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime #sheshed#momsky #momthevote

Notice how Tommy wasn't punched in the face and dragged out of El-Sayed's political event.....

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

🗳️ HEADS UP NORTH CAROLINA: Eligible voters who received vaguely worded letters questioning their ability to vote CAN still cast ballots, election officials confirmed. But officials also said the letters are the “beginning of a lengthy investigatory process.” 🔗: https://demdock.com/47hZrtD

Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome

When was the last time your Representative or Senator held a town hall? Learn more about our legislation requiring regular, public town halls. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

"You know why I'm furious right now? I was hearing from everybody on plaintiffs' side that this was going to happen and I said repeatedly, no, I trust the government. I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done."

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.

Nauseating. A grotesque betrayal of the US, our values and our allies. The United States has no greater enemy than Donald Trump.

The US giving jihadist groups live video of a terrorist being (in their view) martyred is another in a long line of own goals in the war on terror It’s so sad how little we’ve learned 😑

impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Under Republican control, the House has only been in session for 72 days this year. Literally just 26% of the calendar year. It is absurd.

Nothing can rival Four Seasons Landscaping, but Sen Schmitt gave it his best shot today.

Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

TALARICO: “The richest 1% now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. 3 dudes (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos) now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined… they aren’t just buying yachts and jets anymore. They’re now buying power.” 🇺🇸 (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

13/ By the end of 2024, FBI agents had enough evidence to pursue a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers of both political parties. They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation. Then Trump returned to the White House.

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

"Huh, Trinity Rodman has an NWSL match she's scheduled to play in at the same time that her boyfriend Ben Shelton is competing in the U.S. Open Final. That's a tough choice." Yeah, it sure is a tough choice. I wonder where Ben Shelton will choose to be at that time. I wish him the best.

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

8. No public reading. Minimal public opprobrium. The Congressional record will of course show the censure resolution. But the reality, and the video will show that given the chance to stand up for what is right, to stand up for victims... Mike Johnson always sits down.

At least dozens of young boys have taken their own lives after being targeted in sextortion scams. Here's how two researchers posed as a target and tracked their scammer: Watch our interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=973m... Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/how-cyber-sl...

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!

REPUBLICANS: "For our next trick, we're going to drive up the national debt past $40 trillion—without providing you with *any* bullet trains, universal healthcare, or bringing down the prices of ANYTHING. You're welcome!"