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Encouraging sign that Democrats will play hardball if they win the midterms.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

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Abolish ICE.

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

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If the tariffs are so great and making everyone rich why is trump rolling them back to help Republican candidates???

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Good thing Amy Acton's rapist stepfather is dead because he'd be speaking at the next trump rally in Ohio.

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The anti-free-speech head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, is threatening to punish news outlets that publish polls showing Trump's deep unpopularity. We are sliding into a dictatorship, and it would be helpful if major media would do their duty and warn the public.

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

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That Vivek Ramaswamy ad drives home the point that Republican politicians think rape – even the rape of children – is no big deal. That disgusting ad is fully consistent with Republicans covering up the Epstein files.

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There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

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Think our effort to address the damage done by DOGE Is over? Not at all! We just won summary judgment proving that they abused our data And we are also litigating in fed court on behalf of the countless people they injured at USAID

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If a foreign leader in, say, the United Kingdom or Germany gave batshit crazy speeches featuring comments about a political ally’s ass, the New York Times would write a big story about the leader’s mental state. But when it happens in the U.S., the Times doesn’t. Why is that?

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Tired: The Goldwater Rule Wired: The Jacob Rule

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

The American Psychiatric Association lists 14 signs and symptoms of possible mental illness. Since major media seem afraid to say Trump is mentally unfit for office, I decided to assess him on these 14 signs in hopes they'd face the alarming truth. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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NEW AD: Ken Paxton knows Texas… And Italy India Malta China Taiwan Iceland Greece Albania New Jersey South Africa Disney World The Caribbean Dubai (with fugitives) And London on America’s 250th He’s taken nearly 1,000 trips while serving as Attorney General — costing taxpayers $3.3 million.

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Good for Talarico. As I said a few days ago, the Democrats need to run against Musk. Everyone with a brain knows that he’s the enemy.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

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I’m no medical professional, but even I know Trump is mentally unfit. Other journalists know it too, but they shy away from the issue. In this installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter, I assess Trump based on a psychiatry group’s 14 warning signs. The takeaway: He needs help, not power.

stopthepresses.newsAssessing Trump on 14 signs of mental illnessI’m no medical professional, but even I know he’s nuts – and so do other journalists

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The American Psychiatric Association lists 14 signs and symptoms of possible mental illness. Since major media seem afraid to say Trump is mentally unfit for office, I decided to assess him on these 14 signs in hopes they'd face the alarming truth. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

stopthepresses.newsAssessing Trump on 14 signs of mental illnessI’m no medical professional, but even I know he’s nuts – and so do other journalists

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🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

nytimes.comVideo: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About TrumpIn this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

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that’s right

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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The good news: More people are waking up to the dishonesty and incompetence of the Trump regime. The bad news: Dictators become more dangerous when people wake up to their dishonesty and incompetence. My Stop the Presses newsletter assesses the outlook 3 weeks from the midterms.

stopthepresses.newsBe optimistic about the midterms, but be unsurprised if Trump pulls a coupIt’s a dangerous time when a dictator feels threatened by rising public outrage

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In a communist system, the government owns the means of production. The Cato Institute is tracking how the Trump regime is steadily acquiring shares of private companies, taking ownership of the means of production.

cato.orgGovernment Ownership DashboardThis tool tracks every deal announced by the US government to acquire an equity stake in a private US company, including the terms of each deal and primary source documents, if any.

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Mentions of "Fauci" on X have mostly vanished since the data centers in Russia were destroyed by Ukrainian bombs. SMITE!💥

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What’s the point of a president swearing to uphold the Constitution if the Supreme Court grants them immunity for violating it through official acts?🇺🇸

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Trump and Hegseth still haven't admitted that the US military massacred 120 Iranian schoolgirls and 26 teachers in a missile strike at the start of the war. At one point, Trump claimed Iran blew up its own school despite overwhelming evidence that the US did it. Lying murderers run our government.

npr.orgNew report details airstrike on Iranian schoolNPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News, which has issued an extensive new report on the U.S. airstrikes on a school in southern Iran.