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Flanagan on Tafoya: "She made a point of having ICE terrorizing our neighbors in her campaign launch video. And just days after Renee Good was killed and little Liam Conejo Ramos was taken, she went on Fox News and said ICE treats children 'really really well'...she is running to stand behind Trump"

“Abdul El-Sayed’s middle name is Mohammed… Why doesn’t he share his real name?” “What’s Mike Rogers’ middle name?” “🤷🏼‍♀️”

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

3 encounters. 3 pairs of seemingly ordinary women. 1 overwhelming feeling of terror. Amy, Zee and Mike share their stories, then @sethanikeem.bsky.social em joins us to ask: does this phenomenon have a name? Our final Halloween mystery of 2026 is out now! #AstonishingLegends #Podcast

Trump on data centers: "I say let them come in ... you should really be cool on data centers because you can make a fortune with the data centers" (Note the total silence of the crowd during this rant!)

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

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This seems like a big deal

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

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

"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...

To the company running AI generated ads on TV during the World Series (you know who you are!) I will never give your company money. If you’re cutting corners on your ads, I have to assume your product is garbage too.

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

This was like his 3rd glitch during the speech where he just randomly stops mid-sentence and makes a weird noise or, in this case, just opens his mouth and freezes for 3 seconds while saying nothing, then continues. Pretty sad that TV networks refuse to cover this situation.

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

The Supreme Court’s decision decimating the Voting Rights Act threatens to return the country to a pre-1965 America, when white supremacy was the law of the land, and Congress contained no Black members from the South. “This has sent us back, in my view, over 60 years.”

Many of you are asking how you can help me in these final days before the election. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

Here's a supercut of notable moments from Trump's rally tonight in Georgia, including a lot of gutter racism, blasphemy, and reveling in the suffering of Americans who are struggling with high prices:

Trump: "In Washington, all the restaurants were closing. People were being held up. They'd walk into a restaurant. Like Jesse James. 'Stand up! Give us all your money.' They're eating dinner at a fancy restaurant. All the restaurants were closing."

Trump: "Libya, Hemen, Haiti, Somalia -- remember what I called them? Shit house countries."

CBS identified Illinois based Three Z Printing as the holder of the permit associated with the fake transgender mailers. One of the owners, Matt Zerrusen, is based in Dallas. His Instagram shows pictures with Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, and comments from local Republicans.

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

I have a friend who is a social worker doing the same work as this social worker. She has also told me stories of women like Amy Acton's mother.

Turnstile at the Washington Monument today, a benefit show raising money for humanitarian aid in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon

"So when they tell me, 'but his name is Abdul.' I'll remind them, 'His name was Barack.' We stand on the shoulders of giants."

This is C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N.   Remember World Liberty Financial? The Trump family crypto venture that’s generated more than $550 million for Trump while in office, run by the son of his Middle East envoy, and nearly half-owned by UAE-linked investors? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I asked Jessica Marsden of Protect Democracy what voters should know and what to do if they encounter intimidation or armed agents near a polling place. Simply Put: Who can stop you from voting? youtu.be/Xe874xSO04w

Armed federal agents have been knocking on voters’ doors weeks before Election Day, questioning citizenship, registration and prior voting. A federal judge has now stepped in. What does this mean for voter intimidation and who can actually stop you from voting?

Sternenko is a credible person. Elon Musk has been found to have a pathological disregard for the truth and repeatedly gives perjured testimony under oath. Who would you believe? In any event, the truth is easily discernible through objective means.

Trump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher'... we're making a frickin' fortune"

notable -- Trump skipped the part of his speech tonight where he typically promises a "great healthcare plan that will stop all payments to big insurance companies"

In 2024, a Russian disinformation network spread rumors about the then-vice presidential Democratic candidate Tim Walz assaulting a student while he was a teacher. Fast forward two years, and the same network spread similar rumours about James Talarico before midterms.

Trump: "Why do we always have to take people from shit house countries? We can't we take people from Norway and Sweden and Denmark? By the way, Denmark gave us Greenland ... what do you take, Venezuela or Greenland? We got them both!"

"The past two years are all the proof you need that sitting out an election because the better candidate happens to not be perfectly to your liking is completely stupid and self-destructive."

The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

Either they knew exactly what these risks were but declined to outline them, and deflected, or they didn’t, (highly unlikely) in which case they are implausibly incompetent. Why is it suddenly the greater population’s job to enable 2FA and stock up on potable water, for their corporate negligence?

Three weeks ago AI founders were all over the press making vague but portentous comments about the existential risks and power of their models. This week their models are part of a widespread security failure around critical systems such as your bank account..a more immediate and serious risk 1/

BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just sent letters to local election officials across California — every county in the state — demanding they identify potential noncitizens on their voter rolls and set aside their ballots. Local officials would "risk significant federal scrutiny" if they failed to comply.

That ruling came a year ago this coming week, so, it’s almost the anniversary of the guy not legally allowed to be the U.S. Attorney (absent nomination and Senate confirmation) running the office. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

A reminder also that this office has no U.S. Attorney, and the guy running the office — as first assistant — was ruled to have improperly served too long as the appointed U.S. Attorney.

A fascist opened fire on people of colour in Trappes and Verriere near Paris, killing one person and injuring 5 more incl a 12 yo girl who was shot 8 times. He opened fire at a children's playground and a hijabi woman. He also shot dead a young black man. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Talarico: They may have the money, but we have the majority. They’re trying to make this election about anything other than their corruption. You should believe our movement can beat their money because they sure do.

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.

NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy. DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

DOJ filed a notice of appeal of its TRO request in the US v. CA "likely noncitizens" voting case today. Below is what DOJ's Julie Hamill wrote, including asserting that "the Court's silence is a constructive denial" of the request — while ignoring Carter's 10/21 order setting a hearing for 10/27:

I cannot imagine a world in which I would allow my name on that brief.

20. The Times reported last week that if the Democrats regain control, they might investigate Musk’s AI interests, his foreign entrenchments and what he did as head of "DOGE." His role in a conspiracy against Ukraine adds another item to the list. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...