NEW: James Comey’s 3rd criminal case alleges he authorized disclosure of classified info in 2016 about Yahoo adapting its spam filter to aid FBI surveillance requests.
Comey says the 10-year statute of limitations expired on Oct. 5.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.socialwww.politico.com/news/2026/10...
👀 A Trump admin declaration in its lawsuit against California describes its process for flagging potential noncitizen voters but also indicates that the review is “ongoing” and that it discovered “minor data discrepancies” for 189 people it identified storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
After Lula lost Brazil’s first round, organizers got to work. They filled buses, arranged boats, and reached voters face to face. He came back to win by 4.4 million votes. Seven days left here. Who needs a ride or help getting to the polls? Be Brazil!
#BlueWaveIn7Days
In “Star Trek,” Ensign Chekov was the sole Communist-bloc member of the spaceship Enterprise bridge staff. His friendly, supportive presence showed how the rival nations (in the far-off future in which the show was set) were capable of working together.
Everyone knows Walter as Chekov ("You know grieving was a Russian inwention!"), but I will never forget his magnificent bastard energy playing Bester of the Psi Corps in Babylon 5.
(again, the celebrities seem to be passing in clumps)
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.
Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
The Trump administration has brought a third criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, this time accusing the longtime target of President Donald Trump of unlawfully transmitting national defense information to the press a decade ago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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.
After a neck-and-neck race where the future of the Amazon was at stake, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a historic reelection victory on Sunday. Hedefeatied Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro, and earned a record fourth term.
What is being done to Major Watson is wrong. I can tell you that his situation is worse than being reported (even here) I don't want to say more because I don't want to make things worse for him. Please pressure your Representatives to stand up for him. Call them. Write them and text PFEJON to 50409
Jeffrey Sterling, ex CIA: The military is punishing Maj Watson while claiming to follow the very rules that forbid it. Art. 13 of the UCMJ says no one being held for trial may be punished, and that pretrial confinement may be no 'more rigorous than the circumstances require to insure his presence'.
🚨BREAKING: In a blow to the DOJ, the 9th Circuit rejected its request to bypass a lower court to bar California from counting around 20k ballots from people it alleges are "likely" noncitizens.
The ruling comes the night before the parties are scheduled to have a hearing before a lower court.
MultiCare Health System to Cut 138 Positions and Close Clinics Across Washington
#MultiCare#Healthcare#KingCounty#PNWNews#LocalNews
The Washington Health Trust aims to ease shortages by cutting private insurance paperwork, ensuring universal pay, and reinvesting overhead savings.
Rightwing politics is a smash and grab operation. Crude, violent rhetoric to get attention. Grandiose promises. Chest-pounding to convey energy. Menacing the polls. Once elected, bullying and defiance of all restraint in order to hold power.
People are sick of it.
New in PN: Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limits
"This is the nature of today’s right-wing bubble, whose residents are not only acculturated to a particular political style — cruel, often hateful — but become convinced it’s the only effective way to do politics, & any other way is weak"
John Oliver: “It does feel that the Republican Party has been getting way too comfortable with some, at best, N*zi-adjacent sh*t.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating.
Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.
Lonnie Rouse worked at the Hanford nuclear site for nearly 20 years. It was so toxic, he said, that the floor once melted the rubber off his boots.
Now he needs 24-hour care. The DOE has appealed his workers’ compensation claim more than 20 times.
West Virginia has been part of a nationwide push, partially funded by billionaire-backed political groups, to use taxpayer dollars to fund private schools.
Among the proponents are the Koch family network and Pennsylvania billionaire Jeffrey Yass.
The former CEO of a naval defense contractor told FBI agents he cut cash-for-contracts deals with South Carolina’s two most powerful members of Congress — Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn.
Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis).
Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...
NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers.
In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients.
The CEO was just indicted for fraud.
Top Ten Fun Facts about what climate change is doing to Florida’s home insurance market:
Fact #1 is that it’s already the most expensive in the country, and predicted to double or triple in years ahead. 🧵
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC, Elias Law Group is fighting the Department of Justice’s sham lawsuit to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if anyone other than the Republican incumbent wins. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s bid to stop California from counting ballots from more than 20,000 people the federal government alleges are “likely” noncitizens. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Here is the TLDR of the 9th Circuit hearing:
DOJ will lose.
It will be either 2-1 or 3-0.
It will be on jurisdiction and perhaps on the merits.
The argument was a debacle for Trump and the DOJ lawyer who argued it.
Watch for details. www.youtube.com/live/EsuYPbm...
Sen. Adam Schiff tells NBC that Pete Hegseth and "anyone who has knowledge of what happened" should testify before the Senate on Ukraine's Starlink disruptions.
"Somebody is lying here. Maybe they're all lying in different ways, but we need to find out."
“don't forget SpaceX gets *paid* to provide both Starshield and Starlink to Ukraine by NGOs, governments, etc. Poland is a big customer so is U.S. Pentagon.”
It seems highly improbable that private contractor a contractor could legally do this without 1/ warning the alleged party in breach and
Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...
🧵🗳️ FLORIDA’S 1ST DISTRICT
Gay Valimont is campaigning for affordable healthcare, lower insurance costs and better veterans’ services.
Jimmy Patronis’s political committee received substantial insurance-industry donations while he was Florida CFO.
Voters deserve transparency.
#FL01#SheShed
NEW: In a newly drawn congressional district including Memphis, Black voters may get a representative who spent years stripping away local
control. by @wendicthomas.bsky.social@mlk50.com
🚨BREAKING: Democratic candidate Mary Peltola and her party asked a federal court in Alaska to throw out DOJ's unprecedented lawsuit that seeks to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican incumbent loses. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...