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COMING UP: Preliminary hearing before magistrate judge Faruqui in the criminal case of former FBI agents charged with false statements to Congress and obstruction. Things could get very interesting... I'm here in the media room for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along!

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MOTHER JONES: “THEY WENT TO JARED… Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats and sell out America.” And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For better or worse, the Alaska Supreme Court allowed the other Dan Sullivan to be on the ballot. But that’s not good enough for Todd Blanche. trib.al/Nv1kcpI

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

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/...

It’s happening again. Because why wouldn’t it? Nobody was held accountable last time.

Backlash to data centers might very well be the biggest issue in the midterms, with nearly 70 percent of Americans opposing them. Is it any wonder why?

NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

Ken Paxton is a shameless crook. Only someone with incredibly low standards would vote for him.

House Judiciary Democrats have released a 50-page report examining Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, including accounts involving 11 women and a new rape allegation that the White House denies. With just 8 days until the midterms, the report is raising explosive new questions.

Reason number 999 we must flip the Senate: Pete Hegseth could end up there without ever facing the voters. The very definition of mediocrity failing upward — from the Pentagon straight into the United States Senate.

Democrats just dropped a heavy hammer on the president, eight days out from Election Day.

The caucus also accused the Trump administration of a broad cover-up, designed to shield the president from blowback as it tried to roll out the release of the Epstein files to the general public.

The report alleges Donald Trump was an “active participant” in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. trib.al/r158uvt

Serbia to Trump: Drop Dead.

Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. Serbia's students beat Vučić. Machado is home in Venezuela. What a day for democracy.

Vučić ❌ Bolsonaro ❌ Netanyahu MAGA

70 percent now call it a top priority for the war to be over. Trump says Cuba is next.

In case to sequester 20K Calif ballots, DOJ waited till 10/15 to sue; waited till 10/19 to seek a TRO; was granted a hearing 10/27, but then demanded ruling by 10/22; when none issued, it appealed “constructive” denial 10/23. Incredibly, 9th Circ is hearing oral arg today at 4pm ET (Sunday). 1/2

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

Kennedy Center plaintiff, protesting Trump's vast invocation of presidential comms privilege, says Trump's privilege log shows he has been in "near-constant" contact with mgmt, either directly or thru Natalie Harp or Howard Lutnick. (Lutnick is not an officer, employee or trustee of KC.)

Our troops shouldn’t have to fight their own government for a home that won’t make their families sick. #SupportTheTroops

Nearly $1.9 billion approved for military family housing, but service members & families are still dealing w/mold, sewage, failing HVAC systems, and unsafe living conditions. This isn’t one military base. It’s a systemic problem documented by the Government Accountability Office. #SupportTheTroops

CONGRESS APPROVED THE MONEY — SO WHY ARE OUR TROOPS STILL LIVING LIKE THIS? Pete Hegseth owes our troops & their families an explanation. #SupportTheTroops 🧵

A trust owned by Texas AG Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, invested in a company led by a convicted fraudster. The firm and its affiliates later sent the trust 15 payments totaling $83K before and during the AG’s impeachment trial. w/ @texastribune.org

Muslims didn’t storm the Capitol on January 6, try to steal an election, or overthrow our government. White Christian nationalists, racist militia groups, and rabid Trump supporters did. We need to stop pretending the biggest terrorist threat to this country is coming from somewhere else.

🔥 @rolandsmartin.bsky.social encourages Black voters to back @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “We cannot play games with this election.”

TENNESSEAN: “National voting rights groups are urging Tennesseans to turn out to vote as they worry that the risk of federal election interference (by the Trump regime) is increasing.” www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

The Maine senator has spent the week prevaricating about her vote for Brett Kavanaugh. It’s time for her reckoning. trib.al/Jl9mIlc

The Catholic Church is naming names. Why won't the Trump DOJ? substack.com/@katiephang/...

Team Trump's attempt to meddle with the 2026 elections appear to be like a game of "Three Card Monte" Lots of sleight of hand.. and no one gets to see the real cards

Re Trump and Elon and all the rest of them, Gramsci said it best: "In this interregnum a great variety of morbid phenomena occur." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-monste...

Blanche is not the people's attorney general. He's Trump's fascist enforcer.

Todd Blanche wants us to shove the Jan. 6 insurrection into a vault as ancient history alongside the Tilden-Hayes Compromise of 1877. But it was only 5 years ago that Trump tried to steal an election!

I voted yesterday at our local community center. There aren't competitive races in our CD or state (VA), but fwiw turnout seemed robust, voters energized and eager. In the sewer of Trump's smears and Elon's money, voting is the great disinfectant.

🚨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/...

Trump and Todd Blanche are far more sympathetic to Epstein and Maxwell than to the survivors of their abuse. And now Vivek — followed byTrump and Vance — embraces the enabler of abuse and attacks the survivor. MAGA: Making Abuse Great Again.

The Trump administration sent letters to all 58 California counties Friday, demanding that they segregate ballots from alleged noncitizens and threatening election officials with potential criminal charges if they fail to comply, www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“.. Video footage, Sheriff Greene said, clearly showed a woman being punched in the face. ‘I know what people saw, and if I saw that video, too, I’d be like, ‘My God, why didn’t the police do anything?’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Make Racism Wrong Again.

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

A major problem with political journalism is the perceived obligation to treat Republicans and Democrats equally, to be "nonpartisan." The NY Times editor in this video thinks this way. But as I explain, Dems vs. GOP is a simplistic focus. It should be decency vs. indecency, democracy vs. fascism.

If he offered anything in return for the money, even just conversations with his father-in-law, then he would have violated U.S. bribery laws and the foreign agent statute. trib.al/YCI9zJM

The Wall Street Journal earlier this week reported that Musk in fact ordered internet speeds to slow down, and discussed the decision with Trump ahead of time. trib.al/XUsVHd8

NEW: Sen. Ed Markey says Americans are uniting against data centers being forced into their communities, regardless of their political party. “Individual communities have a right to say no.” A stark warning to politicians ignoring the backlash.

Lettuce, jalapenos, blueberries, beef. All these recalls and illnesses aren’t a coincidence. They’re the result of incompetence and corruption within the Trump regime, and unchecked corporate power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAzTOEuCJA

Last night, in the Golf Course case, Judge Reyes refused to extend her TRO, which expires Monday. I assume that means she'll grant a preliminary injunction before then. She also ordered Dept of Int dep chief of staff Wischer—go-to guy for Trump's vanity projects—not to delete stuff from his phone.