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GIFT LINK: Trump, the great businessman, killed the goose that laid the golden egg: the Big Three have largely stopped selling competitive offerings for mass-market buyers, while writing off $52 billion in EV investments after the Trump administration ended EV incentives. wapo.st/4zh1PNu

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The people who make and pass laws are elected during midterms, yet too many voters take a pass on voting. So, show up. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/o...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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A day brightener! We can hope(and vote), right?

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Trump exempted 202 facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico from clean-air regulations. Some were among the country’s worst industrial polluters. About 3.3M people live within three miles of at least one affected facility. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Alexei Navalny, anti-corruption activist, who was killed by poison while in an Arctic penal colony, would like a word with witless Witkoff(who would be a target, ethically, for Navalny) about the meaning of the word humanitarian. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

If American voters can't flush trump and his corrupt cronies out of office, including his cronies in the House and Senate, we are not worthy of the blessings of a democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

How bad is it? We twice elected a man to the presidency who had been convicted of sexual assault. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

GIFT LINK: Republicans call themselves the party of small government? West Virginia has been rated at the bottom of nearly every metric for livability other than its beauty. So, yeah, GOP wants to hustle residents into accepting nuclear waste--without their knowledge. wapo.st/4dKw2fh

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The first step to recovery is the massive defeat of Republicans at every level of government starting in less than a month and landing in 2028. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

"I’ve come to realize that business schools don’t just reflect our economic system — they actively manufacture its priorities and normalize its harms, training the future leaders who will design and defend the structures driving our overlapping global crises. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

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GIFT LINK: “It’s like putting the Joker in charge of the Manhattan Project,” Gibney said. wapo.st/4hTkWak

GIFT LINK: Poster boys for corruption unleashed by SCOTUS.These are all the major donors to Trump’s WH ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member wapo.st/4yiUDPx

I guess when Texas choose thieves, grifters, convicted felons for public office, it's in keeping that they would treat children this way: sweeping tens of thousands of elementary students and middle schoolers into the justice system. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

Professor Shaw is exactly right, and a full accounting of how (and how badly) the Supreme Court has gone off course will emphasize the need for reforms like actual ethics review and proper term limits. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

"A Democratic Congress, should it materialize, will be a lifeline for American democracy. It will not save it, but it may begin to stem the bleeding — an emergency tourniquet for a patient on the verge of bleeding out." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/o...

The current court has fashioned itself into a council of revision, with the power to decide whether it approves of laws passed by Congress and thus whether those laws will have force at all. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

We’re entering an era in which a machine can design a pathogen faster than we can create the countermeasure to fight it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

Talking about the push to livestream an execution, a guy on MSNOW said: "This is not who we are." But this is *exactly* who we are right now. If you don't want to be this, vote against all Republicans and ask your family and friends to do the same.

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

American politics distilled: White Christianity has long been a major source of authoritarianism in America. Democrats have long failed to grasp this and thus seek bipartisanship in politics when that is NEVER the goal of this coalition. www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...

10 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world”

More than 800,000 Arkansans benefit from Medicaid coverage; more than half of them are children.Arkansas’ population is 75% white and 15% Black. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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The “reef effect” of offshore wind in action.

...the malicious actors are the ones inside our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...

Van Deman was a photographer, compiling an invaluable documentary archive of >2,700 images capturing ancient ruins & the expansion of modern Rome. Her 1934 book, "The Building of the Roman Aqueducts," is a definitive & monumental study of Rome's complex ancient water infrastructure. #archaeology

Dr. Esther Boise Van Deman was the first female Roman field archaeologist. In 1907, she revolutionized the field by realizing changing brick & ancient concrete styles could date ruins. Her framework remains the standard for dating Roman monuments today.️ She was born #OTD in 1862. #WomenInSTEM

The Five Trump Scandals That Deserve Thorough Investigation newrepublic.com/article/2160... via @newrepublic.com

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You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

The loans were previously identified by the Biden administration as potentially fraudulent and totaled $22.2 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

So many reasons to create a massive Blue Tsunami in November. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...

GIFT LINK:United States and Russia have worked to weaken global rules to regulate lethal AI weaponry, as the Pentagon moves to rapidly infuse the burgeoning technology into its battlefield strategy. wapo.st/4yWadkR

Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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To be clear, Mr. Attorney General, the 1st Cir struck down your policy after full adversary briefing on 9/18. Rather than seek clarification on whether it took effect immediately, you tried to fly still more people to 3d countries so it would be too late for them. On 9/23 it found out & stopped you.

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Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.

Thanks, but no thanks from this arrogant villain. Even if you aren't alarmed by AI, you should be alarmed that this kind of person is at the helm of its progress. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...