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Class action law suit against this is needed.

🚨SENATE ALERT: Democrats are closing in. Silver Bulletin gives Dems a 76% chance to win the Senate—with strong leads in NC, GA and NH, and competitive races across OH, ME, MI, MN, AK and TX. But Republicans are flooding the airwaves with money to stop the blue wave. Vote early. Finish the job. 🔵

#FOTW Daily Post 22 Tipping points don't queue politely. Cross one - like Greenland Ice-Sheet collapse - and it can shove others over in a domino-like cascade The climate isn't separate switches - it's a web That's what keeps me awake at night Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #DeepTime

Scientists found that a tiny jumping spider sleeps in two stages, and one of them looks a lot like the stage where humans dream

60 deaths that we know of. Dismantle ICE.

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"Splendor in the Highlands" #WebsterWV #WilliamsRiver #MonongahelaNationalForest #AlmostHeaven #WestVirginia #Highlands #Autumn #Glory

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

TEXAS OHIO GEORGIA NORTH CAROLINA MICHIGAN IOWA ALASKA Are you in one of these states? Then you’ve got an extra important role to play to protect the results of the midterms. Let’s get into election protection formation.

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Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

🚨THE GOP’S SENATE MAJORITY IS IN SERIOUS DANGER. Nate Silver now gives Democrats roughly a 75% chance of taking the Senate. 🔵 NC: Cooper +10 🔵 GA: Ossoff +8 🔵 TX: Talarico +2 🔵 MI: El-Sayed +2 🔵 IA: Turek +2 🔵 AK: Peltola +1.6 Election Night could turn into a Senate wipeout for Republicans. #VOTE

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

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A group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers is coming together to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that it says is being ignored by the Trump DOJ. "The rule of law is on life support, but it's all of our responsibility to make sure it doesn't die."

Ralphs Food for Less Mariano’s Smith’s Harris Teeter Kroger ALREADY owns all these grocery stores. Now, Kroger wants to buy Giant Eagle too. Less competition could mean higher grocery costs for YOU. Donald Trump shouldn't just rubber-stamp this merger.

Fossil fuel at work destroying life.

Just listened to President Obama's full Michigan stump speech...he is a rock star. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfF...

..from Chile to Europe, the largest conflagrations on record happened during heat storms — and a pregnant woman is pregnant is more likely to suffer from stillbirth and preeclampsia. Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching Earth. This is the story of the biggest one. - www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Want to put the brakes on this runaway presidency? Here's a to-do list. Get the details in our new @brennancenter.org report: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

If you want to ensure ads never use your personal data in this way, you’ll need to make sure Personal Intelligence is turned off: arstechnica.visitlink.me/0kCaFp

More than 29 million Americans have already voted in the midterm elections. Have you? Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. Make your plan today. Explore our interactive, state-by-state resource for key voting dates and deadlines: bit.ly/3UjBBrc

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

My friends, can you please offer prayers and send some good energy to the Navajo Nation Reservation and surrounding communities. Pilamaya — thank you 🙏🏾 🪶✨

“While, we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship…rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law…” The Law in Nazi Germany: Berghahn Books 2013 truenorthresearch.org/2025/07/true...

in ohio this is basically like being shunned

So many are falling into Cenk Uygur’s trap — giving his vile antisemitic ad infinitely more views than it would otherwise get by sharing it to condemn it You can speak out against antisemitism without doing the antisemites’ jobs for them. The more you engage, the more the algorithm rewards the hate

The Trump administration is working to deputize state agencies — like agriculture departments, gaming commissions, and fish and wildlife agencies — into immigration agents, despite having no background in carrying out immigration arrests. The 287(g) program makes our communities less safe.

JUST IN: Maurene Comey's firing by DOJ was illegal and she must be orders retroactively reinstated w back pay, a judge rules. "To accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The New York Times today: "Starting today, we’re making our coverage of the midterm elections in the Times app absolutely free. Download the app & get started reading our in-depth reporting, explainers, poll trackers & more. There’ll be no paywall until we know all the results."

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

Heroes of democracy.

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Under Lulu, Amazon deforestation rates have been plummeting—by 41%. The planet won tonight. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.

Yet another reason to vote for Democrats!

Our favorite quote from last night! Obama really roasted Trump, and it was glorious.

So much for the myth that Republicans are 'good for the economy.' The only rationale for voting Republican this time around -- with Trump "on the ballot" (in his own words) -- is if you value bigotry and hate so much that you are willing to forego economic wellbeing.

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

Greetings all: My recent talk from Western Washington University has been posted online. You can find it here and on my YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwop...