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NEW: This week we reported how USPS has slowed down mail pickup/delivery times, boosting risks that ballots could reach election offices too late to be counted. USPS also shrunk the period for "extraordinary measures" to ensure timely election mail delivery from 15 days before election day to 10.

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

Trump’s new AI website believes he is the “former” president and acknowledges his criminal indictments

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT

I guess the hundreds of millions Republicans are getting from billionaires for ads in the midterms aren’t enough so they are just going to steal taxpayer dollars to run more of them.

Lotta talk right now about the President using public money to push political propaganda. It didn't start with these TV ads. Let me remind you of the political nonsense he forced the Census Bureau to publish: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-fak...

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Ask three boring questions: can it be stored, what else is made with it, and are we creating supply? Those punch three big holes in Trump's diesel export ban https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/why-is-the-president-pointing-sanctions

Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.

So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

The Yes on 3 campaign (jungle primaries) keeps saying that Q3 will lead to more candidates running. They fail to understand the actual barriers potential candidates face and will make those barriers even greater.

Newsom being Newsom. Someone is already teeing up to insist it's a misunderstanding or that we can't count him out because *snore*.

I'll give $100 to the reporter who plants the idea of a Trump tour of swing states to save the party. "Mr. President, many experts are saying that only *you* have the raw charisma to turn this problem around. Will you go work your magic for endangered Republicans?"

What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.

The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.

The Ellisons are threatening to leave CA unless the AG's cave on their case to block the Paramount-Warner's merger I call BS together with leading antitrust experts @contrariannews.org 👇 The AG's and the unions should not fall for it

when ai leaves u behind

This is insane.

REALLY well said by @milesgrant.bsky.social: "Reporters could just say that, but they don’t because they’re trained to describe Republicans how Republicans want them described, and Democrats how Republicans want them described" bluevirginia.us/2026/09/sund...

“Others were being punished for watching smuggled South Korean dramas. Some inmates were so desperate that they ate maggots from corpses.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...

NYT: “Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Late last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members who are in touch with the detainees. Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba.

NEW: Trump brought in at least $2.2 billion from his business dealings in 2025. This clear profiteering undermines democracy and harms Americans—it must stop. Here's how to *actually* ban presidents from earning outside income.

giving $10 to a rich asshole to receive $1 in return is trickle down economics summed up in one 2 minute video

This is a nightmare for writers

Trump’s and his real base of support — billionaires, Big Oil, Big Tech, defense contractors, & Wall Street — are looting the country at an unbelievable rate. They are pumping money into the Nov 3 midterms because this election may limit what they can get away with moving forward. Know the stakes.

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

There are people who care deeply about delivering good government services working on figuring out what to do next, but you should know that this is happening. You should know how this administration is trying to make it harder for you to access the services and information to which you're entitled.

This seems to be slipping by. Even Trump officials acknowledge his stupid arch will harm historic sites but they don’t care.

The Democrats have two articles of impeachment for Hegseth just sitting in the Judiciary Committee waiting to die (HRes 935 & HRes 1109). They both could have been brought to a vote before this. Instead they waited to let someone else do it.

Caregivers can help kids understand how AI works by turning to questions that address how these products are designed, why they were built this way and how they make kids feel. https://to.pbs.org/4wS4BXl

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Very difficult to communicate two things without one getting lost: 1. Midway Blitz was unsuccessful. It did not destroy Chicago’s identity as a sanctuary, its neighborhoods, its peoples. 2. Midway Blitz was and is traumatic. It destroyed many lives and livelihoods. And the feds have not left.

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

I think a lot of things go wrong when we mistake programming metaphors for how the computer works. You might have object-oriented programming but it is only one computer; it's just a way of keeping track of how the program works. Similarly, we'd think about AI differently if rather than "agents"...

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That pittance will surely make everyone feel better they switched to buying rare books and shredding them.

Ahem