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The Trump administration sent a Somali immigrant to Gitmo. Now he’s trying to rebuild his life.

Stares at 7.25% interest rate on a 30 year mortgage, up from just below 6% in February of this year

Putin is meddling in the midterms to help Trump by once again mounting a covert disinformation operation that’s spreading phony sex abuse allegations about a Democrat. Ought to be big news.

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

He is so close to getting it

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Nothing was normal on October 30, 2001: The New York Yankees were hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks for the biggest prize in baseball in a city still in shock – just 13 miles away, the debris from the World Trade Center still burned. https://cnn.it/4zaWd7t

Trump’s deportation force is giving ordinary people new ways to threaten, torment, and punish their neighbors. And sadly, some of them are making the most of the opportunity.

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated ​his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and ‌saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee .. had not awarded him a Peace ​Prize. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

El-Sayed: "In the debate [Mike Rogers] had one line...He said, 'The last two years have been amazing'...Has it been amazing to watch your president make war, to raise your gas prices and increase the price of your groceries?...I want you to remember Donald Trump is on the ballot."

In an exclusive interview with MS NOW’s @alivitali.bsky.social, Minority Leader Rep. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, D-N.Y., said Democrats will hold Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “accountable” if Democrats win majority of the House after midterm elections.

EXCLUSIVE: Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells MS NOW'S @alivitali.bsky.social he is confident that Democrats will prevail in competitive midterm races. Watch Vitali's FULL INTERVIEW with Speaker Jeffries here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTA...

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Donald Trump has openly admitted he ordered the lawsuit for political purposes. trib.al/CWQ8qdO

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.

"Most of what Trump dishes out is reheated sludge—microwaved leftovers from 2016 and 2024. Two things are new, though. One is this ass thing. Can we talk about this ass thing?" Why, yes! Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

Trump deployed another MAGA barbie to sway the masses

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.

Trump's vicious abuse of a female reporter who pointed out the sexual abuse that Amy Acton faced shows MAGA is betting on misogyny as their midterm Hail Mary. On the pod, @pastpunditry.bsky.social is just brilliant on misogyny as longtime bedrock of MAGA politics: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

2 things can be true. Trump is who he is, and Bill Maher, once again, had this coming. This is why you NEVER sit down with this monster in private. This is why you NEVER normalize this monster. Hey, Bill, tell me again how nice he was at dinner. And when is your next private dinner with the monster?

Something is happening behind the scenes that Trump and Netanyahu may not have anticipated. Signs of resistance are mounting in unexpected places.

Find someone who looks at you like Mike Rogers looks at Donald Trump.

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.

Trump is unhinged. He came to Michigan to say why Abdul El-Sayed is so dangerous, stepped away from the microphone to describe Jon Husted's body, then talked about Nicki Minaj's ass. Not gas. Not jobs. Not prices. Not inflation. Just asses.

For decades, the far right has tried to make Americans fear Muslims. Now, Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed are giving people something they desperately need: hope for a future that puts working people first.

Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

This is a very good story about what 287(g) enforcement looks like on the ground, and the prong of Trump-era immigration enforcement that doesn’t look like ICE agents doing raids on the streets of Minneapolis or Chicago.

Noncitizen voting is a nonissue. And it seems everyone but the Trump administration knows it. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller use “token prosecutions,” to “intimidate voters before an election,” says immigration lawyer Lindsay Toczylowski.

From seeking to block the Alaska Senate results if the incumbent Republican loses by a small margin, to threatening election officials in California, here are some of the ways President Trump has tried to sow doubt in our elections just this week. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Trump seems determined to frame the protests in France as an immigration problem. "Really not," says French journalist Aurélie Raya. “Nothing works here now," says Raya. "Everybody is exploding...people can't afford anything."

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

For approximately the 94th time since 2008, Republicans are threatening civil war again. Must be about to lose another election.

The Acton campaign immediately went to work to monetize Vivek’s blunder through texting and email solicitations. Great to see that it paid off.

We all knew who Blanche was— he covered up the Epstein files. Republican Senators confirmed him anyway. The corruption of our Justice Department is on them.

Ramaswamy ad puts Acton’s estranged mother in spotlight as records reveal family’s troubled past Vivek Ramaswamy faces bipartisan backlash over an ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother, whose rocky history emerges in court records and interviews. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

did you know the IRS hasn't actually measured tax evasion in over a decade? due to lack of budget and workforce, the IRS is incapable of performing the random audits necessary to estimate tax evasion they've been forced to reuse the same numbers from 2016

Talarico: You want to know why they are spending $200 million against me? Because I don’t take their corporate PAC money and I never will. I don’t work for them. I work for you. When we flip this seat in Texas, I’m going to vote to ban corporate PACs so billionaires can’t buy our elections.

A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. www.propublica.org/article/depo...

As his policies bankrupt them, Trump-supporting farmers fully embrace socialism. But only if it’s for them.

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In state election boards & county offices, GOP officials have been closing polling places and making it harder to vote. The bet is that enough people will get tired, give up, and stay home. But this month, a group of college students made it clear that their gamble will backfire. (link in comments)

BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

Maybe Trump paid Bill Maher to kiss his ass, or maybe Maher was never honest about who he was and what he believed.👇