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Zelenskyy calls out monthlong wait for Hegseth to sign off on Patriot missiles

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$445 million (Elon alone) could be used as $5 million stabilization grants to 89 critical rural hospitals, keeping ERs open, preserving jobs, and trauma care. 👉🏼shape the future—vote! 👉🏼read Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26...

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...

Open access and free to read from Lancet Regional Health Americas, here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ever wonder about the effects of budgetary processes, including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, on health policy & the social determinants of health? With coauthors @hjarman.bsky.social, @mirandayaver.bsky.social, & @scottlgreer.bsky.social, in Lancet RHA, we show there's little good news.

Trump and Republicans are restarting their voter fraud misinformation machine ahead of the midterms. When I checked, Republican candidates were implicated in voter fraud at up to 38,000x the public’s rate. If they were actually worried about voter fraud, they’d start with their own candidates.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet.

THREAD 3: The Plant with Biggest Cancer Risk As we worked on this story, we spent weeks considering which plants to focus on. We needed to visit communities/get input from area residents. Yes, all of these plants have been written abt before. We let the data tell us where to go. THIS CHART POINTED>

I can save you some time. He doesn't name ONE SINGLE ISSUE. When asked to name what people are concerned about, he's got NOTHING. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

We used these documents to build a detailed chronology--it is 158 pages long--that pulls excerpts from key documents showing the sequence of chemical industry interventions, often with their former lobbyists who now are EPA bosses as they moved to deconstruct public health protections.

Here as well is a video summary of that story, which I did with @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

We have them all in house at The NYT. Of that total, about 10,000 pages were at the core of our story examining the Clean Air Act air toxics rules and the move by President Trump for the first time in U.S. history to exempt over 200 polluters from these rules www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

SHOW ME THE DOCUMENTS>>>>> We did something sort of crazy at The NYT this year, as we look for ways to dig into what has happened at the Environmental Protection Agency since Trump returned to the White House. We collected more than 466,200 pages of federal and state documents.....

"The director won’t protect even our most respected analysts when they tell hard truths, so they stopped telling them and learned to avoid topics the White House didn’t want to hear,” newly retired CIA official tells @shaneharris.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky: The most important thing for today: we have resumed the work of Starlink and Starshield at the speed that was before all these restrictions. The restoration began last night, and in the morning there were already speeds sufficient for using this connection.

Can we trade Lisa Murkowski for John Fetterman? www.rawstory.com/lisa-murkows...

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. From the ProPublica archives:

New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

Seems to be pretty happy that a trillionaire is buying his election.

If it is possible to know which specific companies are now going to be selling Russian fuel in the US, someone please let us all know because that’s something many of us want to know.

Ezra Klein: The Medicaid cuts haven’t hit yet. The Medicaid cuts are enormous. They are going to throw millions of people off of health care — millions of Trump voters off of health care. … I think we’re moving back into a period of health care politics.

In 2020, Lindsey Graham had a secret dinner with executives at the defense firm Navatek. Graham agreed to steer a $10 million contract their way. In exchange, the firm’s CEO, Martin Kao, pledged thousands for Graham’s campaign coffers, Kao later told the FBI.

This is the man Republicans who are on the ballot worship, praise and revere. Vote them out. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

They are literally gaslighting you.  JD Vance is out here saying he hasn’t seen “a single shred of evidence” of Donald Trump’s corruption.  Are you kidding me?

I thought he was going to drain the swamp?

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

Alex Gibney told me that everyone he knows at HBO says "MUSK" will stream there in January, and they are making concrete plans about how that will happen... so if it doesn't happen, you'll know that Musk's investment in Skydance was why here's the clip: youtu.be/LSCoQbiTR98?...

Murder cover-ups by the Trump regime.

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

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Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.

Susan Collins denied wrongdoing and claimed our reporting about an ex-CEO’s allegations against her took him at his word. That’s not true. Listen to how we reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records to independently corroborate key parts of his account:

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

There's more. Much more. Read here: meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

🚨 NEAR MISS: Never-before-seen footage of a missile attack on a U.S. base in the United Arab Emirates shows a missile striking just meters away from American personnel caught out in the open. From our earlier reporting (link in reply).

Blatantly illegal. Rubio needs to be hauled in front of Congress when we finally get a Congress. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko recalls witnessing the aftermath of Russian attacks on civilians trying to flee. “Half-burnt bodies lying on the asphalt” beside the wreckage of their cars. “Something that you would expect to see in horror movies, but it's absolutely reality.”

In Venezuela last September, I found people hoping for change, but shocked and surprised by US policy, especially opaque oil deals with former regime cronies. The system looks, one economist told me, like “a coalition of two kleptocracies" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Illinois first lady MK Pritzker commits $500,000 to Ohio’s Amy Acton after Ramaswamy ad featuring her mother

Bad men gain power when we don't fight back. Vivek Ramaswamy is everything wrong with politics: arrogance, cruelty, dishonesty, and a willingness to do ANYTHING for power. Ohio deserves better. I'm proud that my wife, MK, is supporting Dr. Amy Acton today.

The humanitarian Putin bombed more civilians today. Maybe Witkoff should spend a couple weeks in Kyiv to see first hand how much of a humanitarian his friend in Moscow is.

Yikes! Look at that Community Note!

A victory for ordinary people & a rebuke of the Trump admin & Elon Musk, the billionaire it put in charge OPM had no business giving DOGE data on tens of millions of people @democracydefendersfund.org, EFF & partners stand w/ AFGE & federal workers. Full statement 👇 -TN

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