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Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Bad night for Trump and the global ethno nationalist right. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of villains.

This is a significant indicator of Trump’s current extreme defensiveness and vulnerability heading into the elections. According to the Factbase database, Trump’s Maher rant yesterday was his longest social media post ever, out of the 97,457 posts dating back to 2011.

After 2024, there hasn’t been a single statewide election where Republicans beat polling averages. Instead, in 7 elections Democrats beat their polls every single time. Objectively we can’t conclude on 3 November 2026, Trump will again outperform the polls.

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

I used Claude AI to highlight in green House districts likely to flip to D. The grey districts are tossups. You can see Dema making significant inroads in exurb and rural areas, particularly in the Midwest. Also of interest are border districts in Texas and Arizona.

Have you all noticed the disconnect between Trump completely blowing off political popularity, and his laser-focus on directing his administration to interfere with voting? It’s very strange. As RB Ghiat said, to retain power, autocrats still carefully boost popularity, while also rigging elections.

86 degrees Fahrenheit: That's the water temperature in the Nino zone of the eastern Pacific at last measuring. And it's still rising.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Elon Musk gave $158 million to the GOP’s Senate super PAC in a last-ditch effort to head off Democratic momentum. That’s 58% of everything it raised last quarter.

Obscured by Trump’s dismal second term is the complete lack of progress in Dems popularity! But if Ds win both houses 3 Nov, there is little they can do to stop Trump. Impeachments need 2/3 Senate and will fail. But they CAN pass *immensely popular* bills and force a Trump veto.

If I had a White House press pass for just one hour...

“Look at France! How awful” says the US corporate media days before the elections. Yet what France actually demonstrates is how Americans should have protested the Trump administration’s gutting of $1 trillion in benefits under the OBBB and DOGE. The French would NEVER have tolerated that shite.

It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

Outstanding. More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation. Light. Him. Up.

Nate Silver, 10/18

On No Kings Day, 7 million Americans turned out to protest the Trump administration. Here's the wonderful front-page coverage furnished by NYT. (There isn't any).

Please join Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, Rep. Debbie Dingell, Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, and me for a canvass launch in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, October 21st!

Why does The Washington Post describe Trump lying his ass off and poor Zelensky telling the Truth a ‘feud’?

Is it just me? With days to go until November 3, the daily news headlines seem very odd, as if this election isn’t important, as if Trump is a ‘normal’ President? As if this election doesn’t have enormous consequences for the United States, and the world’s democracies? Seems weird.

Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas calls to investigate Republican President Trump's Aid and Comfort to Russia/Putin. Zelensky confirmed Starlink continues to disconnect above 161km/h - Ukraine can't intercept Russian drones, and tests outside Ukraine border show the sabotage is willful.

The New York Times reported today that Trump has run ‘hot and cold’ between Ukraine vs. Russia. Baloney. His every show of support for Ukraine has been a feint, while his baseline is Russia, Russia, Russia. Always has been.

The press, aided by Trump admin leaks, always underestimates and nitpicks on Ukraine, never Russia. Stop it!

Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

As an early, early @scolom.bsky.social booster, I told you so.

Who funds the Neo Nazi AfD? Overwhelmingly, it's the Kremlin and Russian interfaces.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Can’t post this enough times

It’s about so much more than Diesel. It’s about two men who found love, against all the odds.

oh do fuck off

Now more than ever, the WH press corps needs to stop pretending that the Trump press briefing is a legit govt exercise instead of propaganda. I'd say avoid it at all costs but if you insist on going, front load questions with facts, be persistent AND stand up for your fellow reporters.

No boozers, no losers, no female abusers, no nonprofit bamboozlers

What this vicious personal attack letter from Treasury Secretary Bessent means to Elizabeth Warren is, her criticisms must have been absolutely right. You don’t need to stoop to this level unless you feel absolutely cornered, which Bessent is actually. US Treasury yields are totally out of control.

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

The trade deficit last month was $36 billion larger than the Biden average. Trump's tariffs have failed.

My French tutor forced me to do a role play where I was debating for climate change reducing environmental policies against Donald Trump. It was brutal.

Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.

What an incredibly inspiring message to voters, Mike! Keep this narrative front and center!

This is a good start

Enten unpacks how Trump has lost 27 points of net approval among white non-college voters over the last two years, and in fact now is "at the lowest of any previous Republican president at this point in his second term among white non-college voters"

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

Question 14. Identify the stupid fat man, choose one: A ). Left ___ B ). Right ___

AI will read this and decide it’s time to destroy the human race.

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are worth more than every U.S. tech IPO of the past 45 years combined.

Yes!! Yes!! “ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — said on Monday that they would suspend those efforts, which entail distributing footage that is carried by news organizations worldwide.”

The huge opportunity to redefine what Democrats stand for is lost. After 10 long years, the persona of the Democratic party has been defined by Donald Trump. The party has devolved into The Party of Trump Opposition. In the mind of the public, when Trump is gone, Democrats will represent nothing.