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Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family suffered minor injuries Saturday in a car crash while driving to a campaign stop in Anchorage, her campaign said.

Gaslighting 101: The AG is literally calling us crazy for thinking Trump will use the levers of government power to overturn the results of an election, when he has a documented history of doing just that. That’s tyranny.

Democratic candidate for Senate in Alaska Mary Peltola’s car was struck by another vehicle resulting in minor injuries, taking her off the campaign trail for a few days. Cue the right wing conspiracies.

Newsom: "This needs to not be a wave. This needs to be a blue tsunami. We need to send a message all across this country that we're better than this."

Newsom: "Trump is ruthless. I'm sorry -- we need to be a little more ruthless. And if you think I'm exaggerating, I woke up this morning & read Trump wants to arrest me. He said on Truth Social. He's not screwing around. He's trying to quite literally rig the election again today in the state of CA"

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Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

Josh Turek: As a U.S. Senator, I will fight to mandate that members of Congress hold at least one annual in-person town hall. My opponent has not held a single one while running for reelection.

BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl

JUST IN: The Trump administration is asking Judge Sooknanan to shut out the public from next week's hearing on its use of Guantanamo Bay as an ICE deportation holding facility. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

This is the funniest shit of all time… wait for it…😂

Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego

checkin' in with another award nom 👽 vote cj through 10/12 → mlb.com/aaron

In 100 days, new work requirements for Medicaid implemented under President Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" begin, putting millions at risk of losing their health care. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin reports on how these changes could put caregivers at risk of losing their coverage.

"Oh my God, all of it is for sale." When federal agents raided a defense contractor’s office, they uncovered a 50-page roadmap detailing how campaign cash was allegedly traded for tens of millions in government contracts. Then, the entire investigation was shut down. Why?

CNN reporter denied access to White House and press pass seized as Trump appears to implement ban against the network. https://cnn.it/4ixu6tH

mr. 200 😮‍💨

And people thought Obama went on a a worldwide "apology tour" after Bush. But seriously, the next President is just going to have to acknowledge the US is bipolar and other countries are wise to have alternate trade and military partnerships going forward. At least until we get our culture right.

Weird. They're weird.

The president of the White House Correspondents’ Association is Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich. She’s married to a Republican congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick. Expecting the WHCA to forcefully fight Trump’s ban on CNN, MSNOW and Politico is like expecting your goldfish to cook your dinner.

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OOF -- Enten details how Trump went from +2 on Russia-Ukraine in 2024 to -33 (!) now, and how Zelenskyy polls among Americans at +13 compared to Trump's -18 (in other words, Zelenskyy is 31 points more popular in America than Trump!)

Exclusive: The Trump administration plans to follow through with threats to post signs outside of the National Museum of American History shaming the Smithsonian, Kelsey Ables reports:

It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.

Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:

From the conservative National Review: “Painfully aware that, once the midterms are over, Trump risks being consigned to irrelevance, he has hit upon a Hail Mary plan for political success. That plan is bribery.” www.nationalreview.com/2026/09/trum...

To be blunt I didn't think he'd win the primary. I haven't had a haircut all summer and I slept today so I'm gonna be out of it tomorrow. But tomorrow I am going to go up yonder and elaborate to the good people of RI why they shouldn't elect a millionaire Florida Man insurrectionist to rep them.

“No matter what they do later today or tomorrow, the justices in Washington bear at least some of the responsibility for how we got here in the first place.” Me on Missouri’s mess—and the conflicting injunctions simultaneously *barring* the state from using its 2025 map and *requiring* it to do so:

New in PN: Trumpflation is here "Why voters expected a self-proclaimed business 'genius' who can’t compute basic percentages to understand global macroeconomics shall forever remain a mystery. Now those same voters are finding out the hard way that Trump’s three major policies are inflationary."

Enten details how Trump went from +20 on the economy relative to Harris in 2024 to -41 net approval on the economy now

Reminder: Pete Hegseth's own mother called him “an abuser of women.”

Wait. Do republicans think doctors work for free under universal healthcare? Does she think doctors who see Medicare patients don’t get paid?

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

an angel in the infield 🥹💖

Besides being delusional, this is how a pirate talks. A delusional pirate.

Ford: "I don't respond to a dictator like Trump, a bully like Trump ... I'm not gonna take any advice off a guy that's the king of bankruptcies ... your own people don't even like you. And they're gonna speak loud and clear in the midterms. If I was allowed to, I'd be down there door-knocking."

All I want is a Democratic Party that treats MAGA and its minions like a hostile occupying power, which is exactly what it is.

Weeks before the election Trump raises prices on all sorts of things - again.

"He's the Executive Exclusive Senior Adviser to First Lady Melania Trump ... "

What in the country fried fuck does this even mean 🤷

“Don’t worry, folks. We’re not boning. She’s just my ethereal wife from heaven. Just your regular sky priestess 50 years my junior who grants me a love so eternal. You guys know what I’m talking about. Anyways no idea where my hag wife is, might be dead.”

Oh nothing. Just @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social the leader of our party in the house spreading right wing talking points. We need new leadership yesterday.

Has anyone noted the irony that, should Mangione go to prison, he'll receive practically free health care for the duration? Per Estelle v. Gamble (1976)

🧊✈️ HERE'S YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬 ⚠️ An Air Wisconsin jet (tail: N413AW) bound for the ICE hub in Alexandria, Louisiana turns back abruptly after takeoff and returns to Milwuakee 👀

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.