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Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Polls opened 25m ago and were headed with the kids to vote. אל תגידו יום יבוא, הביאו את היום!

Israel really need I VOTED! stickers. Just voted and had a lovely conversation with people in line including one who came from Italy and another from Denmark. #operationwingsofjustice

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

This is the way.

This is a gigantic win for the Amazon, the Cerrado and the climate.

Filed away for my current book project about Gettysburg and slavery.

this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

Mike Rogers is a straight up liar, added and abetted by Bari Weiss's CBS and Brett Baier's Fox.

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

A reminder that Bolsonaro’s father plotted to stay in power by poisoning Lula, assassinating the Vice President, and murdering a Supreme Court justice after losing his reelection bid. He is currently serving a 27 year prison sentence for his crimes. Any wonder why Trump is helping his son?

Every single thing we learn about how Ramaswamy and his campaign have been operating over these past weeks in the decision to attack Acton in this way show in ever more abhorrent ways that they are morally incapable of the task of governing.

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

Your regular reminder that @wikipedia.org is an international treasure and may be the only way to keep the oligarchs and the dictators from rewriting history. I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

Hitler used fear of communists for Nazi propaganda. Same as Trump and Musk.

✡️ Rabbi Elchanan Danino, who lost his son Uri, speaking at the October Council Families rally: “Three years after the day our sons and daughters were kidnapped, massacred, burned, raped, and murdered, the leadership still has not made the decision to investigate the truth.🧵

They somehow tracked Acton’s birth mom down, found her living in a car with her cats, in a church parking lot, and took her to a video shoot to make vague accusations about her daughter, who she hadn’t seen in 40+ years, being a liar. Borders on elder abuse.

Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions to elect Republicans, an unprecedentedly huge amount from one person, and it’s a lot less than the value of contracts his companies got from this government he paid to elect and worked in. Many reports say “his own money,” few note unprecedentedly corrupt.

Trump declaring war on fraud is like Al Capone launching a campaign against organized crime.

This is the kind of deal the Democrats need to investigate immediately if they take Congress. An oil deal in Alaska which actually might be a gift to the Russians with Trump involvement. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

And then the Russian company, presented with the evidence we had gathered, acknowledged in a statement: Yes, we are moving to take a large stake in the Polar LNG project in Alaska. Story was nailed. A bit hard to follow with all the names. But this is confirmation. Had not been previously disclosed.

Musk is simply lying

Musk thinks that he can hide his own incentives by lying about other people’s incentives

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The Trump administration and the Venezuelan government have struck a deal to exploit Venezuela’s oil—but their partnership is good for the rich and no one else, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports. theatln.tc/PANSlDZN

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

NYT tries to convince readers that Trump's demented rant makes sense www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10... It implies that, even with ranked-choice voting, confusion might lead to Senator Dan Sullivan losing. Pretending demented rants are coherent is not impartial reporting.

No matter your party, we can all agree that justice should never be for sale. That’s why I helped start the End Corruption Caucus in Congress, and why I’m fighting to bring the pardon process out into the open. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

Once upon a time, Americans took pride that people would leave other countries and come to the USA because it was so much better

Return your ballots via drop boxes! Looks like Republicans are sabotaging the post office so it is not reliable!

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Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.

"For the record, zero 'coercion' required" is a rich text

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

This so sad and infuriating. A Canadian woman who lives in the US enclave of Point Roberts and was detained by border patrol agents for six hours over bogus illegal voting claims has died because she was too scared to cross the border again to get medical care. www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/oct/20/...

Murder cover-ups by the Trump regime.

This isn't a thing even if a state really did something wrong. Certifying a winner is what *candidates* can sue over in a dispute, that's the thing you're suing for. Each house in Congress also has its own final say. But the federal government isn't a party to such cases, it has no interest in them.

Corruption is so corrosive and not only to the rule of law within the country but our own economic vitality.

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.

"That she is a member of Congress matters ... Article I, Section 5 provides that each house 'shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members.'"

Extorting Marines with cancer to own the libs.

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

“Disgusted? Not by the pedophilia, the abuse, the mother who proffered her own children as sacrifices to her lover? No, JD wasn’t “disgusted” by any of that. He was “disgusted” by Republicans who wanted no part in Vivek Ramaswamy’s lies.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...