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🚨 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA VOTERS! More than 7K voters had their registrations flagged over questions about their residential addresses, & the ACLU is raising serious concerns about errors. Check your voter status NOW. If it says “Challenged,” contact Fulton County Elections.

Trump says he’s the only President that ever took a cognitive test. EXACTLY!

Alaska authorities strongly oppose the Trump DOJ’s attempted “interference” in the election. This is significant because there were concerns the state—which sought to DQ the second Sullivan—would take the same side. But it didn’t. Quite the contrary. buff.ly/EJHtDpX

President Trump took seven minutes out of his rally in Mississippi to defend his focus on White House renovation projects after one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, compared the redecorated Oval Office to an over-the-top Cheesecake Factory.

❗️Ukrainian sources say Kyiv has received no update from Pete Hegseth or the Pentagon on approvals for Patriot and NASAMS missiles, with no movement reported. Zelensky said Ukraine has been waiting nearly a month for Hegseth’s sign-off and instructed his team to raise the issue again. #Ukraine

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

Canada and Europe both want an insurance policy against Donald Trump — and they are turning to defense partnerships to do so.

⚡️️ Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv university, major bridge, medical centers, — 1 dead, 15 injured. Russia launched two waves of ballistic missiles at the capital overnight, targeting a major bridge, metro stations, and other civilian infrastructure.

1/ Saturday's Ukrainian attack on Omsk in Siberia, at a distance of over 2,500 km, is causing fresh angst among Russian warbloggers over the poor performance of Russia's air defences. "[We're being hit] further and deeper," one complains. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kyiv...

A France-Germany car deal has helped break a stalemate in the European Parliament over two major industry measures. But the agreement will do little to address the acute problems facing Europe’s struggling automakers.

In the Floris case, DOJ filed what they call a "notice of superseding complaint," adding one obstruction charge, for which it adds speculation for proof of motive. But the new "complaint" is not signed: it may be a ploy to avoid today's preliminary hearing or to DQ Zia Faruqui.

The prediction market has hired a former FBI official to make sure political insiders don't use the platform for profit from confidential election information. n.pr/47N8Yci

Half the drones in a Russian strike package carry no warhead. warontherocks.com/deception-in...

A hole was blasted through Kyiv’s Pivdennyi Bridge during Russia’s attack, and repairs will take time. Meanwhile, Ukraine is still waiting for delayed approvals for Patriot and NASAMS interceptor missiles from Washington. #Ukraine

Canada is an “easy partner” for defense with Europe. But there are limits to how far the two sides will risk antagonizing Donald Trump. 🔗 vist.ly/5q5nk

🤦‍♂️Russian diesel heads to US aboard tanker under EU sanctions

Last night, Russia attacked #Ukraine with Iskander-M and S-400 ballistic missiles, as well as 280 drones. Kyiv.Two fires broke out in non-residential buildings in the Obolonskyi district. In the Desnianskyi district, a university building, dormitories, residential buildings, and cars were damaged.

Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

Today, our election research team published our updated (from 2024) framework for understanding how most rumors that sow doubt in election processes mislead. A lot of what we see is on that right side of the graph, real issues that get wrapped into false rumors. uwcip.substack.com/p/spot-the-l...

British journalists has thoughts about Trump. 'All hat and no cattle': Trump may be routed at next week's polls - and I think it could be a calamity... for the Democrats, www.dailymail.com/news/article...

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Tennessee farmer's fuel bill was $20,000 for just 2 weeks: "I wish they could see what it costs us to plant a crop and what we are getting paid... A farmer doesn't like a handout. He would rather have a fair market."

The remote rendezvous in August highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a businessman with ties to the Kremlin. ft.trib.al/9g7wnme

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

The defense ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland have named Russia Europe’s main long-term security threat and pledged continued support for Ukraine. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

The German-owned chain's low prices are winning over shoppers — and pushing competitors to respond. n.pr/4i9rRfD

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski: "I agree with President Kwaśniewski, and Norman Davis has been saying this for 30 years, that the Soviet Union minus Ukraine is Russia as a non-superpower. To be a global power, Russia needs Ukraine."

Elon Musk has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has spent in his entire lifetime.

Somali men in ICE custody say a ‘refueling’ stop became weeks at Guantánamo Bay Three Minnesota men are among a group of eight Somalis who have been held at the U.S. military facility since late August. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

“Just Like Kidnapping” Watch: The Trump administration sent a Somali immigrant to Gitmo. Now he’s trying to rebuild his life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In other countries, there’s a very strong relationship between public protests and voting. My exasperation is that it doesn’t seem to carry through here, especially among the young.

Yes, and that's the other part of it: Protests are effective ways to raise awareness, but then (as Serbia and Hungary show) you have to follow it up with organizing and voting. Marching isn't enough. In this country, we valorize protest - but don't do the other stuff. (I hope this year, I'm wrong.)

Here's the excerpt I think @kyledcheney.bsky.social meant to append:

@sarwark.org

Trump's closing midterms message? Gas and ass. Good luck, America.

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

If the GOP candidate doesn’t win, you must throw out the results.

In other words, Trump is trying to fire up his base by doubling down on racist, bigotry, and hate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇