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“I’m not sure if we have free and fair elections in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in November’s midterms. Get involved. Sign up to knock on doors. Sign up to make phone calls. Do everything you can, because before you know it early voting will start.”

Jordan Klepper Exposing MAGA’s Communist Cluelessness…

New details about another rape allegation against Trump, this time from a former Miss Switzerland.

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Protesters kill longtime nurse treating Ebola patients in Congo reut.rs/3WN8Reo

GET INVOLVED PEOPLE. STOP POSTING AND REPOSTING AND START DOOR KNOCKING, PHONE BANKING, RALLYING, AND POSTCARDING. 10 DAYS UNTIL WE LOSE EVERYTHING

#Vote

Obama slaying it in his first midterm GOTV rally: “Do we really think this guy Trump cares about any of these issues affecting us? I mean he seems very focused on home renovations. He should be on HGTV. He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”

Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. (Published March)

Russian drones over Kyiv detected

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

This has to be one of the wildest stories I have read in awhile. Kushner’s phone was hacked by GRU, the Dutch recruited one of the agents & ended up stumbling into screenshots from Kushner’s phone. Then the Dutch hacked into his phone & were able to see everything, including secret bank accounts Wow

⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

More than 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools have been filed with the Education Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once. www.propublica.org/article/civi...

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

“They didn’t just take me out of the truck; they pointed a gun at my face.” Atilio Portillo, a U.S. citizen, says ICE agents in east Charlotte shattered his truck windows and detained him at gunpoint. His brother was taken to a detention center in Georgia.

A neatly packed cardboard box of pasta, dry beans, canned goods and powdered milk made Tonya King cry. “I’ve been waiting for this,” said King, a 65-year-old Detroit ​grandmother, her voice cracking while tears streamed down her face. (cont.) 🧵 Detroit #AbdulElSayed www.reuters.com/business/ene...

FORSTAG’S CLOSING MESSAGE: You should only have to work one good job and afford a roof over your head, health coverage that gets you care, childcare, and a stable retirement.

Russia bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles in an hourslong nighttime barrage, while the Russian military said Thursday that its air defenses intercepted over 800 drones fired by Ukraine at Moscow and other cities. https://to.pbs.org/4i2Xkjq

Nashville state senator @campbell4tn.bsky.social calls it “unacceptable” that voting machines are flipping votes to Marsha and Republicans 👇🏽

Armed federal agents “have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status — and to inquire if they have registered to vote or cast votes in past elections”

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

The richest people should not pay a lower tax rate than working people. Let's close this loophole and protect Social Security.

This week's voter registration deadlines. Check your registration!

A journalist who was present during the Israeli settler attack on a photographer discusses what he witnessed: “Somebody in a press vest on the ground with five or six settlers on top of them, just beating them over and over with clubs. It was truly barbaric.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8epNVS

Reyes, before she wraps up golf course hearing, says her family has been texting her, "freaking out" over CNN report about death threats bc of this case. "A federal judge is getting death threats over a golf course. I really don’t think that’s what the founders envisioned."

Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks.

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

NEW: Oscar Belgal crossed the Mexico border in late 2022, evading U.S. immigration authorities. By 2026 — after a string of arrests — he was on ICE’s radar. The @nytimes.com took a deep look at his turbulent time in NYC leading up to his shooting by ICE: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/n...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Notre Dame might have deserved one more play at the end of its game at BYU. Florida State was furious over how referees saw its two Hail Mary completions for would-have-been touchdowns in double overtime against Miami.

TOP 🇬🇧 GENERAL SIR ROLY WALKER: “There is extreme jeopardy in the world… very soon, political leaders of 🇬🇧 will start to have a frank conversation with the citizens of this country about the sacrifices needed to prioritize defense…” Ominous. Full: www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...

Happy Sunday, everybody. Vote 🗳️

New in PN: Steve Levitsky on the slide into “competitive authoritarianism” "Perhaps the biggest reason the upcoming midterm elections are so critical is because they represent a last chance for voters to stop the American system of government from sliding into full-blown authoritarianism."

ICYMI — Audio of CBS News(max) editor Shayndi Raice spiking their story about Netanyahu knowing what was going to happen before 10/7 and doing nothing because she says nobody in Israel cares 🤔👇🏽

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Dozens of Alaskans rally for No Kings and urge early voting in Juneau

crazy to me that inflation has risen faster than wage growth and the GOP's criticism of talarico is that he might be secretly vegan

My opponent Andy Harris hasn't held an in-person town hall in over 3 years. So I knew he’d be rusty. I just didn’t expect it against the audience and the local journalists on that level. He was so confidently wrong on Maryland law, same energy as blaming Democrats for gas prices.

META “sincerely apologizes” for disabling the @No_Kings Instagram account at exactly the perfect time 🤔 @ezralevin.bsky.social : “This is strikingly reminiscent of what we saw in Brazil… We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime and collaborators on the outside.”

Brooklyn is FIRED UP about #NoKings and early voting! A massive local march taking the streets down Prospect Park Southwest. Get involved with your local group and help save this democracy 💙🗳️ @indivisible.org @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @handsoffnow.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social

The moment St Petersburg port got hit

St. Petersburg oil terminal and port infrastructure were targeted in a large-scale overnight Ukrainian drone attack. Storage tanks caught fire at oil-loading port facility, and a data center belonging to Russian social media platform VK was also reported hit, causing localized connectivity drops.

Remember this. We are weaker now. “Trump has groomed us.” Try to hold and speak and advocate what you know is right and true. We’ve already moved so far. Don’t change your standards to accommodate their shameless incompetence & cruelty.