Susan McPherson

Thrilled to share my insightful interview on building meaningful connections with the former surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy: www.linkedin.com/posts/susanm...

It turns out that voters will tolerate a certain degree of negative campaigning — but they have their limits. As Vivek Ramaswamy is now finding out (and learning a BIG lesson) By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

As Lula told the Steelworkers Union in 2018, "The powerful can kill one, two, or 100 roses, but they'll never stop the arrival of spring." A must read from @lebassett.bsky.social who is on the ground in Brazil. open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...

Clearly, they want him to destroy the UN, just like he tried to destroy Hungary.

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

“This is the greatest heist in the history of the world: stealing America,” the singer Bono said of what has unfolded. “Everything we love is on the line,” he told me. Don’t miss @nickkristof.bsky.social’s latest in the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/o...

Phenomenal turnaround!! Let's hope it also is a good omen for November 3rd in the U.S.

Word has it that Lula has pulled ahead!

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.

This excellent piece from 2018 by @adamserwer.bsky.social has stood the test of time. The cruelty is the actual point. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I can’t unsee this. What a tragedy.

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

Blanche is not the people's attorney general. He's Trump's fascist enforcer.

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

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.

Obama argues that we won’t fix our political problems unless we rediscover our moral compass first

What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed As Trump’s Numbers Tank Brilliant interview with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/o...

I picked up the phone & called as many Americans as I could here in Kyiv. People who have voted for Trump, people with connections to the MAGA world, & American journalists who I thought could offer some really interesting perspectives on what is happening back home. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wfwi...

Her letter written in 1943 could resonate today. susanmcpherson.substack.com/p/a-letter-f...

And so it begins: Trump administration files lawsuit to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race: www.adn.com/nation-world...

To meet this perilous moment, Dems are finally showing the will & skill to attack Trump & GOP candidates with a mix of ferocity and flair — and without apology. It’s about time they realized that being right matters only if you’re strong, too. By @schaller67.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN:

“A quick litmus test: am I using AI to avoid a conversation, hand over a decision, or skip something it would be more meaningful for me to develop on my own? If it’s just logistics, I'll prompt away. But if any of those other things are involved, I’ve learned to pause.”

VOTE BLUE 2026 VOTE BLUE "FREE BALLS FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO HAVE LOST THEIRS" 👑 NO KINGS IN AMERICA 👑 🗳️ THIS MUST STOP 🌊 #DEFENDDEMOCRACY

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

With less than two weeks left before the midterms, Trump is out of ideas; his approval ratings are dreadful, and his last-minute gimmicks — the promise of $5,000 checks, the hope that Putin will lower diesel prices — have fallen flat. By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s latest PN:

And stupidity. They forgot stupidity

Very valuable and very sober analysis www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti...

When ICE “warns” noncitizens they can’t vote, it’s not a benign experience. It’s frightening; meant to intimidate lawful voters. That’s the lesson the civil rights movement & a failed prosecution Jeff Sessions conducted as US Atty teach us. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-reoccu...

Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

WITKOFF TO PUTIN (yes, that Putin): “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian — you are a humanitarian also, sir. I salute that. I commend you.” 🤯 we are so cooked. Russia was never a hoax.

“If we act now, we can still protect our government, our people and our economy — and we can preserve the benefits that accrue to all of us, no matter whom we vote for, when American elections are fair and free.” By Robert E Rubin www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

The final New York Times/Siena University national poll of the 2026 midterm campaign finds Democrats leading nationally by 11 percentage points, 52 to 41 percent, when likely voters were asked about the specific candidates for the House in their district. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

A few months before Gloria Steinem died, she did something most nonagenarians do not do: She posed for a photo shoot for a fashion brand. And wow, simply beautiful. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/s...

“Shorn of all the prevarication and lies about chopping down trees — fire the writers! — that’s the Trump administration’s position: Trump is a law unto himself, and no court can constrain him.” @lizdye.bsky.social’s brilliant pen in @atrupar.com’s latest PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Incentivizing Trump voters to call in their suspicions about about black and brown people? What's the worst that could happen?

"No country right now better reveals the transformation in the way the world sees America — the way we’ve turned from ally and partner to bully and predator — than Canada." @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social in conversation with @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV

Most Americans are confident that next month’s midterm elections will be conducted fairly, but 7 in 10 lack confidence that Trump will accept the results if Republicans lose... wapo.st/4ytSz7q

25 years ago, one Republican president declared three countries an “axis of evil”. Another Republican president has now elevated America to be a part of it.

We are sensing a pattern

omg

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

This is Kohen Wiley. He was killed by police in Mississippi after his mother was accused of shoplifting…DIAPERS. His mother lifted him up to show police there was a baby in the car. The officers shot him OVER A BOX OF DIAPERS.