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Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

Together we will keep working closely for free and open trade. A rules-based global order. And strong ambitions for our climate.

Find someone who looks at you like Mike Rogers looks at Donald Trump.

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

Cindy Hyde-Smith has 8 days until Election Day to face Mississippi voters in a town hall or debate.

The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution has increased dramatically in the last year.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

Microsoft will offer buyouts to about 60,000 workers, part of the company’s efforts to trim costs and retool its workforce for the AI era. Read more: bloom.bg/3TX8U6D 📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Court rules firing of Maureen Comey without cause or due process violated the law. The president’s duty is to execute the law “faithfully.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“We draw the line at any type of interference.” @jocelynbenson.bsky.social on the Justice Dept. plan to send election monitors to seven Michigan cities. On Saturday President Obama rallied with Michigan's Democratic candidates in Detroit for a final push to November’s election day.

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Excerpted from 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 October 24, 2026 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-24... Please share. ⁣ 🐾⁣ Steve⁣ ⁣ #protectdemocracy

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Today marks the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history. In 2023, a gunman armed with a Ruger AR-10 rifle and high-capacity magazines opened fire in a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston. Eighteen people were killed, including four deaf people, and 13 others were wounded.

Talarico: You want to know why they are spending $200 million against me? Because I don’t take their corporate PAC money and I never will. I don’t work for them. I work for you. When we flip this seat in Texas, I’m going to vote to ban corporate PACs so billionaires can’t buy our elections.

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"...where's the freeking line for treason?" www.youtube.com/live/FtiuQAt...

WSJ's Alex Ward points to obvious logical incoherence in Elon Musk's claims. Keeps making me think of the two WSJ stories on Elon Musk's severe Ketamine addiction.

For Trump, who is heavily invested in the fossil fuels industry, windfall profits for that industry are a wonderful thing. For US consumers, they're a nightmare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.” - Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal

Trump is gutting the Clear Air Act and poisoning our air by "prioritizing the economic interests of corporations and easing costs for polluting industries." Congress needs to end this administration's pay-to-play corruption.

The Most Consequential Midterm Election in Our Lifetime | From American Conversations with Congressman Joe Neguse of Colorado. @neguse.house.gov @hcrichardson.bsky.social Watch the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/live/xzyynbxL9qU?si=TB9aNAMddEZgaMDz

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

If this death toll was the result of a terrorist attack, the world would be up in arms And remember, this is not the new normal From the perspective of 2100, or even 2050, the summer of 2026 will be one of the coolest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

HASC Ranking Member @adamsmith.house.gov talks with Jen Rubin at @contrariannews.org about the vast number of possibilities for oversight in the House Armed Services Committee in the coming Congress, including "all the illegal activities ... but stopping the Iran war would be job one."

El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"

.@lizadonnelly.bsky.social works her magic to remind us to vote on the anniversary of the 1915 Women's March....

Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now? I think it's three things. #HighStakes

The Trump admin could have challenged voter rolls months ago. Their timing says this is just a political trick, not legit concern. They don’t care if they are disproven after the election is over—just like “caravans of criminals” who disappeared once election day passed.

Really? There's nothing remotely "nasty" about El-Sayed's campaign, which offers a positive, upbeat, inclusive message. The nastiness resides entirely within the campaign of Mike Rogers. Indeed, "nastiness" isn't the word—it's brutal racism.

What does Jared Kushner actually do with all that Saudi oil-dictator cash? After Trump hyped a massive gas plant and Amazon data center in tiny Homer City, Pa., Kushner and his Arab money bought into the project It's a climate disaster My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/hype...

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Listen to Robert De Niro— Whether you’re voting for politicians who’ll drag us into a needless war and profit from it, or ones who won’t cover for pedophiles, voting is your right. Make sure yours counts. Vote early. handsoffourvote.net

Mississippi, VP @kamalaharris.com is with us and believes we can make history. Let’s get it done on November 3rd! #MississippiMatters

Congress Needs “Can Do” People | From American Conversations with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & Chris Jones, a rocket scientist, minister, and girl dad running for Congress in Arkansas's Second District. @jonesforar.bsky.social Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/3Lt8PGReNlc

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @neguse.house.gov American Conversation Thursday October 22, 2026 www.youtube.com/live/xzyynbx...

James Tallerico goes after Elon Musk on Twitter. 👌

Contracting and crypto seems to be the two easiest pathways to monetize political influence, and hard for non-Presidents to pull off crypto.

The wealth of #Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds & his wife Erika is tied to the charter school scam -- er, I mean industry. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

For Mike Rogers to bring into question my commitment to the Constitution is beneath him. It's shameful. I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud of our Constitution that guarantees all of us the right to pray as we choose to pray.

"Live by the sword, die by the sword," says man who gleefully wielded a chainsaw on stage.

Elon Musk is too big to trust. A THREAD.