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Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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.

Older progressives remember what can happen when a mass movement stands down. The grassroots machine that propelled Obama into office was shut down, and his most ardent supporters were let down. The young'uns won't make that mistake.

Is Zach Lahn, the GOP gubernatorial candidate for Iowa (who actually lives in Kansas) actually a self-made man? As this NYT exposé suggests, he's actually more of a Koch Brothers-made-man.

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

26. Oktober 1935 #VictorKlemperer #Tagebücher #NS #Nationalsozialismus #Faschismus #Antisemitismus #Shoah #Holocaust #Fanatismus #Ersatzreligion #Personenkult #Hitler #Heidenau #AnnemarieKöhler

People still talk about the foreign policy of the Trump administration as if (a) it's designed to advance US national interests, rather than private ones and (b) there's a reasonable expectation of competence and coherence. Neither of these things is correct.

You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge J. Michael Luttig: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

It’s peak Trumpism when Republicans blow up a school full of Iranian Muslim girls and then call an American politician a terrorist because he’s Muslim.

Interdimensional Portal Of The Week.

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

Hand wringing over if Democrats will be too focused on punishing criminals is pretty funny in light of Trump immediately pardoning all of the insurrectionists.

I have found anecdotally that this is literally true, many people simply do not know that young people do not get the same break on college that they did

I'm sure this will go over well with the Unions here in Germany after VW just announced 50.000 job cuts globally by 2030.

This bears is repeating “I loved my Audi S6 wagon before it was totaled and sometimes lusted over getting a new one, but NOPE, never again” Never again PS To all my German friends who are asking “How could Americans possibly elect Trump … !?” maybe, just maybe…it wasn’t Americans alone Dump Audi

If you’re thinking of buying an Audi, don’t forget that an Audi executive appeared at a Trump rally this weekend to try to boost an American dictatorship. Make your car-buying decision accordingly.

Maybe his closing message of racism, fomenting violence, lying about voter fraud, and bragging about his medical team repeatedly asking him to take dementia tests is proving unpopular?

Too true. Between appetizer and entree at the Old Ebbitt Grill two weeks ago, not only was I jacked up by a street gang for a watch and wallet, but then, as I was waiting, bereft, for a dessert menu, my youngest child was taken away by the kitchen staff and transitioned without informing me.

I saw that ad and expected Alexa to say ‘That’s because of the structural injustice of monopoly capitalism that puts intolerable time pressure on everyone making them juggle multiple tasks and roles to serve the insatiable need for profit of the billionaire caste.’

What is true is that in their early platforms in the 1920s the Nazis strongly advocated for workers’ rights (how else do you get the workers on your side?) But of course they never came close to delivering. Remind you of anything?

Peggy Flanagan gets emotional talking about the late Paul Wellstone

$446 million of his (sometime) reported net worth of $1 trillion means he’s still only spending 0.0446% of his net worth to try to buy elections. put in more concrete terms: if you had $100, this would be like spending less than 5 cents. now tell me again why i should vote against a wealth tax.

REPORTER: “Trump’s popularity is very low, diesel prices are very high, the war he started isn’t going well… is he using you as a scapegoat for his own problems?” ZELENSKY: 🙃🤐 (this is a YES)

The throughlines of @ossoff.bsky.social's career—his corruption investigations and talent for going viral—are illuminated in this @washingtonpost.com dig into his leadership of a company that produced documentaries exposing corruption. By @ianwardreports.bsky.social Gift link. 🎁 wapo.st/4inSGf0

WaPo tries and fails to make Ossoff’s career as a producer of international anti-corruption documentaries sound sleazy by saying he “hone[d]… viral messaging techniques.” But he comes off sounding pretty awesome.

Happy birthday to the Boss! Today, give that Bruce album you grew up with a listen, and happy Bruce Springsteen day to all New Jerseyans!

And more recently, the Atlantic writes: Rubio’s parents migrated to Miami from Cuba in 1956, before Castro seized power. From the beginning of his political career, he described himself as the son of exiles ... www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“The thing that weighed on him most, however, was the irrationality of the world in which he now found himself. … Hitler's government was neither civil nor coherent, and the nation lurched from one inexplicable moment to another.”

Victor Klemperer, in Russia occupied Dresden, immediately after WW2, July 1945.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

This is a chilling hate rally. And, just in case you think this doesn't matter to you, the President of the United States is also mocking the idea of Constitutional liberties.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?

It is impossible to parody the cartoonish evil villainy of the Trump administration. pix11.com/news/morning...

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

It’s wise to pay attention to what @jfallows.bsky.social posts

This election is putting into sharp relief how the entire GOP strategy is about ensuring as many people as possible can’t vote. At its most basic level, democracy is about voting. Support the party that supports voting. That’s the table stakes of democracy.

🚨“Had poultry been infected, the playbook would have been clear: The strain is so virulent that if a single chicken tests positive, the US govt requires farmers to kill the whole flock to protect other farms as well as public health...But there are no federal rules for how to deal with sick mink.”🚨

This is an important point and one way we should use this VF article. Even if the most damning part -- the bank accounts -- is not true, we do know Kushner is a literal agent (financial advisor) to the Saudis and UAE. How the hell is he running negotiations?

I had another meet and greet in Burnsville yesterday! Good conversations, great neighbors, and a wonderful time. #WNC #NC11

This is a scam, a ploy, a farce, and journalists should say so. We don’t need diesel. We export vast amounts of diesel. apnews.com/article/russ...

Fascinating piece about the Judge who made this ruling … and he’s on the ballot … Especially if your spirits need lifting, I highly recommend reading alisav.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

Good News…even though I’m a bit late to it. apnews.com/article/face...

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...