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Tennessee governor candidate Jerri Green just CALLED OUT Marsha Blackburn for avoiding a debate. “This is a job interview and everybody is seeing her for the COWARD that she is.” “Show a little backbone if she has one left and stop running into elevators, stop running from press and the airports.”

I promise you, there’s a new coalition emerging in American politics. And it’s emerging right here in the Florida governor’s race.

Top states to watch for Republican lame-duck gerrymanders: Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida. NC’s GOP already adopted a resolution to enable passing new lame-duck power grabs and gerrymanders But if Dems break the Texas GOP trifecta, they could block lame duck power grabs by denying a quorum

If they lose power, expect Republicans in several states to strip powers from incoming Democrats, pass voting restrictions, and new gerrymanders. They did it after losing governors races in NC in 2016 and 2024, MI and WI in 2018, and KY in 2019. They preemptively did it ahead of losing IA this year

Bolsonaro had planned to flee to Argentina right before his passport was confiscated

Very often in the files you’ll see an email like this, that never has an answer. Epstein always answered his emails. When they are cut off or disappear, they have been removed. #EpsteinFiles

Much easier for the media to lock in on faux Cheesecake Factory outrage than a House Dem report indicating Todd Blanche basically told Ghislaine Maxwell "stop talking" when she was about to discuss a girl that could more closely tie Trump to Epstein

For my last Better Win a District, I wrote about TN-09. Republicans gerrymandered Memphis, the Blackest city in Tennessee, out of a seat in the House. Or at least they tried. Then along came Justin Pearson. Now TN-09 is a real fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...

Fast Times in East Pennsboro Township – The Scott Perry Boogie Nights Story talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fast-...

The Damascus government decision to ban women from university classes bodes ill for civil rights in general. www.dw.com/en/a-bad-ome...

NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973./

Red States really dislike colleges and universities because they consistently produce people who don't vote Republican anymore. So they've moving to degrade them, converting them into institutions much more like high schools. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Gov. Beshear: I am living, breathing proof that Democrats can win anywhere, and we should be fighting everywhere. We have 3 southern Democratic governors and we're going to have a 4th when we elect Keisha Lance-Bottoms. This election is absolutely critical.

Katie Bouman was 29 when the world saw its first image of a black hole. At MIT she built CHIRP, an algorithm for imaging from sparse telescope data, and helped turn 5 petabytes into one picture. When her ecstatic reaction went viral, trolls swarmed to give a male peer credit for her work.

Todd Blanche, in His Underwear, in Disgrace emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...

More in the piece, which I hope you read. But a key thing to remember is that while Trump is expanding automation in ways that align with the interests of the rich, he is making automation harder for safety net programs like Medicaid. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/automating...

Trump Accounts would allow corporations or their owners to make donations by zip code. So, for example, a company trying to set up a data center could give money to families in that region. This is the logic of the bribe state which Trump has enabled and supports. bsky.app/profile/atru...

New w @pamherd.bsky.social: Trump's Bribe State is a mix of empty promises and real benefits. But watch how automation is used: to buy votes, or allow billionaires to buy off dissent via Trump accounts, even as Trump has made automation harder for Mediciad. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/automating...

There was, and still is, a massive under tapped market for corporate resistance to this regime. All these companies fawned over Trump not due to dollars and cents but because their leaders preferred authoritarianism.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Nothing to see here, folks.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

What Jason Crow says. Indeed, isn't it obvious? How can a self-respecting country cede control over vital military systems in the middle of a war to a foreign drug addict? And how could this not be a defining issue in the midterm election? Yet US corporate media want to simply look the other way.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

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In Serbia, MAGA influencers from the US were dispatched to Serbia to whip up enthusiasm for the hard-right Alexsandar Vucic who had held power for 12 years. They failed too and the students' movement won.

US government officials paid by our tax dollars manipulated US policy to interfere in Brazil's election, to punish Lula and push Flavio Bolsonaro to power: insurrectionists supporting other insurrectionists. But they failed. archive.is/7C52g

Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.

Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

Congratulations Brazil, you didn’t Trump yourselves. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Our taxpayer dollars have funded this white supremacist trillionaire who is using his winnings—some half a billion dollars—to try and shove Republican candidates down our throats and avoid investigation and prosecution. www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

The sad reality of the stupidity and cruelty of the Republican Party.

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

Des Moines Register comes out for Turek for Senate.

Have you voted early?

Also, “President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday, Oct. 22 that he signed seven agreements with Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, including deals to expand Kyiv’s use of Finnish satellite capabilities through Nokia and ICEYE.“ www.kyivpost.com/post/87903

Using the Presidency to manufacture himself billions in tax breaks through golf courses. Scam artist doesn’t even begin to describe this President. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

Nailed it! #BlueWaveIn10Days

46-year-old Luis Sandoval died while under ICE custody at the GEO Group-ran Folkston D. Ray ICE Processing Center in Folkston, Georgia, according to an ICE press release. This is at least the 30th ICE detention death we know of this year. You can read the details on my site: izzymirez.ghost.io

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

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