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ICE Announces Third Detained Death in 8 Days, 60 Under the Trump II Administration austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-announ...

i'm in the @nytimes.com today, on why local elections matter — and which you should know about www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/o...

WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BREAKING: Another immigrant has died in ICE custody, the 28th death in ICE detention in 2026.

12-year-old Artem Koval died in hospital today from injuries he got when a Russian drone struck a park in Nova Vodolaha. His 8-year-old sister, Arina, was killed that day, too. Their mom, Liliia, was also injured. Deepest condolences...

According to Zelenskyy, for nearly a month Pete Hegseth has not been signing off on the delivery of vital Patriot and NASAMS interceptor missiles for Ukraine that European allies have already paid for. Here is a video of Hegseth cynically wishing Ukraine “success” a week ago:

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Trump says Alaska’s ballot is illegal because people don’t know what “incumbent” means

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government. https://cnn.it/3UQYxBz

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

"[Donald Trump] has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." --Barack Obama

Trump: "My uncle invented radar! Can you believe it?"

Here's the NYT story about how Trump is inviting Russia into AK to drill for oil. Literally selling out Alaska to Russia. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

😬 Trump sounds like hell during bizarre pre-rally gaggle 😬 Trump could barely speak, but what he said was nutso. He claimed his uncle invented radar, said he could "violate" Prizker and send troops into Chicago, and had a weirdly contradictory answer when asked who he golfed with today. Supercut:

Mississippi, we are 🔟 days away from Election Day! Make your plan to vote on November 3rd at ScottColom.com/vote today. #MississippiMatters

if you believe that Melania Trump negotiated a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, I've got a $5,000 Trump dividend and some Melania memecoin to sell you

❗️Zelensky says Starlink and Starshield speed restrictions are still in place and interceptor deliveries needed against Russian ballistic missiles remain delayed. “This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every day,” he said. #Ukraine

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...

Across all 980,000 deportations, just 20% were of individuals with a criminal conviction Looking at the subset of ICE removals, 31% had a criminal record, compared to an average of 44% in fiscal years 2009–2021

Breaking news: A federal judge has restricted the Department of Homeland Security from election-related investigations in nine states, finding that error-prone government lists could sweep U.S. citizens into the effort.

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

A baby girl was killed in her stroller today by a Russian drone strike in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv Region. Her name was Anhelina. Her mother died as well. ​An absolutely barbaric strike on a park full of families with children. ​6 people have been confirmed killed so far, including other children.

Outgoing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller posted an essay discouraging people from voting for Republican candidate Nate Sheets. He stopped short from endorsing Sheets' Democratic opponent Clayton Tucker, but elevated Tucker's work on the campaign so far.

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Trump: "We've given a lot to Ukraine. They've given nothing to us."

NEW — A federal filing shows Enough Promises Ohio spent $1,581,354 to boost independent socialist Greg Levy and oppose Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race. The PAC used a vendor tied to Trump’s MAGA Inc. network, per the AP.

‼️ The number of foreigners recruited by Russia has grown significantly, exceeding 45,000. Around half knew they would be sent to fight in Ukraine. At the same time, some countries have managed to stop or reduce these recruitment efforts.

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Meanwhile in Brazil… bsky.app/profile/jenn...

🚨 BREAKING: Meta pulled down the main No Kings Instagram accounts. We demand answers for why this happened during our National Day of Action Meanwhile, millions are mobilizing—they cannot silence us Follow for updates: @ACLU.org , @MoveOn.org , @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @Indivisible.org -TN

⚡️️️️️️️Russian ballistic missiles slam Kyiv right as air raid alarms sound. Residents had little warning before the missiles struck late on Oct. 18. A medical center in Kyiv was hit during the Russian attack, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

Lula has taken the lead in polling in the last week of the Brazilian Presidential race. The fight back here in Brasil is one of the most inspiring stories I have ever covered. paydayreport.com/lula-takes-l...

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky says the U.S. is delivering just 12 Patriot interceptor missiles per month to Ukraine, roughly a quarter of the amount supplied under Biden, - Bloomberg "We have paid for the weapons." "A part of supplies has been authorized, while the rest haven't been. This is not a technical issue."

The Nevadan reports that local organizations helped create a cabalgata (cavalcade) voter drive where roughly 1,000 Latinos marched onwards to the polls The political figures that attended the cabalgata were Aaron Ford (D), Steven Horsford (D), Sandra Jauregui (D), and Fabian Donate (D).

⚡Russian troops executed Ukrainian POWs in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, military says. Russian forces are accused of executing Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) on the Huliaipole front in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a Ukrainian military spokesperson told Ukrainska Pravda on Oct. 17.

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

Trump: "Maybe I won't have a news conference santamataldum"

Russia’s latest disinformation tactic is using an army of bots to make fake videos targeting Democrats ahead of the US midterms look widely viewed. Read more: bloom.bg/4zGj6zE Sources: Bloomberg, Antibot4Navalny, Graphika, dTeam

Our country's inaction has turned our children's schools into battlefields. This doesn't have to be our normal. We will keep fighting for a future free from gun violence in honor of the victims of the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School. Demand an end to this carnage: Text JOIN to 644-33.

BREAKING: Three children ages 5, 8 and 11 and a teacher were killed in a Bend, Oregon, school shooting, police say.

NBC News: Children are among the victims at Bend, Oregon, school shooting

NEW: Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party. WIRED's tracking his America PAC funding efforts here - read @hugolowell.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social:

This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time. (But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW: Ukrainian forces reportedly regained unrestricted access to Starshield on October 15, following in-motion speed restrictions on SpaceX’s Starshield communications network over Ukraine. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar101526

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.