Why is the American president calling for the enemy to strike a city vital to the United States Navy? That’s not very patriotic if you ask me.
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I’m a fearmongel riding a little horse making the Trump admin look as bad as possible
👀 Would you feel free to vote with an FBI agent watching? Newly obtained documents show the DOJ tested that theory in Arizona’s primary, raising concerns that aggressive surveillance will be used to restrict ballot access or intimidate voters nationwide.
DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Trump is declining international election monitors in the United States for first time in over two decades, aligning the country with Russia. Trump will instead deploy his own election monitors to polling sites across the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
SCOOP: While Trump was crisscrossing the USA last week trying to help the GOP stave off a midterm washout, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska advising its pro-Russian government on election issues. James Blair & Chris LaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Anyone with an adjustable rate mortgage is fucked, thanks to Donald Trump.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 10h agoSoaring mortgage rates and stubbornly high real estate prices across the country are putting home purchases on hold for millions of would-be buyers. But home sellers are feeling the pain just as acutely.
A defense contractor CEO + his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. Dive into @propublica.org’s investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
President Trump’s super PAC doesn’t plan to reimburse the government for taxpayer money spent on ads praising his presidency, officials said.
Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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In a normal world, the 26 Republicans up for election in our target districts would condemn Trump for his treasonous comments last night. But they won’t.
If you are looking for a podcast that explores Trump’s efforts to rig the midterms and how we are fighting back, check out Defending Democracy with Marc Elias. On Spotify or wherever you watch or listen. open.spotify.com/episode/4foa...
ALERT: Trump is Setting a Trap for California's Vote Count
Defending Democracy with Marc Elias · Episode
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If there is any confusion after you speak as to whether you are rooting for two american cities to be hit by a nuclear weapon you probably should not be president of the united states
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
"The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint." NBC's indefatigable @ryanjreilly.com reports buff.ly/bBe5Xnz
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Totally cool to live in LA and have the president call for another country to bomb us because he doesn’t like us.
Not just flock, but any other maker of this garbage
Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · 2d agoFlock's diary of your Tuesday: 8:02 left home 8:20 dropped kids at school 12:40 doctor's office 6:15 somewhere you'd rather keep to yourself 120,000 cameras are keeping it. Tell Congress to ban them: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Trump mailed in his own ballot while calling mail voting "cheating" Then he tried to run our elections through USPS & the Supreme Court stopped him Now he's telling GOP to vote by mail? His "election security" crusade was only ever about one voter : him -TN
Trump Urges Republicans to Vote By Mail After Criticizing Practice
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
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Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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@amandacarpenter.bsky.social on why we should care about the big, beautiful ballroom:
Why You Must Care About the Ballroom
Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it.
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"Congress has already said no to taxpayer funding for the big, beautiful ballroom, and this should have been a stop order on the project." So if Congress already said no, how is this pet project getting taxpayer dollars?
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Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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NEW: The criminal investigation into the "grand conspiracy" fell apart with everyone resigning because they failed to indict anyone, so now they're just going to make up a report about it. Pathetic. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel commissions classified, internal FBI report to examine department ‘failures’
Sources tell MS NOW the ‘Patel Report’ may be the latest effort to re-write history in President Trump’s favor.
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We just caught the companies that cage people for ICE writing checks to nine Republicans who want to run the Senate. Nine. Not one of them will say a word about it. Good. We'll say it for them, in all nine states, every day until November. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
Trump Fills The ICE Prisons. The Prison Companies Fund Nine GOP Senate Candidates.
Every name, from the filings nobody added up. Also: Georgia’s voters, Jerome Powell, and 30,000 prison workers all beat Trump this week.
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding federal inquiries into the amount of taxpayer money used on Trump's propaganda ads — asking the GAO to investigate the "source, accounts, and total amount of taxpayer funds used by the Executive Office of the President to produce and distribute."
Raskin leads calls for federal investigation into Trump PSA’s
The Maryland Democrat could lead the House Judiciary Committee in the next Congress.
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BREAKING: a federal court in Seattle just slapped down Trump for illegally firing the U.S. Attorney there! We @democracydefendersfund.org & were proud with Ashurst Perkins to file a brief for dozens of BIPARTISAN former US attorneys advocating this outcome storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Brief of Former United States Attorneys as Amici Curiae – #23, Att. #2 in Rogoff v. Trump (W.D. Wash., 2:26-cv-02566) – CourtListener.com
MOTION for Leave to File Brief as Amci Curiae, filed by Amicus Former United States as Amici Curiae. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order, # 2 Brief of Former United States Attorneys as Amici Curiae) Noti...
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7 SUVs and 10 Homeland Security agents pulled up to a U.S. citizen’s home in Winter Springs, Florida. All over a tweet made months ago. The homeowner repeatedly demanded agents leave his property. Agents maintained the social media posts constituted potential threats that had to be investigated.