🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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Wrongly indicted, charges dropped, and now we learn prosecutors allegedly knew the Reflecting Pool renovation was failing and they charged David Hearn anyway. I hope he sues their asses off.

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas

Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”

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Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France — Guardian US

Officers also carry out baton charges as students, staff and parents march in cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon

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This thing where we laugh at Trump instead of fucking reining him in is how we got here and why we’re staying here.

I thought Trump’s tariffs were specifically designed to dramatically reduce this number to zero.

High school football players threaten to sexually assault female student-message her in group chat. "If you think Cornell was bad just wait for us," text said. What's worse? Some parents are excusing the football players' behavior saying, "Boys will be boys." Boise, Idaho.

So, just to review. In roughly seven months the US has had to abandon all bases in the Middle East, flee from a British base, the petrodollar system that is the foundation for hegemony has collapsed, and we’re facing historical energy and food crises. Great work. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/p...

US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN Politics

The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number...

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Good(?) news: A Nevada county will pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent two years in prison for a stillbirth before her conviction was overturned. Her son’s ashes were returned to her as part of the settlement thenevadaindependent.com/article/she-...

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 2y ago

When legacy outlets present both sides of a story to "let the reader decide" it falls on other people to highlight certain details. Details like how the cop who got a Nevada woman arrested after a 2018 stillbirth thought she was a bad mom and then—while the woman was in prison—took her fetal remains

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Vote

Check your registration, find your nearest polling place, and cast your vote for James Talarico for the U.S. Senate.

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Postmaster fuckhead should be fired and brought up on election interference charges.

Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · yesterday

Excellent Advice….

"DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say."

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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It'll Never Happen To Me.

A construction worker was kidnaped on his way to work. ICE is actively kidnapping hard-working people around San Diego.

A former political prisoner who was tortured for leading protests against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government was arrested and jailed immediately after he was deported there from the US last week. Trump appears to have notified the Sandinista regime that he was coming. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

The U.S. deported a former political prisoner to Nicaragua. He’s now in prison again

Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...

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Good riddance. www.tmz.com/2026/10/05/t...

Televangelist Jim Bakker Dies at 86

Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built a Christian television empire with his former wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, has died.

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BREAKING: Hundreds of Cornell students, faculty and community members gathered on campus today to protest the university’s handling of allegations that a for...

BREAKING: Hundreds of Cornell students, faculty and community members gathered on campus today to protest the university’s handling of allegations that a for...

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Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Fact.

Swell. Plotting their next insurrection.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · yesterday

Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.

Computer equipment and communications were seized in Brazil’s largest city as part of a new Brazilian investigation announced Sunday into “possible external interference by the United States” in the nation’s presidential election. Is this his dry run? www.rawstory.com/brazil-26780...

Suspected Trump election interference sparks police raids in Brazil: report

Computer equipment and communications were seized in Brazil’s largest city as part of a new Brazilian investigation announced Sunday into “possible external interference by the United States” in the n...

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😡😡😡👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

There is a surge happening in San Diego right now. Ice is following cars running license plates and racially profiling

New Yorkers just dropped banners in Grand Central calling out the Trump admin's and billionaires attempts to sabotage the election.

On October 8, survivors, young people, and feminists across the country are taking to the streets to say no more protection for rapists: from the frat house to the White House. But we can't make this action visible without your help. We're funding actions across www.womensmarch.com/stopsexualvi...