David S. Bernstein

Kamala Harris in (early 2028 caucus state) Nevada stumping for 2026 Dems at culinary workers union. (From KH tweet)

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… Ted Cruz is in early-primary South Carolina today, stumping for Alan Wilson for governor

… More potential 2028ers in early caucus/primary states today: Rand Paul in Iowa, Ruben Gallego in New Mexico

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I wanted to see full RFK Jr remarks today for context; see link below, beginning ~36:30. There is no context. He begins by calling John James “articulate,” says the Hatch Act limits what he can say, but he can talk about Muslim Brotherhood, and off he goes. www.c-span.org/program/camp...

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… His rant is divorced from anything he’s there to talk about, it’s just ‘oh, I heard Rogers mention MB, I’ve studied them, they’re the reason Muslim Arabs all suck now, and that’s not racist it’s just true’ (paraphrasing)

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“Fake & Gay!” —US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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Turning Point Action, once an advocate of prosecuting anyone who does this sort of “ballot harvesting,” now promotes its trained “ballot chasers” bringing multiple ballots to collection boxes. I knew they were doing this, it’s just funny to see their guy (Tyler Bowyer) RTing these.

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If we’re talking rappers for administration positions… Treasury Secretary: Rakim (“Paid In Full”) Labor Secretary: Missy Elliott (“Work It”) … others?

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In case you are choosing your 2028 Democratic presidential nominee based on Halloween costume, here is Gov Pritzker as Buzz Lightyear at the governor’s mansion trick-or-treat (from his IG)

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Someone spent way too much effort on this

The White House@whitehouse-47.bsky.social

Since we're talking about The Cheesecake Factory... The only thing bigger than the menu is the list of President Trump's accomplishments. 🤫

You really need to work hard to be the most obsequious member of Trump’s cabinet — by, for instance, eating lunch at Cheesecake Factory and alerting Fox Business, so they can interview you in defense of Obama’s joke about the White House decor. Well done Secretary Bessent! Your move, Doug Burgum!

… Also, not to be too nerdy and pedantic, but in the interview Bessent said that Obama’s library looks like “Darth Vader’s tomb,” when obviously Vader’s body was burned at the end of ROTJ, and the proper comparison is with Darth Vader’s Fortress on Mustafar.

… (This level of insightful political commentary is probably why BlueSky gave me the blue check)

I gotta say, if Rs closing argument in Montana is to trans-scaremonger about ‘men’ in ‘girls’ sports/bathrooms, they really are flailing

open.substack.comAnti-trans campaign ads are a bad strategy. Social scientists should say so.If we care about democracy, we should not tolerate this

… Meanwhile, as @juliaazari.bsky.social writes today, many Democrats are failing their moral duty on this, and probably for no good reason open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

… Regardless, I say again that if Dems do in fact win majorities in Congress, there should be loud proclamations that Republicans made this election a national referendum on whether to demonize or support transgender people, and the people have spoken with a clear mandate to support them.

Trump’s rally schedule for the week. MONDAY (10/26): Corinth, Mississippi TUESDAY (10/27): Corpus Christi, Texas TUESDAY (10/27): Lubbock, Texas WEDNESDAY (10/28): Chillicothe, Ohio FRIDAY (10/30): Daytona, Florida SUNDAY (11/1): Dubuque, Iowa

MAGA personalities (incl Don Jr) are claiming that Lulu rigged the election by getting the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to extend voting hours

Kamala Harris in (early 2028 caucus state) Nevada stumping for 2026 Dems at culinary workers union. (From KH tweet)

… Rahm Emanuel in NH, Mark Kelly in NM, as 2028 hopefuls continue working the early primary states (for 2026 Dem candidates, of course)

abqjournal.comNew Mexico takes an early role in 2028 Democratic racePotential presidential contenders visit Albuquerque as New Mexico prepares for its new early primary role.

… In which Sen. Chris Van Hollen, in early-primary NM, says that he is there to “kick the tires” on a Prez campaign (in addition to helping NM midterm Dems) www.abqjournal.com/news/2028-ho...

Sorry, missed earlier that the President of the United States said that Onika Tanya Maraj of Trinidad (aka Nicki Minaj) has a beautiful ass.

David Beamer (father of Todd) spoke at length at Trump’s Port Huron rally today, saying very very nasty things about El-Sayed being anti-American and not a real citizen and having a terrorist platform etc, and the MAGA/GOP folks are loving it

Kamala Harris in (early 2028 caucus state) Nevada stumping for 2026 Dems at culinary workers union. (From KH tweet)

… Short trip up to (early 2028 primary state) South Carolina for Raphael Warnock yesterday

… Kamala Harris in #FITN(?) NH today

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

Mrs. Miller complains that Dems want to [checks her highlighted passage] prosecute those who committed federal crimes

David S. Bernstein reposted

Eric Lipton NYT

@ericlipton.nytimes.com

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...

nytimes.comIran in ‘Advanced Stages’ of Planning Attacks Against Americans, Officials SayThe U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.

Uggh www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

… I think Axios had this first? Anyway, here’s the letter, obtained by CNN

… BTW don’t worry, the imminent threat of attacks on US personnel did not deter the President from attending the wedding rehearsal dinner of Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earnhardt at Mar-A-Lago

Inviting people over public social media to enter a “discreet partnership with the CIA” to overthrow their authoritarian government, that should work. Just reply with code “Bay of Pigs” and trust us to have your back.

Kamala Harris in (early 2028 caucus state) Nevada stumping for 2026 Dems at culinary workers union. (From KH tweet)

… AOC stumping in Maine with Troy Jackson

… Did you know New Mexico is an early primary state for Dems in 2028? I think Andy Beshear knows.

Kamala Harris in (early 2028 caucus state) Nevada stumping for 2026 Dems at culinary workers union. (From KH tweet)

… Gavin Newsom endorsing Mass Gov Maura Healey yesterday. Healey has big pull in NH. (From IG)

The Gov Wes Moore campaign has sent me 26 fundraising emails in 14 days since they got me on their list a couple weeks ago. (I get on a fair number of lists despite never making political contributions.) For a re-election he’s going to win by 25+. Can’t wait ‘til his Presidential campaign.

Hahn, a big behind-the-scenes GOP strategist, defends Mike Collins against Ossoff charges of KKK ties with this (Collins-told) story of a Black waitress who likes his anti-immigrant stand.

… If a guy running statewide in Georgia calls to tell you he’s excited to find one Black person claiming to support him, I’m not sure that’s a phone call you want to divulge publicly.

Preemptively suing to block election results on the grounds that voters are too dumb to vote for my candidate

Cook Political moves 19 more House ratings toward Dems. The total of Lean/Likely/Solid D races passes 218 for the first time this cycle (number needed for majority).

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Boy, that DOD report on the Minab school bombing must be super detailed, they’ve been working on it for almost eight months now, it must surely contain lots of explanation for exactly who screwed up what. Right?

OK @ralstonreports.bsky.social I suppose Nevada matters #IndyFest

… Also St Anselm released a NH poll today that included Dem & GOP Prez primary, so we’re definitely in it now. (Buttigieg leads; Rubio-Vance tied) #FITN(?)

New anti-Sherrod Brown “ROCC PAC” (no, I don’t know what it stands for) is blaming “abortion radical” Brown for a guy getting abortion pills through the mail and forcing them down his pregnant girlfriend’s throat. Ad and site at link below; apparently the ad is going live tomorrow. roccpac.com