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Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now? I think it's three things. #HighStakes

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump DOJ ILLEGALLY fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ordering retroactive reinstatement and backpay. The judge ripped the DOJ’s defense as bordering on “frivolous” and rejected its sweeping claims of executive power.

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Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

literally illegal

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

He’s Exhibit A on why billionaire wealth should be taxed, why we have to get big money out of politics, why billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to buy up major media, and why our government shouldn’t give them huge military contracts.

Humanities & Social Science PhDs are in steep decline. Decades of attacks on higher education, funding cuts, and the growing financial precarity of academic life are making entire fields of study harder to sustain and less attractive to pursue.

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

My friend Rabbi Jill Jacobs of @truahrabbis.bsky.social, the US rabbi for human rights org, with whom @bradlander.bsky.social was arrested helping Palestinians harvest their olives, on NPR. R' Jacobs has been doing this work for decades. She's the real deal.

This is an informative thread. Seems unlikely this will be of much benefit to the US.

Today, we are announcing a huge new project in development: The Dark Money Illuminator. You can search any nonprofit to see: - Funders - Directors and officers - Groups it’s connected to You can also explore/search nonprofits by assets. And it’s going to be FREE! Donate to support this project

Mega-donors giving $1M+ make up 54% of GOP fundraising so far this cycle. It’s not just billionaires lining up for Trump’s open air auction of federal policy and contracts. The GOP also spammed and grifted its own small-dollar base into oblivion.

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

JUST IN: Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy reut.rs/4emaeGU

What is the source of this madness? freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

On one hand it will lose its "hidden gem" status as national parks get much more visibility than monuments, on the other hand it's awesome so more people should go enjoy!

The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act would end the Trump administration's abuse of mandatory detention, stop the detention of children and families, and phase out private prisons profiting off human suffering. Tell your members of Congress to pass it now.

Whoa! Ro Khanna and other top progressives are furious with Gavin Newsom over his opposition to California’s wealth tax. You should be, too. VOTE YES ON 40! NO ON 41 and 42! #taxtherich

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Surprise!

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order to exempt Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

NEW: I made some embeds to track Elon Musk's super PAC using FEC data. Our candidate tracker is polling daily so you can jump on this page any time before the election to see where those millions are going (mostly Texas, Ohio, and Michigan so far). Next report is Oct 22.

To the surprise of no one.

So truly fucked up.

Sam Stein: "Solid scoop by WaPo here. This entire thing reeks. Pardon recipient's family members, major GOP lobbyists, wanna-be ambassadors, businesses with interests b4 the govt., companies settling suits with Trump, contractors. all donating to this fund." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

How fast can a refrigerator cool down a bottle of beer? The answer depends on various details of the system, but the minimum wait time does not. Instead, it’s #quantum mechanics that imposes a limit on how fast something can thermalize to a particular temperature. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/your-beer-...

Interesting. Why wouldn’t a leap minute be better? A leap hour wouldn’t be applied for about another 1000 years.

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

Trump earlier this year: Kimberly Guilfoyle has been my friend for a long time. I love calling her Kimberlay. That’s my little pet name, right? I hope you come back here in 12 years or whenever the term ends. Trump today: She was not a member of my family. I guess she dated my son a long time ago.

Really great stop-action animation!

Wouldn’t be surprised if Trump himself is one of the people benefiting from this apparent insider trading.

Elon Musk has quietly funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups since July, making him by far the largest known donor in the midterms as he tries to save the GOP’s Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

David Hollowell, the Bible-thumping Indiana man whose Facebook feed once mocked “homosexuals for lecturing us on morality” and Democrats for “choosing” “atheism over the Almighty God” and “criminals over police,” just lost his attempt to appeal his child r*pe conviction.

BREAKING: NEW YORK (AP) - Judge orders Trump administration to cancel taxpayer-funded TV ads that promote his political message.

Which is why Trump considers her perfect for the job. Oh, and she’s a good looking blonde.

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products.

Just now hearing of the mass shooting in Erie, PA—leaving 8 dead. The 45-year-old yet unidentified terrorist killed a 22-month-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, 2 women, & 4 men. One of the women was 8 months pregnant. The terrorist killed himself. In 2026, more than 400 mass shootings so far. My God.😓

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Weird how Trump went for a youngish blonde for the job.

In Trump's second term, Bezos has received... -Huge new tax cuts for himself and Amazon -Millions of dollars in new Blue Origin federal contracts -A slap-on-the wrist FTC settlement for Amazon -A gutted NLRB led by a union-busting lawyer No wonder he's been such a Trump sycophant.