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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women.
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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States.
"In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct."
Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.
Nearly half a million early votes cast in 2 days, an 85% increase over the same time frame in 2022, with Democratic turnout far outpacing Republicans all over. In NY-21, up 115% in Saratoga County, up 236% in Washington County and a 196% increase in Blake Gendebien’s home County of St. Lawrence.
I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
SUCK IT, FASCISTS!🎉🥳🍾
“Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic 4th term. With nearly 99% of votes counted the 80-year-old received 51.75% of the vote to his rival’s 48.25%.”
An American student with a disability is suffering from a broken wrist and a black eye after ICE wrongfully tackled and detained him in Santa Maria.
Americans didn’t ask to be brutalized by ICE.
They sure as hell shouldn’t be paying for its actions with broken limbs.
Q: Why are you scapegoating immigrants for the issues you're supposed to be solving as the vice president?
JD VANCE: To the extent my rhetoric has been imperfect, that's on me
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights:
“I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
"Think about this man, who listens and takes every single call. And then think about what we currently have. A senator who hasn’t had a town hall in six years. That’s a whole Senate term where she’s not spoken to her constituents," Damonta Morgan said.
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If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon.
Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
Elon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason.
He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.
OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.
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WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir?
TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with?
REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations
TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
New: Low-info voters, who put Trump in the White House, now look even more anti-Trump than high-info voters, and give Dems bigger margins on the generic ballot.
1 out of 3 Trump voters who can't name the party in charge of Congress now back Dems for 2026.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-low-i...
They're throwing spaghetti at the wall. It doesn't mean it's not really dangerous - and whatever they try, we'll be prepared to counter - but folks should be clear that this is not some well-orchestrated highly competent plan unfurling.
The reason we keep hearing about desperate schemes to boost Republican chances in the midterms—Announce we're buying Russian diesel! Sue to preemptively reject a Democratic victory in Alaska!—is because they don't have a secret plan that will overturn a midterm loss, not because they do.
Trump rallies are in their County Fair era, a tired act that hasn’t done anything new in a decade, subsisting on an ever-dwindling group MAGA nostalgics.
"This is the story again and again as Trump tours the redder parts of the country: The venues are smaller, the crowds are less excited, and the man at the podium is weirder" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Trump’s goal is to intimidate me and get me to back down.
That’s not going to happen.
I will not be silenced, and I will not stop fighting for my constituents.
Bombshell Report: Trump’s and Republicans’ policies have cost EVERYONE more…except the richest 1%. What an absolute dereliction of duty by every GOP Congressmember.
There is no bottom for the Republican Party. It is a force for evil I’ve watched for my entire adult life (I’m almost 49). This is why I can’t stand calls for bipartisanship or demonstrations of the old boys and girls club. They’re fucking monsters who ruin the very fabric of society.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying.
No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.
WATCH: MS NOW's Chris Hayes sits down for an exclusive interview with Rep. Ilhan Omar following the raid of her D.C. home. “I think ultimately their goal is to intimidate and like scare people from wanting to participate and vote,” says Omar.
Steve Witkoff, US special envoy representing the Trump administration, told Russian President Vladimir Putin:
“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.”
Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.
“The borrowing let Ellison keep his stock and avoid locking in taxable gains, and highlighted how billionaires often employ a strategy called ‘buy, borrow and die’ to retain their wealth without selling assets.”
Vivek Ramaswamy has not only confirmed the commercial with Amy Acton's estranged mother was made by his campaign, Axios also reports he's now spending $4 million to air it.
Just 10 people have already poured over $1 BILLION into this year’s midterm elections.
90% has gone to Republicans.
In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million.
We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
To distract from the war and gas prices, Republicans want to distract you by focusing on somebody else’s junk and what toilet they use.
It’s weird.
#MAGAInYourBathroom#USDemocracy#Voices4Victory
Peter Oberacker, the Republican candidate running against Congressman Josh Riley in the NY-19 District, has launched some wild accusations against Riley. Read on.
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Speaking at the Albany forum, Harry Moran, Third Act Upstate NY:
"What we're seeing is the equivalent of the amount of electricity that 80,000 homes are in the city...So it's a massive scale project. And the impact on that is really large because this demand is 24/7."
Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia.
I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.
25 years ago, one Republican president declared three countries an “axis of evil”.
Another Republican president has now elevated America to be a part of it.
New in PN: The plot against Ukraine (and Europe)
"Trump’s open effort to join nations like Iran & North Korea in aiding Putin’s murderous assault on Ukraine is nothing short of disastrous & will leave a lasting moral stain on the US. But there may be something of a silver lining to this dark cloud"
Today, there’s reason to believe that the public’s earlier ambivalence has faded, and that Trump’s corruption is not only breaking through in a big way, but could sway the course of this year’s midterms.