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Democrats want an affordable America. Republicans want to continue their economic nightmare of the past two years. The different couldn’t be more stark.

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Elon Musk is spending an unprecedented, absolutely disgusting amount of money to help Republicans. By some counts, it’s well north of $400 million in this cycle. Money matters, but Elon’s money comes with a political price. www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-elon-m...

messageboxnews.comWhy Elon Musk’s Money Could Backfire on RepublicansPlus: why red-state voters want a GOP Senate, Montana’s toss-up House race, Ukraine aid, ICE, and whether Trump can cancel the election

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Very useful history here, delivered very efficiently:

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

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Microsoft’s stock rose on the news that it’s getting rid of 1/4th its people. That’s nothing new. Disposing of human beings in favor of “productivity” has always been a favorite move for Wall Street. However fires the last human gets to turn out the lights.

MeteorBlades@meteorblades.bsky.social

Any wagers on how long it will be before AI-heavy companies’ jaw-dropping voluntary buyouts are replaced with even larger involuntary layoffs without compensation? apnews.com/article/micr...

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RIDES! A huge amount RIDES on the story we tell about why elections turn out the way they do.

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social

It really is too bad that more high-profile Dems didn't come to Elissa Slotkin's defense last week. A huge amount rids on whether the narrative we propound about the election is 1) Dems won to hold Trump accountable or 2) Dems won because prices are too high. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/wheres-the...

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Trump tonight said people should never speak again to any Jews who vote for Abdul El-Sayed. Will Mike Rogers be forced to disavow Donald Trump now? I won't hold my breath.

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I just love these Trump supporters calling for the smelling salts over Obama's Cheescake factory quip saying he's mocking middle America. These are the very people who worship the man who vomits gilt gew gaws everywhere like he's Louis the XIV and brags about how much money he's making as president.

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This is the bullshit that's going to ruin us. Nonsensical assumptions by media about what REAL AMERICANS think and care about, designed to make Dems act like humorless prigs. This was not an insult to Liberace or his fans. He was in show business! It's ok for him! This is about the White House FFS

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Trump-Putin scandal in Alaska. "Joel Riddle, chief executive of the company, Polar LNG, until he resigned in September, said he had been misled...The true source of at least some of Polar LNG’s money was Novatek, a Russian energy giant under partial U.S. sanctions." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Weird and frankly disappointing video from Ezra & Leah. They imply support for impeachment, but seem to deliberately avoid saying so explicitly. They also create a false choice, implying impeachment is unrelated to the goal of holding other officials accountable. The opposite is true.

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org

Trump should be impeached — and real accountability will require more than impeachment.

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Put this under nature of the problem. From an axios piece by Jim Vendehei about the growing multiple risks of cascading crises. You’d say the same about Biden? Not politics? lol

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This is a very impressive communication combo. They know how to make a point.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Pete Buttigieg is campaigning with Ossoff and indicting Collins and Trump for their corruption

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underrated aspect of AOC is (unlike Gottheimer, Manchin, Sinema et al) that she is a pretty dogged party loyalist. a 21st century Robert Wagner

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in case you missed it, new episode—what the hell is up with the uk?

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

there's been a worldwide campaign against trans people—nowhere has it been stronger (& less opposed) than the uk latest podcast with @aendra.com www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/uk-media-trans

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It's crazy how much of a cesspool Twitter is when I log back in. I think people on there are so deep in it they don't notice. My own feed is all just the worst Dem pundits barking at each other and trashing Dems, nobodies with check marks wrongly analyzing polls and early votes, and racist shit.

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So witkoff/kushner toadie sell out negotiations involves cutting Russian companies in on US energy deals? Are we giving Alaska back to Russia?

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

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...

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The blue area is part of what Ukraine liberated with Operation Vivaldi. The circled area is the focus of an active drive by Ukrainian forces. Just because Trump and Musk are trying to help Putin hasn’t stopped frontline troops.

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This is just chilling. The whole Mussolini strut, the people cheering. Americans.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

a spectacle of fascism as Trump demands Ilhan Omar resign and says Democrats have conceded her seat, and the 20-something dude bros behind him leap up and start cheering

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yes. and this is why people need to can it with the "we can't afford XYZ because of Trump" routine I hear on here sometimes. we could dial up the tax take by 10 points of GDP and not even be close to the Nordics

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social

I also think this is a very powerful graph. Most people don't know it, but the US is a *very* low-tax country. We tax below average and we spend below average, among rich nations. Fixing our fiscal situation entirely through taxes would still leave us *very* low tax. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Trump’s Justice Department filed a preemptive lawsuit to block a possible Democratic win in Alaska’s Senate race. It’s a dramatic escalation, which comes a month after Trump publicly directed AG Todd Blanche to pursue the matter. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowTrump administration sues to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate raceThe Justice Department's preemptive lawsuit is a dramatic escalation, which comes a month after the president directed the attorney general to pursue the matter.

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If we discovered that Boeing could shut down Air Force One, or General Dynamics had a remote kill switch for Abrams tanks, it would be a huge scandal. So why is everyone accepting how Elon Musk secretly retained control over the military’s supposedly secure command and control system? …

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i'll take this as confirmation of my argument that had Epstein lived he'd now be a major MAGA influencer

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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this is a key point. if rates go up by a third or something but you got an EV and heat pump and zeroed out your fossil fuel consumption at home, that is a fantastic deal for most

David Roberts@volts.wtf

In other words, we desperately need to be investing in electricity infrastructure. That means spending a lot of money. It probably means electricity rates rising. Those rates rising is fine & good *if* it means we're spending less on gasoline for transport, natural gas for heating, etc.

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Republicanism on display

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

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More disappointing results from Donald Trump’s economy: rising unemployment and wages that can’t keep up with skyrocketing costs. While Trump lines his own pockets, America’s working families continue to be left behind.

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I’ve noticed in several debates that Republicans are quick to trot out “average tax savings” from the Big Ugly Bill. For example, Andy Barr keeps saying that the “average” Kentuckian saved $2,800. But that doesn’t tell you what MOST Kentuckians received. …

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Dems play the expectations game by, e.g., saying private polls are closer than public ones. What they should say (because it's true) is that they're up against aggressive cheating by the richest, most powerful people in the world, and winning in spite of it. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

offmessage.netCall Out Trump And The Cheating Oligarchs NowDemocrats should fold MAGA election meddling into the expectations game, so that the public understands they won against illegitimate headwinds, and the cheaters have to answer for it.

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Ukrainian Civilians Died Because America Cut Off Intel and Satellite Links Along with Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, these tactics represent an in-kind contribution to Putin’s war By Jason Jay Smart https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/ukrainian-civilians-died-because

theunpopulist.netUkrainian Civilians Died Because America Cut Off Intel and Satellite LinksAlong with Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, these tactics represent an in-kind contribution to Putin’s war

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"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has spent the following seven months running the Navy’s carrier battle groups ragged and shooting off 30 years’ worth of stockpiles of precision-guided munitions and missile interceptors like a drunk with a pickup truck full of illegal fireworks."

prospect.orgThe Military Might Have To Economize for Once - The American ProspectMaybe Northrop Grumman can get some elementary school teachers to teach them how to hold a bake sale.

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The Trump-MAGA freakout over Senator Elissa Slotkin's call for real oversight of Trump is complete horseshit, and every Democrat and journalist should be loudly saying so. This is how MAGA baits MSM into elevating propaganda into "controversy." New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

newrepublic.comTrump’s Vile Tirade About Sen. Elissa Slotkin Exposes Sleazy MAGA ScamThe Michigan senator said nothing remotely alarming, but MAGA-world ginned it into a “controversy.” Democrats need to learn how to stand up to this nonsense.

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Another one: Gov. Phil Scott has owned Democrats in Vermont for a decade. But he's nervous this year that his agenda of doing little to nothing might not pan out. Amanda Janoo, a milliennial economist focused on a "wellbeing agenda," could really win. Great report from Will Solomon.

prospect.orgA New Hope in Vermont - The American ProspectCan Amanda Janoo, a 39-year-old progressive economist, beat Vermont’s sitting Republican governor?

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Hrs after we ran this @jjsmart.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net, WSJ confirmed Musk n Trump coordinated the cap on speeds at which Ukrainian vehicles could connect w/ Starshield and intercept Putin's bombs. The duo has civilian Ukrainian blood on its hands open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

open.substack.comUkrainian Civilians Died Because America Cut Off Intel and Satellite LinksAlong with Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, these tactics represent an in-kind contribution to Putin’s war

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🚨Trump teases creating a denouncement system like the Bolsheviks and the Nazis used to hunt down political opponents. Says “people will be able to make millions turning others in.”

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A good summary here of how much Meta is in the tank for Trump. And a reminder that the authoritarian threat comes not just from within the Trump administration but from its oligarchic allies. Oligarchic power is now a clear and present threat to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

open.substack.comMeta shuts down "No Kings" account during major anti-Trump protestOn Saturday, thousands of “No Kings” events were held around the country.

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Trump’s stated rationale for showering Putin with unearned gifts, in exchange for nothing, doesn’t make a lot of sense. So naturally we have to turn to alternate explanations — including his former DNI’s concerns about what Putin might have on Trump. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowTrump’s latest pro-Putin move prompts bipartisan backlash and awkward questionsThe Republican president’s stated rationale for blocking sanctions on Russia doesn’t make a lot of sense. So what’s the actual explanation?

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No Kings. No Courtiers. No Oligarchs.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action. This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.