Mark Paul

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

A federal judge in California barred DHS agents deployed as part of the “Unlawful Voter Initiative” from conducting field operations and stops that “involve or are likely to involve” citizens. Recently naturalized citizens had been a target, to see if any voted before naturalization.

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The world’s richest man, a vast recipient of our tax dollars, is personally intervening in a war on behalf of Russia’s murderous dictatorship. Every public contract with firms he controls should be severed on national security grounds. This is legal & easy to do—> www.congress.gov/crs_external...

The neighborhood soccer coach is driving the team too hard.

A serious newspaper would say, "video shows otherwise." There is ZERO ambiguity here and anyone who says otherwise is a Trumpian liar.

100% agree. #MLB

It's disheartening to see the largest publications in the nation not cite original reporting from independent/individual reporters. Not one mention of @marisakabas.bsky.social's work in ID'ing Tommy. Instead, the WSJ implies that Tommy came forward himself. Disingenuous, at best.

"I was just asked to leave this event, and I did nothing wrong. I was told that Ken Paxton's campaign manager didn't want me here. I drove two hours to get here. And I have done nothing but support everyone on the Republican side. And this is how I get treated?" www.tiktok.com/@iamthelmalo...

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-17... The events Heather Cox Richardson describes here make clear that the First Amendment will become a dead letter in a country where a few oligarchs own all the means of communication.

petesaunders.substack.com/p/the-new-ur... Go to almost any city in North America and this is what the most vibrant neighborhoods look like.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Next up: following the public execution of a man in a wheelchair, Pete Hegseth puts out a press release praising himself as a great marksman. 

"Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions… For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The DOJ beclowns itself again.

A majority of voters have long believed that Republicans are better at managing the economy than Democrats. Two years after giving Republicans total control of the federal government, here's where we are. deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

It's a relief to know that some people are enjoying the Trump economy.

The New York Times pushed Trumpian lies on the economy (are they selling MAGA hats?) deanbaker22.substack.com/p/new-york-t...

Support For Trump's Proposed $5000 Check: Oppose: 63% Support: 17% Ipsos / Sept 14, 2026

Jim Boren nails it here. I worked with C.K. & Jim McClatchy for 2 decades on the editorial board. They put the public interest & journalism ahead of money. These Chatham guys are barbarians with the nerve to beg for donations while screwing their communities & workers. gvwire.com/2026/09/12/m...

My father was vice president in charge of quality control for Oscar Mayer. Around my childhood dinner table, I heard many horror stories about the practices of other American meat packers I can only imagine what he would've thought of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...

California could generate up to $40M a year for newsrooms through credits tied to journalist headcount, @hanaatameez.bsky.social reports for @niemanlab.org.

I recall in the 1990s a Texan comedian had a joke that went something like, "My uncle told me, 'When I think about two men having sex together it makes me sick!' So I said, 'Well, stop thinking about it then.'"

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

The monitors are going to be bored out of their minds while they are wasting our money.

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)

Lowkey excellent thing about Wikipedia: accurately describing the extremism and lies of right-wingers because its sole concern is provable truth, while the media tiptoes around accurately describing whats happening to avoid appearing “biased” against the extremists and liars

If Democrats resume full power, they have a multi-layered agenda: 1) Restoration of aspects of government we took for granted but now see are essential. 2) Fixing existential problems. 3) Making needed reforms. 4) Putting in place a new progressive agenda. You just can't skip 1–3 and go to 4. 1/

I couldn’t agree more. This will improve your life more than you can know. https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/08/why-i-pay-for-search/

We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.

we could try alternative funding mechanisms cepr.net/publications...

First private equity gobbles up newspapers. Now a couple of oligarchs get to grab all broadcast stations. RIP local news.

JD Vance calls for Trump to be imprisoned

Honestly, it was an honor just to be nominated.

"Strike up the band throw a parade Freedom rings with bullets Cries of children too afraid Am I too numb what have I become American midnight Even in my dark and wildest dreams I never thought I'd see the day I'm just looking for some blue sky To come around my way” music.apple.com/us/album/ame...

The GOP plans to cut Tarrant County's Election Day voting sites in half. One Democratic candidate for Texas House: a "voter suppressed, racially gerrymandered, poll cutting" county that sends letters to living people and declares them dead so they can't vote. The GOP can't win unless they cheat.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

credit to this lady for constructing the perfect Do Your Own Research sentence heated.world/p/the-influe...

This is what happens when you simultaneously gut reproductive health and the safety net.

"The federal government receives revenue from all 50 states. Yet it is now spending that money just to help states that voted for the President, while he blames the other states for their misfortunes. Is it a crime? No. Is it impeachable? Absolutely.” open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.