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LEGAL immigrants in Tennessee are now unable to renew their driver’s licenses because of a new law from Tennessee Republicans. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Fair winds and following seas Commander Pavel Chekov. Rest in peace Walter Koenig. Thank you for giving us such a wonderful character.

ICE vs the clergy

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

With the midterm elections just days away, I’m doing a special episode of my podcast, Is This Really Legal⁩. You can drop your questions about elections in the comments or email them to ask@isthisreallylegal.org. I’ll answer as many as possible on the show. youtube.com/shorts/eGKMS...

JUST FILED: Is “Trump Fatigue” weighing down GOP incumbents in final week of campaigns? youtu.be/4LSMfT31kGI?...

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "The reason that corruption is breaking through right now is people are suffering economically. And so, with all of Trump's focus on his ballroom, on the reflecting pool—voters are frustrated that he is not focused on them."

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

DOJ: our issue is with CA actions. They're not enforcing their own law. JB: how are they not enforcing their laws when the require an attestation under penalty of perjury? 14/

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Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Don't give in. Instead, get out the vote. ⬇️ www.inequalitymediacivicaction.org/gotv

They’re not alleging fraud or misconduct. They’re preemptively suing to block certification based on an outcome they haven’t accepted yet. It’s no longer a hypothetical talking point. The Justice Department is officially Trump’s election interference machine.

Reporters need to stop tolerating this abuse from this man.

Plutocrats vs. Democrats.

This so sad and infuriating. A Canadian woman who lives in the US enclave of Point Roberts and was detained by border patrol agents for six hours over bogus illegal voting claims has died because she was too scared to cross the border again to get medical care. www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/oct/20/...

"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

"AI is the future" lol

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."

Nearly 1,400 North Carolina voters are getting letters questioning their citizenship, because of Trump administration's SAVE system, Friendly reminder, the general election is in 3 weeks. Not every threat to your vote makes the news. Sign up for our free newsletter: https://demdock.com/47ZCtYh

IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…

What a crappy headline, as if trying to figure out why bad things happened is a “blame game.” Leave the “game“ headlines to the sports section, NYT.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

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HOW NICE FOR PETE: Seven months into the pointless Iran war that’s driving up fuel prices and draining our wallets and Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth still finds time to take a taxpayer-funded trip to Knoxville to watch the UT-Alabama game! And of course he’s with Marsha 🙄

Brooklyn is FIRED UP about #NoKings and early voting! A massive local march taking the streets down Prospect Park Southwest. Get involved with your local group and help save this democracy 💙 🗳️

Journalist to Hegseth: “Mr. Secretary, are you Vladimir Putin’s puppet on Ukraine? Mr. Secretary, is Vladimir Putin playing you like a fiddle?” Good job, Britain! That’s how it’s done. Video: Sky News

TODAY on the @dailybeanspod.com I speak with Democratic candidate for TN-09 @justinjpearson.bsky.social about affordability, accountability, and defending the LGBTQ+ community. Free to listen and subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We're now witnessing what life would have been like if Al Capone had absolute immunity.

Katie Zacharia on failing the bar exam: "We just said, 'I'll take the bar and see what happens.' The results are somewhat inconsequential because I knew I wouldn't need the bar in China." (She spent years lying that she's an attorney!)

Career staff at the CFTC were investigating suspiciously timed trades surrounding Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would not bomb Iranian power plants. Then a senior adviser to Trump’s CFTC commissioner told them to back off. Could this administration get any more corrupt?

James Talarico just summed up the entire midterm election in one sentence: “We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.” That’s it. This entire election comes down to affordability vs. corruption. Which one are you voting for?

A 3.6% Social Security COLA is a slap in the face to those of us on it with fixed incomes who desperately need a larger increase to pay our medical bills and keep ourselves well nourished. Absolutely OUTRAGEOUS! 🤬

The vote marked the second time the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) denied students at the nation’s largest historically Black university, with over 15,000 students, a midterms voting site. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨BREAKING: DOJ’s demand that California prevent an unverified list of alleged noncitizens from voting or face legal action “appears to be a plausible threat that DOJ will attempt to engage in warrant-based ballot seizure,” the DNC said in a new court filing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Paying people for their votes is illegal. This bobble head should know that.

Voters are getting after it! Detroit Dept of Elections has approx. 30,000 ballots already returned, as of tonight That’s a big boost from the prior midterm election In 2022, the department had received approximately 15,000 absentee ballots at the same point

Trump is behaving like someone who knows he’s about to lose the midterms — and No Kings Day is how we stop his election sabotage.

Republicans are so flustered about Paxton losing Texas that they’re making up wild rumors about Talarico They claim he sought mental health treatment at the Linder Center of Hope in Ohio But both the facility and Talarico exposed the lie-with the candidate saying he’s never even been to the state