Democratic & progressive leaders shouldn't look past casual racism of candidates such as Graham Platner progressive candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine I LOVE Bernie, but after reading this article, I agree -- we must not appease Nazis or people who use Nazi symbols www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

"I’d be allowed to do whatever I want but we haven’t chosen to do that,” he said. “... And the courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved. And I can send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. I can send anybody I wanted." Nope, doesn't sound like a man who wants to be King at all.

Modern authoritarians seldom cancel elections, because they prefer the veneer of democratic choice that voting provides, and because they can tilt the playing field toward themselves. “No one likes an election better than Vladimir Putin,” the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias told me.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

Trump wants you dead but will settle for starving

Commentary: Trump knows just how dangerous Obama is, writes Laura Washington. That’s why Trump has been attacking, demeaning and undermining Obama since he entered national politics.

It’s not clear what’s worse: the idea that Johnson would hear a report about the use of excessive force against a faith leader and never think about it again—or that he actually expects Americans to believe he never heard about it in the first place. trib.al/tKL2i8J

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats tested GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy. https://to.pbs.org/4oId7Ve

Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report

After Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York in 2022, he began a podcast where he delivered “straight talk” about politics and what he saw as the Democratic Party’s faults. Things did not go according to plan.

J.D. Vance described his exchange with Zelensky in the Oval Office as “the most famous thing he has ever done and maybe ever will do.” Vice President of the United States of America had his moment of fame yelling at his guest in the White House🤦‍♀️

Groyperpedia: Intel for Incels

I concur.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." The treasured gift from France to the United States was dedicated in New York Harbor on October 28, 1886. Happy 139th birthday, Lady Liberty! 🗽🇺🇸

Tell me again how we can expect member of the military to refuse an illegal order by the President to use nuclear weapons? This is what a Constitutional Crisis looks like.

🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US. Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight. He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.

We’re sharing this because everyone claimed Project 2025 wasn’t real, yet here we are. Trump has also been talking more openly about a third term, and Steve Bannon said there’s a group actively working on it turns out, there might be one.

Lawrence describes how, because of Trump and Republicans in Congress refusing to provide food assistance during the shutdown, “now we are on the verge for the first time in the 21st century of millions of people in America actually knowing what starving feels like.” youtube.com/watch?v=gdMS...

Shortly before the shutdown, the USDA moved to scrap the Household Food Security Report, the nation’s primary tool for tracking food insecurity, and in doing so, stripped away the very infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in America.

USA's place in new age of global disorder Radio show 1A @the1a.org Michael McFaul David Sanger With host Jen White The old global order has ended and a new Cold War has begun. It’s a power struggle between autocrats and democrats and the West is struggling to adapt. the1a.org/segments/the...

Trump is executing people on the high seas by deeming them "enemy combatants" without any proof. He's also called his political opponents — immigrants, Democrats, protesters — the "enemy within." Put it together: How close is Trump to ordering attacks on them, too?

Whoever did this nailed it!

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

It seems that Community notes are the only thing standing between truth and fiction on X.

This man has the nuclear codes. 😳 White House urged firing live bombs, not dummies, for Trump's visit to Navy celebration: AP sources apnews.com/article/trum...

Fucking pathetic. The corporate media is a joke. www.mediaite.com/opinion/disg...

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Scientists are now able to measure deaths from heat more precisely as the world gets warmer. Here's what they found.

BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit has restored the block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland. The appeals court voted to rehear the case and vacate an earlier extreme ruling that let him seize Oregon’s troops.

BREAKING: The appeals court that paved the way for President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops in Portland while the state's legal case against the administration plays out announced Tuesday it will reconsider its decision. https://cnn.it/47tspGj

Musk especially hates Wikipedia because he can't buy or control it. You can't do fascism unless you control the media, and have the ability to rewrite facts and history. The right controls most US media. Wikipedia is a major thorn in their side. Please support them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

open.substack.com/pub/centered... This speaks for itself, the total end to free speech in what was formerly America. #freespeech

Geothermal startup Mazama Energy said it drilled a borehole that set a temperature record. Such superhot rocks could make geothermal a key player in data center power.

Gov. Gavin Newsom decried the DOJ's plan to send federal election observers to California for the November special election as "voter intimidation," warning the move sets a precedent for possible military and ICE presence at polls in the 2026 midterms. https://bit.ly/48LfHoT

What would it mean for California to "soft secede?" @clarajeffery.bsky.social explains how blue states can use their economic and cultural clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Judge sides with online publishers in Google ad tech antitrust case

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

“The role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable."

World Meteorological Organization dubs slow-moving Melissa the ‘storm of the century’ as Cuba braces for impact.

A judge ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet her each evening to discuss the government’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an extraordinary step following weeks of street confrontations, tear gas volleys and complaints of excessive force. https://to.pbs.org/434hDFk

GM to cut jobs, close tech center in metro Atlanta

Amazon laid off 14,000 employees with early-morning texts. One reason was to prevent badge access issues at offices.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried about Elon Musk's Grokipedia: 'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'

Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.

Trump sought to remove his status as the only felon to be elected president by appealing his conviction on 34 New York state charges before midnight Tuesday, arguing, in part, that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling giving the president broad immunity invalidated the conviction.

The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard. 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-admins...