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The answer to corruption is publicly financed campaigns. This should be the biggest takeaway from NY’s mayoral race. Thanks to public financing, corrupt oligarchs are about to lose the mayoral race. Our piece for @thenation.com based on our new book MASTER PLAN — pass it on: LeverNews.com/book

MSNBC becomes MS NOW on Nov. 15

BREAKING: Melissa becomes a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds up to 160 mph (260 km/h), heading for Jamaica

House Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Robert Garcia, launched a probe into Trump’s attempt to pay himself $230 million with taxpayer funds "You waited until you became President and installed your handpicked loyalists at DOJ ... That isn’t justice, it is theft.” trib.al/fj9aCSP

USS Nimitz CVN-68 stationed out of Kitsap Naval Base (WA) had 2 aircraft, a Seahawk and a Super Hornet, crash into the South China Sea in 30-minute period. Crews recovered and in stable condition. WTH is going on? #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue theaviationist.com/2025/10/27/u...

Gavin Newsom just said the quiet part out loud: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black. Period. Full stop.” And he’s right. “Anti-woke” was never about ideas, it was a marketing campaign to sanitize racism, roll back progress, and make bigotry sound intellectual.

Woah!! I just found out there’s a Stupa in Afghanistan! And it wasn’t destroyed by the Taliban! I had no idea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guldara...

Let’s do this NYC @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov

"Zohran knows the cost of living is crushing working people. But here’s what makes him different: he doesn’t throw up his hands and say, 'that’s just how it is.' He believes something radical—that government can actually work for us." - @seiupres.bsky.social

From the Supreme Court to state benches, Trump-nominated judges are changing the rules of democracy. What can we do about it? Join @marcelias.bsky.social and @afj.org's Rachel Rossi for a live virtual event: Courts Under Attack. 🗓️Wed, Oct 29 | 6 PM ET 🎟️RSVP: https://bit.ly/48EwutL

Diana DeGette, the 30yr incumbent I’m challenging, just spent taxpayer dollars on digital campaign ads in the middle of a government shutdown when millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare & SNAP benefits. It’s time to clean house on the establishment.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

you guys want crime, we’re about to see some crime

Donald Trump is telling his DOJ to prosecute people involved in defeating him in 2020. He will claim the 2025 California referendum was fraudulent. He is going to try to impose voter ID and ban mail-in and early voting for 2026. I will do everything I can in the courtroom and in public to stop him.

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government and claim they’re leading us into a “Golden Age.” But they can’t figure out how to end a government shutdown, and they want us to blame the party that controls exactly zero branches of government.

Jacket potato with all the fixin’s for dinner, methinks

New: RFK Jr endorses lifting the indoor smoking ban.

Who’s paying for the Arc? @anntelnaes.bsky.social

This cuts to a recurring problem with New York: Even the majority of people who work for various transportation agencies, or who hold political office and advocate for transportation… They do not actually use that transportation themselves in their day-to-day lives. It’s a major disconnect.

Someone said that they think the east wing is being demolished to make a generative AI data center.

Amazing talk on practical resistance to technofascism from Micah Lee - this is the conference talk I’d be giving this year if I hadn’t been harassed out of “talking about politics” by various corporate knee-benders. micahflee.com/practical-de...

This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.

a lot of journalists have internalized the idea that if people are mad at you that means you’re “challenging” them and it is stupid on its face

I was interviewed by my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. "Refusing to give up in apocalyptic times is an act of love, and in some ways, it’s an act of faith — it’s about making a commitment to what’s sacred to us."

The Washington Post editorial board comes out in support of Trump tearing down the East Wing and building a massive ballroom. That is wrong. But what is unethical is that the owner of the Post, Jeff Bezos, is donating millions to build the ballroom (via Amazon) yet they did NOT Mention that.

All that stucco, molding, and wood from the East Wing of the White House had to go somewhere. So @nancywalecki.bsky.social tried to find it.

We are seeing billionaires rig our economy, our politics and our media outlets. The more this happens the more we will see "Zohran Mamdani's" run and win. People are fed up with the very wealthy controlling our lives. It's time for the people to take the control back!

As we see billionaires take control of every aspect of American life, you get why they want to divide us on "culture war" issues. If working class people of left and right united, we would be a threat to their billionaire agenda.

In a filthy corner of North Brooklyn, a plant nursery thrives https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/in-a-filthy-corner-of-north-brooklyn-a-plant-nursery-thrives

What happened to all the artwork in the East Wing? Where is it?

Money, muscles and anxiety: Why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

One person was killed and six more were wounded in a shooting Saturday night at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. n.pr/3J5vBQB

The decision to kill other people's infants is a personal one.

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

'It's still smoldering.' A hiker's video of Palisades fire raises questions about state's responsibility

So incredibly corrupt. Shout out to everyone who complained endlessly about Hunter but says nothing about this. @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles @RepFaison techstartups.com/2025/10/24/t...

Today's report: U.S. citizen dependents, and other non-essential American residents being evacuated from the base at Guantanamo Bay ahead of Hurricane Melissa. Their pets too. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

L.A. County moves to limit license plate tracking

News Analysis: It has been over a month since there has been a policy debate or vote on the House floor. Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the government shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch — and his own post.

ICE is tear gassing schools

Breaking News: President Trump said he would raise tariffs on Canada by 10% over an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that used Ronald Reagan’s words to denounce tariffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime. It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances. We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.

My wife’s (in some cases three-time) trump voting relatives have started mentioning the ballroom to me, negatively; anecdata but I’d like to see some high quality polling. I think it’s a mistake by certain elite elected Dems to think this story isn’t breaking thru

Video shows widespread destruction and flattened neighbourhoods in Khan Younis following Israel’s war on Gaza.