Only 3 days to go until the midterm elections next Tuesday. Trump is ramping up efforts to interfere with voting. At the same time, record numbers of voters are turning in their ballots early. This data is from 2 days ago:
With less than a week to go until the US midterm elections – which will determine which party controls Congress for the next two years – more than 43 million Americans have already voted.
Data from the University of Florida Election Lab indicates that four to five million early votes have been cast each day, a much higher rate than in most previous elections.
Texas has seen the highest above-average turnout rate so far, says Professor Mike McDonald, who runs the database. Hispanic communities are also seeing a much higher turnout than usual.
Overall turnout appears on track to outpace 2020, and even possibly 2018, which beat the 1914 record for overall turnout in a midterm election.
Texas has already surpassed its 2022 numbers by around 1.75 million voters, says McDonald. More than 5.8 million ballots have been cast in the Lone Star state, which has emerged as a key battleground that could decide which party controls the Senate for the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Data from states where voters are required to register a political affiliation during the primary elections, when voters choose their party nominees ahead of the general election, indicates an increase in votes cast by Democrats.
The number of early ballots cast by Republican-affiliated voters remain generally similar to 2022.
Early voting is also up among voters who chose to not register with a specific party, McDonald says, however the data does not show which candidates they chose.
Early voting is significantly outpacing the last midterm election, with millions more Americans casting ballots in advance and particularly sharp increases in states hosting competitive Senate races, according to an Associated Press analysis of voting data five days before Election Day.
The surge is especially pronounced in Texas, where voters are deciding closely watched Senate, House and governor’s races. More than 6.3 million Texans had voted early as of Wednesday, compared with 4.2 million at the same point four years ago, a 50% increase.
Advance voting has also increased more than 30% from the same point four years ago in Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Kansas, states with competitive Senate races. In South Carolina, where voters are choosing a successor to the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, early voting is up 83%.
The data, compiled by the AP, offers a glimpse of early voter participation five days before an election that will determine control of Congress and other key contests.
Across the country, more than 43 million Americans had voted early in person or returned mail ballots, nearly 10 million more than in 2022. The figures cover 47 states and Washington, D.C., compared with 48 states and the nation’s capital four years ago.
In states that provide information on voters’ party affiliation, about 6.8 million Democrats and 5.2 million Republicans have cast ballots early. Those figures do not account for all early voters nationwide or indicate which candidates received their votes.
Trump is trying to rally his supporters and get them to the polls. He is also continuing his efforts to interfere with state elections.
President Donald Trump has now rescheduled two weekend rallies a day after canceling them, adding back in-person events in Iowa and Kansas on Sunday.
Trump’s political team had canceled the events on Thursday, explaining that doing so would allow the president to hold roughly 20 tele-rallies for candidates around the country.
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Trump is scheduled to travel to Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday before spending Saturday at Mar-a-Lago. Three people with knowledge of the schedule said Trump will travel to Iowa and Kansas on Sunday for back-to-back rallies.
The rallies will be held in the locations originally planned: first, in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday afternoon, followed by Salina, Kansas, in the evening.
Trump himself drove the scheduling change, according to people familiar with the decision, who like others cited in this article were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. One adviser said the president was tired after weeks of rallies and wanted to take a day off. Another person said Trump is fascinated by tele-rally technology — in effect, a massive conference call — and strongly believes the calls, which the person said can feature tens of thousands of participants, reach more supporters than in-person events.
The shifting plans have added a sense of whiplash to an already frenetic final stretch of campaigning as Republicans fight to hold their congressional majorities.
The Republican National Committee had said Thursday night that the Iowa and Kansas events were being dropped because Republicans “were in a strong position” in each state. A day later, they were back on.
The president on Thursday told reporters he was not traveling to Kansas because Sen. Roger Marshall was doing “really well” in his race, which polls have shown is competitive.
And then there are the Trump administration’s efforts to interfere with state elections.
Very early on Wednesday morning, Dover, N.J., Councilwoman Sandra Wittner started getting messages about immigration agents. A dozen or more were gathering outside a Walgreens, according to the messages she was getting. Throughout the day, neighbors in north New Jersey saw a spike in Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.
And New Jersey is not alone. In the weeks ahead of the midterms, various cities and states across the country are reporting a notable rise in ICE activity, according to reports gathered by NPR and its member stations.
“The tactics that the administration has been deploying in communities really appear to be designed to try to intimidate voters,” says Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. Despite that, early turnout is surging.
“There was definitely a lot of apprehension and fear,” Wittner recalls. “We just really weren’t sure if something huge was about to happen. People were not feeling very comfortable or safe.” [….]
An official within New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that they have noted a surge in ICE activity in the city.
“We’re certainly witnessing an uptick in activity, and have been since the summer,” says a member of a volunteer group of neighbors in New York. She asked that NPR not use her name, as she is worried about retaliation. Her group goes to the scene where an ICE operation is happening, documents it, reminds those being detained of their rights, and alerts neighbors.
The article also reports increased ICE activity in Oregon.
Trump’s DOJ is continuing it’s efforts to find voting by undocumented people.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to stop threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution over their handling of disputes about voter qualifications.
U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson also ordered the Trump administration to cease demanding that election workers remove voters from statewide rolls, refuse to issue ballots to specific voters or segregate ballots cast in the midterms based on the administration’s claims that some voters are ineligible.
“Because the public has a paramount interest in ensuring that election officials and workers are able to carry out their work in accordance with federal law and election procedure, and the official day of the Elections is only a couple of days away, the balance of the equities and public interest weigh in Plaintiffs’ favor,” Thompson wrote.
Thompson, a San Francisco-based Biden appointee, issued the temporary restraining order in connection with a lawsuit brought by the Service Employees International Union and other groups. Her directive also requires the DOJ to reach out to any state or local officials who received warnings about possible prosecution and inform them that “demands and threats of prosecution to election officials and workers … have been enjoined.”
The Justice Department on Thursday sent letters to election workers in all 50 states alluding to possible prosecution if they didn’t preserve election records. DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the judge’s broad ruling.
A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country.
“Although Defendants claim that their actions are designed to halt unlawful voting by noncitizens, their actions are likely to have the effect of interfering with election administration and disenfranchising lawful voters,” US District Judge Trina Thompson said in her opinion granting a temporary restraining order Friday evening.
She said, while her order is in place, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security cannot demand that election officials in any state segregate ballots, purge voters from voter rolls, or halt ballot processing. Thompson, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, is also blocking threats of criminal prosecutions against election officials from those agencies and said that the administration cannot take other actions that “threaten, intimidate or coerce” election officials to demand changes in ballot processing procedures on claims the voters are ineligible.
Thompson’s opinion rebuked claims the administration has made for months that it can and will prosecute election officials for not doing enough to prevent illegal voting.
By Marina Karoleva
“When state and local government employees perform the work of distributing, processing, or counting ballots or otherwise administering the 2026 midterm election” in accordance with the law, “they do not violate federal criminal law even if a particular ballot belongs to a registered voter alleged by Defendants to be ineligible to vote,” she wrote.
She is also requiring the administration inform her of any “search warrant applications, grand jury subpoenas, or other demands to access election materials or ballots” that have been issued related to lists the administration has created to allege individuals are ineligible to vote.
There’s much more at the CNN link.
The situation in Alaska is concerning. The New York Times published an article claiming that the Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola was involved in a conspiracy to confuse voters by adding a candidate to the ballot with the same name as the Republican candidate. Peltola denies any involvement in this effort. This tactic has frequently been used by Republicans and is not a crime, but the DOJ has announced a criminal investigation of Peltola’s campaign. Some Democrats are accusing the NYT of a similar tactic to their late attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016. Meanwhile, the Time completely ignore a new accusation of rape against Trump.
America is four days out from the end of an election in which America’s deeply unpopular fascist ruling party is trying to retain control of Congress. The week began with yet another new rape allegation against the president of the united states, a man who has already been found liable for sexual assault in another case. The president and his allies are frantically whipping up hatred and anger at racial minorities in a continuation of a decade-long effort to inspire and incite violence against those who oppose them. They continue to disappear people off of American streets without trial, wage a figurative war against free expression and a literal war that has driven up prices for American families, all while plundering the treasury for their own financial gain.
By Viera Patcheva
Against that backdrop, the national news media is doing everything they can to make the central story of the last days of this election season an alleged political maneuver by Alaska Democrats that was, by all accounts, legal, consistent with past behavior by both major political parties, and unlikely to have any real effect on the outcome of the Alaska Senate race. America’s dominant news companies, led by the New York Times, have literally ignored the new rape allegation against the president of the United States while breathlessly hyping the Alaska maneuver, giving Donald Trump the distraction he desperately seeks and a phony premise for his anti-democratic efforts to effectively cancel a Senate election that could determine control of the entire U.S. Senate. It is, in the most charitable assessment, a gross and feckless abandonment of the news media’s responsibility to provide voters the information they need to make considered decisions about the future of their country.
Here’s the Alaska situation: The New York Times reported allegations that people associated with the campaign of Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola recruited an Alaskan named Dan Sullivan to run for the Senate in order to siphon votes away from incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
This no doubt strikes some people as unsportsmanlike, but it is important to understand a few things:
1) It is legal.
2) There is ample precedent for this precise maneuver, as well as countless others that are merely similar, from both political parties, both this election season and historically.
3) This particular maneuver is exceedingly unlikely to have an effect on the outcome of the Alaska senate race, because Alaska uses ranked-choice voting, which means that any Alaskan who wants to vote for the Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan but who is somehow confused about which Dan Sullivan he is on the ballot despite the fact that only one Dan Sullivan on the ballot is identified with the words “Republican” or “incumbent” can simply rank the two Dan Sullivans as first and second choices in either order and that vote will ultimately be counted for the Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan.
On Thursday night, the Republican governor of Alaska refused to commit to certifying the outcome in the Senate race if Democrat Mary Peltola wins. Which means that if she does triumph, refusing to seat Peltola could well become a cause célèbre on the right—one that Donald Trump requires Republicans to commit to under threat of excommunication from MAGA.
Democrats are already preparing for a range of scenarios along these lines. And while this GOP gambit is very unlikely to succeed, it could get awfully nasty.
Governor Mike Dunleavy’s comments came in a discussion about the controversial report this week that Democrats conspired to get a second “Dan Sullivan” on the ballot to siphon votes from GOP Senator Dan Sullivan. The governor has ordered a criminal probe of the move, and a reporter asked him if he’ll certify the election if she’s still under that investigation.
“If we conclude that there were things that should not have happened, that are illegal, we will act on that,” Dunleavy said. “That may in fact impact whether somebody is seated in the U.S. Senate.” [….]
How bad was this plot? In my view, it’s scummy and antidemocratic conduct. But it’s routine, as ratfucking goes. Indeed, Democrats quickly cited numerous examples of Republicans engaged in lots of similar chicanery. Let’s get real: We live in a world where Trump ordered multiple GOP state legislatures to execute extreme gerrymanders for the explicitly declared purpose of holding the House, where Trump has called on congressional Republicans to seize control of state-administered elections, and where Trump still won’t commit to accepting a midterm defeat.
In that world, the Alaska saga is pretty damn small electoral potatoes. The ballot will be clearly labeled by party, and it’s unlikely to make any difference. Besides, as I wrote in my 2018 book, if only one side adheres to norms of fair play in politics, that is itself destabilizing. Generally speaking, mutual escalation of hardball tactics may be the only way to compel some kind of détente over time.
All that aside, the second “Dan Sullivan” says his decision to run was his own, and state courts (in a separate lawsuit) have already upheld his right to do so. Yet Trump’s Justice Department is already suing to force Alaska not to certify the results, insisting the second “Dan Sullivan” will invalidate any outcome (other than a GOP victory, of course).
The FBI on Friday began reaching out to donors of Dan J. Sullivan asking about potential deception, as federal authorities ramped up their investigation over the U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska who shares a name with the Republican incumbent.
An Anchorage-based FBI agent visited a boat dealership in Petersburg, a small fishing community accessible only by air or water where the candidate lives. The agent left a business card for Charles Flint, who told The Associated Press he has known Dan J. Sullivan for years as a respected teacher and musician.
The FBI visit came after federal officials confirmed the existence of a criminal probe over the candidate. The U.S. Department of Justice also pushed Friday for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate potential voter confusion.
Flint contributed $500 over the summer to what he considered a long-shot campaign, saying he knew Dan J. Sullivan would have expenses and respected him for “throwing his hat in the ring.” Flint said the FBI agent asked his son, who works at the dealership, whether Flint felt he had been “misled” about which candidate he was supporting.
“I don’t feel like I’ve been misled at all,” Flint, who has been out of town, told the AP in a telephone interview, adding he had no intention of calling the agent but would “let him waste his time trying to track me down.”
“I don’t think there’s any confusion,” he said, adding he intends to rank Democrat Mary Peltola first on his ballot, followed by Dan J. Sullivan. “Everybody knows who the incumbent is.”
In Kansas, Senator Roger Marshall, a vulnerable Republican, baselessly said his Democratic opponent “probably is grooming” children.
In Texas, Republicans have cast James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee, as a “freak” and insinuated he is gay, secretly a vegan, and obsessed with transgender children because he made statements supporting them in the past.
And in Michigan, Republicans have targeted the Democratic Senate nominee, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, with Islamophobic attacks. Mr. Trump has described Dr. El-Sayed as a “vicious, violent jihadist.”
Facing a backlash over rising prices and working to overcome the president’s deep unpopularity, Republicans across the country have tarred their opponents with false, inflammatory and deeply personal attacks in the final stretch of the midterm election.
In many cases, they are following the lead of a president who has repeatedly rewritten the rules of acceptable discourse in American politics. Many of the attacks have drawn little pushback from within the party, but some Republicans say they are concerned by the trend.
“It’s awful,” said former Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican and critic of Mr. Trump. Mr. Flake, who is backing candidates in both parties in the midterms, said Republicans had gone down a darker road in their messaging: “We’ve gotten progressively more crass and crude and vulgar. But this seems to be a new level.”
The strategy risks turning off some moderate voters who see the rhetoric as over-the-top or offensive, political observers said. But it could be effective at energizing the Republican base. Democrats, who have widely condemned the Republicans’ attacks, worry the lines will land with some voters….
American political campaigns have long been awash in negative and dubious attacks by both parties — in debate lines, TV commercials and stump speeches — but this bitter, hard-fought cycle may set a new standard. Some political scientists said this election season had devolved into the most negative, dark campaign in modern American history.
“I think it’s the worst,” said Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University. She attributed the tone to candidates’ desire to package their message for social media, and to Republicans’ mirroring of Mr. Trump: “He’s opened a portal to the degradation of our electoral system.”
In Texas, Vice President JD Vance suggested at a rally that Mr. Talarico was gay, drawing gasps from the crowd. “A guy that age who is so obsessed and focused on transgender children, I don’t know about you, but I never want to see that guy’s web browser history,” Mr. Vance added, referring to Mr. Talarico’s past statements in support of transgender youth.
Mr. Talarico has a girlfriend. The attack was part of a broad effort by Republicans to portray Mr. Talarico as extreme. Mr. Trump has taken to referring to Mr. Talarico as “Talafreako.”
That’s where things stand, 3 days before election day. What do you think? What else is on your mind?
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What could be better than a calendar filled with Halloween, Dumping Daylight Wasting Time, an Election that’s making my favorite Bloodsport, Politics, in line for a lot of celebrations, and then my birthday!!! Well, let’s start with a little spooky costuming. Let’s say there’s some dress-up going on for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Let’s start with the Bad.
This headline from The New Republic should trigger many Congressional hearings and invasions. How long will we have to wait for them? “Jared Kushner Got Secretary of State Fired After Dictator Paid Him Off. Kushner reportedly got former Secretary Rex Tillerson fired after the UAE paid him millions—prompting another nation to also pay Kushner to ensure favors of their own, according to a new book.” Edith Olmsted has the story about the Wicked Son-in-Law of the West Wing.
Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired.
In the new book Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, author Matthew Cole reported that the United Arab Emirates paid Kushner millions to oust Tillerson, who had allegedly become extremely cozy with the Qataris.
Tillerson, who served as secretary of state from 2017 to 2018, had publicly opposed a blockade on Qatar, and the Saudis and Emiratis urged Donald Trump’s White House to fire him. When Tillerson was finally fired via tweet, Kushner apparently had been secretly pushing for his exit for months.
“In Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, Tillerson’s removal proved once again Kushner’s influence with his father-in-law,” Cole wrote.
A source with knowledge of the UAE’s secret arrangement with Kushner told Cole that the president’s son-in-law had even pressed UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, referred to as MBZ, to speed up their agreed-upon payment. A month later, the UAE sent $50 million via Azerbaijan into a bank account in Cyprus for Kushner.
Kushner’s lawyer has denied that he had an account in Cyprus, and denied that he asked for or received any money from MBZ.
Tillerson’s manufactured ousting caused a panic in Qatar—but the problem also presented its own solution: It could simply pay off Kushner too. In late March or early April of 2018, the Qatari government quietly informed Kushner they intended to help him secure his property at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. After that, Trump appeared to soften his hardline stance against the Qataris, but it’s unclear what, if anything, he knew about the foreign government’s deal with Kushner.
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The entire US Oil Industry gets the title of Ugly. Well, maybe they can share it with J.D. Vance. The one thing you can say about Orange Caligula and his cronies is that they’ve made our economy very ugly. This is from the New York Times. “U.S. Oil Industry Earned Over $130 Billion in Profit During Iran War. That was almost three times as much as what businesses producing and refining oil in the United States made in the same period in 2025.” So, now you know exactly who you’re making rich when you fill that tank! Rebecca F. Elliott and Keith Collins share the lede.
The war with Iran has been very lucrative for American oil companies, which have earned more than $130 billion in profit as people pay much higher prices for gasoline, diesel and other fuel.
That is a conservative estimate based on the performance of more than 50 large U.S. oil and gas companies, most of them producers or refiners, in the six months from April through September. It does not reflect profits earned in March, the first month of the war, or in October.
These companies earned less than $47 billion collectively during the same period in 2025, a challenging stretch when oil was cheaper and companies were navigating the early fallout from President Trump’s trade war.
The blockbuster oil profits this year highlight longstanding concerns about who gains, and who pays the price, when wars interrupt the flow of energy. As of this week, Americans had spent an extra $147 billion on gasoline and diesel since the United States and Israel began striking Iran on Feb. 28, according to an analysis by Brown University’s Climate Solutions Lab. That amounts to more than $1,100 per household.
Some companies are benefiting more than others. U.S. refiners have fared especially well because fuel-making plants have been badly damaged by hostilities in the Middle East and Russia. With fewer refineries available to meet global demand, profit margins soared for those that remain online.
And the other forementioned ugly, JD Vance, can’t seem to get his stories right. This is from MSNOW’s Steve Benen writing at Maddow Blog. “Pressed on affordability at town hall, JD Vance says all the wrong things. A young conservative voter asked the vice president a sincere question about one of the most pressing issues facing her generation. It did not go well.”
With time running out in the election cycle, JD Vance participated in a primetime town hall on Fox News, which was largely unremarkable except for one unexpected exchange.
A local college student told the vice president that the right routinely tells young people to get married and have children but that conservatives have failed to acknowledge how financially difficult this is for many. She asked, “So my question is, how does the right, and yourself, expect us to start families young when the average price of a home in America now costs more than $415,000, which just feels out of reach for us?”
It’s worth emphasizing for context that the question came from a young woman who identified herself as the vice president of her university’s Turning Point USA chapter. That is, Vance wasn’t confronting a political opponent; the question came from someone inclined to agree with the Trump White House.
Almost immediately, the Ohio Republican demonstrated the kind of political instincts that have made him famous.
Q: How do you expect us to start families young when the average price of a home feels out of reach?JD VANCE: I want to point out that I've only gotten one question about Jon Husted's ass
“I want to point out that I think that I have been asked four or maybe five questions by my count,” the vice president began. “I have only been asked one question about [Republican Sen.] Jon Husted’s ass — and it was by [Fox News’] Jesse Watters.”
So, during a nationally televised event, a young conservative voter asked a sincere question about one of the most pressing issues facing her generation, and Vance’s first thought was to make a joke about a senator’s backside.
It’s impossible to say just how many young voters watching at home were amused by this clumsy attempt at humor, but it seems likely the number was small.
It only got worse when Vance actually tried to answer the question with some substance.
Let’s get to the Good now. This report on the upcoming election is by Ford McCracken writing for The Hill. “Cook Political Report shifts 12 more House races toward Democrats.” If all this happens, I’m going to party like its 1999 all over again.
The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, on Friday shifted a dozen more House races toward Democrats in the final stretch of the midterm cycle.
The handicapper has shifted dozens of House races toward Democrats in recent weeks, and with the latest moves, it now forecasts more than 218 seats to “lean Democrat” or better, projecting a Democratic House majority of between 227 and 240 seats.
Notable shifts include Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, represented by Rep. Jeff Crank (R), which moved from “lean Republican” to a “toss-up.” Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District, represented by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R), and the open South Carolina 1st Congressional District made the same change.
Fitzpatrick serves in one of the only districts carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.
In her analysis, Cook House editor Erin Covey wrote the competitive Senate race in South Carolina between Democrat Annie Andrews and Sen. Darline Graham (R) may pull Democrats over the finish line — even in a district that Trump won by double digits two years ago.
“Currently, GOP outside groups are outspending Democrats by more than $3 million,” Covey said. “But some Republicans are still concerned it won’t be enough, particularly if Democratic Senate nominee Annie Andrews — a Charleston resident — carries this district by at least a couple of points.”
Another Pennsylvania district, the 8th Congressional District, was shifted from “toss-up” to “lean Democrat.” Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R) has trailed his Democratic opponent in recent polling, and Covey wrote that attacks over the lawmaker’s stock trades appear to be having an impact.
Ohio’s 9th District, represented by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D), moved in the same direction. Republicans have twice redrawn Kaptur’s district in the GOP’s favor, but she has fended off challengers. The election handicapper forecasts she will once again come out on top next week.
Just go indulge in all the great news. It will make you feel a lot better than plastic pumpkin full of Chocolate goodies tomorrow night. But, one more ugly from the bad man in the People’s house. This if from Brian Beutler writing at Office Message. Is this way all US Troops are learning how to do mass gravesites again? Is it why they’re storing up on water and food supplies? Add those other two headlines to your reads, if you want a bit more spookiness in your life this week. Beutler’s headline is this. “Inside Donald Trump’s Secret Plan To Restart The Iran War After The Election. Operatives aligned with the president spent months devising a plan to resume the war—only after ballots had been cast. Republicans have worked studiously to avoid tipping off voters.”
But more than anything, Mr. Trump wanted the war to be over, gas prices to be down, bygones to be bygones—all in time for November, when voters would render an interim verdict on his second term. The war had crushed his approval ratings, his party’s prospects were dimming, and he feared the uncertainty of facing off against Democratic majorities in 2027. The one thing he could not do, though, was admit defeat: leave the Iranian regime intact; withdraw from the Persian Gulf without reinstating a nuclear arms control agreement like the one he’d abrogated six years earlier.
And so he was relieved when his advisers came to him with a backup plan: He could draw hostilities down to a simmer. Gas prices would remain elevated, the U.S. and Iran would continue to trade strikes, but the U.S. military could ensure passage of enough oil through Middle East ports to stabilize them. Trump could reduce the salience of the war enough to contest the election on other issues. Then, with the election behind him, he could make his tormentors pay.
The plan worked. In the closing days of the election, Republicans and Democrats sparred over fabricated allegations of voter fraud, rights for transgender Americans, Cheesecake Factory decor, and the musculature of Senator John Husted’s buttocks. Not a single Republican incumbent or challenger had to take a position on Trump’s opaque plan to bring the war back to full boil after voters cast their ballots.
“Some of us have been briefed on the war plan,” says one concerned senator. “And while I cannot disclose any details, I can say this: the plan is insane. It will not achieve objectives and will set off a new cycle of escalation.”
Past presidents of both parties have allowed domestic political considerations to influence the timing of American military operations. Mr. Trump’s plan harks back to early 2007, when President George W. Bush “surged” U.S. operations in Iraq after badly losing a midterm election. But that war began with broad public support, and Mr. Bush had received authorization from Congress to wage it. Mr. Trump’s decision to subordinate military strategy to electoral considerations, and to escalate an unauthorized and unpopular war—a plan which has not been reported before—lacks clear precedent in our history.
“American voters need to know,” said one military service member who requested anonymity. “There’s been a lot of speculation, but voters should get the full picture when making their decisions.”
Boo!
Reality is scarier than even Dystopian Fiction!
But Star Trek fiction is greater than reality.
One more note from me on the side. I really want to say good bye to Sir Pat and all the good work he has done protecting women and children from violent men. Here’s his obit from the New York Times. The entire Star Trek franchise gave me hope for the future when I was one of those outlier children stuck in a bleak place to live. He also did not hide his various geriatric diseases from the public as he narrowed the time to his exiting the earthly existence.
Patrick Stewart, who overcame a bleak childhood in England’s coal-mining country to find acclaim as a Shakespearean actor before making an unlikely career pivot in middle age that would bring him his greatest fame, playing a noble starship captain on the TV series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86.
The death, from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia, was announced on social media.
With a commanding baritone voice — he had shed his Yorkshire dialect as an acting student — Mr. Stewart was by his late 40s an eloquent, statesmanlike presence on the British stage. But to many American television viewers, Mr. Stewart was a new face when he made his debut in 1987 as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in “The Next Generation,” the first live-action spinoff of the original “Star Trek” series of the late 1960s.
I truly loved and admired this man. So many of the roles he chose would be anathema to lesser person. He spoke truths from Shakespeare, Gene Roddenberry, the age of Arthur and the age of Claudius. He was an amazing role model in roles and as himself.
He was a simply good at everything he did.
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This year has been one fucking sad death after another. Now, we lost Barbara Barrie. She was like a constant visitor in my household. She was always on the TV or in movies that we saw…I love the scene in Breaking Away where she pulls out her passport and tells her son:
Mrs. Stoller is trying to encourage her son, Dave, to imagine a bigger life for himself. So she reveals a secret. Mrs. Stoller is trying to encourage her son, Dave, to imagine a bigger life for himself.
Mrs. Stoller: Did I ever show you this?
David: It’s a passport.
Mrs. Stoller: Quite cheap you know. A real bargain. I carry this with me all the time. Someday there’ll be a new girl at the A&P, and when I want to cash a check, she’ll ask me for my identification, and I’ll take out my passport and I’ll say, “Here!”
Her son hugs her, newly emboldened to see beyond the boundaries of his small hometown.
I tried to find a video of that clip but couldn’t. It really is such a sweet part of the movie. I’m sure if you have seen Breaking Away you remember it.
Barbara Barrie — who earned a Tony nomination for ‘Company,’ and both an Oscar and Emmy nom for playing the mom in the film and TV versions of ‘Breaking Away’ — has died at 95.
Barbara Barrie, Actress in ‘Breaking Away,’ ‘Company’ and ‘Barney Miller,’ Dies at 95An Oscar, Emmy and Tony nominee, she was impressive early in her career in the groundbreaking drama ‘One Potato, Two Potato.’www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie…
In that people article it says that Barbara died with medical assistance. Her cancer was terminal.
Now the cartoons, via Cagle:
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Three Dems running for Congress have been injured in car crashes in recent days, and not one of them is quitting.
Mary Peltola was stopped at a red light in Anchorage with her family, headed to the Alaska Federation of Natives banquet, when a driver rear-ended them and pushed their car into a third vehicle.
Her doctors told her to rest, so she moved two campaign stops. Her team says she’s eager to get back out there.
Just one day earlier in Memphis, Heidi Kuhn and her husband Matt were caught in a three-car crash on I-240. She came out of it with a broken nose, whiplash and other facial injuries, and called it “quite a traumatic accident.”
Kuhn is running under a new map Tennessee Republicans drew this year to wipe out the Democratic district in Memphis.
Broken nose and all, she’s still taking on Republican David Kustoff.
Back in August, 80-year-old Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in House history, was riding to church in Toledo when another driver slammed into her car and ran from the scene.
Police arrested a suspect this month and say speeding on wet roads caused the crash.
Within weeks she was recording videos for supporters from a wheelchair. Now she’s fighting for a 23rd term.
Police say they’ve found no sign the Peltola or Kaptur crashes were deliberate. None of these women waited around for answers anyway. They got hurt, and they got right back to work.
Wish them a speedy recovery, then go vote like they’re counting on you.
And let’s not forget the one woman in Arizona who is a candidate that was recently raped while she was out working on her campaign signs.
It is all just crazy…
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The midterm elections are now less than a week away. It’s still looking very good for Democrats, but we can expect that the Trump gang will do everything in their power to interfere with voting and vote counting.
Delores Huerta
But before I get to the election news, there has been another notable death. Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers and famed Civil Rights leader Delores Huerta has left us.
Dolores Huerta, who with Cesar Chavez founded what became the United Farm Workers and led strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and ’70s that unionized many California table-grape growers, changing laws and the lives of thousands of migrant laborers, died on Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, Calif. She was 96.
The cause of death was cancer, Erik Olvera, a spokesman for her family, said.
Ms. Huerta, who became a kind of Mexican American folk hero, depicted in murals and ballads, was the union’s vice president for nearly four decades and, until Mr. Chavez’s death in 1993, his second-in-command. He was the charismatic — and, it was later revealed, abusive — leader; she, the skilled organizer who coordinated walkouts and boycotts under a black Aztec eagle banner and negotiated pathbreaking contracts with agribusiness.
But there was a long-hidden dark side to her years by Mr. Chavez’s side. She was, by her account, raped by him — an assault she never spoke about publicly until early 2026, when she was interviewed by The New York Times as it was reporting on the extensive evidence that Mr. Chavez had also groomed and molested underage girls as young as 12.
“I saw him, again, as my boss, as my hero, as, you know, somebody that would do the impossible,” Ms. Huerta told The Times. “I never talked about it to anybody, and the reason I didn’t is because I just didn’t want to hurt the movement.”
On picket lines and in civil disobedience protests, Ms. Huerta and Mr. Chavez practiced the nonviolent civil rights strategies of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She was arrested 22 times, roughed up by strikebreakers and once severely beaten by a police officer, suffering broken ribs and a ruptured spleen that left her disabled for months.
The mother of 14 children, Ms. Huerta sometimes changed diapers between organizing meetings and nursed her babies during breaks in negotiations. Her children often lived with friends and supporters, ate donated food and coped with frequent moves. Most grew up to become activists and professionals, including a lawyer, a physician, performing artists, a therapist, business administrators and a chef.
Ms. Huerta also championed immigrants’ and women’s rights and was an ally of progressive Democrats like Gov. Jerry Brown of California, who signed legislation she sought; Senator Robert F. Kennedy, whose murder she witnessed; and President Barack Obama, who awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, in 2012.
Mr. Chavez and Ms. Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 with little but a dream of an organization to help migrant laborers who toiled long hours at backbreaking work for low wages and with no job security, and to challenge abuses, including exposure to toxic pesticides, by powerful California growers.
“People thought we were crazy,” Ms. Huerta told The Salt Lake Tribune years later. “They asked: ‘How are you going to organize farm workers? They are poor, powerless immigrants. They don’t have any money and they can’t vote.’”
“Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for justice. Viva the boycott!” – Dolores Huerta
But by 1965, they had 1,200 members and enough clout to join Filipino workers in a strike against table-grape growers in the Delano area of the San Joaquin Valley, and later in the Coachella Valley of Southern California. It was a bitter fight. The growers brought in strikebreakers, and the local police ignored repeated acts of harassment and violence.
When one grower began selling grapes under another’s label, Ms. Huerta and Mr. Chavez called for a boycott against the offender’s products. The F.B.I. placed both labor leaders under surveillance for suspected Communist ties.
But the strike won the support of some other unions, including the United Auto Workers, and of Senator Kennedy, who attended a rally in Delano on March 10, 1968. “The world must know,” he said, addressing the crowd of 4,000, “that the migrant farmworker, the Mexican American, is coming into his own right.”
The senator then handed Mr. Chavez a piece of bread. Mr. Chavez had been fasting for 25 days, taking only water, and weighed 140 pounds, having lost 35. Accepting the bread, Mr. Chavez broke his fast. It was a crucial moment for both sides in the strike.
The union had recently declared a national boycott of all California table grapes, and Ms. Huerta was already in New York City organizing what became one of America’s most successful produce boycotts, a cause célèbre that, polls showed, drew the support of 17 million households and thousands of food stores.
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The Trump administration is doing everything it can to interfere with the elections.
Attorney General Todd Blanche has delivered the same message time and again, at turns soothing and combative: The Justice Department is doing nothing out of the ordinary, and nothing remotely improper, in the lead-up to the midterm elections.
“We don’t do political paybacks,” Mr. Blanche declared last week, after he announced the indictment of a prominent Virginia Democrat on drug-trafficking charges.
“You got to stop it with that!” the usually measured Mr. Blanche said on Sunday, scolding Dana Bash of CNN for suggesting his effort to potentially block certification of Alaska’s Senate election to protect the Republican incumbent was undemocratic.
Yet it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile reassurances with reality, critics say.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing the indictment of L. Louise Lucas, a prominent Virginia Democrat, on drug-trafficking charges last week in Norfolk, Va.Credit…Steve Helber, Associated Press
In recent days Mr. Blanche and his team have announced, unsealed or initiated a succession of headline-grabbing actions certain to placate Mr. Trump’s demand for results, many targeting his longtime adversaries or promoting contested claims of election fraud.
That cadence seems to be quickening to a gallop.
On Monday, a federal judge in Washington unsealed new charges against James B. Comey, the third criminal case brought against the former F.B.I. director Mr. Trump openly reviles. If it is sustained in court, the charges open a new lane of criminal inquiry after the department’s indictment against Mr. Comey in April for sharing an image of seashells that Trump appointees say was a veiled assassination threat.
“This is a classic flood-the-zone strategy — run so many plays at once that the defense doesn’t know where to look,” said Greg Rosen, a former federal prosecutor who led the Justice Department section that investigated Trump supporters who ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Department officials declined to comment on ongoing investigations or matters before grand juries. But Emily Covington, the agency’s spokeswoman, said that all of the recent actions reported in the news media broadly reflected the normal progression of investigations and were in no way related to the election or partisan motives.
Mr. Comey’s team requested the charges be unsealed, and a judge determined the timing of the release. The government did not object, Ms. Covington said.
“This department is following the facts and the law, not anyone’s political timetable,” she said in a statement.
In the run up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the nation’s most powerful law enforcement official has hit the campaign trail, stumping at the Republican convention in Texas and at rallies for candidates aligned with President Donald Trump in New York and North Carolina.
The Justice Department, under Blanche’s leadership, has filed broad and controversial election-related lawsuits, including suing the state of Alaska last week to preemptively block certification of the results of the state’s tight Senate race if the Republican candidate loses.
The Justice Department has also executed search warrants and filed criminal charges against some of Trump’s political foes, delivering on promises to the president’s conservative base that current and former officials viewed as corrupt or undermining the president would face legal consequences.
The Justice Department has traditionally stayed quiet in the months before an election, fearful of being perceived of using its law enforcement weight to influence elections. But Blanche has had some of his busiest weeks as attorney general ahead of next week’s midterms, cannonballing into politically fraught cases as the president cheers him on.
The agency’s recent targets include James B. Comey, a former director of the FBI and staunch Trump critic who this month was hit with a third federal case in 13 months.
The Justice Department also this week tried and failed to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump aide, for allegedly lying to Congress during her testimony about the president’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Days earlier, the agency charged two former FBI officials, who have long been targets of right-wing attacks, with lying to Congress.
Trump’s most ardent supporters have applauded Blanche, saying the Justice Department has long been weaponized against the president and that he is bringing legitimate cases against people who they believe broke the law.
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It used to be a rare occurrence for a grand jury to decline to indict someone charged by the DOJ. It has happened more than once under Trump and Blanche. The latest was the failure to indict Cassidy Hutchinson.
A federal grand jury in D.C. rejected an attempt by the Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a grand jury matter.
Cassidy Hutchinson
In a brief court appearance Tuesday afternoon, Neville S. Hedley, who introduced himself as the acting senior litigation counsel at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui that the grand jury had not concurred on the proposed indictment. Hedley did not specify the defendant, but the people familiar said he was referring to Hutchinson.
The failure of the Justice Department to secure the indictment marks the latest rebuke of its efforts to prosecute one of the president’s political enemies. Attorneys for Hutchinson could not immediately be reached for comment.
The decision to present a case to federal grand jurors followed years of calls from Trump and his Republican allies for Hutchinson to face legal consequences for providing what they contend was false and damaging testimony about what Trump said and did as his supporters stormed the Capitol that January day. The case was presented to the grand jury by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in an unusual move for a false-statements investigation, The Washington Post has reported….
It is exceedingly rare for grand juries to reject indictments, in part because prosecutors only need to convince a majority of grand jurors that there is probable cause that a crime was committed — a relatively low threshold. But the Justice Department’s campaign to target Trump’s perceived adversaries has repeatedly been rebuffed by grand juries and judges, including in February, when another federal grand jury in D.C. refused to indict six Democratic lawmakers over their comments to military service members.
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I hope Democrats are prepared for what Trump will do to try to interfere with the elections–this week and after the results are in. Here’s the latest on that.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter of Los Angeles just concluded a 3 1/2 hour hearing (minus recesses) in the California election case without issuing a ruling. He promised one tomorrow.
But he concluded the hearing with a very direct and unmistakeable warning to the Trump DOJ: “This court believes that it would be wise that any threats to state and county election employees cease immediately.”
The warning comes after top DOJ officials have repeatedly threatened to prosecute election administrators if they process ballots cast by noncitizens. The threats continued earlier in the hearing, with Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, again insisting that knowingly processing ballots that the DOJ claims are from noncitizens would be a federal crime.
The DOJ is promulgating President Trump’s Big Lie of rampant noncitizen voting by seeking a temporary restraining order that would force Los Angeles County to segregate and not yet count ballots from voters who appear on a Trump administration list that it alleges contains the names of some 20,000 noncitizen voters. It’s an unprecedented move to introduce a documented citizenship verification procedure into the election process while voting is underway.
While Judge Carter didn’t immediately rule, he telegraphed that he was likely to deny the TRO and suggested that instead he would schedule an expedited preliminary injunction proceeding in roughly two weeks so that he could hear evidence and witnesses and build a factual record for appeal. He also indicated he would appoint a special master, whom he had already decided on and was present in courtroom, to help him sort through the technical election administration issues involved in the case.
Importantly, Judge Carter’s suggested timeline of two weeks would kick the case past Election Day and prevent the Trump DOJ from interfering in the processing of ballots while voting is still underway. The DOJ could still prosecute noncitizen voters, if any, he said.
Jacqueline Wallace, a Jamaican national who had applied for a U.S. green card, was asking about student aid at a junior college when a school employee asked her to register to vote. Wallace signed up as a Republican and filled out the 2024 Florida GOP primary ballot that arrived in the mail, her attorney said in court.
Last year, in a push to investigate what President Donald Trump has alleged is a Democratic scheme to perpetuate voter fraud by noncitizens, the Justice Department charged Wallace with making a false statement in order to vote and illegally casting a ballot as an alien. The first charge is a felony, the second a misdemeanor.
People cast their votes on the first day of early voting, Saturday, in New York. (Heather Khalifa, AP)
After she pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor this spring, federal prosecutors touted the outcome as a win for Operation Take Back America, the Trump administration’s effort to “repel the invasion of illegal immigration” and combat transnational cartels.
To U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker, however, Wallace’s actions were something else: an honest mistake. At sentencing in April, the judge said Wallace, now 54, had not intended to commit a crime and was not part of an organized plot to sway the presidential election.
If anything, said Walker, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama, it was Trump and his allies — “everybody from the leader of the free world all the way down” — who were undermining public faith in the electoral system by falsely claiming Democrats were rigging elections.
He sentenced Wallace to time served.
As the midterm elections approach, the Trump administration is again ramping up attempts to root out voting by noncitizens. The Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security are devoting massive investigative resources to the effort, and they have announced indictments in more than 20 states across the country in recent weeks.
Authorities have charged more than 180 people with illegally voting or registering to vote as noncitizens since the start of Trump’s second term, according to a Washington Post analysis of those cases. Roughly 70percent of those people were charged in the last two months.
None of the cases includes allegations of an organized effort by Democrats or anyone else to cheat by drawing noncitizens to the polls. Rather, they appear to involve isolated incidents scattered throughout the country, many with defendants who told authorities they were simply confused about voting rules.
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What other nefarious plans could the Trump gang have to interfere in elections? Some possibilities:
So far, four doomsday scenarios based on Trump’s statements and actions have yet to materialize, in part because of legal challenges against aggressive attempts by his administration to restrict voting. There has been no major purge of voter rolls, no widespread failure to deliver mail ballots, no major presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at early voting locations, and no national emergency declaration that could suppress or even halt voting.
“We look at every potential situation that could arise, and so far it’s just been really a smooth, quiet election . . . and early voting is going strong,” said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, noting that elections officials nationwide are in communication. “We’re all sharing best practices and making sure that we’re on our toes, ready for anything that could happen during that 12-hour period when the polls are open on Election Day.”
But even as more than 34 million people already have cast their ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida, state officials still must get through the surge of voters on Election Day and count all the ballots. Then comes the certification of winners and their official seating, both of which the Trump administration and its allies could try to block.
Charles Stewart III, director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, published an academic paper in September outlining the threats and guardrails in the 2026 elections, making the case for “restrained optimism” despite “the cloud of an aggressive campaign to undermine the integrity of the election administration system.”
State and local election officials across the country have been redoubling training efforts to prepare for the potential for federal interference.Credit…John Locher, Associated Press
“I’ve put a lot of my optimism into the lack of capacity to do the doomsday things, and the demonstrated fecklessness of the administration so far in following through on many of its threats,” Stewart said in an interview. “It’s also the case . . . that the the main activity is yet to come, and it’s likely to come in the post-election challenges.”
With a difficult midterm environment for Republicans given high prices and the historical trend of the party in power losing congressional seats, Trump has taken steps to restrict voting and undermine confidence in elections. He declared a “crisis of election security” in a July primetime speech and ended September’s Republican midterm convention by asking attendees to pledge to “try and cheat like hell” as he said his opponents do.
“The interference in the election, I think is going to be very difficult at any level because the courts have been pretty clear they’re not going to tolerate people interfering with the states’ rights to run elections,” said Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin, a Democrat. Although Trump has been focused on states with more competitive elections, Galvin noted that he had to successfully fight a Justice Department suit to force him to turn over voter registration information.
Much of the preparations for Nov. 3 can be distilled into one overarching concern — that the Trump administration will somehow attempt to meddle with the voting process or the results. The tricky part, officials said, is predicting what shape that interference might take while also recognizing that it might not materialize at all.
“This is the first time ever that we have had to engage in scenario planning to safeguard against potential federal interference in elections,” said Shenna Bellows, the secretary of state in Maine. “It seems like the federal government is now adversarial to the states.”
It remains to be seen whether any of these scenarios will play out. Many federal officials have dismissed the idea that agents or soldiers could be sent to the polls, and the courts have blocked most of President Trump’s efforts to insert the federal government into state and local election administration….
With one week until Election Day, officials around the country say that they are bracing for even more unwanted and potentially undemocratic federal intervention — even as they can’t be sure what, if anything, the Trump Administration might do. To prepare, secretaries of state and other state and local officials have met with lawyers and local law enforcement agencies, trained poll workers and held meetings to consider what could come next.
Among their top concerns: that Mr. Trump’s attacks on the integrity of American voting systems could form the basis for challenging the legitimacy of the results. Along with that unease comes the worry that any federal intervention could further undermine public confidence in elections and cause voters to stay home….
Could federal officials try to seize ballots, as they did earlier this year in Fulton County, Ga., as part of a criminal investigation that thus far hasn’t resulted in any charges?
Could Mr. Trump deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel or other federal agents to polling sites, even though his homeland security chief has said I.C.E. will not patrol polling stations and would be deployed to such an area only to investigate “specific threats?”
Might he invoke the Insurrection Act and somehow summon the military in connection with the election? Mr. Trump has refused to rule out the possibility.
“We really are shadowboxing here, because we don’t know when or if the blow is going to land,” said Steve Simon, the Minnesota secretary of state. “We don’t know the character of, or content of, what might be headed our way.”
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That’s all I have for today. Food for thought as you vote early or next Tuesday. So far the courts have managed to protect voters from Trump. Lets hope that continues.
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The most important day is coming up. What makes me nervous is all this talk of being ahead in the polls. If you remember, Hillary was way ahead in the polls…and look what happened. (Honestly, that has always bothered me.)
Just a few things before the cartoons.
Let’s take a look at a few clips of Trump and his minions, these fuckers:
Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
That last clip is a bit queer…Vance seems to be making the democrats talking points.
JUST IN: Judge Gleason in Alaska sounds deeply skeptical of DOJ's 11th hour lawsuit there to halt certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.She grants Dems' motion for expedited consideration and notes DOJ waited four months to sue over the ballot. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28…
BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President."ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show…
BREAKING: Preliminary injunction granted in the golf course case by Judge Reyes! The threat to close & destroy this historic property is the latest act of Trump corruption that the courts have responded toKudos to our wonderful clients & cocounsel @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates
Happy Halloween!!
Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired.
And the other forementioned ugly, JD Vance, can’t seem to get his stories right. This is from MSNOW’s Steve Benen writing at 
Let’s get to the Good now. This report on the upcoming election is by Ford McCracken writing for 
Just go indulge in all the great news. It will make you feel a lot better than plastic pumpkin full of Chocolate goodies tomorrow night. But, one more ugly from the bad man in the People’s house. This if from Brian Beutler writing at 
But Star Trek fiction is greater than reality.
