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Whenever we get out of this, antitrust needs to be back on the menu in a big way.

Defense contractor and car maker and social network? Not anymore.

Web hosting and retail and defense and a big newspaper? Nope.

Cloud computing and TikTok and CBS and CNN and more? Get ready for some rough riding.

political news media does such a disservice whenever they cover polls. new example: latest poll comes out showing Mamdani with double digit lead, while average of polling hasn't moved, they then report Cuomo has closed the gap and Mamdani in trouble. so so bad of news media.

I've been screaming this, that word has got to get out better. I don't know the magic fix for it, but it can start with us telling everyone we know. You're gonna know someone who's going to miss getting SNAP, and we can at least tell them Republicans refused to pass the Dem bill to do it.

Maybe we all need to go back to wearing masks.

Today's quick update [Oct 29]:

- RSF drone strikes reported in Altina, North Darfur; the town hosts a large number of displaced people from Elfashir & other parts of Darfur.

- Reports that over 460 people were killed in RSF attack on Saudi Hospital in Elfashir.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Marist drops a midnight poll of New York City's mayoral race...

... and finds virtually no movement.

Mamdani leads 48% to 32% to 16%.
(He led 46% to 30% to 18% a month ago.)

maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/nyc-ma...

The author, Jeremy Peters, is arguably the single worst hack at the @nytimes.com. See, e.g., presswatchers.org/2021/11/so-m...

Blue Wave Incoming

#earlyvote numbers for three states where I have party registration, percentage point change in Dem party registration among early voters, same day before the election comparison to 2024 general:

PA: +10.3 points
NJ: +7.5 points
CT: +7.3 points

It's toxic and not constructive. It's my actual Kryptonite.

“I have learned to accept the fact that we risk disappointment, disillusionment, even despair, every time we act. Every time we decide to believe the world can be better. Every time we decide to trust others to be as noble as we think they are. And that there might be years during which our grief is equal to, or even greater than, our hope. The alternative, however, not to act, and therefore to miss experiencing other people at their best, reaching toward their fullness, has never appealed to me.” - Alice Walker

Students at Little Village Lawndale High School held a walkout and protest today as they say Operation Midway Blitz has left their families and communities living in fear. Victor Jacobo has a live loo... TikTok video by CBSChicago

High school students in Latino neighborhood in Chicago start walk out in protest over ICE. If/when kids from other neighborhoods start joining, as they did during BLM, that feels catalytic on possibly a grand scale www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMXv3283/

And his noble assistant who's actually running everything would do pretty much anything out of pure spite.

If there was a serious reporter covering congress atm, he would be told the point is to do the damn job we're paying him to do. A really good reporter would follow up with if there's no point, then resign and let someone take your paycheck who thinks there is a point to being Speaker. #shutdown

Unfortunately for them, everyone else has cameras too.

Clearly define your values and stick to them and embrace your own natural personality. When a candidate comes along who does that Dems will recognize them right off the bat. We've seen the mini version of that in NYC, and lo and behold Democrats are starting to panic. Cut it out.

And he's one of the most popular governors in the country.

Bashear is governing Kentucky no less without doing that.

When the Republican pollsters can't get him below fifty percent disapproval, even Rasmussen, it's bad. And the economic effects of what he and Republicans have been doing are just now about to be felt.

Ohh, look, you're just like Trump, getting the the two meanings of "asylum" confused.

It's on you to make an informed choice and live with the consequences when you don't.

It bears pointing out that Trump's bootlicking, traitorous servants in the Congress have sabotaged it, helping to neutralize Article I of the US Constitution, by keeping the House adjourned for an unheard of period of time given that *the federal government is currently shut down*

It didn't work out so well for King Charles. These people think that they're going to establish and continue an autocracy when trump is no longer there. But they're throwing everything into chaos, and they will not control the aftermath. No one will be accepted as a replacement leader for him.

sure, you can introduce new conflict that cross-pressures voters in a new direction. this is what trump did with entitlements in 2016. one proposal is for dems to take on corrpution. a related fight could be an anti-system/'populist' campaign against corporate influence in the D party (Sanders 2016)

It’s hard not to feel like one of the reasons the Democratic Party isn’t united or on its way to a core strategy is because so many individual electeds across the ideological spectrum aren’t interested in unity. There’s a pervasive “pick me” vibe in the party at the moment.

OMG This

When focus on Trump ceases to hide these people they need to have a spotlight shown on them and their behavior.

Voting. Is. Strategy. If the opposition outsmarts you with it, they are going to win every single time.

You've got to do everything in your power to protect your rights. That means ensuring that they don't win a primary, first off. He's the governor of CA right now and one of the few standing up to Trump. NYC needs to show that people show up to vote. If it doesn't, we're all in trouble.

I don't think they should feel free to do it. At least quit trying to suppress votes and cause people pain and suffering. We see where we are right now because of depressed turnout.

Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.