See You In Court? The Securities and Exchange Commission will no longer protect shareholders’ right to file class action lawsuits.

NEWS: The Trump administration just quietly issued a ruling empowering huge companies to block their own shareholders from holding corporate executives accountable in court.

Retirees, pension funds & 401k holders can now be blocked from filing anti-fraud lawsuits.

Karen Marie (@soulshine2669) on Threads On this Veteran’s Day I salute my sisters in arms. There is no fiercer warrior than a woman on a mission🫡

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Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless "You're just a number to them."

When Genesis found out she was pregnant, she asked her managers at Amazon for a chair to sit on and extra breaks. She wound up with cut hours and no paid maternity leave—and homeless. Now, she and other pregnant Amazon warehouse workers are speaking up. My latest:
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'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

He's not opening the government because he doesn't want those secret files revealed. It's not complicated.

As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy.

This is the other big story people aren't paying attention to but you really need to widen your lens.

The broligarchy is coming for all of our milkshakes.

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Trump-MAGA Fury Drove a Georgia GOPer Into Exile. He Just Struck Back. Geoff Duncan was the Peachtree State’s lieutenant governor who defied Trump in 2020. Now he’s running for governor as a Democrat—and in an interview, he explains why.

Duncan is attempting an intriguing experiment: He’s running in this highly contested swing state and *emphasizing* his willingness to take on Trump’s lawlessness, as a former Republican. trib.al/N9bkYRt

The idea is that at least some Republican voters are “disgusted” by Trump, as he put it.

GOP Rep Calls Democrats ‘Terrorists,’ Urges Violence in Wild Posting Spree In the wake of the high-profile killing of far-right figure Charlie Kirk in Utah, Wisconsin Representative Derrick Van Orden (R) has gone scorched earth online — firing off more than 550 posts on X in...

So this douche is going to step down now, right? Right?

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Lisa Murkowski is beyond pathetic.

Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719.

Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469.

Textbook corporate greed.

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

Missouri Gov. Calls Special Session to Ram Through Gerrymander, Strip Citizen Power Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount The company was ordered to pay $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages by a Miami jury.

Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount

US electricity price surge puts Trump pledge in jeopardy Power demand is booming as generation costs are rising

US electricity price surge puts Trump pledge in jeopardy on.ft.com/45OXS56 | opinion

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier on the House floor, with a blanket, pillows and a book

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

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Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party.

This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope

Pro-Kremlin political analyst Sergei Markov said that the source of tension between Russia and Azerbaijan is the plane incident.

"We know that we shot down the plane - that's quite clear. They believe it is definitively established that we shot it down.

After Park Avenue Shooting, Anti-Muslim Disinformation Spread Rapidly Once it became clear that the only Muslim involved in the attack was one of the victims, right-wing commentators sought to shift the focus to Zohran Mamdani.

From the moment the news broke of a mass shooting on Park Avenue, misinformation careened through social media, declaring the massacre an act of Islamic terrorism or blaming Zohran Mamdani, who is seeking to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor.

Sickening.

Bove misled lawmakers about his actions in NYC mayor case, evidence suggests The details from a whistleblower complaint emerged hours before a final vote on Bove’s nomination to a federal judgeship.

NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didn’t offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didn’t. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX

O’Leary: If any of you cared about the victims, you wouldn't drag these women back into the limelight… They don’t want you to help them anymore

Cross: How do you know that?

O’Leary: Don’t you think if it was you, you would rather get on with your life?

Cross: No, I would want justice pursued

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