Rachel Maddow

maddow.bsky.social

19 October 2026 21:24

Georgia: 40% increase in first-day turnout compared with the 2022 midterms, and more than double the first-day participation seen during the 2018 midterms. "Early ballots in North Carolina and Maine are up 38% from the last midterms, while Iowa has seen a 61% increase" www.kark.com/news/early-v...

Brap

brap.bsky.social

19 October 2026 13:06

There seems to already be the usual misinformation around this policy. What is this post referring to? The guidance surely has not had enough time to have killed anyone.

Steve Benen

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19 October 2026 12:56

Trump’s stated rationale for showering Putin with unearned gifts, in exchange for nothing, doesn’t make a lot of sense. So naturally we have to turn to alternate explanations — including his former DNI’s concerns about what Putin might have on Trump. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Anne Applebaum

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19 October 2026 12:18

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

For Women Scotland

forwomen.scot

19 October 2026 11:59

No we are "wildly hostile" to a failure to support women in the workplace. That's not being hostile to Unions, it's objecting to a failure to fulfil their obligations.