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US embassy Moscow re-ups "do not travel" warning and tells Americans to leave Russia "immediately." Nothing official about the reported "pneumonic plague" case
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Susan Collins and Troy Jackson are opposites in many ways, but share one big thing: deep roots in Maine's unique Aroostook County
We went there and talked to his babysitter, her dentist, and many others to understand how "The County" shaped both of them
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A+ kicker from @kenvogel here.
SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government.
@JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…
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Testy debate between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson right up until the end
After moderator ended with a joke question about the Patriots, both candidates laughed — but the mic caught Collins working in a final barb: "Troy is a Steelers fan."
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NEW via FOIA: Lawmakers in both parties asked the Federal Election Commission this year for help on AI chatbots, prediction markets and campaign-funded childcare
The answer every time: it can’t
Weeks ahead of the most expensive election ever, the campaign finance watchdog can’t enforce the law because of a quorum lack @CBSNews
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Amazing how we have built a society that can take any leisure activity and make it into an expensive, consumption-oriented status battle nytimes.com/2026/10/07/busin…
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DOJ hired these prosecutors:
-A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster
-A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads
-A guy who violated attorney privilege in high-profile murder trial
-A guy currently facing animal neglect charges nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…
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New: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David where future presidents and heads of state can visit — and he’ll comp memberships for his successors washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Kennedy made a quiet, unannounced visit to the NIH yesterday to discuss vaccine safety research. It was his first visit there as secretary. No press.
The entire Bethesda campus was encouraged to telework. An email warned of "increased traffic and security," without saying why.
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SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government.
@JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…
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IMO: a subset of ppl will find AI tools useful when it feels like they lessen the time tax or begin to shift what's seen as an imbalance of power btwn a bureaucracy/corporation & the individual. they'll engender a lot of hate if they're used where that imbalance doesn't exist
I don't think it's that hard to figure out why most people do not see huge upside in letting a bot conduct personal email correspondence for them without their active oversight. Most people wanna know what's in their emails to and from their kid's teacher or whatever.
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Chuck Schumer calls Trump statement he'll have MAGA, Inc pay for his TV ads "another illegal act."
(candidates and officeholders aren't supposed to control super PACs)
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Trump, who banned outlets from the White House on the basis of his claim that one-sided news poses a national security threat, is demanding that Fox make its news more one-sided
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Re-upping our reporting from over the weekend: Current and former officials tell us the FBI hack stemmed from incompetent cyber security at the bureau. It’s being called one of the worst counterintelligence disasters in recent memory. With @CarolLeonnig
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This is a wow story.
The former head of Germany's foreign intelligence agency has been arrested for alleged espionage, disclosure of state secrets and attempted treason.
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Roger Marshall, Senate MAHA Caucus founder, voted for the farm bill MAHA activists hate. So did half the House MAHA Caucus.
“Senator Marshall was supposed to be that person” to advocate for us, @GlyphosateGirl told us. “He is not.”
w/ @tspencenews
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New: The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administration. propub.li/4zmkdnX
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From my reporting, it's clear that many rural Republican voters are disaffected. I think the question for Democrats, raised by @JohnAnzo's tweet, is whether they have a plan to hold and expand those votes if they win them in the midterms.
There are big cracks with rural voters for the GOP.
Trump won 70% of rural voters. In our @WSJ poll the GOP was getting only 56% of rural voters. If Dems get 35% to 37% in the midterms that is a big deal in OH.
40% of all rural voters feel that Trump's healthcare policies have made things worse in their area.
Ohio's @amyactonoh path to the governor’s office runs through rural areas that had turned against them .
@DemGovs
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This rural corner of Maine produced both Susan Collins and Troy Jackson — and set them on collision course in Senate battle.
Insightful read from @sambrodey
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