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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
NEW: Scott Presler allowed multiple out of state GOP operatives to use his home in Pennsylvania to vote in the '24 election. Those operatives then left the state. Election lawyers say this could be in violation of PA voting laws. via @BrendanHartnett thebulwark.com/p/gop-operati…
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New: Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, for allegedly deceiving and harming Texans. CEO Sam Altman and ChatGPT are top competitors to Elon Musk, the tech billionaire fueling Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign. bit.ly/4BoVWz9
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
Revelations about WH's involvement in Epstein memo in files pried loose by @DDFund_ Trump was briefed his name was in the files—later his deputy chief of staff was editing the memo that declared the matter closed Patel sent the draft: "Here you go" -TN rawstory.com/raw-investigate…
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
German police said they had detained a suspect after fire broke out at a historic mountain guest house known as the "Eagle's Nest," used as a retreat by Nazi officials, including the dictator Adolf Hitler. Police are investigating whether the suspect, who was detained close to the scene, was connected to the fire, they said in a statement. cnn.it/4iC6mUG
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Just 11 days before the midterm elections, the Trump administration is rolling back a slate of tariffs on Canadian products that disproportionately hurt residents in Maine and similar states. The new policy will exempt nine categories of products. wapo.st/4suneAk
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
Amy Acton’s estranged mother knew her husband had a daughter from a previous marriage who’d also accused him of rape. But when 12-year-old Amy told her mom that he was raping her, instead of concluding she was married to a pedophile rapist she concluded both girls were lying.
Tapper: Trump's closing argument akin to 'we stand by those who stand by child rapists' Hear unearthed audio from Amy Acton's estranged mother, who is featured in Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's controversial ad.
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
However, let's recognize @elonmusk's bravery. Meddling in Europen politics and attacking the EU itself when you want regulatory privileges and frequency permissions is a bold business strategy.
More reporting suggesting that Musk does indeed have his finger on Starshield's operability. Quite a lot of power for a ketamine-addicted trillionaire in bed with hostile foreign regimes. You might even say this endangers U.S. national security. wsj.com/world/trump-called-m…
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
Meta's "accidental" suspension of the No Kings Instagram account — at a time when the org was posting updates from ongoing marches — was not an anomaly. I found dozens of similar instances of Meta "mistakenly" targeting left-leaning activist accounts, often during crucial election windows. My latest.
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
“Nobody knows anything,” Trump says about the Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother. Actually we know quite a bit about how that mom stuck by Acton’s accused pedophile rapist, thanks to court records and documents! cc @DonaldTrump
Trump praises Acton's "smart" mother in Ramaswamy's ad, despite abuse allegations
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Well before the throttling this month of Ukraine's military access to Elon Musk's satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
Trump is considering reviving his military campaign against Iran with several days of strikes, likely just after the midterms The potential targets include Iran’s missile and drone arsenal - as well as its energy infrastructure and nuclear facilities theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Researchers say that Melania Trump’s call for investment in women’s health research contradicts staffing and budget cuts at the nation’s health and research agencies. washingtonsun.com/health/res…
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
Ossoff: "Mike Collins should explain his votes for the war, tariffs, and healthcare cuts, and he should come out and explain this morning's CNN report. If Mike Collins does not come out today and respond to this CNN reporting, then he is a coward." Here's the report: cnn.com/2026/10/23/politics/…
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BAIER: Millions of Michiganders have private insurance… Will you tell them today that their plans are going away? EL-SAYED: No, I don't want to take away anything. It’s about providing healthcare for everybody. It’s like saying because you have public schools, you can’t have private schools. I’m fine with people keeping their private insurance if that’s what they want.
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Within five days of being deported from the U.S., Moussa Diawara says Ghanaian officials forced him onto a flight to Mali, the very country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to. Diawara says he was homeless and went into hiding. Watch the 60 Minutes report Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
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Replying to @elonmusk
The US has been MAKING MONEY from selling Europe weapons that they then give to Ukraine to stop your buddy Putin from bringing his barbarians further into the continent. Since February 2025, the US stopped all aid and Europe had to pick up the slack. Learn something.
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
No, @elonmusk, the U.S. stopped funding Ukraine last year. In fact, U.S. companies make money on American weapons for which we Europeans pay. The more you meddle in our politics and the more you play politics with your products, the more you damage your brand.
Replying to @elonmusk
And some of that US taxpayer money comes back through multiple laundry machines to fund political campaigns in America, which is why you see some politicians caring more about Ukraine than America!
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Jonathan Landay Reuters retweeted
I hope you read Jonathan Martin’s new column on the Ohio governor’s race. Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad really is a new low in modern American politics. It puts Amy Acton’s estranged mother on camera calling her a liar. What it leaves out is that Acton was taken from that home at 12, after her stepfather was indicted for molesting her, and that her mother sided with him over her own daughter. Let’s be honest about how we got here. Donald Trump certainly didn't invent negative campaigning but he has spent the last decade incessantly teaching his party that cruelty wins. This week he and JD Vance shamefully defended the ad. Ramaswamy has cynically embraced the ends-justify-the-means politics Trump has wrought. It is disgusting. Nobody should pretend this all fades once Trump leaves the arena. The only thing that really changes this is Ramaswamy’s defeat. He and anyone else who mirrors this sort of insidious nonsense needs to lose, and lose badly. I am grateful to the Republicans pushing back. There aren't enough of them, and they need to be louder. Contrast ads that highlight records, votes or promises are one thing. My campaigns have run plenty of them over the years. But Ramaswamy’s gutter tactics are something else entirely. My kids are watching. So are yours. We can disagree and compete fiercely without sinking to this sort of garbage. We owe them, and our fellow Americans, a politics more honest and decent than what we are seeing today. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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