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Peter Elkind retweeted
Have you noticed it gets cold in winter when people start putting warm clothes on?
Have you noticed that flu season starts after the vaccines are given out?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Flu shots are given before flu season on purpose. The CDC advises getting vaccinated in September or October, ideally by the end of October, because it takes about two weeks after vaccination for protective antibodies to develop. cdc.gov/flu/vaccines/v…
Peter Elkind retweeted
What a betrayal. The US is not good to its word.
Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. nyti.ms/4jPVvrw
Peter Elkind retweeted
NEW: Many were confused when Gov. Greg Abbott hired Nate Schatzline, a Christian nationalist election denier w/ no background in voting law, as a top adviser on election security. We now know what he's up to: Attacking Muslims - with Abbot's apparent blessing. (Gift link below).
Peter Elkind retweeted
“Trump’s superpower was his intuitive understanding of what motivated his supporters. Many Republicans privately tell me that he’s lost that feel. Trump now lives, they think, in a gilded bubble, palling around with billionaires, oblivious to—and, even worse, uncaring about—the problems facing so many voters” theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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NEW: Trump Has Tried to Exert More Control Over Elections. Here Are the Key Findings From Our Reporting. propublica.org/article/midte…
Peter Elkind retweeted
I dug into Texas AG Ken Paxton's history of using his office to benefit Elon Musk, including launching investigations into Musk's enemies.
As it happens, Musk has also poured over $158 million into supporting Paxton's run for senate.
wired.com/story/elon-musks-t…
Peter Elkind retweeted
A private prison company offered Minnesota an empty prison for 75 million dollars. The state said no. Then Trump’s administration paid the same company almost 500 million for it.
The prison has sat empty in Appleton, Minnesota since 2010. Last year CoreCivic emailed the state and offered to sell it for 75 million, upgrades included. Minnesota passed. Fifteen months later, Homeland Security bought it for an ICE detention center at 495.6 million.
How could this be? You guessed it. CoreCivic gave half a million dollars to Trump’s inaugural committee. And it still gets paid about 75 million a year to run the place.
Republicans love talking about fraud in Minnesota. JD Vance says his task force is all over it. So where are they on this one? I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
Peter Elkind retweeted
New: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry lost reelection to his seat on the board of directors for the massive planned power and data center company he co-founded called Fermi, according to a transcript of the vote from an annual meeting Friday obtained by The Texas Tribune. bit.ly/4sCRh94
Peter Elkind retweeted
3 secretaries of state confirmed to me that they received letters from the Dept of Justice in the last day reminding them to preserve election records (which is already required by law for 22 months) and threatening them with jail time or a fine if they don’t comply. Example:
Peter Elkind retweeted
Musk's most extensive comments on the midterms thus far, but they're not exactly new.
If you've followed Musk long enough, you see the patterns he uses in deploying fear as a existential motivator at his companies and during election cycles.
At SpaceX, he has told workers that their mission is to make human life multiplanetary in case something catastrophic happens to Earth. Similarly, during the 2024 presidential election, he told people that it would be the "last election in America" if people did not vote for Trump.
Democrats controlled the presidency, house and senate for the first two years of Biden's term and did not do any of these things. During the 2022 midterms, Musk urged people to vote Republican because "shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties." Now he's pushing for the continued GOP domination of all branches of gov.
nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/el…
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My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
Peter Elkind retweeted
I had to double check and make sure this wasn’t AI.
Yes, the president of the United States really posted this on his official TikTok.
Peter Elkind retweeted
After a 90-min hearing, Judge McFadden took under advisement James Comey’s motion to dismiss the 10/5 “waiverless information” filed against him in DC. He didn’t bar govt from seeking an indictment meanwhile, but said he’d be “unhappy” if Comey was arrested in a “dawn raid.”
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Peter Elkind retweeted
BREAKING: The U.S. cancels plans for a photo with top G20 diplomats after Europeans objected to standing beside Russia, AP sources say. apnews.com/article/g20-rubio…
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Senate Democrats are asking Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to cease efforts to build data centers on public lands.
The effort comes after The Washington Sun reported that the Trump administration is considering applications for several data center developments.
washingtonsun.com/congress/s…
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The WSJ lays out what keeping Gulf oil flowing actually involves:
-50,000 US troops, 20 Navy ships, two carriers across the region.
-$2–3 Billion USD/month or 67-100 Million USD/day above normal military spending
-Aircraft, warships and crews under mounting strain.
-Some US officials see the situation as untenable without more international help. Coalition efforts have failed.
wsj.com/politics/national-se…
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I’m one of those Washingtonians who saw the low-flying plane and wondered whether it was a terrorist attack or a plane about to crash. Glad it was neither but not a funny stunt.
A bizarre stunt where a U.S. military aircraft conducted an alarmingly low flyover of D.C. for Donald Trump’s Halloween party has backfired spectacularly. thedailybeast.com/trumps-gha…
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Q: If the administration has declared war on waste and fraud, can you explain the $420 million overpayment for a prison in Appleton, Minnesota, when the company offered it to the state of Minnesota for $75 million?
BESSENT: That question is a waste of time.
Peter Elkind retweeted
Today, less than a week before an election that is a referendum on the cost of living, Trump‘s DOJ is telling a court in Washington that he wants to build a golf course, STARTING with a seawall costing up to $400 million. And they won’t say where any of the $ is coming from.🧵
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ALERT: Another pardoned Jan 6 rioter has been charged w/ a sex offense
Prosecutors in Michigan allege Nathan Thornsberry sexually assaulted a client during a massage therapy appointment
Thornsberry was previously charged w/ civil disorder & resisting police amid Jan 6 siege
