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Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
you're just going about your day and you now get to read stuff like "Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean" and you just have to nod and move on with your day.
“Oceans are different, sir.” lmao
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Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
New: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the USPS' cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected. propub.li/4izE2Cp
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
The Trump administration says tonight that it could begin construction of the triumphal arch on Nov. 5 — immediately after next month's vote.
New: Trump adds several political appointees to the National Capital Planning Commission, replacing career officials as alternate commissioners, before next month's vote on his controversial triumphal arch.
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
Details are out on Vivek Ramaswamy’s statewide TV buy for his attack spot featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother:
$4,518,306 total for ads in every Ohio media market, starting Thursday and running through Election Day, per @MediumBuying.
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
Old Highway 6 in Colorado revealed as Lake Dillon Reservoir's water levels recede
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
New: Andrew Feinberg, the reporter that Trump snapped at here, was slated to serve as the print pool reporter on Thursday.
Feinberg confirms to me that, without explanation, the White House told him today that he would no longer be the print pooler on Trump's Thursday trip.
Donald Trump lost his temper at a journalist during an Oval Office press conference, calling him a “sick person”.
The US president raged at The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg after he asked him questions about his golf course and his new tip-off hotline designed to expose fraudsters.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories revolving around COS Susie Wiles — or it would suffer unspecified consequences.
axios.com/2026/10/21/white-h…
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
NEWS — President Trump will hold a rally in Corinth, Mississippi, on Monday, per @magnoliatribune.
The announcement comes as @Axios reports that Senate Republicans are increasingly concerned about Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s re-election bid against Democrat Scott Colom.
Democrats have announced a $1.2 million ad buy supporting Colom.
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
The Vivek Ramaswamy thing is wild
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a candidate October Surprise themselves before
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
Camp Lejeune veterans and their families have been pleading for help for years. Their stories are heartbreaking.
I wrote about them here: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
The president says here that he will only fund help for these families if his party does well in an election.
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
Utah Republicans packed the court this year with two extra seats, plus pressured a justice to resign, all in anger at the state Supreme Court helping strike down their gerrymander. New reporting on one of the justices:
#EXCLUSIVE: Newly appointed Utah Supreme Court Justice Michael Menssen signed the effort to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law, Prop. 4 in February, seven months before he would become a justice. He did not recuse himself from the latest case involving the redistricting plaintiffs against the legislature. @abc4utah
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Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush & son of another President Bush, just posted that he voted for @JamesTalarico. Neil still lives in the same neighborhood as father did for decades here in Houston.
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
SCOOP: Vivek Ramaswamy is doubling down on the explosive ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother attacking her daughter, putting $4 million behind it despite fierce bipartisan backlash
More >>
axios.com/2026/10/21/ramaswa…
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
Crystal Ball moves 2 Republican-held seats in Colorado toward Dems — shifting #CO08 (Gabe Evans) from toss-up to Leans Dem, and #CO04 (Lauren Boebert, CO’s reddest seat) from Likely R to Leans R. #CO05 (Jeff Crank) stays at Leans R, #CO03 (Jeff Hurd) stays at Likely R #copolitics
NEW Crystal Ball: 28 House rating changes as tally of seats at least leaning Dem surpasses both 218 as well as tiny majorities of the last three cycles
centerforpolitics.org/crysta…
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
this story
Advocates for people with incarcerated family say prisons often cancel visits for what they deem is excessive contact with loved ones. “There are so many other experiences like that where just a simple hug or a peck is constituted as excessive contact.”
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Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
"Supermajorities in regions across the country support amending the Constitution to restore campaign finance limits." brennancenter.org/our-work/a…
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
👀 Rs inside Trump’s political operation are warning that pro-Trump super PACs can only help so much
Instead, GOP candidates need to focus on laying out 3-5 key future deliverables to “improve people’s personal economic situation” and “lower [their] cost of living.”
If not, “there’s a good chance they’re going to lose.”
That’s shocked Rs in tough races, who feel like they’re getting diverging messaging. It’s a big shift from even how House GOP leadership has approached the campaign trail in the final stretch.
politico.com/news/2026/10/19…
NEW — Two weeks out, Republicans are already spending significant time discussing who to blame on election night if they suffer big losses.
It’s a vicious cycle as Rs start to point fingers, publicly and privately, at the NRCC, Senate GOP, Roger Marshall, Trump himself and more. Trump political aides are calling campaigns they feel aren’t performing well enough.
“If it happens, there will be plenty of blame to go around,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), who is in his own tighter-than-comfortable race.
More on the quiet planning w/ @andrewjfhoward @adamwren @Reporter_Mia
politi.co/4zH1T96 via @politico
Ernest Lee Luning retweeted
Vance endorsed AfD and Orban earlier in this term.
From VP pool report (which included a readout of Vance interview with @MarkHalperin): "Vance declined to endorse Netanyahu and replied that he endorses American candidates and is not getting involved in Israeli elections"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Vance said he endorses American candidates and is not getting involved in Israeli elections, but in April 2026 he spoke at a campaign rally for Viktor Orban in Hungary and urged voters to reelect him.
latimes.com/world-nation/s…
theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…
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