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36 dead in ICE detention centers this year. 62 since Trump took office. Reports of abuse and denial of basic care are mounting.
Democrats are being blocked from oversight. Mr. President, you say you want to work together? Prove it. Open the facilities. Stop the abuse. Turn over the evidence.
Enough promises. Show us.
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“So many votes had been cast, even in red states, that any attempt to undermine the result would look either violently dictatorial or patently ridiculous” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
This is going to be a massive change for CA media. And a real loss for voters wanting to know what the GOV thinks. The last two CA governors (Jerry and Gavin) always engaged the press and public and were willing to share their views even when they could evolve. Methinks this is going to be a contentious relationship between this next GOV and the CA press corps.
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this is exactly the message everyone wants to hear from talarico.
hopefully to be responded to equally sensibly by elon.
blindingly obvious @FoxNews
Jesse Watters: GOP coalition ‘totally collapsed’
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Heavens to betsy. Believing #Science
Texas oil industry becoming 'Californicated' could have 'dire consequences' for economy, energy boss warns foxbusiness.com/media/texas-…
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Hell of a thing to demand states hand over voters’ personal information and require proof of citizenship, then refuse to vote yourself because you don’t want your address on the very voter rolls you think the federal government should have access to.
#StateTV with declining influence
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California knows first hand the chaos sowed by Trump deploying the Guard on our streets.
Time to end the stunt.
Having armed National Guard troops and increased federal law enforcement in DC continues to cause fear and intimidation in our communities – and it must stop.
Following Tuesday’s elections, I am incredibly hopeful that we now have the partners we need at the state and congressional levels to make real change happen – and happen soon.
I am calling on the newly elected Democratic governors in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, and Texas to remove their National Guard troops from the District immediately once they take office.
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.@JoshShapiroPA is blasting JD Vance: "I think JD trying to rewrite history here ... it ain't gonna work. He's got the stink of Trump all over him."
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
Will accelerate the coming change within the @GOP
President Trump is already putting Democrats on notice with a bright red hat bearing just one word: “VETO.”
As Democrats look to take control of Congress, Trump is signaling he plans to use one of the strongest powers of his office to block legislation he opposes.
“They’ll send over things that are insane and I’ll veto them,” Trump tells Fox News, predicting repeated vetoes could eventually bring Democrats to the negotiating table.
But Trump says those conversations may already be starting, revealing that several Democrats have reached out to him since the election.
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‘could’ being the operative word.. escalation after the midterms still most likely scenario (and crude back to $106+ this morning accordingly)
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"If the pool was finally operating as the administration always hoped it would, it’s not clear the president was," @Kevinliptakcnn reports.
"His speech, billed as his final message to the electorate before a new Congress is chosen this week, was not the high-level contrast with Democrats some Republicans had hoped for. It was instead a subdued, very granular accounting of all the problems Trump said he fixed in the plumbing of the 2,000-foot-long pool, including rusty pipes, old joints, regraded rebar and 'tremendous algae.'"
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About to enter pardon-palooza
Trump vows to protect Musk, floats pre-emptive staff pardons axios.com/2026/11/02/trump-m…
I remember the fury around #Biden. This is the same S-Sandwich.
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I believe we are in a period so wracked by tensions, both national and regional, that it’s necessary to search to see if there is a commonality driving them, even if the tensions present themselves very differently. The United States – the world’s only superpower – is approaching the midterm elections, which have evinced more interparty (and intraparty) stress than usual. Europe is plagued by widespread protests that have, at times, turned violent.
The Middle East, a region where a degree of tension is the norm, is experiencing both the regular tensions between Sunnis and Shiites and profound tensions beyond the norm, while the Gulf states’ level of stress has soared given the war in Iran. That conflict has bled into parts of Africa, particularly around the Horn, and virtually every other region of the world because of its impact on trade and energy prices. India is experiencing political and social unrest, especially in the northeast, over basic political processes.
In China, at last week’s Communist Party plenum, some 33 members of the party were expelled, and five of the seven members of the Military Committee – China’s facsimile of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – have also been expelled. According to Freedom House reports, there is also growing unrest among Chinese workers over economic conditions. And last but not least, there is still a war in Ukraine that has wrecked Russia’s economy (to say nothing of the physical damage inflicted on both sides).
Individually, none of these events is all that unique. Taken together, what is of interest is not that these things are happening in these countries but that so many countries and regions are experiencing them at roughly the same time. That there is apparently no single cause behind these tensions – that they have their own origins and unique manifestations – is what makes them so intriguing.
My full analysis is available to read and share at @GPFutures: geopoliticalfutures.com/glob…
How about a complete Policy? immigration crackdown is fuelling labour shortages, too; in September a survey from the National Association of Home Builders reported that labour costs were up by 4.2% from a year earlier.
