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  Support our nonprofit journalism   November 4, 2026 A blue wave. A blue-nami. A red wipeout. Call it what you want, the message is deafening: On Tuesday, Democrats seized control of Congress in a massive rebuke of President Donald Trump , flipping seven Senate seats, 28 governors' mansions (and still counting), state legislatures, and statewide offices—including in areas of the country where Democratic victories had long been unthinkable. As David Corn said in an election-night dispatch of Stress Test , "This is far beyond the good night Democrats were hoping for." Some of the most stunning wins unfolded in Texas, where James Talarico won the most expensive Senate race in American history, ending 32 years of what seemed would be forever-Republican rule, and Gina Hinojosa won the state's governor's race for the first time since 1990. Georgia also made history with Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms , who will become the first Black woman to serve as governor in t...

Reports of a Plague Outbreak in Russia Follow the Death of a Researcher Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined. MOTHER JONES: RUSSIA'S PLAGUE   When COVID began, few paid attention, but tRUMP fired U.S. specialists who were in CHINA - maybe they could have sounded the alarm. We'll never know. Early on, CHINA made the GENOME publicly available - it was known to be an RNA VIRUS - that means it MUTATES!  TRUMP defunded the WHO that the U.S. created. RUSSIA  now has a "PLAGUE" that's killing people.  RUSSIA has failed to make ANY INFORMATION PUBLIC or share the GENOME.  WHAT KIND OF PLAGUE?  Is it possible that RUSSIA's public health system is that poor?  While this may not threaten us yet, it's important to follow and wonder how poor RUSSIA's infrastructure is. October 4, 2026 Reports of a Plague Outbreak in Russia Follow the Death of a Researcher Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have...

  Support our nonprofit journalism   October 5, 2026 Eight years after the Trump administration first started separating migrant families, the current one is ripping them apart with a quieter tactic. It is a deception that hinges upon one word: “ unaccompanied .” The designation allows federal authorities to place minors without a parent or a guardian in the US into shelters or foster homes. But in the case of ICE’s new strategy, countless children are being labeled as such for no reason, then separated from family members. My colleagues report: Federal agents have picked up hundreds of immigrant children in the interior of the country and sent them to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a vast departure from prior administrations, when interior referrals to the agency were rare. Anywhere from 500 to more than 700 of these kids, according to sources familiar with the cases, had previously crossed the border alone and spent time in ORR custody, but were living with their sponsors w...