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Aaron Blake retweeted
JUST IN: Judge Gleason in Alaska sounds deeply skeptical of DOJ's 11th hour lawsuit there to halt certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.
She grants Dems' motion for expedited consideration and notes DOJ waited four months to sue over the ballot. s3.documentcloud.org/documen…
Aaron Blake retweeted
5 names on Comey CHARGES:
1) Trent McCotter, Blanche's no. 2
2) Aakash Singh, McCotter's deputy
3) Patrick Hopple, DHS official
4) Dustin Farahnak, fed prosecutor from Texas
5) Justin Silverberg, a fed prosecutor from Florida.
0 from the natsec/public integrity units.
They many favors Trump says he'll do if Republicans win, but not if Democrats win
cnn.com/2026/10/26/politics/…
November 2025: Judge rules James Comey was illegally indicted by DOJ
October 2026: Judge rules Maurene Comey was illegally fired by DOJ
cnn.com/2026/10/26/politics/…
Aaron Blake retweeted
“We should never have been put in that position by the White House.” nytimes.com/2026/10/25/us/tr…
The first time since 1978 that all three of these trophies have been in Minnesota's possession.
And we're keeping Paul Bunyan's Axe on Nov. 27, @mkraju.
Aaron Blake retweeted
Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system."
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Aaron Blake retweeted
Scoops on scoops: Lotta journalistic secrets revealed in @realBobWoodward's new memoir, including how he gained entry to former CIA Director Bill Casey's hospital room to extract his confession on Iran-contra.
My story, based on advance copy of the book:
wapo.st/3UbZzrD
Aaron Blake retweeted
Front page of the Sunday @StarTribune, with the headline mistakenly covered by an ad graphic. This is what comes from moving the printing plant to Iowa, where people can't read. – at Minneapolis, MN
Aaron Blake retweeted
I know there’s a media tendency to minimize Trump’s tirades because we’ve read so many of them before. But his verbosity and melancholy about Bill Maher last night stood out so much that we filed an analysis here: cnn.com/2026/10/25/media/tru…
Likely voters are about split on whether there would be more or less corruption if Democrats win, per a new CBS poll.
But if Republicans win, voters say nearly 2-to-1 -- 52% to 27% -- that it would lead to more corruption.
cnn.com/2026/10/26/politics/…
Aaron Blake retweeted
New: Amid legal threats from Jared Kushner over explosive allegations published in a Vanity Fair excerpt, Simon & Schuster quietly expedited the release of Matthew Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early
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Aaron Blake retweeted
Had a little chat with someone about her thoughts on 2026, 2028 and even 2032 — coming tomorrow morning on cnn.com ….
Aaron Blake retweeted
One Trump ally after his Nicki Minaj quote: “The closing here has been ass, both literally and figuratively.”
Aaron Blake retweeted
"The director won’t protect even our most respected analysts when they tell hard truths, so they stopped telling them and learned to avoid topics the White House didn’t want to hear,” newly retired CIA official tells @shaneharris theatlantic.com/national-sec…
Dems can’t be happy about this.
BASH: “You're still fully behind Abdul El-Sayed?”
STEVENS: “Look, I'm on the Democratic ticket. I can't say that I agree with everything that's gone on… I'm looking to be on the team to support my next governor Jocelyn Benson, and frankly these great Democrats who are working their tails off, who are going to make Hakeem Jeffries the first black Speaker of the House.”
BASH: “You didn't mention Abdul El-Sayed in that last answer.”
STEVENS: “Well, look, I would just say, you had asked me if I'm still on the team, I'm on the team.”