Mark O 🌵🇺🇦🌴🇬🇪🇨🇦🇪🇪

We flipped the Senate because we have strong Democratic leaders who are standing up for their communities and putting America first. The American people are ready for change and our Democratic Senate majority is ready to deliver.

Victoria Spartz, the first Ukrainian-born member of the U.S. Congress, lost her reelection bid today. Born in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, which continues to face relentless russian attacks, Spartz became a MAGA Republican and voted against a major aid package for Ukraine in 2024. It takes a special kind of person to betray two countries at once.

“🇺🇸 people don't want us to get even, they want us to get things done…” Who’s gonna tell @RepJeffries holding crooks accountable isn’t about “getting even”, it’s about preserving our democracy? Is this what he talked about with Kushner? @TheDemocrats don’t blow this

Oh, Chuck, to even suggest in theory that Trump might change his ways to work with you and the Democrats is patently absurd. Please find a successor who is living in the same reality as all of us out here begging for action and accountability.

Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.

The warning, buried in an obscure government report this summer, was unflinching. The Defense Department’s vaunted network of research laboratories — whose scientists helped develop satellite communication, radar technology, and even the computer mouse — was in trouble. The labs lost a significant share of their staff last year, largely in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to thin the federal work force, the report found. Refilling critical positions was proving difficult due in part to President Trump’s demand that new hires be screened for their loyalty to his goals. The report, issued by the Pentagon, pointed to “potentially grave consequences for the future of national defense.” The turmoil inside scientific research has extended beyond the Pentagon. The Energy Department, a key hub of nuclear and quantum research, has lost more than 1,000 scientists and technical staff. The National Science Foundation, for decades a primary backer of long-term, foundational research, has withheld more than $1 billion in funding. And at the National Institutes of Health, the biggest funder of medical research, officials delayed or canceled more than 2,000 grants to biomedical researchers focused on topics such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and other diseases. Under Mr. Trump, the federal government is still spending roughly as much on research — about $200 billion this year — as the administrations that came before. Scientists across the country are still receiving grants; universities are still being funded. But beneath the surface, the system of federally funded science that helped make the United States a global superpower is under intense strain from Trump policies, jeopardizing the nation’s advantages in defense, medicine and technology, a New York Times examination has found. nytimes.com/2026/10/31/clima…