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Washington Secretary of State on the Trump administration's demands that they set aside over 400 ballots:

"The timing of this request — one week before the General Election — is no doubt intended to cast unfounded suspicion on the results."

JD Vance's closing message: "Give us another chance. Give us another couple of years"

Michigan voter: Trump made promises that he didn't keep and he had no intention of keeping. We have to realize that the Democrats are going to do more for us than the Republicans.

Q: Are you worried about the Texas Senate race?

Trump: You never know

Q: Your comment that national security is not your thing — how much did that hurt you?

Darline Graham: I don't think it hurt me at all

Q: Will you accept the election results whatever happens?

Trump: I will if they are honest elections

Q: What do you make of Trump naming everything after himself?

Gov. Whitmer: I'm not a psychologist

Texas Trump rally attendee: The media is putting out all this misinformation

Fox: Not Fox News

Rally attendee: Uh, maybe

The FDA completed just 5% of its quota for foreign food inspections last year.

Karoline Leavitt: This is not about the Cheesecake Factory. This is about the Democrats not being able to appreciate beauty.

Fox: 64% of voters disapprove of Trump

Harry Enten: This could be the demise of the Republican majority. We are talking about the worst net approval rating on gas prices heading into a midterm election ever at -49 points. That's about 20 points lower than any other president.

NBC: The price of diesel fuel has gone up much quicker than many school districts were prepared to handle. In Yakima, Washington, the increase is equivalent to the cost of two full-time teachers, forcing tough decisions directly impacting kids.

In Sunlit 4.0 for iOS, released today, we’re trying something new to make the default feed mostly photos. Micro.blog now tries to classify JPEGs as actually photos to weed out screenshots, memes, and other non-photos. Already makes a big difference for my timeline.

If you’re not getting the Micro Monday emails — sent just every other week to active users — you can find them on the blog, like this one from yesterday.

The thing about being in power is that there’s not much room left between the floor and the ceiling. The administration can fall, but only so far, because it’s still the administration. Conversely, it can only rise so far. The system of checks and balances — even when broken — limits upward trajectories. Bureaucracy generates […]

PRRI’s 2026 American Values Survey reveals some, uh, interesting views on whether Americans think empathy is a good thing or not. Those respondents unaffiliated with a religion were much more inclined to think that empathy is “a foundational moral value that helps build a he...

OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in Taiwan as Typhoon Champi hit the island nation a few days ago. That’s gotta be close to 100 feet. Waves also inundated this 75-foot-tall lighthouse and a crane 164 feet tall, knocking it over.

Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

In the top of the fifth inning of Monday's Game 3 of the World Series, Milwaukee captain Christian Yelich hustled into second base off a ground ball hit by William Contreras. He was called out on the field, ending the half-inning. The play looked well worth a challenge, but ...