ICYMI: October 19, 2026

Find more of today’s headlines below, and help us find the legitimate stories we missed — those not made up by the White House team of propaganda artists and propped up by Russian bots and fake social media accounts. The misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies only continue to ramp up with Election Day only 15 days away.

Deliver us from evil in 15 days

You should pay attention to races up and down the ballot this November.If Democrats retake Congress, they can block Trump’s MAGA agenda. But if Democrats retake control of the states, they can actually begin to reverse it.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2026-10-19T16:40:17.625065838Z

"I want to be on the winning side"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-19T16:41:31.835Z

Voter Suppression Alive and Well

The Trump administration is reportedly conducting raids in California using its unverified list of 20,000 people it alleges are “likely noncitizens” registered to vote in the Golden State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2026-10-19T16:38:14.638Z

Blue Confusion:

Marilyn Manchin Now Going Door-To-Door Trying to Shock People

— Ben Collins (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2026-10-19T17:11:34.671Z

At least three dozen videos of people expressing support for Representative Haley Stevens, a Democratic candidate who ran against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a Michigan primary and lost, were from accounts that were based mostly in India, according to research organizations that track disinformation.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-10-19T16:30:04.439351Z

CNN Loses Amanpour in June following Corporate Fascist Takeover

Amanpour’s exit comes just weeks after David Ellison’s media corporation Paramount Skydance formally took over Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, per NBC.

Stable Genius Events:

Across the Pond

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that the United States paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, rebutting earlier claims made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid a sharp deterioration in relations between the two countries.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2026-10-19T17:15:03.694096358Z

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories…"But this alliance now exists."www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…

— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.bsky.social) 2026-10-19T17:42:41.957Z

Javanka not welcome in Albania

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