Kevin Rennie

Lawyer, Hartford Courant columnist, runs Connecticut’s news begins.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Dropping out of the 3rd grade is dangerous

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This of course will go down tremendously well with voters in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa...

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I mean Cenk is dumb and a bigot. Everyone knows this. But this ad is dumb and bigoted at scale. It’s innumerate and morally obtuse and if anything remotely like it was aimed at Muslims he and his ilk would (defensibly) be outraged. But this shit is fine when aimed at the you know who.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Ukrainian Nobel laureate Matviichuk: Russian occupiers abducted a woman for her pro-Ukrainian views. They tortured her and gang-raped her multiple times.

Then they took her to Russia and fabricated criminal charges against her.

I met her five-year-old daughter. She hugged me, started crying and begged: "Please return my mom."

I'm a human rights lawyer, but I have no legal tools to force Russia to return her mother. I felt broken.

I hugged her and promised we'd fight for her mother until she returned home.

[Giles Fraser @giles_fraser]

The disgraceful Netanyahu just posted this image of nuclear attack on Tel Aviv. (I’m currently drinking coffee at the very epicentre of this imagined attack, as it happens). 48 hours to go before the polls open and all he has left is fear and hysteria.

[Shima Vezvaei @ShimaVezvaei]

هزاران نفر در ترکیه در اعتراض به سرکوب رسانه‌های مستقل و بازداشت روزنامه‌نگاران به خیابان آمدند. فیلترینگ وب‌سایت‌های خبری توسط دولت شدت گرفته و صفحه‌های مجازی بدون دلیل و در پی یورش ماموران بلاک می‌شوند. می‌گویند «روزهای سیاهی است.»

[CT Election Guide @ctelectionguide]

Connecticut State Senate Ratings Update

5 GOP-held seats shift toward Dems amid a bluer national environment and Gov. Lamont’s strong polling, putting a 28D-8R majority in play.

SD-28, SD-36: Lean D -> Likely D
SD-35 -> Toss-Up -> Lean D
SD-7, SD-30 -> Likely R -> Lean R

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The Russian propaganda operation begins, with American collusion

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

Trump: “Iran is doing everything they can to drive up the price of Oil prior to the U.S. Midterm Election.” It seems the American public isn’t buying the argument that Ukraine is to blame, after all.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I don’t get it. A “CNN reporter” will “cover” the debate no matter what. Does Paxton mean he doesn’t want CNN to moderate the debate? Pretty sure Fox has offered and Talarico has agreed. It’s almost like he’s just super scared and kinda beta. I mean he keeps calling Talarico effeminate etc. How manly is it to be scared to debate someone you call a girly man?

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Amy Acton's mother pled guilty to a felony charge of theft by deception in the 1990s. She's literally a convicted liar. And this is the person Vance is saying can be trusted to "call it like it is."

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

A man who kills civilians, every day, is a "humanitarian" ? Who kidnaps children? Who authorizes soldiers to use torture and rape?

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

"A town got hit or whatever."

Anhelina, a one-year-old, was killed in her stroller by a Russian Shahed yesterday in Kharkiv. Her mother, Inna Mariukhna, was also killed.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: The Dallas Morning News just announced they are endorsing James Talarico over Ken Paxton. The Dallas Morning News had previously endorsed Senator John Cornyn in every race he ever ran. This is amazing.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

In the global struggle between Autocrats vs Democrats, Trump wants to side with the autocrats.

The American people, however, are still on the side of democracy, including in Ukraine.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

To translate: he's saying they made Marshall look like a Jew by pointing out he sued his patients for unpaid bills

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

The WSJ editorial board states outright: “…there needs to be a bipartisan reckoning for Mr. Trump’s budding alliance with the Kremlin against Ukraine, Europe and American interests.”
https://t.co/iAtTaLqbDr

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The president and his administration are supercharging American decline, and adding both shame and dishonor to that decline.