https://www.leftscoop.news Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:28:13+0000 en-us hourly 1 https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/tommy-tuberville-loses-it-over-furries-flying-the-friendly-skies-watch/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63338 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 LSN Staff Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville devoted a 20 minute Senate floor speech to attacking transgender people and warning that furry community members work as pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, turning a harmless hobby into his latest object of political panic. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/kamala-harris-in-2028-democrats-should-brace-for-another-crushing-disaster/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63320 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Claire Sullivan Gavin Newsom says he will stay out of the 2028 presidential race if Kamala Harris runs, while her donor outreach and rejection by several Democratic candidates raise serious questions about whether another campaign can survive the primaries. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-administration-blows-off-legal-deadline-buries-potentially-damning-fisa-opinion/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63311 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Daniel Mercer The administration is withholding a potentially damning surveillance opinion while pushing Congress toward a clean Section 702 reauthorization using a November deadline that privacy advocates say does not reflect when lawmakers must actually act. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/unions-unleash-a-bold-new-blueprint-to-build-progressive-power/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63314 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Julian Hayes Labor leaders across three swing states are turning extensive worker conversations into concrete agendas, seeking to strengthen organizing, support aligned candidates, challenge corporate power, and reconnect with members who feel abandoned by both party establishments. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trumps-team-is-racing-to-make-america-sicker-than-ever/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63344 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Elena Brooks The Trump administration is targeting nursing home infection reporting, delayed COVID-19 vaccine access for a program serving about 52% of children, and is removing 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans under an unclear fraud standard. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/a-foul-musk-looms-over-the-paramount-and-warner-bros-merger/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63350 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Daniel Mercer Paramount’s conservative owners may seek an investment from Elon Musk, potentially giving the Republican donor influence over CNN, major film and television production, and an expanding media empire already accused of pushing CBS News sharply rightward. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-unleashes-a-prediction-market-gambling-nightmare/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63332 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Maya Bennett Kalshi wants federal approval for margin trading as Trump regulators help prediction markets expand nationwide, even while most users lose and Donald Trump Jr. holds influential roles at both Kalshi and Polymarket. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/f-35-stealth-components-somehow-fell-into-chinas-hands/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63347 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Julian Hayes Australian F-35 components intended for inspection in the United States instead traveled through South Korea and Hong Kong before reaching the Chinese government, raising serious questions about commercial shipping, military logistics, and political accountability. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/the-paramount-settlement-began-with-trumps-antitrust-wrecking-ball/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63317 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Maya Bennett The Paramount settlement illustrates how federal retreat and alleged political interference can gut antitrust enforcement, leaving states with weak remedies while powerful corporations gain new avenues to escape scrutiny through money, access, and connections. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/ice-tries-to-bulldoze-past-court-ruling-against-third-country-removals/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63323 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Elena Brooks ICE is invoking a procedural technicality to continue third country removals after an appeals court rejected the policy, while lawyers fight an attempt to send a protected Peruvian man to the Central African Republic. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/ai-giants-sudden-regulatory-rush-masks-a-blunt-bid-to-dodge-liability/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63326 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Elena Brooks Organized Money examines Colorado’s bitter AI regulation fight, where gubernatorial interference and Big Tech lobbying converged around a familiar corporate demand: limiting legal liability for products that could cause serious harm. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/the-class-war-hiding-inside-your-wallet/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63329 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Julian Hayes Against Money dismantles the fiction that money merely records economic reality, showing how financial rules shape GDP, debt, interest, and investment while leaving unresolved the class struggle over who controls the system. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/bye-bye-to-be-best-melania-trump-unveils-another-goofy-gimmick/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63335 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Julian Hayes Melania Trump used the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell to launch IMPERIA, an invitation only network for powerful women, while questions persist about the purpose and participants of her separate AI program. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/gop-spirals-into-midterm-grief-as-election-disaster-looms/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63341 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Daniel Mercer With Democrats gaining and Trump’s approval rating at negative 22%, Republicans are scrambling over the Iran war, gas prices, grim internal polling, and culture war attacks that are failing to address voters’ economic concerns. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/melania-trump-barely-bothers-to-defend-her-poor-wittle-husband/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63353 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 LSN Staff Melania Trump used a friendly “Fox & Friends” appearance to praise her own work and offer a strikingly faint defense of Donald Trump, saying only that the president is focused and doing the best he can. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-and-natalie-harp-join-hands-in-holy-litigation-at-last/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63356 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Julian Hayes Trump and Natalie Harp face a federal lawsuit over a Truth Social arrangement offering investors early access to official presidential posts for as much as $100,000 monthly, while Trump Media also confronts a separate California challenge. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-throws-a-global-tantrum-after-discovering-he-cant-ban-cnn-everywhere/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63250 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Daniel Mercer Trump demanded to know why CNN was covering him at the United Nations, apparently missing that the independent body controls its own credentials and is not required to enforce his White House restrictions. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/can-states-finally-break-corporate-domination-of-our-politics/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63283 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Daniel Mercer States are invoking their authority over corporate charters to challenge dark money, with Hawaii enacting Act 11 and Montana placing a reform initiative before voters as corporate campaign spending reaches record levels. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-team-rips-health-coverage-away-from-more-than-750000-people/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63256 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Claire Sullivan More than 750,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees are being removed as Trump officials tout a technology powered fraud crackdown, while a six month freeze on new brokers adds fresh pressure to already struggling insurance exchanges. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/ai-safety-panic-needs-evidence-not-fruitcake-apocalypse-fantasies/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63280 2026-09-24T22:27:25+00:00 Claire Sullivan AI poses serious current threats through hacking, imitation, surveillance analysis, and careless laboratory security. Policymakers should confront those documented risks instead of letting powerful companies and apocalypse enthusiasts dominate regulation with unsupported fantasies about machine gods and cosmic paper clips.