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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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“ The Houthis have recently homed in on a particular set of revelations to try to undermine Saudi Arabia’s leaders — namely that associates of the Saudi royal court sent tapestries that had draped the holiest site in Islam to Mr. Epstein’s private island.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/w...

nytimes.comThe Epstein Files Produce an Unlikely Weapon for the Houthi Messaging Wars (Gift Article)The Yemeni militia is using the culture of its sworn enemies in the renewed fighting with Saudi Arabia.

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Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

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Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’ Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

zeteo.comVenues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

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Obama in Michigan: "He is focused on home renovations. He should be on HGTV! ... He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory"

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Obama: "The guy has become billions of dollars wealthier in office. Nobody disputes this! It's just -- how do you do that when you're supposed to be looking out for you? And the worst part of it not a single Republican in Congress has done anything to stop it."

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Bernie Sanders: "I know conservative parents want to raise their kids to be honest, not to be bullies, not to lie and cheat all of the time. If we want to raise our kids to be honest, not to be narcissists who think the world revolves around them, then we need to hold Donald Trump accountable."

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Obama: Folks say, 'Well, Abdul didn't like some of the things you did as president.' We are not gonna agree on every detail of every issue. You know who else didn't agree with everything I did? Michelle Obama. I'd say about 5 times a day she's like, 'You knucklehead! Why you do that?'

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OBAMA: The big trade war he's starting now is with that well-known evil empire: Canada. These are the people who gave us maple syrup and Martin Short.

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“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

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This was like his 3rd glitch during the speech where he just randomly stops mid-sentence and makes a weird noise or, in this case, just opens his mouth and freezes for 3 seconds while saying nothing, then continues. Pretty sad that TV networks refuse to cover this situation.

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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

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The US is rushing to move diplomats and their families out of several Middle Eastern countries amid fears of a regional escalation, CNN reports.

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NEW: Mail ballots in North Carolina's largest county are being rejected at rates higher than the rest of the state — over 50% are due to a new GOP rule on envelope sealing. "We've had voters who we've had to mail them four or five different ballots," one official said. https://demdock.com/4dU9RTT

democracydocket.comGOP-backed ballot rules plague North Carolina voters in Democratic strongholdIf a 3.5% rejection rate were to hold in this election, with the number of residents voting by mail reduced by 30% to account for decreased mail voting requests, an estimated 887 ballots would be reje...

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Newsom: We’re seeing this tsunami but.. he will do anything to maintain his power. And so we have to, right after this election’s done… have our legal teams focus on making sure that the folks that are congressional elects across this country all get actually sworn in…

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They made these robot dogs. And Boston Dynamics employers are demanding the company stop its delivery of the weaponized robots to ICE. “We cannot be proud of working at BD when that work is being used by a government agency that brutalizes civilians.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/23/b...

bostonglobe.comBoston Dynamics workers oppose the company’s robot dog use by ICE - The Boston GlobeThe $1.3 million deal includes a modified version of the original robot, with military grade add-ons such as a robotic arm, thermal camera, and sensors for explosive materials.

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.