Jeers for Tears

A U.N.-backed inquiry is reporting that Russia committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine by intentionally attacking energy infrastructure, which left millions of people without electricity and heat in freezing temperatures.

Trump Accused of Brutally Raping Former Miss Switzerland at Plaza Hotel in 1993, He Denies www.tmz.com/2026/10/27/b...

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

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JD is one sentence away from accidentally understanding the problem.

Fucking facts. Democrats are held to a much higher standard than the Rapepublicans. While they "smash and grab", we're expected to clean up behind them. Every.Single.Time.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

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Iran wasn't running out of firepower. It was holding back. Now vessels are being sunk, missile tests are accelerating, and the scale of attacks is expanding dramatically. What we're witnessing should terrify Trump's war planners.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

New: "For the last 30 years, our institutions have propped up Bibi, telling us not to question, often refusing to heed even mainstream Israeli partners asking us not to do that. As someone who's worked my whole career to build bridges, I've resisted writing this piece. But– if not now, when?"

NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

Donald Trump wrote 1,300 words about how much hate hates Bill Maher after the two had dinner. It's his single longest post ever. tinyurl.com/ydj7d3dh

This country is really deeply fucked up and racist.

🎥 LIVE NOW: The 9th Circuit just heard Trump DOJ’s brazen request to stop California from counting 20,000+ ballots. Why? They're claiming widespread voter fraud in an effort to rig the midterms. Marc Elias goes live to break down what happened and what comes next. 👇 https://demdock.com/48ezr2v

chat is it bad when you’re spending the last days of your campaign denying you’re exploiting your opponent’s childhood rape for votes

🚨 The Oregon GOP is directly calling for violence against 🐸 costumed protesters. Remember that when you vote. 🗳️ (Not to mention weapons tests on immigrants)

Is it normal for a police department to have ‘arrest quotas?’ As reported by Fox 11, the Glendora Police Department has an arrest quota of 1,700 people per year.

Google’s data center brings wolves. “We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,” 53-year-old Otanmäki resident Anni Ranta told the Guardian. “They fled.”

BREAKING: Brazilian voting extended till 7 PM after right-wing politicians shut off bus service throughout Brasil.

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

Donald Trump is a fascist. Fascists always need an enemy. You could be next.

Metaphors are dead

Check out how easy this is.

And they don’t know that it’s spelled with a “b.”

BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning. BLANCHE: That's not what it says BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?

Exactly. bsky.app/profile/muel...

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A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

Roberts *explicitly* stated that POTUS has immunity even for directing a “sham” prosecution or one with an improper purpose or motivation. He can also promise to pardon anyone who follows his orders. As AG says, what’s the downside, for anyone?

AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid

InfoWars fans are the greatest chess players in the world. Which is why we’re making the best Chess movie in movie history.

I keep seeing posts from Republicans pretending to be insulted by Barack Obama's Cheesecake Factory quip because most Americans supposedly think it serves haute cuisine. First, it does not. And you know that. Second, his remark wasn't about the food. It was about the over-the-top golden decor.

Christopher Hale: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent

The only Planned Parenthood in the UP closed in 2025. Medicare for All means access to medical care for all, in every corner of the country.

wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

Elizabeth Warren Is On A Roll.......

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