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MORAL BANKRUPTCY Why are Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump, and JD Vance doubling down on an ad weaponizing Amy Acton’s childhood trauma? Because apparently exploiting a survivor’s abuse wasn’t disgusting enough the first time.

NEW: Democrats hold an 8-point lead among likely voters in the fight for control of Congress with one week until Election Day, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. https://to.pbs.org/4zfNOj8

Kevin Hassett: "The affordability crisis is a myth"

Please check out my newly added micro fiction for the Pre-Enemy War micro fiction series cover Dul and Saila leaders of the Aquillis Sept (water). Let this quick read bring you into the world of Imperiam. Hope you enjoy. substack.com/@mims345/not...

🚨 BOOM! THE HOUSE MAJORITY IS ABOUT TO FLIP. 66 of the 81 most competitive races are in Trump-won territory. This election will come down to turnout. Show up. Bring people with you. VOTE. 💙🌊 #VoteEarly #VoteBlue2026

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."

Flávio Bolsonaro has been banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports following his presidential election defeat, amid investigations into suspected influence-peddling, money laundering and other alleged financial irregularities.

House Majority PAC, which supports Democratic candidates, argues that the House battlefield is expanding in the final week of the midterms The group says the GOP-authored gerrymandering appears to be backfiring and opening up new opportunities to flip GOP seats

This heckler is all of us ✊🏾

A Russian officer now fights alongside Ukraine’s forces after helping kill 300 former comrades. 26-year-old Lt. Stupnikov became one of Kyiv’s most valuable informants, supplying coordinates, radio frequencies & troop movements helping Ukraine obliterate Russian units. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA Israeli settler: “Go back to Jordan... It's not your land.” Suri Crowe's group: “But why can't they harvest their trees?” The settler then threatens to call the police and have members of the group taken away. Suri Crowe reports from the ground in the West Bank.

Always double-check your ballot!

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More than 60,000 fans moshed and crowd-surfed at Turnstile’s free concert on the National Mall in Washington, DC, raising money for refugees in Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan.

Off the charts Trump family corruption. Kushner got Billions of foreign funds, while spearheading foreign policy. And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn

50501 strongly condemns the transphobic policy positions espoused in Josh Turek’s campaign ad. We’re calling on @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social to stand with the trans community & attack the real threat to the safety of women & girls: the Trump administration’s cover-up of the Epstein trafficking ring.

Obama’s Cheesecake Factory line clearly didn’t bother him at all 😬

In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize. Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

Breaking News: Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, the baby-faced Russian navigator in the “Star Trek” franchise, has died at 90. nyti.ms/4zLGtYg

🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump DOJ ILLEGALLY fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ordering retroactive reinstatement and backpay. The judge ripped the DOJ’s defense as bordering on “frivolous” and rejected its sweeping claims of executive power.

These GOP Candidates Let Wall Street Hijack Gas Prices Some senators even knew the markets were being manipulated but still did nothing about it.

"If no security force will actively confront ICE, who will?"

The Trump administration and the Venezuelan government have struck a deal to exploit Venezuela’s oil — but their partnership is good for the rich and no one else. theatln.tc/ZjdBmph3

Because Rafael Cruz is universally loathed: Here he is getting brutally booed by the Austin crowd at the F1 podium. USA 🇺🇸

A Black Democrat has a chance to win in Mississippi's Senate race Scott Colom has a shot to make history in Mississippi with massive Black voter turnout and fed-up White voters willing to back a Democrat.

His mom warned us.

Anyone else never gonna be able to unsee this? Or just us?

'Bill: Don’t call anymore': President Donald Trump rails against Bill Maher in his longest Truth Social post ever https://cnn.it/4kgfOhJ

How do we build power together? Get prepared & share this with your neighbors so you can strategize.

The 1,300 survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members and lay workers have all agreed to the settlement, according to an attorney for some of the plaintiffs. n.pr/47DlATq

🚨 Netanyahu is threatening renewed war with Iran just days before Israel's elections. Israel's military chief has reportedly warned that restarting the war this close to the vote could force an indefinite delay. That appears to be exactly what Netanyahu wants.

“Bill: Don’t call anymore… complete and total loser… turn your laugh machine off…” Hope it was worth it @billmaher www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/m...

Another stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian students voted out their authoritarian leadership after months of protests against corruption, taking their fight from the streets to the ballot box and turning people power into political power.

The U.S. has no national law for paid parental leave. But in states that do, more dads are using the benefit, sometimes more than moms. The change comes as Americans say having kids is unaffordable. n.pr/4eM9URV

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

Eight months into Trump’s war, Americans are facing growing threats beyond the battlefield. US Intelligence is warning that Iranian plans to kill Americans overseas have reached “advanced stages.”

Forty miles separate the Israeli beach of Jaffa from the beach in Gaza City, but they are worlds apart. NPR's Frank Langfitt and Anas Baba report a tale of two beaches. n.pr/4dXbct4

With so much at stake—Musk himself has billions of dollars in government contracts he wants to protect or land—it would be surprising if the final days of this campaign were free of disinformation skullduggery and campaign-cash chicanery.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Albania is erupting, and Ben Meiselas is calling attention to the Trump family's connection. As protesters clash with police, Ben points to the controversial island development involving Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. He calls it a “Trumpenstein Epstein-style oligarchical island.”

BASH: The worry is that we end up in a situation where President Trump tries to overturn the election and the result of that could be like what we saw after January 6-- BLANCHE: Stop it! You gotta stop it with that! That's crazy BASH: This is a president who has a history

As his policies bankrupt them, Trump-supporting farmers fully embrace socialism. But only if it’s for them.