Andy Gale

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

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.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Ding ding fucking ding.

Does he even know where Iran is? Why would they not hit, I don't know, DC or New York? Or Mar-a lago? Why would they launch missiles thousands of miles farther west?

Political fundraising emails and text messages are off-the-charts pathetic and insulting. Anyone running for any office should take a long, hard look in the mirror before they sign up for one of those embarrassing ass firms because they literally make you dislike the candidate more with every one.

Say @marypeltola.com? Did YOU know that Trump is stealing Alaska's oil and giving it to Russia?

Maybe that's him and/or his immediate political successors. Maybe it's some new thing following in his footsteps and expanding on his precedents for what you can get away with. But it's a binary choice. Either you shut this kind of thing down hard and decisively or sooner or later it will work.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

also i know i have said this a million times but this dude is unbelievably smarmy. it’s crazy

3) this is yet another instance of Vance treating a native-born but nonwhite American as if they are foreign born. 4) it is vance who should be greatful that anyone ever bothered to treat him like he might do some good in the world (they were wrong of course)

1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:

Too many polls adopt a conservative framework that ask voters *when* the government should ban abortion, instead of *if* they should. When asked the latter, as voters were here, Americans’ answer is clear

I watched this ad and it’s amazing. Doesn’t even use his name. The very clear almost explicit subtext is: my dudes, if I can suck it up and vote for this lying sack of shit, you can too, okay?

My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

Rufo often gets treated as a "respectable" conservative. His latest podcast episode — framing Indian-Americans as a problem in need of solving — is more evidence that he shouldn't be.

RFK Jr., while speaking at a recent event that aired on the podcast of MAHA Action — an organized closely linked to RFK Jr. — said "people ... will be building monuments" to "people like [Andrew] Wakefield, ... Barbara Loe Fisher, Lyn Redwood, & Mary Holland," all of whom are anti-vax figures.

This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?

THAT IS NOT THE SAME THING AS SAYING AN ASSAULT WAS CONSENSUAL

I was totally baffled by this—I thought maybe I missed something. Because why would she go to police if she said it was all consensual? It turns out the DA was playing language games: Doe described what happened to her, and *prosecutors* made a legal determination that what happened wasn’t a crime.

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.

They can't all be this stupid. It's obviously a tactic to send the ACA into a death spiral.

one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

Yuuuuup…

Yes exactly. It just did this! It’s not speculation or future-tripping. It happened!

i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions

Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.

Also “summary execution” is not the penalty for drug trafficking even if some of them were.

Here's the 2600-word NYT story that couldn't fit in a mention that Harmeet has ACTUALLY DONE what the NYT said was a terrible assault on journalism when DOJ tried it with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

The most forgotten politicized case from DOJ and wouldn't you know, it involves a Black woman?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/o...

Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views

Create the a new federal crime of Grand Corruption, applicable only to executive branch officials at the cabinet level and above, requiring corruption or fraud that substantially compromises the constitutional system or core interests of the US, and is a capital offense.

The Kavanaugh Stop from Hell that Destroys Minnesota's Other Criminal Cases emptywheel.net/2026/08/23/t...

Hey look it's the libertarian currency that's entirely dependent on government action to gain value