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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.

The allegations against Donald Trump for sexual assault seem to have a common denominator: He is physically violent and intentionally inflicts pain on his victims. He likes to slam women and girls up against doors and walls as he roughly manhandles them. Donald Trump is a sick and twisted person.

From the slaveholding South to Jim Crow, Reagan’s billionaire revolution, and Trump’s police state, the same dangerous pattern keeps repeating. Is fascism conservatism’s ultimate destination? hartmannreport.com/p/does-conse...

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I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

The great Oleksandra Matviichuk is absolutely right to draw attention to the horrible humanitarian crisis in Oleshky. All Putin, Witkoff, and Kushner can do is invert and traduce the meaning of “humanitarianism,” in the best traditions of Russian propaganda.

Let's just make this clear: Witkoff calls the bloodiest dictator, indicted war criminal, and child murderer, Putin, a "humanitarian" not for some massive concession, not for agreeing to stop the war, but for releasing a person they captured in a foreign country where that person was simply living

Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

Not worth the paper it’s written on.

Saturday Report 10/24/26 — Does Ramaswamy’s Depraved New Ad Mark a New Low in the GOP’s Moral Collapse? The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

If you paid any federal income tax last year, then you paid more than these profitable corporations. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

Squeals of “socialism!” aside, we know how to do this and have done it before, repeatedly. This time it’s not just about saving our banks or fighting a war: this time, it’s about saving the world… hartmannreport.com/p/is-it-time...

Reminder of what Musk said if Trump lost the election.

28. Stock pumping is market manipulation. It’s illegal under federal law and New York state law. I’m reminded of that time when Tucker Carlson asked Musk what would happen to him if Kamala Harris won the 2024 election. “How long will my prison sentence be?” he said. bsky.app/profile/edit...

27. Gibney: “That is where [Musk] really shines. He’s managed to take companies, which have a rather mediocre profit-and-loss record, and make himself through stock pumping the richest man in the world.”

6. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, is acting like what’s been done can’t be undone. He has put up with Trump’s humiliation tactics for years to maintain access to weapons and intelligence he needs to liberate his country. But now, he is no longer biting his tongue.

4. Musk said publicly that the administration did it. Administration sources said publicly that Musk did it. Common sense says both did it.

1. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

32. If he can pull the plug on Ukraine, he can pull the plug on America, too. He's too big to trust. www.editorialboard.com/elon-musk-is...

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in new comments Thursday, did not rule out that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results — a process over which the federal government has no authority. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Very valuable and very sober analysis www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti...

Just in today’s news JD Vance was shown to be a spreader of Russian propaganda, argued in favor of a child-rape political ad, and was dissed by his hometown football team.

America’s 45-year crisis runs deeper than politics, raising a defining question about whether the nation can rebuild economic fairness, restore democracy, and revive the American Dream… hartmannreport.com/p/has-reagan...

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side. "Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians" by Sara Cincurova snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...

You can donate here to help protect Ukrainians from Russian drone attacks. Please do so if you can. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense

If you are wanting to learn about the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory, this important film is a very good place to start. www.docnyc.net/film/traces/

Trump just claimed the United States had done “a lot” for Ukraine, but that Ukraine has done “nothing” for the United States. This is unjust in the highest degree. And not just untrue in the normal sense — it is a big lie, designed to bring about horror and chaos. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

Extremely sound mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-u...

Trump is empowering Putin, abandoning Ukraine, and preparing to bargain with dictators over the future of the world. The Republicans who could stop him are doing nothing... hartmannreport.com/p/the-greate...

🚨 WILLIAMSON COUNTY: Reports of Tennessee voting machines flipping Democratic/ @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social votes to Republicans/@marshablackburn votes 🤔 (Folks in Memphis have said the same)

Millions march against authoritarianism while a handful of powerful men control the digital public square, shape our news, and decide which voices Americans get to hear… hartmannreport.com/p/no-kings-t...

Rape as a weapon of war snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...

Ossoff: "Maybe you saw that Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday, oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one enduring two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its 5 month high"

James Talarico Knows.......

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Strong turnout for the westernmost #nokings rally in the USA: downtown Līhu'e, Kaua'i, HI.

Today, millions of Americans hit the streets for the BIGGEST early vote activation in US history! Next, we're going to make sure every vote is counted, the election results are certified, and the winners are seated in January. Join our mass call to learn more: bit.ly/whatsnext1021.

A group of Democratic U.S. senators are the latest to demand that Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly pledge the Department of Justice (DOJ) won’t seize ballots or election materials during the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Putin has incomparably more influence in the West Wing than he has in eastern Ukraine. Indeed, his only hope in eastern Ukraine sits in the West Wing.

Trump’s worldview is that it is good for evil to prevail and wrong for the righteous to resist.

Meta shut out Indivisible from Instagram on the No Kings Day meant to rally people to vote.

Nobody hates free speech more than the fascist tech oligarchs who claimed to care about it more than anyone. What an absolute joke. P.S. they also hate democracy. As we hand them control of the country. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

Saturday Report 10/17/26 — Could a $100,000 Amex Scandal and a Secret Recording Bring Down Trump’s Administration? The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

CDC reports 4,410 measles cases as outbreak grows reut.rs/4inWGgq