Avice Meehan

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Neil Bush, brother of George W. Bush and son of George H.W. Bush, has posted a political message on Facebook for the first time, saying he voted for James Talarico for US Senate over Ken Paxton. Bush says he isn't just opposing Paxton, he has come to admire Talarico.

To my fellow served-in-the-government/respect-our-institutions types: In light of systematic ICE brutality and DOD dishonesty and DOJ election subversion, we all need to suspend any presumption of regularity or even law-abidingness on the part of elements of the U.S. government.

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Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

Obviously this is a Musk-Trump collab. Neither would've done it without the other. Both are lying. Both have betrayed the US, our allies, empowered a war criminal and enabled the deaths of innocent people.

He should not be allowed to have any government contracts--he is operating like a rogue state.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Excellent reporting of a hideous story. My god- every adult failed Taylor Cadle when she was a 12 yr old rape victim. and the ones in law enforcement who played a role all still have their jobs.

"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.

With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️

"Commissioners, business owners, and members of the public all complained that Shapiro’s Hollywood dreams have brought mayhem to the town’s population of roughly 9,000 people, with a list of misdeeds that includes..." Read the whole thing:

No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...

Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised"

Ossoff: "Our whole government made a corrupt tool of one man's vengeance and power and wealth ... in one month, Athens, we will vote to rebuke him so decisively, no president will dare such abuses again for centuries!"

Meditation has become a multibillion-dollar industry that’s promoted as a cure-all. @olgakhazan.bsky.social on how a true believer in the practice ended up founding a clinical space geared toward helping people who believe that meditation has actually harmed them:

The latest nationwide FT-Focaldata poll found that just 33% of registered voters approved of Donald Trump’s performance as president — the lowest number recorded since the FT first started asking the question. ft.trib.al/L70XHLr

Obvious point: The Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are far better Americans than Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller.

This is rich: In addition to violations of federal records laws, Dr. Morens pleaded guilty last month to receiving illegal gratuities in the form of two bottles of The Prisoner Red Blend Napa Valley wine from Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s former president. Read the whole story from @nytimes.com

NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...

The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.

If a Twitch influencer who has campaigned with a handful of Democrats is a big issue, then what ought we to make of Elon Musk — the richest and most virulent antisemite and racist on the planet — bankrolling and campaigning with pretty much the entire GOP? charliesykes.substack.com/p/dems-have-...

Liberals say that secret concentration camps for children have no place in our democracy. They’re wrong— secret concentration camps for children have no place in our republic.

"The power to manage federal property begins and ends with Congress. But Trump’s lawyers ballooned that statute into a capacious grant of absolute power to demolish chunks of the building." Of course they did, but Roberts didn't have to rubber-stamp it.

The president’s daring catering-truck escape raises serious questions about whether America still has the moral authority to lecture other countries about transparent governance.

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.

I need your help. We are almost at 1 million YouTube subscribers. Can you share this and help me get there? www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1

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NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

🔥🔥🔥🔥 “All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation.”

Outrageous.

What will the media companies who are publishing stories that Blanche agreed to a “deal” with Cornyn & Tillis to kill the slush fund write when people start getting paid with our tax dollars & this whole thing is revealed as a sham? Since they aren’t writing how it’s a sham now.

FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

I was going to write this morning on the damage Trump and Hegseth have done to the American military, but went in another direction. But Paul Krugman does an excellent job here. And as he would be the first to say, there is even more evidence that could be cited. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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“Daylight Saving” and “Sunshine Protection” are deceits. Restore permanent Standard Time for more honest time-keeping.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

The fact that we’ve had 10-plus years of Trump the politician and we are STILL having this conversation shows just how behind journalists (and particularly the TV kind) have been in adapting their practices to fit a changing reality. This should be a no-brainer by now.

NEW: "Let me tell you a story to help you understand how our situation looks to outsiders"—the story of America's death squads. www.thebulwark.com/p/americas-d...

WALLER: "If we get another hot reading on core inflation this week, then the FOMC will need to consider tightening monetary policy in the near term." "Sternly staring at inflation until it melts before our withering gaze is not an option." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b... @nytimes.com

ICE killed a Colombian man. He was legally authorized to work. His wife and 3-year-old daughter were in the car when ICE fired at least 5 times. He was not their target. Agents wore no body cameras. This is fascism. Prepare: PAXIS.app Keep it free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?

CDC scientists wrote a robust paper on the safety results of the Covid vaccine. The acting director Bhattacharya, w/o experience in vaccines, blocked it based on his non-expert opinions on how vaccine safety studies should be conducted. An ongoing pattern of censorship. 🧪 archive.today/3QN9x

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn -- Norm Eisen, Democracy Defenders Fund & Mary Dohrmann, Washington Litigation Group

Originally there was no Constitution. So ignoring the Constitution is the only truly originalist approach to Constitutional law.