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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Went to the NYT homepage to see if they have anything on the new rape allegations leveled at Trump (they do not), saw this, and noped out.

"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now 16 years old.”

Egypt jails Mada Masr editor and orders outlet closed - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypts-mada-masr-editor-lina-attalah-jailed-court-orders-outlet-shut

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BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4zY7fwQ

It was the worst crime spree in US history. All these DOGE fuckers need to go to jail. 

When they go low, we bury them.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

It’s going to be interesting to watch many Americans come to terms with the fact that Netanyahu is not The Only Problem

And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

BREAKING: Flávio has reportedly been summoned by the Federal Police to surrender his passport

Tyranny dies in ridicule

Obama is the Aubrey to Trump’s Clonfert

www.redbubble.com/i/art-board-...

Lula Goes HARD

NEW: @lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief (and my boss) @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org joins @kennethroth.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social, Beverly Gage & others in a @knightcolumbia.org lawsuit challenging President Trump’s policy of expelling reporters from the White House.

“We’re self-confident men,” says the guy who on Oct. 13 told a fan “I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico.”

You really need to work hard to be the most obsequious member of Trump’s cabinet — by, for instance, eating lunch at Cheesecake Factory and alerting Fox Business, so they can interview you in defense of Obama’s joke about the White House decor. Well done Secretary Bessent! Your move, Doug Burgum!

Important reporting and it is wild that the relevant disclosure is “years later on tax returns” rather than “during the election.” A Democratic Congress could pass a law to fix that part.

Is that Lord Voldemort or Benjamin Button?

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

-Julius Caesar

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

Before and After the Elections (video) snyder.substack.com/p/before-and...

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Abdul El-Sayed: You've probably seen a lot of folks trying to get you to question my love of this country. But let me be clear. No one understands the promise of America like someone who understands exactly what America gave me. I love America enough to call on her to be America for all of her kids.

I don’t know what 99% of people think. But I suspect if you are dining at a Cheesecake Factory, you are aware more upscale (and downscale) options are available—probably within the very shopping mall where it’s located. And if you notice the decor in there, you know it’s madcap gaudy weird shit.

real fast casual dining heads know this is old spaghetti factory erasure, revealing this supposed tribune of the plebs to be an imposter

"The director won’t protect even our most respected analysts when they tell hard truths, so they stopped telling them and learned to avoid topics the White House didn’t want to hear,” newly retired CIA official tells @shaneharris.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

You gotta click through to see I guess but pls know it’s Marco Rubio I’m copy editing

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

Ah yes, Liz Cheney, well-known liberal.

as much as i’d rather build something new, we have to takeover and gut the democratic party all that infrastructure belongs to the people, not the loser ass DCCC consultant class that has reduced it to nothing since the clinton era

Blanche thinks we can’t read his lawsuit. He’s plainly trying to stop the certification of Alaska’s election depending on how it turns out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“.. Video footage, Sheriff Greene said, clearly showed a woman being punched in the face. ‘I know what people saw, and if I saw that video, too, I’d be like, ‘My God, why didn’t the police do anything?’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...