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You would think given the mythology JD Vance created about his childhood to launch his political career that he would quickly condemn that despicable ad against Amy Acton. But that would require him to have principles and be a decent person.

"So, in Alaska, if Peltola wins, her victory is inherently suspect and must be investigated. And in Minnesota, if Flanagan bests Tafoya, her victory is inherently suspect b/c Trump has declared that Tafoya can’t lose, period, unless Dems cheat. This is the long, stupid shadow of the 2020 election."

In other words, Trump invaded Venezuela, killed about 100 people, installed a member of the dictatorship as the new puppet leader, and stole the country's oil.

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

The Trump regime has made the U.S. into a sad joke to the rest of the world. Slamming other cultures doesn’t change that.

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

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.

Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

“Musk is trying to buy the midterms” by Ann Telnaes on Bluesky and Open Windows. “Elon Musk is funneling over $276 million into the Republican Party” Please support Editorial Cartoonists, whenever possible directly, whose work is shown on Bluesky. This #EditorialCartoon was found on Open Windows.

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.

Both false and racist

Three vehicles torched. A Palestinian man's hand broken. All during the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. MeidasTouch reporter Suri Crowe recounts what happened to a family she met. “These Palestinians are merely trying to harvest the olives on land that they have owned..."

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

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Eight months ago, we learned that Howard Lutnick blatantly lied to the public about his personal and business ties with Jeffrey Epstein, who raped children. So why is Lutnick still Commerce secretary? Because telling lies and befriending child molesters make him a good fit in the Trump regime.

Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.

New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration’s campaign to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls suffered its 27th consecutive district court loss Friday, this time at the hands of a judge appointed by President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Since last Saturday, Meta executives have given vague & shifting answers for why the No Kings Instagram was taken down at the height of the protests.   Today, I'm calling on Meta to come clean.   Is Meta intentionally censoring speech? Americans deserve answers.

This is sad. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historic World War II globe was broken when Pete Hegseth’s team dropped it while trying to move it into his office.

If this death toll was the result of a terrorist attack, the world would be up in arms And remember, this is not the new normal From the perspective of 2100, or even 2050, the summer of 2026 will be one of the coolest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Extorting Marines with cancer to own the libs.

“Elon wants to buy his own personal U.S. Senator” 🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad calls out the hundreds of millions Musk is spending to attack him and prop up Paxton in Texas

Trump on the Alaska election lawsuit: "I'm the one that said 'do it'"

I am beginning to think that “superpower suicide” understates the case.

And it was actually a prisoner exchange in which we gave them an actual Russian criminal and we also gave them diplomatic cover in a war of aggression — not only morally shameful and personally humiliating but as a negotiation absolutely laughably unequal.

2/ Signed by Rubio and Hegseth, the 18-page doc reveals carefully constructed terms that appear to favor U.S.interests at every turn. It also cements the power of a small group of people handpicked by the Trump admin to govern and profit from the deal. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

In August, Trump announced the “BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” But is it? The text of the accord — which grants the U.S. sweeping access to Venezuela’s oil reserves — has been one of DC’s most sought-after secrets. ProPublica got to see a copy. 🧵

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

because Vance is the most disgusting person in politics aside from his boss: www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.

Witkoff called Putin a “humanitarian.” Vance says nobody hates corruption more than Trump, the same week the NYT exposed a $50M Habba deal before a billionaire’s pardon. And Republicans are collapsing in the polls. Your midday update:

eat shit

Same bullshit excuse Elon used in 2022 and 2023 when he said he throttled Starlink because he didn’t believe his products should be used for war. So he built Starshield, which is Starlink for war.

suddenly trump’s bitter fixation on new mexico comes into focus

BREAKING: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico sues Jeffrey Epstein's attorney and accountant, accusing them of concealing his sex trafficking operation.

it's honestly kind of amazing how Trump holds events like this one at the White House daily and almost every time nobody really knows what the point of them is. Why is this happening? Is there any purpose beyond the optics of looking busy?

* without him getting his cut

"Mysterious messages," the NY Times calls them. Obvious fake mailers by right-wing dirty tricksters, I call them. Republicans have been pulling this shit for decades. In 1972, callers using Black dialect phoned voters at midnight and claimed to be from the “Harlem for Muskie Committee.”

Yes. The Trump-MAGA attack on Elissa Slotkin is getting amplified wall-to-wall by the social media feeds of just about every significant MAGA personality, elected Republican, and party committee in Washington. Why doesn't this happen on the Dem side? Dems should defend her *and* amplify her point.

"Are you a sick person?" Trump asks a reporter. "I actually think there's something wrong with you." The same goes for Trump. He's sick. There's something wrong with him.