“As I write this, the Washington Post has published at least 4 articles about Obama’s Cheesecake Factory line, and 0 articles about a new allegation of rape against Donald Trump, who has already been found liable for sexual assault.”
— @jamisonfoser.bsky.socialwww.findinggravity.net/more-women-h...
"Journalists often use the words 'unsubstantiated' or 'uncorroberated' when referring to the allegations victims have levied against powerful men, like Trump. Instead of saying these women’s accounts are not corroborated, maybe it’s time we say they were not investigated in spite of clear patterns."
In newspapers around the world, the report that Donald Trump raped Béatrice Keul in an Atlantic City hotel room commands huge headlines. In US corporate media, it isn't reported. Ask yourself why that might be. Here's the front page of today's Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich.
Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.
The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.
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...
Tonight Students Saved Democracy in Serbia. 🇷🇸 They won the election.
The Student List movement unites youth, academics, and civic voices across Serbia. Grounded in anti-corruption reforms, democratic integrity, transparent governance, this movement brings hope to many. Vučić conceded defeat!
EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…
El-Sayed: Trump's bill gutted health care for millions. President Obama passed the legislation that expanded it
Crowd Member: Obama is not in the Epstein files either
Crowd: Cheers
This is literally the end of the rule of law.
If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.
New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers.
https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff
Jan 2025: Trump shutters SDNY Epstein Probe
Mar: 1000+ FBI agents are trained to mark Trump’s name for supervisory review
May: Bondi tells Donald he’s in the files
June: White House, DoJ, FBI conspire to create “case closed” memo
July: Memo released
Aug: Maxwell moved/sex offender status waived
Revelations about WH's involvement in Epstein memo in files pried loose by @democracydefendersfund.org lawsuit
Trump was briefed his name was in the files--Weeks later his deputy chief of staff was editing the DOJ-FBI memo that declared the matter closed
Patel sent the draft: "Here you go"👇 -TN
BREAKING:
The Trump Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska's Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.
Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.
So the same month that Elon Musk throttled Starlink to run his own military policy, he's also seeking more control over your flow of information. Musk and the Ellisons will control CNN and CBS for news; HBO, Warner Bros, Paramount & more for entertainment; Twitter (X) and TikTok for social media.
For anyone wondering about how the Louise Lucas indictment relates to DOJ's so-called "60 day rule" about pre-election actions, Jack Goldsmith wrote about the purported rule for @lawfaremedia.org in October 2024:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Indictment here. Basically alleges that she and members of her family were running a recreational weed business before it was legal in Virginia.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone."
EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.
Two thoughts.
1) this is all really bad, and Lucas certainly looks to be in trouble. Obviously she is presumed innocent but the indictment is troubling.
2) there is no reason this couldn’t wait until after the election. At least now we don’t have to pretend those guidelines apply anymore.
"In one intercepted phone call ... with an unindicted co-conspirator, Lucas allegedly said that this was their “last chance at generational wealth,” adding “I’ve gotten too old to not be greedy.”
Well, that's not great. Worse yet is the presumption that if it's the Trump DOJ, it's political BS
Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain was invited to play golf with Trump and he declined:
"Trump should have been in jail long ago. I see no humor whatsoever in his narcissism, in the Epstein files, and especially in the depraved war he unleashed against Iran" 💪🤘 variety.com/2026/music/n...
Trump claims he didn't trade anyone for Stephen Hubbard. But on the same day Trump betrayed Ukraine, October 9, he let Russian election interferer Mikhail Zvinchuk go free. [corrected, I think]
emptywheel.net/2026/10/21/t...
1/ The Trump Administration is said to have refused to extradite from Montenegro the arrested co-founder of the Russian Rybar blog, Mikhail Zvinchuk, despite its own $10 million bounty on its capture. It also reportedly blocked several European countries from extraditing him. ⬇️
The pattern isn’t exactly subtle:
In 2016: Russia targets U.S. elections, tries to help Republicans win
In 2018: See above
In 2020: See above
In 2022: See above
In 2024: See above
In 2026: See above
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery.
Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units.
The investigation died.
We unearthed it:
www.propublica.org/article/nava...
JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday.
Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.