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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.

ALERT: Live data showing that #GasPrices appear to be rising to $4.09/gal in #Maryland today.

NEW: I'm joining a coalition of AGs demanding answers from Meta for suspending the No Kings Coalition's Instagram during nationwide protests. Meta must protect legitimate political activity of its platforms. We won't let Big Tech censor activism ahead of Election Day.

Remember, too, that a number of the DHS goons who've committed crimes -- Pretti's killers and the guy who shot Julio Sosa-Celis in MN, among others -- are Latinos from South Texas.

GOP Rep. Randy Fine says he's been open to deporting Melania Trump and Elon Musk if it turns out they lied on their paperwork

Rebellions are built on hope and people willing to fight for it. It’s our turn next. We have friends everywhere.

Jesse Ventura to Piker: "Here's what pisses me off -- I did 2 tours, 17 months. So did my brother. Southeast Asia. That was at the same time Donald Trump was running and hiding like the coward he is. Why didn't he join us in the Vietnam War? I've heard him talk. He said he should be a general!"

Watch this with Trump at his side, remember the dissents in the birthright citizenship case — www.lawdork.com/p/six-opinio... — and understand there are no limits, no places they wouldn’t go.

It's wild how little trump's own followers care that he is calling them functionally illiterate like every damn day. They don't know what "incumbent" means. They don't know "dumb" ends with a "B."

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time [...] when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority.” ― Carl Sagan

"Donald Trump may spend his final years enacting his own version of Norma Desmond's delusion. "He’ll stand in front of smaller and smaller gatherings at Mar-a-Lago or one of his golf clubs and address the dwindling group of admirers as though he was at one of those blazing 2016 rallies."

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

Whoops! The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board quietly revises a key justification for the two-year closure: that a report supposedly found phased renovations would cost $41M more. The Board admits it never read that before voting. buff.ly/a7LEkeV

Chris Hayes’ MS NOW interview tonight with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is just an astonishing, riveting, long-form interview.

What a POS

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

Professional Republicans are creeps who want to inspect your kids’ genitals. Never, ever vote for a Republican.

Every bit of this 👇

Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush, says he voted for James Talarico in Texas.

The world’s richest man, a vast recipient of our tax dollars, is personally intervening in a war on behalf of Russia’s murderous dictatorship. Every public contract with firms he controls should be severed on national security grounds. This is legal & easy to do—> www.congress.gov/crs_external...

Per Mother Jones, the viral heckler targeting Abdul El-Sayed is the son of a Republican operative whose firm received $250K from a conservative group to campaign against El-Sayed: lincolnsquare.media #AbdulElSayed #Michigan #Midterms2026

Trump claims he's a "super genius" because he knows that 1775+1=1776

Didn’t he promise money to farmers yesterday?

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

Trump: "I've taken so many physicals and I get the best marks. There will be a time. I will let you know when the time is. Some day I won't be able to be able get out of chair, I'll say 'this is not good' ... I'm the only one that ever took a cognitive test. They have a very tough test."

Inflation has hit the Trump merch store. MAGA hats are selling for $55, a 120% increase from 2015. His "Victory 47" perfume, which debuted in February 2024 for $99, now costs $249.

Ohio’s Amy Acton has fired back with a new advertisement of her own, saying Vivek Ramaswamy is “not fit to lead.”

Trump: "If you elected a Republican House and Senate on November 3, you're gonna get $5,000. And if we lose, you get nothing. You're gonna get nothing! If we lose, you get nothing. Make it a lot easier vote."

Trump: "We will pass a truly great healthcare plan that will stop all payments to big insurance companies"

Trump: "We just extinguished a nuclear bomb from the worst country in the world, and our gas prices -- it's a small thing to pay -- our gas prices are lower than under Obama." (Iran never had a nuke and gas prices are not lower than they were 10 years ago)

Attention, Ohio voters: Yes, the Community Note is correct. We just fact-checked it.

🚨 BREAKING: Democrats have filed a new lawsuit against Trump, asking a federal court to block his administration from: 🔺Threatening election officials with criminal prosecution 🔺 Pressuring states to remove voters from the rolls The suit comes just a week after Trump’s DOJ sued California.

I keep waiting for some enterprising reporter to track down Usha’s parents to try and find out what they really think of her husband’s behavior. I’d be fine with a “they slammed the door in my face” report, because that would give us the answer. The answer that I’m sure we all assume to be true.

Trump told us why he is capitulating to Russia (besides the bribes): Because Putin told him he could do far worse in Iran than already helping to kill Americans. And Trump's RESPONSE to that was to simply capitulate. emptywheel.net/2026/10/20/t...

Jesus.

I can think of a few things I need to report. 1. Trump’s reflecting pool scam 2. Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel’s use of government assets for personal matters 3. Kristi Noem’s DHS contracts to friends

Q: If there is a problem with Ilhan Omar's age, could she be deported? TRUMP: She could be. She could also go to jail. I think she's a sick, very dishonest person who hates our country. She comes from a country that is essentially not even a country. Somalia. It's a real shit house.

Trump on Ilhan Omar: "It's amazing that she can get elected, but Somalians vote for her. Most of them shouldn't be here" (Omar's district is largely white)

Q: In the new Fox News power rankings, it shows that less than a quarter of rural voters are happy with the state of the economy. Are you concerned? TRUMP: No, because as soon as the war is over -- it's gonna end very soon -- oil is gonna drop like a rock. It's a small price to pay

OUCH -- Trump refuses to endorse JD Vance for 2028 and says "we've never talked about it"

Trump on his rallies: "It's not easy to stand up there for 2 hours ranting, raving"

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.

How FDR’s Hitler Derangement Syndrome nearly destroyed the United States.

MN GOP HOUSE CANDIDATE JOSH JUNGLING: Paid family medical leave is a bumper sticker law. It sounds good on a bumper sticker DFL CANDIDATE ZACK STEPHENSON: It's not a bumper sticker if you have a new baby or a sick parent. I think it's a necessity

What absolute madness is this?