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Oregonians, ballots will be mailed to out-of-state voters on Oct. 5, followed by in-state voters on Oct. 14. Mark it on your calendar, keep an eye out, vote ASAP and mail it back. Also, remind your neighbors, networks and friends, letโs set a voter turnout record this year. ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ #OregonVotes#Vote
A gang of mall cops breaking some neurodivergent kid's wrist because he fit a description, then ditching him in pain on the street w/o calling help.
After all this, the agents of ICE need to be banned from public employment for life.
Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
Trump: "In Washington, all the restaurants were closing. People were being held up. They'd walk into a restaurant. Like Jesse James. 'Stand up! Give us all your money.' They're eating dinner at a fancy restaurant. All the restaurants were closing."
One of the most effective things Obama could do for the party is let it rip like this all year long. He's so good, but he saves it for rallies a few weeks before elections like it's a severely-limited resource and that's just not how the modern communications environment has evolved.
โHow much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious peopleโ โ Obamaโs audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth
The New York Times just put out this credulous bullshit that claims Iran is getting ready to attack, citing Trump officials.
This is clearly a way for Trump to justify more heavy bombing. Itโs so fucking irresponsible to position it like this.
hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?
Nearly 2 in 3 U.S. adults younger than 30 who plan to vote in midterms say their main motivation is to oppose Trump and his policies, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll.
77% disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy โ including about half of young Republicans.
If you were waiting for your sign to donate to an insurgent campaign for Congress in Missouri...this is your sign. I'm current polling 5 points ahead of 14 yr incumbent Ann Wagner in a seat held by the GOP for 34 years. I need you now. We can take this across the finish line and change Missouri.
NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads?
Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them.
The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything.
Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.
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"
Got an iPad Pro temporarily as my Intel MacBook Pro finally bit the dust. I was gonna save up for the rumored OLED touch MacBook Pro, but this seems to be enough for me. The improvements on the OS are great since I last had an iPad back in 2018, especially with Sidecar for my work computer.
This weekend at Cinema 21, Portlandโs QDoc festival presents an excellent, varied curation of new documentary films about LGBTQ+ community icons, histories, and drama! There are some real gems; donโt miss our picks >> www.portlandmercury.com/culture/all-...
Starting tomorrow, Oct. 22, contractors working for PBOT will be replacing plastic delineator posts with concrete traffic separators along the NW 16th Avenue bike lane from NW Flanders to SW Alder streets.
Details: www.portland.gov/transportati...
JD Vance smears Amy Acton: "I happen to think that the people of Ohio see through that fraudulent activity for exactly what it is. Somebody said alcohol. You can say it. I can't."
Vivek Ramaswamy has not only confirmed the commercial with Amy Acton's estranged mother was made by his campaign, Axios also reports he's now spending $4 million to air it.
I've had coffees at the Peet's across the street from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with friends in the Obama and Biden administrations who refused to let me pay the $5 for their coffee, lest it seemed like I was trying to bribe them. ๐คท
My brain cannot process this level of corruption.
She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee."
And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
Sabotaging American foreign policy in order to help win an election is one area where Trump genuinely isn't an aberration. Nixon sabotaged peace talks with Vietnam and Reagan backchanneled to prevent Carter from getting the hostages in Tehran released. A long-standing Republican tradition of treason
The cost of everything from groceries and gas to housing and childcare is going up because of choices made by Donald Trump's administration.
Those choices have consequences. So do elections.
The midterms are our chance to elect leaders who will fight for the people.
SpaceX got almost $6 BILLION in taxpayer-funded defense contracts last fiscal year.
Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has spent over $360 MILLION in our elections this cycle.
This should be illegal โ but it isn't. I'll be introducing a bill to close the loophole that allows it.
Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas.
He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. Heโs trying to buy Texas.
But on November 3rd, weโll deliver a clear message to the worldโs first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.
As far as I can tell, literally every article on this quotes the same "expert" โ a former estranged father who has an entire blog dedicated to absolving parents of any responsibility.
He also sells $995 "consultations" where he will blame your kids for cutting you off.
Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Nextโthe conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed eventsโpaid a firm registered to Tommy Teepellโs dad Timmy $250k for โcanvassing and influencer marketingโ against El-Sayed.
JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of.
1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.๏ฟผ
Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.
Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."
Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraineโs fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China.
Weโll see if Putinโs puppet continues to dance on his strings.
... hampering the country's defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for.
Ten years ago today.
In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...