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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.

#MustRead

Enviable clarity from Der Spiegel: “It would be an understatement to call this year’s midterms in the United States ‘crucial.’ A blue wave could slow Trump’s worst impulses. A renewed White House effort to contest the results could further erode US democracy.”

There's something very big missing in the media coverage of the Trump-Putin story. I reveal what that is in the new issue of my OUR LAND newsletter: link.motherjones.com/public/48076... Get a free trial subscription at davidcorn.com. And check out HowRussiaWon.com

Our bill to stop private equity from buying up homes is now law. Despite Donald Trump's refusal to sign it, his Administration must now implement it. We'll be watching closely to ensure it's done right.

Still waiting for a legacy journalist to slap back and say they’re not going to take any more abuse from this sick and disgusting man.

ahhhhhhh...#WOW

US President Trump, suspected of being a Russian-Israeli operative: ""I've been the best president in the history of Israel."

US journalist in Kyiv faces White House online attacks while under fire from Putin’s missiles.

Energy Secretary Wright is campaigning with Ken Paxton today in Texas. A reminder that government officials partaking in campaign events should not be normal.

Quick reminder before you vote: the GOP has full control of govt and still is hiding millions of the Epstein files.

Look. It was one of you, or both of you together. No one else would dare make that calm without approval. Video: buff.ly/Szi4lFf

“I was brutally attacked by 50 masked men… they just kept kicking me and kicking me…” Jewish @washingtonpost journalist Heidi Levine describes getting attacked and robbed by West Bank Israeli terrorists (backed by the IDF & 🇺🇸 taxpayers)

Imagine if, four years after invading Iraq, we controlled only 20% of it and had suffered 1.3 million casualties. Would anyone call that “winning”? Of course not. But when it’s Russia, we’re supposed to believe Putin holds all the cards.

It’s also terrifying in the short run. Will they refuse to support a coup? See: bsky.app/profile/froo...

Where are @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @schumer.senate.gov? Silence from democratic leadership.

ADAM JOHNSON: “The raid on @repilhan’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal…” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...

Truth 👇

This 10 yr old #MustRead is still worth going through. But the oil industry corruption through the GOP/Trump is just astounding and needs very vocal addressing (legal as well.)

This 👇

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

It’s true…

And recall that Gen. Kelly bought this book while he was chief of staff because he wanted to understand, and wanted others in the White House to understand, the nature of Trump's psychiatric disorders 👉👉 www.abebooks.com/first-editio...

Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule.

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

Senator Tammy Duckworth: "Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs."

In just their second season, the Valkyries are headed to the Finals ⚔️ They defeated the Aces 3-0 in the Semifinals to become the fastest expansion team in league history to compete for a title. #WNBASeason30

Art by Dario

🚨Holy shit, brilliant animators just made a devastating ad against Republican corruption: “A massive flood of money… impacts every part of our democracy.” Trump’s corruption is putting our democracy, our rights, and our future up for sale. VOTE. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption

ICE has been showing up at and near polling places, and voting rights groups say it’s scaring naturalized citizens and immigrant families away from the polls. Help us keep eyes on the polls: https://demdock.com/3TR0Gga

The Trump regime wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court because it plans to continue committing war crimes. The Trump regime is refusing to allow international election monitors because it plans to continue committing election fraud. They are not being subtle.

You often hear that clean energy is not replacing fossil energy, only adding to total energy, and thereby not reducing emissions. ("There is no transition," they say.) It's nonsense. Read this post from @zekehausfather.com about how much FF has been displaced by renewable energy:

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

As Trump demonizes cities, remember this: Residents of "blue" states send more tax money to Washington than they get back in federal help, while residents of “red” states send less money to Washington than they get back in federal help. Just thought I should point that out.

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

"systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." #ExcellentDescription

Trump is holding the G7 at his own golf resort so he can shovel more money from the US treasury into his private pocket, and collect from other governments, too. This time no one says a word about it, even though everyone thinks it's record-breaking corruption and sleaze.

This is essential. But has everyone in DC forgotten that Trump has a veto for the next two years? That word does not appear here once. The next two years have to be about getting everything lined up for 2029. And not overpromising deliverables in the meantime. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I am so, SO tired of seeing Sam Altman (not in an orange jumpsuit) in my feed. STOP showing this amoral criminal.

Time to seize back our country from the people looting it.

This guy: American hero. The question, as Ed Wasserman writes, is whether today's media would be willing to run a story of this magnitude while under assault from the Trump administration. Like, maybe the Times would, and it's no angel here, but what about networks controlled by Trump allies? HERO.

🧵IDF: "we killed a terrorist posing as a journalist. Don't ask us for definitive proof; we just know".⤵️ The Oz's source ritually labels its victims 'terrorists'. *This* victim was likely a man doing the most dangerous job in the world: reporting on genocide dished out by an untouchable perp. .../2