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A new congressional report reveals allegations that Trump "brutally" raped former Miss Switzerland beauty pageant contestant Beatrice Keul, leaving bruises all over her body. Trump allegedly promised to help Keul obtain a visa and admission to NYU if she remained silent.

11. Brown said what’s new is an allegation from a former beauty contestant from Switzerland by the name of Beatrice Keul. She told the committee that Epstein arranged a meeting w/ Trump at the time one of his pageants. She said he raped her in 1993 in New York. Here's the key part of the report:

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

You know what doesn't get enough love? Horror short stories. From today through Halloween, I'll update this thread with Horror short story recommendations. Stuff you can read in a sitting while feeling like the shadows are watching.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

I have never met Uggi, and likely never will, but I love them and their unbridled enthusiasm.

Seattle, please help her: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

🚨 TONIGHT! The season finale of Dimension 20: Toylight launches on @dropout.tv at 7 PM ET/ 4 PM PT! 🧸 Starring Brennan Lee Mulligan, Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson, and Lou Wilson! #dimension20

Tonight is the final episode of #Toylight by #dimension20 and I'M NOT AT ALL NERVOUS WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. I am clinging to faith in Wyon's single hit point... #ttrpg #actualplay

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

There is an increasingly non-zero chance he drops an n-bomb on live tv in the next two weeks

It's a new week, Bluesky. Trust no poll. Trust no pundit. Vote early if you can. Vote in person if you can.

RE that last RS--"you might mistakenly reject a real person if you reject everything you think might be AI" has real "but if you don't take off your headphones and allow every guy to harass you while you ride to work, you might miss a great romance!" Haha, maybe (LOL no), and I don't care.

I'm still really proud of this story (even if I didn't mean it to feel as prophetic as it did the week it came out.)

For those of you on NetGalley, my upcoming novella THE UPPER TENTACLE is available to read now today ONLY! If for Bosses' Day you'd like a werido book wherein cthulhu-like aliens have eaten the billionaire bosses, this book is for you! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

I've taken emotional damage from this episode, y'all.

Maybe the real punk rock is just the old dudes we piss off along the way. 🤣

After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.

Brilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

She's awake. Knights of Guinevere EPISODE 2 IS OUT NOW

✨ Guest Spotlight: Jade Griffin ✨ Best known for her Call of Cthulhu TTRPG adventures and The Journals of Lacy Anderson Moore! Lovecraftian horror writer and TTRPG adventure designer. See them at SNAFU Con 2026! snafucon.com/guests

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying