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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

How come People can do this and most political news cannot?

There is no bottom for Vance.

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko recalls witnessing the aftermath of Russian attacks on civilians trying to flee. “Half-burnt bodies lying on the asphalt” beside the wreckage of their cars. “Something that you would expect to see in horror movies, but it's absolutely reality.”

Ken Paxton voted to fund government contracts with the company WatchGuard. He then made $2.2 million off his investment in the company.

It's extremely clear at this point that Todd Blanche has opened this probe for one reason: to block or subvert the real criminal investigation now underway headed by Raúl Torres, the attorney general of New Mexico. The technical term for what Blanche is doing is perverting the course of justice.

YOU HAD HIS EMAILS AS A GEORGE BUSH LAWYER WHERE HE SAID OF ROE THAT THE "COURT CAN ALWAYS OVERRULE ITS PRECEDENT, AND THREE CURRENT JUSTICES ON THE COURT WOULD DO SO."

This strange behavior is just the latest example of Trump’s apparent cognitive decline. trib.al/hfQoSJb

Saying that a country being attacked by Putin is an "ally" of the United States would piss off Trump. So Bessent cannot say that. Pathetic.

Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account

Per CBS 60 Minutes: "The midterms are just two weeks away, and President Trump is using his power to intimidate the people who run our elections, putting the voting system under remarkable stress."

TRUMP‘S PLAN IS DIABOLICAL & SELFISH Trump is coming for the historic East Potomac Golf Links The public golf course was created over a century ago to make golf accessible to ordinary Americans who couldn’t afford private country clubs. It was built to open doors, not keep people out.

These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side. "Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians" by Sara Cincurova snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...

Republicans, man, I dunno.

Ex-Congressman Matt Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking. www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/15/e...

Trump called Ric Grenell to confront him over Alina Habba’s claim that a $5.6 million donation to the Kennedy Center from her billionaire husband had disappeared. Grenell denied it. Yesterday, her husband’s attorneys delivered the evidence to the White House. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Susan Collins expresses no regrets for voting to confirm RFK Jr

BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN

BEND, OREGON: “Three children and one adult are dead following a reported active shooter situation at Silver Rail Elementary… suspected active shooter is also dead.” Another American nightmare. katu.com/news/local/b...

Nine former FBI employees who worked on Trump’s classified documents case sued FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche today, they were unlawfully fired for doing their jobs.

🚨Holy crap! Ken Paxton partied on New Year’s Eve 2024 in Dubai with his girlfriend and two U.S. fugitives (Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail) charged in healthcare fraud/embezzlement schemes. Ahmed, a major donor, gave about $190,000 to Paxton’s campaign — including after his indictment.

This judge is not fucking around 🔥 Trump bulldozed ahead with cutting down hundreds of trees at the historic East Potomac Golf Links, despite a federal judge’s warning. She ordered work stopped & warned: “If that order is violated by as so much as two seconds, there will be contempt proceedings.”

The Moron and Lunatic in the White House has now declared China and Russia aren’t helping Iran, and that if they were, “we would know about it very fast.” We do know. His own Defense Secretary told senators they are. Trump's covering for Putin and Xi as they help Iran kill American service members

A Trump supporter punched a protester wearing a “Release the Epstein Files” shirt in the face at Trump’s rally in Youngstown, OH. According to Mediaite, police removed the protester while the attacker stayed and “high-fived other attendees”. This is disgraceful and sums up the entire MAGA movement.

The Trump administration ignored the court’s instructions again. Over 400 trees were chopped down at D.C.’s public East Potomac Golf Links over the holiday weekend without proper advance notice even after government lawyers promised the judge ample warning before any irreversible work.

WOW: A federal judge ERUPTED at Trump administration lawyers after hundreds of trees were chopped down for Trump's DC golf course project despite repeated warnings to provide advance notice. Our Scott MacFarlane was inside the courtroom for the extraordinary showdown.

🚨GOP NIGHTMARE: Democrats are surging in the battle for the Senate. NC Cooper +8.8 GA Ossoff +8.1 NH Pappas +5.9 MI El-Sayed +3.1 OH Brown +3.1 TX Talarico +3.0 MN Flanagan +2.2 AK Peltola +1.4 ME Jackson +1.0 IA Turek +0.5 But polls don’t vote — PEOPLE DO. No complacency. Turn out. Fight back. 👊

Zelenskyy might be saving our democracy. The mad genius is bombing Russian data centers linked to FAKE NEWS bot farms. Without them, Putin’s midterm influence will accidentally fall from a 30th floor window. I 💙 Ukraine 🇺🇦

As usual, Trump does whatever he wants without permission and then says, "Well it's too late now, the trees are already down. You have to let us finish so we can clean up the mess." Just like with his stupid ballroom.

Elon Musk has been vocal against Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk," calling the filmmaker names like "idiot" and "horrible human."

Walmart is the largest private employer in America, yet 16,055 of its employees were on Medicaid in just 6 states, and 15,515 were receiving food stamps in 9 states. Mostly red states. And those aren’t even national totals. #RepublicanAffordabilityCrisis

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

This is an actual Nazi rally.

It’s genuinely sad to watch. The President is so weak and incapable of negotiating a real deal that he just posts fake ones on social media and hopes people believe him, until every party involved puts out a statement calling him a liar. We’ve never seen weakness like this in the Oval Office.

NEW: We knew in April that DOJ was investigating Hutchinson. Now NBC reports they are seeking a grand jury indictment for lying to Congress. The thing is, she didn't lie to Congress. She testified truthfully about what someone else told her. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Pope: “The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences.”

NEW: CONTENT WARNING FOR SA: Democratic candidate for Arizona's 8th Congressional district Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by two men while repairing campaign signs according to a sheriff's report. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.

Dr Florence Stoney 1st woman UK #radiologist. 1898 qualif'd as Dr @ London School of Medicine for Women. Estab'ed X-ray dept @ Elizabeth Garret Anderson hospital. #WWI head of surgical & X-ray @ front line hospitals in France, dev't bone expertise. d. #OTD 7 Oct 1932 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...

completely distracted by and very much need to know more about what's going on with the person in red here

🚨 IOWA SENATE SHOCKER: Josh Turek is within striking distance of flipping a seat Democrats haven’t won since 2008. Trump carried Iowa by 13 points in 2024. But anger over the economy & the Iran war has transformed the race. A Turek win would help Dems take back the Senate. Let’s finish this. #Vote

The Trump administration broke federal law by withholding more than $78 million Congress had approved for healthcare research, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The watchdog found that HHS violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding

fiscal year 2025 grant funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality after mass layoffs dismantled the agency’s ability to award grants. Congress appropriated that money for research. The administration was legally required to make it available.

Let's kill everything A debate to kill all sharks in #Greenland , because "they eat fish" caught by local fishermen Humans are a nightmare ... Let's ask AGI to fix this #WarOnNature #Metacrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...