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House Dems Report: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the 1990s. The DOJ & FBI are doing everything they can to keep the 🇺🇸 people in the dark about it.” The report: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Alaska authorities strongly oppose the Trump DOJ’s attempted “interference” in the election. This is significant because there were concerns the state—which sought to DQ the second Sullivan—would take the same side. But it didn’t. Quite the contrary. buff.ly/EJHtDpX

Kushner’s phone is the REAL Hunter’s laptop.

Do you consider Russia to be an ally or an enemy of the United States? Registered U.S. voters: Ally 3% Friendly 7% Unfriendly 30% Enemy 48% The Economist / YouGov Poll

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

ICYMI

Iran wasn't running out of firepower. It was holding back. Now vessels are being sunk, missile tests are accelerating, and the scale of attacks is expanding dramatically. What we're witnessing should terrify Trump's war planners.

One week before midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his second term, President Trump is struggling to deliver on his campaign promise to bring down costs, even as he insists the country has entered an economic "golden age." https://to.pbs.org/4sn56Iq

In May 2026, Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps launched a secret counteroffensive now known as Operation Vivaldi, aiming to strengthen Ukraine’s defensive positions in the Lyman and Sviatohirsk sectors and disrupt Russia’s plans to encircle Ukraine’s key strongholds.

NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

When it comes to terrible practices by website operators, it takes a lot to shock me. I literally wrote the book on the subject.

Indeed.

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Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

The great Oleksandra Matviichuk is absolutely right to draw attention to the horrible humanitarian crisis in Oleshky. All Putin, Witkoff, and Kushner can do is invert and traduce the meaning of “humanitarianism,” in the best traditions of Russian propaganda.

Trump detests the free enterprise system. He believes in a Soviet-style command economy with total government control. He favors foreign trade based on bribery. He opposes competition. That's why, when a foreign country like Taiwan manufactures a product, Trump says they're "stealing" our business.

These riots are about the bored nihilism of young men, mostly, not about education www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

What government by billionaire gets you.

Gaslighting 101: The AG is literally calling us crazy for thinking Trump will use the levers of government power to overturn the results of an election, when he has a documented history of doing just that. That’s tyranny.

Here’s the relevant language in the DOJ lawsuit. It asks for the election not to be certified if Peltola’s margin of victory is smaller than the number of votes cast for the third-party Sullivan. (I expect this to be laughed out of court.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As his policies bankrupt them, Trump-supporting farmers fully embrace socialism. But only if it’s for them.

So make a plan to vote today at IWillVote.com/OH.

Obama: "You got the defense sec who is like a laser focused on important matters like the jawline & testosterone level of our troops, and livestreaming executions because that's how he thinks you cultivate that manly warrior spirit. How much time do you think this man spends in front of the mirror?"

I got to think that the Trump’s possibly selling off parts of Alaska to the Russians, will not be wildly popular with Alaska voters.

“Justice should not have an expiration date, and it certainly should not be dictated by the news cycle. We cannot allow the Epstein scandal to become yesterday’s news simply because today’s headlines are more urgent.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The deeper reason Trump, Vance, and Ramaswamy are backing the vile rape ad is they think MAGA politics—the cruelty, the depravity, the viciousness—is still ascendant. They think doing this esesentially puts Trump on the ballot. Me and @jimswift.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

Looks like when you fall out of favor with Convicted Felon Trump the protection from investigation falls too

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

UPDATE: The DOJ’s demand to set aside ballots in California is impossible to carry out and has no basis in federal law, L.A. County told a federal court last night. Voting is already underway, the county said, and once a ballot leaves its envelope, it can’t be traced back to a voter.

Trump exempted 202 facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico from clean-air regulations. Some were among the worst industrial polluters, including chemical, copper and coal-burning producers. About 3.3 million people live within 3 miles of at least one affected plant. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Texans: This is the only weekend of early voting. Go to IWillVote.com/Texas to find your polling place and make a plan to vote.

In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

I'm old enough to remember when Jared Kushner thought it was a good idea to use the Russian embassy to conduct secure communications during an American presidential transition

The contribution limit for an individual is $3,500. Elon Musk, a government contractor, is trying to purchase Congress. Billionaires are smothering our elections for their personal gain. Get big money out of politics.

Republican organizer Scott Presler used his home as a base for out-of-state voters to cast Pennsylvania ballots. Legal experts say this raises questions of whether he committed the same acts of which he has accused others. New from Brendan Hartnett:

"The past two years are all the proof you need that sitting out an election because the better candidate happens to not be perfectly to your liking is completely stupid and self-destructive."

So the government leaders of the US and Israel are timing military strikes to support their political ambitions. That really says there’s no fundamental reason to strike in the first place. www.npr.org/2026/10/22/n...

A sad but perfect metaphor for the Trump Administration. wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Putin is a great humanitarian? Meet 14-month old Anhelina. Putin murdered her yesterday. Sickeneng. Congrss - fix the Lindsey Graham bill and do something!

How Ukraine outmaneuvered Russian troops in Operation Vivaldi Operation Vivaldi was until recently a top-secret counteroffensive in the Lyman sector in the northern part of Donetsk Oblast.

In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.

So with faking and manipulating polls in the news again can we talk about this huge campaign by the Rs that has now thrown 73 polls into the Senate battlegrounds in the last 6 weeks? We think this is all on the up and up? 1/

Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Enshittification is particularly galling because (in theory, at least), digital technology should be *really* hard to enshittify.