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Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Alaska. The Comeys. California. East Potomac Golf Course. All of today's key court developments in one place. Catch up here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-day-ev...

“The Navy lost three ships looking for us - ActBlue found us in six minutes.”

Rest of sentence: “off American consumers.” Who does Bozo think is paying that “freaking fortune”?

You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge J. Michael Luttig: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

"The Cuban regime has stifled any viable domestic opposition. But the withering of the state—a process that has been under way for decades—has accelerated, and is shocking to see up close" From Robert Worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I’ve got that for you: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-sunday...

It’s so much worse than you think. Ex-DOJ official Liz Oyer: “The Justice Department has been totally captured by the president.” CORRUPTIONLAND is released tomorrow @ corruptionland.org. Next week, Americans can do something about it.

“We’re making a fricking fortune,” Trump said. Who’s the we? “We” is he…the Trump family…billionaire cronies profiting off of the corruption and crime…oil execs who gave him millions. This is the “we” who Trump cares about—always has, always will. www.americaamerica.news/p/showing-tr...

Democrats are preparing a “first 100 hours” plan to try to roll back some of President Trump’s most unpopular policies if they regain control of the House and perhaps the Senate in the midterms. Our congressional correspondent Annie Karni explains what to know. trib.al/oLnvp3D

"DOJ...is asking federal courts, before a single result exists, to bless the reasons it might later give for refusing to accept particular outcomes...I’ve been calling it preemptive election interference. And it’s as troubling as it is unprecedented." www.stevevladeck.com/p/259-dojs-p...

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin... all devoted to manipulating elections around the world to put their friends in power..

Trump is bragging about $21 trillion in foreign investment but also concerned about trade deficits. I don't get it. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-spot-a-fake-trillion

Background here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The next 10 days will test our democracy. Trump hasn’t been able to suppress votes systemically like he wanted to & now there's a lot going on, especially in courts. Get caught up on what you need to know now, like recent developments in California and Alaska. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

Why is an Emirati sheikh so often in the middle of money moving between Russia and the Trump family? saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-cutout...

"The director won’t protect even our most respected analysts when they tell hard truths, so they stopped telling them and learned to avoid topics the White House didn’t want to hear,” newly retired CIA official tells @shaneharris.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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California, Alaska, and more. Here’s what you need to know to understand Trump’s last-ditch efforts to avoid losing. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

The Trump Regime is making up bullshit about election fraud to disenfranchise millions of voters. @kamlager-dove.house.gov visited the LA County Ballot Processing Center & joins me to explain their security procedures & to give the latest on how CA is fighting back. youtu.be/JvE3FcOiaXs?...

I'm a little confused. Trump says he's brought in $21 trillion in new investment, but the White House's own website lists just $11.3 trillion. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-spot-a-fake-trillion

“It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the US interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope,” says ex-Polar LNG CEO who quit after discovering secret Russian funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

“People thought that things would change, but in reality nothing changed.” José, another fisherman who used to work for PDVSA, had a darker view: “The gringos came to rob everything—the oil, the minerals. We are rich in everything, but here, we don’t have anything.” Bu @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Why did Trump decide to derail peace talks between Russia and Ukraine? Corrupt bargains with LUKoil assets appear to have had something to do with it. Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close”—then Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel.

Trump & co said the quiet part out loud today: these BOGUS lawsuits are about subverting elections & it’s because he’s scared of YOUR vote Suing now bc your guy might lose later? Like all their election shenanigans: sow chaos & cling to power It's not going to work -TN

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...

"After fighting Chavistas and their Russian, Iranian, and Cuban allies for so long, nobody in Venezuela’s historically pro-American democratic opposition ever expected a U.S. administration to stand in their way. But if it does, they are preparing to fight that obstacle too."

Here's what gives me hope.⁣ ⁣ A country that has lost confidence in its economic future is in a much better place than a country that has lost its economic foundations. ⁣ ⁣ And for now, we still have our foundations. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/its-not-the-economy-its-whos-running

Ukraine says satellite access still restricted despite Trump saying otherwise
The president said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starshield, but Ukrainian soldiers said the service was still disrupted Friday. wapo.st/3UeuOlS Gift article

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

It’s Furry Friends Friday! 🐾❤️ Lucky is doing a great job taking care of me as I recuperate from this laryngitis and get geared up for more elections coverage!

I'm shocked, shocked.

We live in a parody of the parody of the dystopia.

Is Trump World Faking the Data? @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Psycho Politics' George Conway argues to Molly that Trump's claims of a booming economy don't match what Americans are experiencing, pointing to major downward revisions to 2025 jobs numbers #USA #Trump #uspoli youtu.be/6CxKXkZ0mIE

“We thought the funding the administration offered us for the illegal secret deal was from Jared’s secret illegal Gulf state influence find — but turns out it was from a sanctioned Russian company” is the price you pay for dealing with these turds www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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So witkoff/kushner toadie sell out negotiations involves cutting Russian companies in on US energy deals? Are we giving Alaska back to Russia?

"Trump’s BBC lawsuit has now become about the central questions that would have determined his fate had Jack Smith’s January 6 prosecution gone to trial." My latest: https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/trump-hoist-by-his-own-petard

This is appalling, illegal, immoral, and 500 other things, by a private citizen who is not even in the same universe as the chain of command.

Venezuela will need billions of dollars to recover from what its authoritarian regime did to its oil industry—but the Trump administration’s intervention may be scaring away the investment the country needs, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports.

Turns out you don't need to crash the economy to make people miserable. You can just threaten to crash it every other week. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/words-can-hurt-the-economy

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And it was actually a prisoner exchange in which we gave them an actual Russian criminal and we also gave them diplomatic cover in a war of aggression — not only morally shameful and personally humiliating but as a negotiation absolutely laughably unequal.

"When you feel bad about the leadership, you feel bad about the future. It just makes sense." https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/its-not-the-economy-its-whos-running

“We must not let these depraved Trump loyalists continue to degrade our nation without consequence. Every day they are free to pursue their moral corruption is another day we must spend cleansing the stain they’ve made.” www.americaamerica.news/p/morally-ro...

Homeland Security Investigations is supposed to primarily be investigating serious cross-border criminal activity. Here is what it's doing under the Trump administration. New from @amandacarpenter.bsky.social: