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Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. apnews.com/article/braz...

Talarico: "If you've seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you've gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon. If you've received a text message saying scary things about me with scary black and white photos. That was Elon too."

Kushner took a $50 mn bribe from the Emiratis to orchestrate the firing of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, according to Matt Cole's new book, Princes and Thieves, out today. To be clear, this is a serious felony, if true.

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

A must-read thread ⤵️

(RNS) — While Gov. Abbott has been a vocal opponent of what he calls the 'Islamification' of Texas, he also has received more than $15 million in donations from S. Javaid Anwar, a philanthropist and oil industry exec.

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Campaign spending from GEO Group and CoreCivic, the 2 main private prison/ICE detention companies, suggest they've mostly given up on the House and are trying to save the Senate for the GOP. Major recipients: Susan Collins, Ashley Moody, Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers, Jon Husted, Ashley Hinson

MUST READ: Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush and son of another President Bush, explains why he voted for James Talarico. In part: “My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton's record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico.”

Girls! Girls! You're *both* right! Bask in the novelty.

How do you get fired in this White House? Get caught pathetically trying to cadge money - and being a woman. Guilfoyle just didn't get it: All she had to do was stay under the radar. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???

If you ever feel the need to make people laugh but can't think of a good joke, just say the words "Senator Eric Schmitt"

God, I had so much fun putting together this 20 min. video on Eric Schmitt and the most embarrassing moment in a congressional hearing I’ve ever seen. Yes, 20 minutes. Full video on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4wvOY...

He really thought he had something

Darline Graham questioned Jack Smith about her brother’s phone records but wasn’t prepared for his response.

Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.

That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.

A Trump ally’s attempt to catch former special counsel Jack Smith in a lie blew up in his face.

Dear god... GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt clearly loses his shit after it's revealed by Sen. Klobuchar that Schmitt confused the Iowa Hawkeyes college basketball team with the Atlanta Hawks NBA team in his attempt to claim Jack Smith was in Atlanta and colluded with Fani Willis. I'm gobsmacked. Holy shit.

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

Klobuchar eviscerates Schmitt: "For a U.S. Senator to have false information and imply based on a confusion … and imply you're in another city that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia and then call you a dirt bag is something that deserves an apology."

Would be comic if it were not vicious. Actually it’s both. Sen Schmitt framed a whole perjury suggestion on the basis of Jack Smith’s attending an Atlanta Hawks game and surreptitiously seeing Fulton County prosecutor. In fact it was Iowa Hawkeyes (Caitlin Clark) in College Park Maryland

Trump pardoned Jack Abramoff's old partner. We found the man's money in eight Republican Senate campaigns, and six belong to sitting senators. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...

Sen. Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan

NEW: Sen. Eric Schmitt exposed Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan. Schmitt's erroneous effort to catch Smith in a lie resulted in Smith confirming he went to see Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes play the Terrapins in Maryland in 2023. w/ Chris Marquette www.politico.com/live-updates...

What an incredible piece of Schmitt.

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

“My Brilliant Career” is a fizzy and intelligent pop-feminist interpretation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian novel—and the sleeper hit of the summer, Inkoo Kang writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

Not central casting. bsky.app/profile/meid...

Today I'll be reporting live from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, for @dmagazine.bsky.social, which applied for press access but never received a response. Consequently, I will have the general admission experience. First step: drive ~30 minutes outside of Dallas to Grand Prairie. 1/

In this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the first First Lady elected to the US Senate, recalls Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in creating The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document in human rights. youtu.be/Fxsl0mrJbXg?...

NEW VIDEO: “The Magic Wand of Bible Study” Learn how deft Bible Study can turn black into white and, more important, a “Thou shall not” into a “Girl, you simply MUST!” youtu.be/QEaqD3xmcGI

All of these ICE charter airlines have emergency landings, diversions, aborted takeoffs etc ALL THE TIME. And very often the shackled passengers have to sit on the plane until ICE flies in a new one. When I say I am drowning in stories and wish more journos were covering this, this is what I mean!

🧊✈️ BLESS HER HEART 🤠 🚌 A prison bus guard for La Salle Corrections waves to ICE flight observers Thursday, after delivering chained humans for air transport from Love Field in Dallas 👀

Yes, and moms will be thrilled with having to take the kids to the doctor 5 times instead of once or twice. Especially for kids who don't like needles, great idea.

Can I get an amen?

5 things NOT worth the money.

There are a number of planes in ICE's charter fleet that I'm monitoring for potential third-country removals today, but the flight patterns are unusual enough that I'm waiting for more info. This one though? This private jet operated by Talon Air is most likely an ICE flight.

She was a student at Churchill High School in San Antonio. He was working at the Hilton Garden Inn. Neither has committed a crime. Their asylum case is pending. Now they’re both sitting at the Dilley Trailer Prison. #ShutDownDilley #FreeTheChildren

Senator Bernie Moreno -- who refuses to comment publicly on his daughter's allegations that her ex-husband physically abused her and her daughter -- tries to shame Dr. Fauci for not listening to right-wing cranks and Fox News pundits. He even asks: "You can't even look at them?" You first, coward.

if you're going at the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl in such a way that it gets you carded, please get in touch

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton shut down his own press conference after being asked questions about his controversies.