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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

BREAKING — #StarTrek actor Walter Koenig, who portrayed Russian navigator Pavel Chekov, has died at age 90. blog.trekcore.com/2026/10/star...

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

This is fucking insane. It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

At 12, Amy Acton was raped by her stepfather. Now, Trump, Vance, and Ramaswamy are attacking her. Because, at 12, she was raped by her stepfather.

Omg...this is horrific. “So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being Abandoned open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

NEWS: Jared Kushner reportedly had a secret Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars from Azerbaijan, and he allegedly used it as a slush fund to pay a warlord, a mercenary, and a former hit man. There is no end to the corruption and depravity of these people.

The number of Americans who apparently have a *specifically designated* bottle of champagne somewhere in their home is absolutely shocking

NEW: In a powerful op-ed, Lana Pelletier, the longtime partner of Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson, breaks her silence after months of attacks on her family by Susan Collins and her allies. “If Susan Collins truly cared about my voice, she could have listened to it.”

The Mississippi Free Press has obtained the bodycam footage of the officer who fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. WARNING: Graphic footage Backstory: buff.ly/rUw8U2p

And so it begins

🚨 FACT: The federal government has no role in the state certification process of election results. Yet just this week, Todd Blanche didn’t rule out the possibility that Trump’s DOJ could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results: https://demdock.com/3W0IHoi

U.S. troops say they were abandoned. Never-before-seen footage reveals devastating missile strikes. Trump forced to open up for BBC. Oil prices surge. And what our investigation uncovered about military families is even more disturbing... Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET:

A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Trump’s former lawyer a $50 million job while she still worked at DOJ. Weeks later, he got his pardon. Wait. Is that legal? My write-up in the link in the comments.

This was about a shoplifting charge, diapers. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/22/s...

Elon Musk has openly endorsed the white nationalist “great replacement” conspiracy theory. This is white nationalism - plain and simple. o

🚨BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ appealed its California ballot case before the judge even ruled. The department claims the court’s silence amounted to a “constructive denial” of its bid to block ballot counting.

Trump: "We only have a little more than 2 years left, but I'm gonna have a lot of power when I leave"

Something is off with Trump tonight. The gaffes, the glitches, the confusion are well beyond his usual. "They gave the wonderful peace prize, right? Does anybody know the name of that peace prize? They gave the Pulitzer Prize to a young lady."

Horrid but unsurprising. Amy Acton was removed from her mother’s custody at 12 after abuse. Her mother stayed with the accused abuser. Vivek Ramaswamy gave her an attack ad; JD Vance won’t condemn it. Republicans found a survivor to smear and have handed a microphone to the abuser’s defender.

No way…

US Democratic congressional nominee Lander detained by Israeli authorities in West Bank reut.rs/4jzKkTB

I've seen a lot of disgusting political commercials, and I am almost numb to the lies and gross misrepresentations at this point, but the Vivek Ramaswamy commercial with Amy Acton's mother is the worst thing I've ever seen.

NEW: Hegseth's chaotic secret evacuation of a US base in Bahrain left military families in harm's way. “They’re not telling the truth. They’re not telling the full story. They’re not telling how much damage there really was." www.ms.now/news/militar...

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

The White House official accounts are posting Down Syndrome slurs to attack journalists. These people are disgusting and morally depraved.

not that the gop ever had much of a chance in california but nominating one of trump's fox news obsessions instead of a real candidate has turned this race into a joke

We are documenting takes from some of the worst people imaginable over at mediamatters.org

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

Non-zero chance he pulls it out next time

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of North Carolina voters could be disenfranchised over minor technical issues with their ballots after a court upheld new GOP-backed rules, new data reveals. Ballots are already being rejected at a rate of ~3% — double the rate seen in 2022. https://demdock.com/4ivnewh

Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

That Vivek Ramaswamy ad might end up being the worst own goal we've seen in a major race. Platforming the estranged mother of your opponent to attack her, only for everyone to discover that the mother protected the rapist of her 12-year-old daughter and stayed married to him, is beyond despicable.

“…the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) have reached a deal to provide air traffic controllers with a 2.8% pay increase following key workforce reforms.” Inflation is 3.7%.

Sean Feucht, who has held multiple Christian worship services in Times Square, is outraged that Muslims gathered to pray there last week. This is the essence of Christian nationalism. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

The tweet below describes perfectly Jan Crawford's knowingly false and racist commentary, and how Crawford even lied while trying to appear to take accountability for it. The only reason Jan Crawford has not be fired by @cbsnews.com is because that company, like her, is now thoroughly corrupt.

Jan is a chief CBS reporter. She tweeted this about Tommy, the Republican operative accusing Abdul El-Sayed of terrorism, then deleted it. Zero questions about Tommy declaring he wants the Bible to supersede the Constitution. We need independent media. Join: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

The most remarkable thing is that Jan Crawford, chief legal correspondent for CBS News, thought that El-Sayed explaining the importance of freedom of religion in the Constitution *proved Tommy's point*, which was that El-Sayed is a terrorist sympathizer. Because he believes in THE CONSTITUTION

NEWSFLASH: the president CAN’T give himself a pardon The fact that he even is talking about it is an insult to our constitution & voters know it More on Trump, the midterms, and the staggering corruption on @MS.Now 👇

BREAKING The BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith for a deposition to defend itself against Trump's defamation lawsuit. Smith didn't object to the subpoena. Team Trump opposes. buff.ly/cf6GaG2

Months of fears around the use of armed immigration enforcement to affect national elections appear to be coming to fruition. Federal authorities announced the arrest in California of at least 11 people and charges against 28, alleging they registered to vote as noncitizens.

BREAKING WaPo: The Trump admin has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian missile and drone attacks — a delay that comes as Trump embraces Russia and slams Ukraine.

Horrific.

Why is major US corporate media unwilling to press Republicans who run on Elon Musk's money about Musk's unabashed racism, his fascist ideology, and his embrace of Nazi eugenics like the Lebensborn program? Jamelle Bouie goes there.

Leaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters "We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."

In reality, Minnesota is in the bottom half of luxury vehicle ownership, ranking 31st. www.carpro.com/blog/states-...