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People saying Trump has no health care plan are wrong. This is it 👇🏽

She's now a partner at Patterson Belknap, so the reinstatement would only be for the purposes of back pay and retirement.

Judge Jesse Furman orders Maurene Comey to be reinstated w/back pay. This will obviously be appealed, but it means Ms. Comey will be one of the key appeals. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Unscientific vibes-based political analysis: JD Vance doing an obsequious Bengals post *on X* and getting absolutely fucking fried in the replies

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Imagine boasting about this to the New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

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...

JUST IN: Maurene Comey's firing by DOJ was illegal and she must be orders retroactively reinstated w back pay, a judge rules. "To accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In case facts still matter

excellent idea -->

My armchair analysis of Supreme Court Retirement Watch is that I genuinely don't think Trump wanted or wants Alito or Thomas to retire, because Alito and Thomas are already the Trump administration's de facto representatives on the Court, and I'm not sure he could find anyone better

Fox & Friends' substitute co-host is married to a Trump cabinet official and it shows www.mediamatters.org/rachel-campo...

yup.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.

Austin has an in-N-Out now if she wants her only shot at a double double ever

Deeply disheartening to see what appears to be a deliberate effort to suppress the votes. Hope they pay the consequences.

what a night

If Republicans only lose 20 seats in the House and four in the Senate, they can still win the expectations game.

bring back shame

Say what you will about Donald Trump, but at least he’s a great guy with good policies. by Bill Maher

JPMAM: We have been raising our U.S. stock-bond correlation forecast Inflation regime in place... shout-out: intermarket analysis

Please elect this man Michigan

I was really expecting this video to leave me outraged. It didn't. Sad. Horrified. But I understand the DA's conclusion now. This wasn't Renee good. The driver drove directly at the cops at speed. And the gun was fired as it was happening. No chance of a conviction here

BTIG: “.. So far, the small-caps, mid-caps, transports, semiconductors, as well as many sectors have tested their 200 DMAs. We suspect SPX is next which would bring it towards 7300 at a minimum. .. an overshoot of the 200 DMA would also not be surprising like we saw in March ..”

Reagan talked about welfare queens in Cadillacs, Trump talks about Somalian thieves in Mercedes Benzes, because being *real* racist has been a core strategy Republican politicians for a very long time, even if prior to Trump a lot of folks who should have known better enjoyed pretending otherwise.

"Delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ball...

Oh, honey . . . your own mother shipped you off to a reform school (with cute little military costumes) after you were caught throwing rocks into a baby carriage and she realized you were too twisted to deal with.

the thing that keeps not happening continues to not happen

One thing I've been trying to do is to RT Colin McDonald's weekly "here are all the low-level frauds by brown people we magnified this week" by listing Trump's frauds. It's HARD!!! For example I missed Lindsey's bribery. And a Ken Paxton fraud. Gonna have to start crowd-sourcing this...

“Hey, remember when I was a racist piece of shit? … That was cool.”

Earlier I meant to share the NYT version of the story about Trump stealing Alaska's natural gas and giving it to Russia. Here's that story, the same story as FT. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

a moment of zen before Syracuse football

I honestly didn’t think this story could get worse but uh

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

This is not how American democracy should function. It’s getting worse every election, not better. I know constitutional amendments are difficult, but it seems like there should be a bipartisan supermajority of citizens who say enough with this stuff.

lol

we now know what it looks like when telegram gives data to the US government www.404media.co/heres-what-t...

When there’s finally an effort to hold these criminals accountable for the crimes they committed, we‘re going to see a lot of pundits wring their hands and say it’s politically motivated and insist we need to turn the page and look forward and a lot of other cliches that dumb assholes like to use.