Thank You For Your Extension To This Antimatter

With apologies to Tolkien, Jackson, and Bowling for Soup 🧵

We're asking millions of Americans to be ready to mobilize in response to election disruption and subversion if needed.

Economics isn’t necessarily a zero-sum game. But power is zero-sum. The more at the top, the less anywhere else. The fact is, wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. To understand the system, we need to understand the cycle.

Trump says protesters at his rallies are paid $250 by Soros

Nobody wants to look back at this election and regret not doing more. We can’t afford to take anything for granted with the midterms while Trump threatens to sabotage them.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Elon Musk’s AI-Generated ‘Odyssey’ Is Here to Save Western Civilization. “Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.” 🤣 gizmodo.com/elon-musks-a...

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration asked Washington to set aside ballots from around 400 registered voters it claims may be noncitizens. The alarming request comes amid the DOJ's legal effort to compel California to do the same to 20k voters.

🚨BREAKING: In a blow to the DOJ, the 9th Circuit rejected its request to bypass a lower court to bar California from counting around 20k ballots from people it alleges are "likely" noncitizens. The ruling comes the night before the parties are scheduled to have a hearing before a lower court.

7 jaw-dropping claims in new Epstein report accusing Trump of ‘brutal’ rape www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The DOJ charged James Comey for a third time, accusing the former FBI director of unlawfully transmitting national defense information to the press in 2016. The move marks an escalation in Trump's ongoing retaliation campaign to prosecute his political foes. https://demdock.com/4ihEUdE

At least one person has died and five others have been injured in Russia’s ballistic missile attack on Kyiv.

Gov. Shapiro delivers a blistering assessment of Trump's Iran war: “He had no idea why he was going in. Never made the case to the American people.” Shapiro points to 21 American families who have lost loved ones, skyrocketing fuel costs, and a $3,100 “CHAOS TAX” hitting Pennsylvania households.

If there's any other version of life via the multiverse, we're considering ourselves incredibly lucky, too! It would be cool to be in the NBA, though. 📺: youtu.be/EZUKE84z_nY?... 👥: @hankgreen.bsky.social & @shaynetopp.bsky.social

What a disgusting pig.

I don't think I ever watched an episode of Star Trek (science fiction isn't my thing), but I thought casting a Russian while the Cold War was still raging, to make the point that humans would get along better in the future, was a lovely touch.

Trump: "I'm also going to be issuing a $1 million bonus or reward or whatever you want to call it for anybody that reports voter fraud, leading to the arrest and conviction of somebody. We're giving that person $1 million."

Kevin Hassett: "The affordability crisis is a myth"

* HASSETT: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS A MYTH @bloomberg.com

The truest thing JD Vance has said in a long, long time.

NEW: TX U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico’s new ad blasts Ken Paxton’s “crackdown on voters of color.” It features a Black woman prosecuted for voting when she mistakenly believed she was eligible. The charges came amid Paxton's push to stoke fears of illegal voting. https://demdock.com/4yGEy6s

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 26, 2026 ~ The less you know ... "Countries have failed – for the sixth time running – to agree on the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) next set of influential reports." www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-a-piv...

Trump on Bolsonaro's loss: "It looked like another rigged election" 😆

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Stories like this are what we hope for when we investigate tech and release our research under a Creative Commons license.

🚨 Gov. Josh Shapiro rips into JD Vance in a new interview. “The only smart thing it seems like [Trump] did was not endorsing Vance. That guy is just a profoundly and PATHETICALLY WEAK human being who wants to preach morality every day.”

Maurene Comey must be REINSTATED to her federal prosecutor job with backpay, a federal judge has ruled. He adds that accepting Trump DOJ's position would "unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system." Doc buff.ly/CDtADgH

My second essay on how under Trump we’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable to us just years ago. Today: The corruption of the Justice Dept and *EIGHT* scandals on par with Watergate: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

James Talarico: The problem with Ken Paxton is not that he didn't grow up in Texas. It's that he doesn't understand Texas. I believe anyone can be a Texan. It doesn't matter if you're an 8th generation Texan like me, or if you just got here. What makes a Texan is deep in the heart.

“I don't know that he's going to handle the midterms well. And if they go the direction seems like they're going, he's going to get what Obama said years ago, a shellacking. I think this will be a shellacking to an even higher degree, because folks are tired of the chaos, cruelty and corruption.”

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War. Meanwhile, Trump himself owns up to $81 million in oil and gas stocks — which have increased in value by 43% since the end of 2025. When Trump says "we're making a freaking fortune," understand who he is really talking about.

Ohio Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy implied that Amy Acton was "flawed" because she was ABUSED as a child.

Jesse Ventura to Piker: "Here's what pisses me off -- I did 2 tours, 17 months. So did my brother. Southeast Asia. That was at the same time Donald Trump was running and hiding like the coward he is. Why didn't he join us in the Vietnam War? I've heard him talk. He said he should be a general!"

It's Monday and fascism is falling around the world so have you voted early yet?

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Oh man. Ad astra.

Oh, dear. I had the good fortune to meet him a few times at conventions and had lunch with him once in Australia. Such a lovely fellow and of course an iconic figure in science fiction. RIP.

Happy Monday, everybody! This week, have you considered voting early (if you can) and voting in person (if you can)? It's fun! Try it if you can!

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

This was an amazing episode. I may watch it tonight just because.

October 25, 2026

Chickens for Colonel Sanders, learning the hard way. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-in...

BREAKING: Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization, per Axios

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

That's right. Gain power and crush fascists. Enough is enough.

The fact that she admitted this in public... I pray for her poor daughter.