Ellen Cartsonis

The latest climate pledges put forth by nations will cut global greenhouse gas emissions by just 6% by 2035, a UN report said Tuesday, weeks before COP31 talks in Turkey. jrnl.ie/7205876

Americans have paid more for their gasoline and diesel at the pump on average during President Donald Trump's second term than they did ‌under his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, according to the AAA reut.rs/4ipsW1P

Un nouveau coup dur pour le président américain. Le licenciement par l’administration Trump de l’ex-procureure Maurene Comey, impliquée dans l’enquête sur l’affaire Epstein et fille d’un ancien patron du FBI devenu bête noire du président américain, est « illégal...

Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’ Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

Here is the TLDR of the 9th Circuit hearing: DOJ will lose. It will be either 2-1 or 3-0. It will be on jurisdiction and perhaps on the merits. The argument was a debacle for Trump and the DOJ lawyer who argued it. Watch for details. www.youtube.com/live/EsuYPbm...

Like father like son

Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

New story: In 2025, the FBI was examining the actions of Sen Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and Rep. Joe Wilson as part of a sweeping bribery probe. Then Trump’s campaign of retribution demolished public corruption investigations. www.propublica.org/article/nava...

“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian,” White House envoy Steve Witkoff told Putin. “You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.” Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“We know the center of all this is the Trump crime family — it starts there." Read: bit.ly/4skxXxd

After months of reporting by Rolling Stone, a trial declared "unethical" by WHO will not move forward. 🧵 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A trust owned by Texas AG Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, invested in a company led by a convicted fraudster. The firm and its affiliates later sent the trust 15 payments totaling $83K before and during the AG’s impeachment trial. w/ @texastribune.org

Govt succinctly lays down its marker: POTUS can gut any citizen's lawsuit to enforce federal environmental laws, despite Congress's express intent. (From filing to dismiss NAACP's Clean Air Act suit against Musk's gas-turbine-powered Colossus datacenter near Memphis.)

Trump says he's spoken to Elon Musk about Ukraine but won't reveal what the conversations were about.

President Obama: "As a former president, I can tell you sometimes factors beyond a president's control end up foiling the best-laid plans." "That is not the case here. In this case, this administration's actions are directly responsible for rising costs."

President Obama: Trump "should be on HGTV." "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. Just gold everywhere."

President Obama: There seems to be "no line" Vivek Ramaswamy will not cross. "There's a decency that we should expect out of our public officials. And I don't know what's happened where the standards of behavior have gotten so low that somebody can run an ad like that."

President Obama has endorsed Angie Nixon in the Florida Senate race.

Sen. Adam Schiff tells NBC that Pete Hegseth and "anyone who has knowledge of what happened" should testify before the Senate on Ukraine's Starlink disruptions. "Somebody is lying here. Maybe they're all lying in different ways, but we need to find out."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott went on Fox News and tried to tie his Democratic challenger to Sharia law.

Make America Hungry Again #MAHA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S $8 BILLION IN DIESEL AID FOR FARMERS WILL NOT ARRIVE BEFORE NOVEMBER 3 ELECTION, SAYS ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL @reuters.com

Seizing Elon Musk's assets and trying him for treason would not be the first time in history when enemies of America from among the wealthy saw their fortunes confiscated.

Frozen market. 🏠 “Many sellers are ‘punting and hoping (or praying) for better conditions in 2027.’” @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2026/10/22/c...

Trump’s personal Attorney General Todd Blanche doesn’t rule out challenging election certifications in various states (You are not alarmed enough)

Pete Hegseth wanted Dwight Eisenhower's globe for his office. His staff broke it. Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

How come People can do this and most political news cannot?

MINNESOTA: “I don’t think about myself. The youth are the most innocent. Anything you can do to save them is worth it.” ♥️ Endless stories attack the MN Somali-American community— but Ebro Ahmed🦸🏽‍♂️saves a bus 🚌 full of kids and stories mostly leave out that he’s Somali? 🤔

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Israel arrests 36 Palestinians in the West Bank, attacks on farmers ramp up https://aje.news/c7at5p

Pretty sure this woman has at least *one* wicked man in her life who needs to be crushed, but it isn't James Talarico.

These NYCHA residents have fought to reopen their senior center for 25 years. Today, we're delivering — along with a renovated community center, child care center and modernized apartments for 5,000 residents.

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Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Tommy Tuberville pledged in 2020 to donate his Senate salary to Alabama veterans & families. An investigation found no evidence he did. The pledge is worth roughly $1 million. Asked about it, he had staff remove him, then called the media socialists and communists. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

1. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

BREAKING: A federal judge just restricted Trump's Department of Homeland Security from election-related investigations in nine states — finding that error-prone government lists could sweep U.S. citizens into the effort.

Still waiting for a legacy journalist to slap back and say they’re not going to take any more abuse from this sick and disgusting man.

“.. The difficulty in distinguishing between a human and an unauthorized bot is forcing banks to block the technology and rapidly rewrite their terms of service.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/22/a...

Polish women took to the streets in more than 20 cities and towns to protest the lack of access to abortion. The goverment has failed to fulfill its promise to relax Poland’s strict abortion laws. The protesters said the recent moves to ease the law are a meaningless ploy to get votes.

Palestinian youths risked their lives to save US photojournalist Heidi Levine after Israeli settlers brutally attacked her while she was covering the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank.

Azerbaijan @nunesalt.bsky.social

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Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.