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Stares at 7.25% interest rate on a 30 year mortgage, up from just below 6% in February of this year

Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. Serbia's students beat Vučić. Machado is home in Venezuela. What a day for democracy.

What a surprise.

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

Despite the transportation (and other kinds of) election sabotage by the right today, it is very much looking like Lula is going to pull this off anyway and win

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

We are making the oil oligarchs rich. We are making Trump and his cronies rich. It is literally at our expense every day. There’s no trickling down happening. And Trump is bragging about it knowing nobody in the Republican Party will stand up to him and say enough.

Bernie Sanders: "I know conservative parents want to raise their kids to be honest, not to be bullies, not to lie and cheat all of the time. If we want to raise our kids to be honest, not to be narcissists who think the world revolves around them, then we need to hold Donald Trump accountable."

Trump is CRASHING OUT over Obama on the campaign trail

I just hope Natalie Harp shows Trump that Obama speech. His Truth Social account will tell us if he saw it soon enough.

Most people don’t realize this: the stupid ballroom is much larger than the actual White House. Trump is like just, trashy

This absolutely did not happen.

Obama: 'Drain the swamp' -- the only thing they drained is the Reflecting Pool because some no bid contract got it all messed up. And then they tried to blame it on this 3 time Olympian! You remember that? Said he vandalized it!"

Donald Trump hasn't even gotten to Election Day and his administration is already trying to stop a state from certifying a result. I don't want to jump to conclusions about where this ends. But this could be the beginning of the admin's effort to meddle in the midterms and we need to pay attention.

Pay attention when a sitting President makes jokes about ignoring the Constitution. Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy; all parties should see that.

if you believe that Melania Trump negotiated a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, I've got a $5,000 Trump dividend and some Melania memecoin to sell you

All these so-called “independent” Republicans will go right back to voting for Johnson as speaker, confirm every Trump nominee, vote with Trump on everything, and continue doing zero oversight on his corrupt regime. A vote for any one of them is a vote to continue all of that.

Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?

Rick Scott: "I'm sure it's gonna take a lot more bombing and destroying of the Iranian military force" (So much for their military being decimated I guess!)

Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela was negotiated in secret. Now we know why. The contract just leaked, and it doesn’t say what Trump says it says. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

"This is the story again and again as Trump tours the redder parts of the country: The venues are smaller, the crowds are less excited, and the man at the podium is weirder" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

Trump has a new scheme to bribe farmers in swing states with welfare checks of taxpayer money because fuel has gone up so much because of his war. But only money for them, not for anyone else in the country. No, we have to keep paying higher prices AND we pay Trump’s voters.

They’ve had nearly a million casualties. They’ve inflicted half a million. He’s out of his gourd.

JD Vance has no shame, we know that, but he stooped to a new low when he claimed he's not seen any corruption out of this White House. In doing so, he's gaslighting Americans into thinking they're not seeing it either. Trust your eyes, the corruption is as clear as day. (link in comments)

Bessent repeatedly refuses to say that Ukraine is still a US ally: "President Trump has made clear that he wants to end this war, that it must stop ... I'm not the secretary of state. I'm not the president."

Thank you Ben Meiselas for telling it like it is. There's no sugar-coating the growing reality that humankind is facing annihilation, thanks to a few men with money, power, and GREED. STAND UP, AMERICA. VOTE TRUMP AND HIS CRONIES OUT. THE WORLD NEEDS YOU!!!

WELKER: Do you believe Democrats should impeach President Trump should they take back the House? WARNOCK: Listen, Donald Trump is a crook. And he's gotta go. And the people who are enabling him, they all have to be held accountable.

Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "They want to exact retribution on the Trump administration every hour of every day for the next two years"

NO KINGS

When you see all these corrupt, ridiculously unqualified and incompetent Trump officials in action, realize that it is only possible because Republicans have the majority in the senate and voted to confirm them. The only way to stop it is to take that majority away.

Dear rest of the world, If you want to know why the US elected Trump given all the things you know about him, the reason is that America has tens of millions of people as ignorant as this. We just aren't a very smart country as a whole. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Abandoning Ukraine will be a stain on the United States for the rest of time

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

New in PN: The fascist spectacle of streamed executions "Hegseth & Trump are embracing a livestreamed execution bc the America they prefer is one in which vaunting hate & communal violence are the norm. That isn’t a new vision. But it’s one we need to defeat this November, & every day after that."

Demonstrators in Brazil have burned U.S. flags and protested in São Paulo and other cities amid heightened tensions over U.S. actions and interference in Brazilian and Latin American politics.

Putin and Xi appear to enjoy humiliating Trump for all the world to see and Trump appears to enjoy being treated like a fool by autocrats. How far we have fallen in such a short period of time.

I mean.

Ya know, most states have criminal laws prohibiting that kind of thing even if you don’t try to actually practice law.

First Lady Natalie Harp boards Bribe Force One with Stephen Miller on their way to Ohio #TravelWithNatalie (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

WOW: A federal judge ERUPTED at Trump administration lawyers after hundreds of trees were chopped down for Trump's DC golf course project despite repeated warnings to provide advance notice. Our Scott MacFarlane was inside the courtroom for the extraordinary showdown.

I don’t think this is how the world works.

Oil and gas prices rise after an “energy ceasefire” announced by President Trump fail to gain traction.

In the last 24 hours, Trump’s DOJ raided Ilhan Omar’s home over paperwork her dad filed when she was a child, oil passed $107, Russia shredded Trump’s “ceasefire” within hours, and the MAGA hit job on Talarico imploded. And that’s just the start.

A person holds a sign featuring a crossed-out US flag and an image depicting US President Donald Trump, with a message supporting Brazil's sovereignty, during a protest in defense of democracy and in support of Lula in Manaus, Brazil, October 11, 2026. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

I don’t care how conservative you are. Abandoning Ukraine to Putin spits on everything Reagan stood for. Tax cuts and party loyalty cannot excuse this betrayal. If your principles mean anything, this alone should cost Trump your support. Grow a spine. Some things matter more than the GOP.