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Periodic reminder: Trump has done everything imaginable to piss off senior military. -Keep Hegseth who endangers their lives -Favor whiteness/maleness over competence -Self-aggrandize in speeches; ramble about trophy wives. -Mock them on hallowed ground.

I’ve been turning over in my head lately the way the media ignored Natalie Harp until Jon Ossoff attacked her Then Harp was a story for two weeks, then went away again I feel as though it’s a part of a media skeleton key but can’t quite put my finger on it

Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

I'm already waiting to hear the excuses on tv for why the sitting president being credibly accused of being a serial (child) rapist and longtime Epstein co-conspirator is not a big enough story to devote their full attention to. Go on, pundits, show us what you'll be remembered for.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

This is Trump and Rubio's nightmare scenario, because it forces them to either back Delcy's crackdown or plunder Venezuela less criminally.

Also a good reminder that the US has screwed up the red/blue symbolism relative to pretty much the entire rest of the world.

Lula Goes HARD

The Cheesecake Factory “controversy” is nice because it’s a rerun of the exact kind of stupid shit we had to sit through every day of the Obama administration. Now Zoomers don’t have to feel left out of having their own Obama “controversy” to reference.

The election has been extended two hours to 7 pm

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

The whole world is having to deal with the terrifying and expensive chaos caused by this country's temper tantrum, and then we have to hear them mytholigise themselves on top of it all. Just can't be fucking dealing with it.

We'll see how far the attempt goes, even if it will clearly fail. But a constitutional system that sees such an attempt by its chief executive and then leaves him in office has already been shattered. Merely trying is betrayal enough and places him outside of constitutional or democratic legitimacy.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

This was like his 3rd glitch during the speech where he just randomly stops mid-sentence and makes a weird noise or, in this case, just opens his mouth and freezes for 3 seconds while saying nothing, then continues. Pretty sad that TV networks refuse to cover this situation.

Watching the Obama rally, then the Trump rally is like being at The Comedy Store at 9pm and then 1:40am.

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

If Dems offered Trump a small share of Musk's assets in case Trump throws him under the bus, Musk would be standing trial for an extremely long list of crimes by the end of the month 😂

Aside from being legally ridiculous, Trump's Alaska gambit is just dumb. Will only pump up Dems. But that is Trump -- a stupid autocrat, a lawless bumbler. Alaska voters can make that perfectly clear and defy attempts to take away their votes.

The time to determine whether Dan J. Sullivan Jr. could appear on the Alaska ballot for U.S. Senate was months ago, and Alaska courts did so. What's additionally batshit about this is that the candidates' names are printed on the ballot in a way which makes abundantly clear who's who.

Great news! Now they can hear about how Donald Trump is using the Justice Department to file bullshit suits in an attempt to deny them an election for US Senator.

This bullshit complaint by DOJ trying to get Alaska to toss out the result of the senate election is a Stan Woodward joint, obviously. Complaint here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In this instance it's especially insane. It's like, Well, there WAS a prosecution, by July 2021. It happened!! And failed, of course, but that was significantly Bill Barr's doing, as most of Garland's imagined failure is.

THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING MORONS. I LITERALLY LAID OUT that Merrick Garland pursued just this corruption by July 2021. You dumbasses are all ignorant of that fact bc you don't actually CARE what reality is. You have your insane conspiracy theories you refuse to let reality disturb.

Pichai allegedly told the president, “Oceans are different, sir.” www.theverge.com/policy/10167...

Wild that the Trump family is very clearly in the pocket of multiple(!) foreign dictators and apparently nobody even cares. This used to be the stuff of taut thrillers, now it's just oh there's Jared doing bribe stuff again

Iirc, @zeteo.com broke news of the Hegseth / Eisenhower’s globe saga / hilarious visual metaphor in this Oct 15 profile of Trump’s “war secretary” zeteo.com/p/secretary-... I want to be clear: WaPo has pics and it’s a good story. I’m not bitching about credit I’m just pointing out that people…

Krugman. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

The blame game between Trump’s administration and Musk over Starshield is telling. Neither wants to own the decision. Perhaps even this White House recognises there’s a political price for abandoning Ukraine. For all its bravado, there may still be limits to how far it can go.

Elon Musk is a national security threat to the US and it's allies. We're now at the stage of capitalism where the CEO of a company providing national security services to the government can decide to shut it down anytime he wants. This is alarming and shouldn't be without consequences.

"Rich guy who unilaterally sabotages American allies' military operations on his own initiative" is a national security risk on par with Aldrich Ames and it's frankly incredible that he has any defenders left at all.

Vance is going to try to run against the Trump administration, which is quite a trick. he probably needs Trump to die or be incapacitated to have any chance of pulling it off

Cannot happen soon enough. Elon Musk is one of the most dangerous people in the world.

Strongly approve number among Rs is wow

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

Crawford made the error in reading from the script as it were, too closely aping Cruz. It's a pathetic example of CBS decline into MAGA propaganda