rat infested sewer tunnel

BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

What President Trump has seen as an American–Iranian war is becoming connected with the Yemeni civil war, the Horn of Africa, the Nile dispute, and the security of the Red Sea. Wars grow. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social:

Nothing is a more convincing admission that you know your entire administration is corrupt than giving criminal pardons to EVERYONE.

UPDATE: The DOJ’s demand to set aside ballots in California is impossible to carry out and has no basis in federal law, L.A. County told a federal court last night. Voting is already underway, the county said, and once a ballot leaves its envelope, it can’t be traced back to a voter.

Elon Musk owns the GOP even more than he owns Twitter www.politico.com/live-updates...

🚨 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.”

I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

Screaming

Trump administration's cuts to next generation weather satellite program could set back forecasting by a decade, experts warn. Note the lack of the lightning mapper on the new GeoXO constellation... www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/w...

Important to note when the Trump administration tries to slip the highlighted language past. The Constitution protects the rights of every incarcerated person in the U.S. whether or not they're a citizen.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order setting, but immediately waiving, sweeping new tariffs and sanctions against Russia.

Of course, birds of a feather

JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us.

Great explainer on Trump’s meme coin scheme here—

moments after saying leakers should be shot, Trump points at reporters covering his rally and says "they're almost as bad as a leaker"

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Federal ICE agents raided Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home before dawn this morning. The Trump DOJ confirms agents executed a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation reportedly involving immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father when she was a CHILD. 1/

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects

If you see anyone dressed or claiming to be a federal agent, ICE or otherwise, call the nationwide nonpartisan Election Protection voter hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE, and notify a local election official. We Keep Us Safe!

Breaking: Man Posing As ICE Agent Arrested Outside Polling Site. Deploying ICE to a polling place is illegal. However, trusting convicted felon Donald Trump to obey the law is a fool’s errand.

OSCE observers don’t control our elections. They observe the process and publicly report what they find. If election integrity is the concern, why turn away the people who help assess it?

wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

Days after Trump's rally in Alabama, there's a tough front page in the local paper

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Reminder: Voter registration deadlines are hitting TODAY, October 5, in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. Please make sure you’re registered to vote!

TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. https://whenweallvote.org/

I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

Georgia’s election board asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding yet another probe based on hyper-partisan conspiracy theories to the department’s portfolio. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

www.vote.org/am-i-registe...

Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

Like displaying heads on pikes

Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."

Jared Kushner's private equity company is the largest shareholder in an Israeli firm with Israeli military links, a CNN investigation has found. He is also negotiating a deal for Gaza. New reporting from CNN's Katie Polglase, Allegra Goodwin, and Majlie de Puy Kamp edition.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

A couple states have recently taken it back up, and subsequently botched it.

John Yoo on Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution: "Why not use the firing squad? So I think what's gonna have to happen is Tennessee is gonna have to go back and try again."

The rich would prefer you to believe that the "free market" is subject to the immutable law of supply and demand. But for years, the wealthy and powerful have manipulated the market for their own gain. There is nothing “free” about it. Watch.

As a reminder, she’s the Secretary of Education not the Secretary of Labor

Paying expensive healthcare premiums but never using the insurance is a odd way to commit fraud.

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.