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Elon bought Twitter so nobody could stop him from embarrassing himself.

Over half of all mail ballots spoiled in North Carolina’s largest county are due to new strict rules passed by the GOP-controlled state board of elections. The county is also a Democratic stronghold that could sway election results in the battleground state.

Funny how not a single Republican in Congress gives a damn about our $40,000,000,000,000 ($40 trillion) debt now. They’re all on vacation. Who do you think is gonna get stuck paying for this with interest? Your kids and grandkids.

Trump claimed he heard Obama's event in Michigan today was empty. Meanwhile, the venue was packed, lines stretched outside, and Obama even addressed an overflow room because everyone couldn't fit inside. Mercado Media

Tarrant County, Texas just closed 92 Election Day polling places. Before 2013, Texas needed federal sign-off to change how its people vote. John Roberts wrote the ruling that ended that. That’s his fingerprint on every closed door.

Russia launched three waves of intense missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital just hours after Donald Trump’s top diplomat lavished praise on Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian.”

Via @popular.info, here are the corporations backing the pro-child rape Ramaswamy: substack.com/inbox/post/2...

Russia was never a hoax. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/w...

The map from a story about how Trump's cuts to USPS may disenfranchise rural voters. Aside from urban voting locations, I actually think MOST of the voter suppression will hurt Trump voters more this year. www.propublica.org/article/mail...

Donald Trump has sold out Ukraine. He makes Chamberlain look like a man of iron principle | Simon Tisdall

Per Mother Jones, the viral heckler targeting Abdul El-Sayed is the son of a Republican operative whose firm received $250K from a conservative group to campaign against El-Sayed: lincolnsquare.media #AbdulElSayed #Michigan #Midterms2026

The intersection of virtually unrestricted cash gifts to the executive, an unrestricted executive pardon power, and a Congress unable or unwilling to utilize the impeachment power is virtually fatal to democracy.

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Imagine if in 1943 FDR had decided that the US would stop helping Britain and instead would side with the Third Reich. That's a bit like what President Trump is now doing by cozying up to Russia as it tries to destroy Ukraine. Utterly shameful. A humiliating moment for the US.

Nothing quite sums up the abhorrent violence inherent in the state (anywhere, everywhere in the world) than a video of the cops tear gassing an orchestra playing music at the Place de la Republique in France yesterday

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order to exempt Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

The richest man on earth dropped nearly $300 million to buy himself a Congress. That’s not democracy. That’s a purchase order. On November 3, remind him the government isn’t for sale.

Elon Musk is the top political donor of this midterm election, a report shows. Our reporter Theodore Schleifer explains how Musk, the world's richest man, came back from a brief rift with President Trump and Republicans to become a central player. trib.al/8zaFISN

Paxton is bought and paid for

"In your final hours, you reportedly joked that 'I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions....' The Russia sanctions did indeed become law after your passing. They named the legislation after you in tribute." What happens next?

“Musk's rescue gave Paxton's sleepy campaign new life and showed why the world's richest person is the X factor in the push to prevent a midterm debacle for President Trump's party.” www.axios.com/2026/10/15/e...

TODAY'S THE DAY. 🗳️ Early in-person voting starts TODAY all across North Carolina, and runs until October 31. Go get em, y'all. Go check out the ballot in YOUR county, and make sure to share with the people in your life: carolinaforward.org/news/the-202...

The wife of MAGA Senate candidate Mike Rogers has resorted to handing out $10 gas vouchers to drivers as her husband struggles in the polls.

If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.

This is a Russian jet-powered Shahed drone striking a supermarket in Odesa in broad daylight today. ​This is terrorism. Terrorists shouldn't be rewarded with lucrative business deals. They must be repelled, arrested, and prosecuted.

Elon Musk amplifies pro-Russian propagandist and publicly demands removal of Ukraine’s president, amid reports that speed / usage restrictions imposed through his Starlink satellite network disrupted Ukrainian military defence ops, resulting in civilian deaths and injuries.

Trump's own intelligence agencies say Russia is helping Iran target American troops, but he'd rather believe Putin. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social tears into Trump's humiliating deference to the Russian dictator: "He just looks like a pathetic fucking cuck."

Putin, Trump and Musk all colluding to defeat Ukraine

Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive. ​Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph.

What Trump and his minions are doing to Ukraine is monstrous, cruel, and absolutely without basis in justification except as torment

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

Scoop: "More than half of the top holders listed as competing for seats at President Trump's next meme coin dinner have used cryptocurrency exchanges that prohibit U.S. customers" @gabekaminsky.bsky.social, Madeline May,Steve Reilly for @cbsnews.com

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

NEW: After four witnesses recanted, a Pennsylvania man spent 20 years in prison insisting he was innocent of murder. Records show his lawyer, to whom he wrote dozens of letters pleading for help, did little to help besides asking for more time. with @inquirer.com

NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.

13 October 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Jean Stolowicz, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 October 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was among 491 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. -- Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

No matter how insane you think these people are, you're still not going to be ready for the end of the sentence below

I love that this might be the thing that tanks Paxton, and not the biblical divorce or letting a child rapist out early.

This is, what, the third constitutional crisis today? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/12/judge-blocks-trump-administration-airing-taxpayer-funded-campaign-style-ads/

The Trump administration ignored the court’s instructions again. Over 400 trees were chopped down at D.C.’s public East Potomac Golf Links over the holiday weekend without proper advance notice even after government lawyers promised the judge ample warning before any irreversible work.

The national media is crumbling, but luckily local outlets like the @inquirer.com are still running strong.

Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

Immediately after Ukraine took out two of the five data centers run by the Russian tech giant Yandex, pro-Trump and pro-MAGA posts on American social media sites plummeted. The same happened to posts boosting Germany's far-right AfD. Russia is engaged in MASSIVE election interference.

Dirty politics is a global business. "A small number of influencers circulate a sensational accusation. Prominent political allies repeat it and engage with it. Musk joins the conversation. The claim gains visibility before the public has any opportunity to evaluate the evidence."

The biggest source of inequality in the U.S. is a gaping hole in the tax code—and no one is talking about it, Rogé Karma argues. theatln.tc/BO6jVWth

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

Having watched these for more than a year now, I can tell you the young people almost always look back bsky.app/profile/gill...