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A snow bunting at Montrose Point this morning

New Epstein report from the House Judiciary Committee and a reminder that Blanche and Trump are still withholding a TON of information that is almost certainly damning on them, and definitely not exculpatory. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Flagrant, staggering bigotry from the highest offices in the land. Hell is not hot enough

NEW: For over a year, staff at Oklahoma’s regulatory agency built a case against the oil company with the state’s highest number of oil field pollution incidents and violations. Instead of punishing the company, officials let it restart operations. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

Really excited to learn from Trump and his cult next week how we cheated again.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 489. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

I’ll say it: it shows what disgusting pigs Americans are that they eat their cheesecake right there at the factory instead of waiting for it to be delivered to a store or restaurant

Probably doesn't even know it's a restaurant.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Proving once again that racist assholes are also dirt dumb.

Hey Alabama GOP—here’s the voter fraud youve been looking for, but it’s the GOP candidate for Lt Gov, being called out here by the Dem candidate @phillipensler.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DeR8AKh...

PSA Banana Republic at Old Orchard has mannequins for $50

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

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The good news is that we are winning in court. The bad news is that we have to win every case. Trump only needs to subvert one election to break democracy.

We need a public and transparent accountability process.

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Interesting approach by Mike Rogers to make his loyalty to Elon Musk & the oligarchy an explicit part of his campaign earlier this year. “When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk,” Rogers wrote. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

Kyle Clark is one of the top journalists in Colorado, if not the entire country. If he says 60 Minutes blew it on this Tina Peters story, that’s exactly what happened.

Trump’s bid to steal a DC public park and turn it into an elitist golf course has been blocked. When many institutions kowtow to the dictator, federal district courts are holding the line.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

They put THREE reporters on this dumb totally oppo story about how Mamdani is playing basketball at a police facility ar 11 pm? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

Trump hates Abdul El-Sayed because he practices the Muslim religion. OK, Trump is entitled to hate Muslims, but then why does he love the crown prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud who gave his son in law, Jared Kushner $2 billion?

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

Former Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law Project ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

Start at the White House.

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Every rally he goes to he talks about the candidate’s ass, so she probably wanted to get out of there quick before he began his evaluation.

asked if Trump directed him to sue Alaska, Blanche says "I will not talk about communications I have with the president" (So, yes, Trump did)

Anyone else deeply ashamed of our country for allowing a convicted felon, pathological liar, serial abuser of women, and traitor to seize power? Ready to fight back? Vote against all Republicans.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

🚨 A bombshell new House Judiciary Democrats report details allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, including five who accuse Trump of sexual assault. The report also alleges a sweeping DOJ cover-up. We broke down the explosive findings.

Yes, telling voters they are *lying* about things being more expensive just before the midterms seems a shrewd way to win. Keep it up, Hassett. Get your message out so everyone hears it!

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

As predicted, Flávio Bolsonaro did not concede. He’ll ask for the elections to be annulled due to extended polling times. The far-right’s anti-democratic processes have begun. A joke by a sore loser, especially given that his own party also asked for polls to be kept open for an extra two hours.

Trump's vicious abuse of a female reporter who pointed out the sexual abuse that Amy Acton faced shows MAGA is betting on misogyny as their midterm Hail Mary. On the pod, @pastpunditry.bsky.social is just brilliant on misogyny as longtime bedrock of MAGA politics: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

President Trump is planning to open up some of the nation's last pristine forests to road building and timber companies. But those who work in the woods say it won't do enough to revive the industry. n.pr/4yAumMJ

Happy 105th birthday to the Chicago Theatre

Did the New York Times’ regular headline writers call in sick? I‘d love to see more headlines as direct as this one.

Makes me think of the Barack Obama birth certificate brouhaha. So, even if they HAD accepted Obama's birth certificate as real and valid, they would still have declared that it didn't make him an American citizen. There's no way to win if you're dealing with MAGA.

"Iowa bishop says White House visit was 'exploited' for politics" Good to see some pushback to this Trump PR move. All 12 Bishops should do the same thing. Also, don't meet with Trump... www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/p...

Trump said Nicki Minaj has “one hell of a beautiful ass”. I would like to ask female voters how they feel about Republican sexual objectification, is this is sexual harassment?

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

Mikey doesn't like anything.

Mold in Chicago-area schools is a growing problem as climate change intensifies summer storms. As always, an interesting story from @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/25/m...