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NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Reminded of how tv news looped the images of the military equipment the Biden administration deliberately left behind in Afghanistan for weeks after the withdrawal as if they represented a huge scandal

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

The state of Israel (not AIPAC) is running ads and videos in Iowa, as the midterms near. The ads/videos feature footage from Trump's America 250 festivities, a clip of a Trump White House flyover, and video of Mike Huckabee, who won Iowa years ago. New at @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/why-is-isr...

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

Personally, I think what really threatens American Jews is insisting our safety is dependent on denying what the whole world sees, that the Israeli gov committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. Force people to think protecting Jews means denying reality, and they will stop caring about us.

today i heard a low-level member of the israeli govt explain that "humanitarian aid" to gaza is a scam because it contains non-essentials like spice

I've said for a while that, rather than actually fight antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as rootless cosmopolitan urbanites, Israeli politics just imbibes them and redirects them against the Diaspora, but then this guy just comes right out and says it.

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

How was a Nevada Republican with a 30-year mortgage on a $565,000 home able to loan his Congressional campaign $1.6 million? We don't know, because he has repeatedly failed to submit required financial disclosures that would illuminate his personal financial position.

"Netanyahu asked the Emirati president to deny reports of their phone conversation as well as details concerning the events leading up to October 7 that could embarrass him, according to the sources. He also asked bin Zayed for what the source described as 'moral support.'"

Collins said she would work with colleagues to address “these illegal actions” Dem colleagues tried to address it last year. She blocked it 7/7/25, Collins "voted against a Democratic proposal to require that rescissions go through the appropriations process" www.pressherald.com/2025/07/17/s...

Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?

IMO one of the most important local elections in the country (boltsmag.org/prosecutor-a...)

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

Terrific review of SUPREMACY by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social alongside my book, THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT: 

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 

BREAKING: 22 senators are joining @vanhollen.senate.gov to force a vote to direct the State Department to investigate Israel's killing of American citizens and the status of human rights for Palestinians living under Israeli military rule in the West Bank. Tell your senators to join at:

AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November.

a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat

Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.

I've been Black long enough to have at least some built-in 'yup, people be racist, and yet we move' defense systems But ngl shit can still sometimes be...jarring! Like seeing this, openly and shamelessly, and knowing Gorsuch had him in his chambers, and that he helps pick federal judges. Sickening!

at this point being a nazi edgelord online must be a prerequisite for working in the trump administration, no?

i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism

John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

made a video about this youtu.be/sPonQniJTCE

The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

NEWS: After Yaakov Roth defended many of the worst actions of the Trump administration over the past year and a half at DOJ, Jones Day took Roth back as a partner when he wanted to cash in on the friends he made when working to undermine the rule of law in America.

It breaks my heart that it wasn't the ankle monitor that broke him—it was the way his college classmates treated him for having to wear It. Which says so much about the kinds of hatefulness that permeate American culture and that made it possible for MAGA to gain so much power.

Aid workers in Nepal laid off by USAID cuts - including trans women who were working on community HIV outreach - have been forced to turn to sex work to survive.

This is part of why I went to Gitmo twice while writing my camps history a decade ago. As long as Guantanamo remains open for detention, it will be the site of future chapters of terror and extrajudicial abuses by the U.S. government.