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Trump and Epstein’s intrasexual competition jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

“Katie Johnson, who gave FBI a detailed account of her repeated rape at the hands of Trump and Epstein in 1994 in New York City when she was a minor.”

Explosive allegations that the United Arab Emirates sent Jared Kushner $50 million after he helped oust a Trump Cabinet member have sparked fierce backlash, including demands that President Donald Trump's son-in-law face prison time.

It is, ultimately, damaging your ability to accomplish things long term or to win elections long term because you assume that you can't change the framing of the conversation even though changing the framing is a tool that's right there for you to grasp. It's incompetence. Malpractice.

One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...

And not just Starlink, either— the whole ITAR-free vs “kill switch” discussion just got turned up to 11 And to no one’s surprise I am sure, fElon is lying (and his claim is as utterly incoherent as a teenager’s explanation of how the family car is missing its bumper this morning…)

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

HEBRON IS UNDER SIEGE. FAMILIES ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES. Since yesterday, 250 families have been displaced in Hebron, including my own sister, Hayat, and her seven children. Homes and shops are being demolished by the Israeli military.

Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction after service in Ukraine is restored | AP News apnews.com/article/russ...

@nuclearanthro.bsky.social are you OK in the flooding in NM? I’m not familiar with where that is relative to you.

Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Bob Rubin: In more than six decades spent in and around economic policymaking, I never imagined having to write a piece such as this. A potential threat to our economic future: Trump’s clearly expressed desire to interfere with and even usurp the midterm elections www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

Donald Trump just told Veterans poisoned by toxic water at Camp Lejeune that they’ll only get the money they’re owed if Republicans win the midterms. These are Marines and their families who drank contaminated water for decades, got cancer, and have been begging the government for relief.

Of great interest www.ukrainesarmsmonitor.com/p/the-rise-o...

This inept chode. 😒

UK: “Hey, we found another venomous snake in the UK! We have two!” Australia: “…”

Noted left wing magazine [squints] The National Review comes out with a defense of Amy Acton. bsky.app/profile/purr...

It is so important that European leaders acknowledge the truth as Kaja Kallas does here. Trump and the USG have been trying to force Ukraine to surrender for almost two years. There has been no recent pivot to Russia. It’s been a constant US policy www.euronews.com/2026/10/20/k...

Well... sort of. "Eleven people with lawful permanent resident status were arrested in California Monday for alleged voter fraud. Hours later, First Assistant Attorney for California Bill Essayli admitted that they may not have even voted."

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

NEW: The Houthis are adopting new tactics to bypass Saudi air defenses, including launching various munitions at Saudi targets simultaneously and targeting locations without air defense coverage. Read the full update: isw.pub/IranUpdate10...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump adviser Ric Grenell allegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year that included access to Trump, according to a text message reviewed by Axios that the White House counsel is investigating.

One of the more remarkable graphs of the cycle, from Ipsos/Reuters: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Bleecker Street, the film distributor overseeing the theatrical release of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, was informed on Friday that the film's TikTok account was subject to "permanent suspension." tinyurl.com/4yd9997x

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

Table of contents and cover reveal for volume 2 is now up at thinkweirder.com! This will be the best book I've ever released, with stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Peter Watts, Isabel J. Kim, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Thomas Ha, and others. I keep re-reading the stories, they're all so good.

Yikes. In a desperate-sounding video, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper insists the Strait of Hormuz is “controlled by the United States… not Iran” and “open for business,” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

North Carolina A&T students marched back to campus after their polling place was closed. They voted anyway! It took students about 45 minutes to reach Union Square — now the closest early polling place. Some sections of sidewalk were missing or obstructed by branches, forcing people into the street.

The single most predictable action of the Trump second presidency happened just a few hours ago. Trump signed an executive order that exempted Russia from all of the key possible sanctions that could have been placed on it by the Graham-Blumenthal Act. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-prot...

Does anyone know who this is? youtu.be/kdpOdSMzXTA?...

In LA, police and federal agents are shooting out the eyes of people protesting ICE. I detailed the accounts of 5 young men who lost their eyes after protesting for @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/he-went-to-d...

The commander of NAS Corpus Christi, the base that appears to have coordinated with ICE, previously ran the Naval War College's ethics and leadership program

Here are 22 times Katie Zacharia blatantly lied about being a lawyer. She’s perfect for the Trump administration. She’s pathological.

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN

The Bay Area faces a funding crisis for its public transit, but a ballot measure could come to the rescue. For @motherjones.com, I reported on the measure and talked with aging and disabled adults, who are more likely to use transit, on what's at stake for them. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Public libraries are becoming so popular even the bears have started trying to get cards. www.instagram.com/reel/DeftV9x...