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Yes it has, just read the Koch bros 1980’s manifesto. PRIVITIZE everything

NEW: Israeli exit polls are out: Eisenkot's bloc is narrowly leading Netanyahu's. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

So during one hearing over trumped up charges against two former stellar FBI agents in the Hunter Biden laptop case, a trump AUSA comes into the courtroom to inform the judge the DOJ got a no true bill in a totally different case (we don't know which). That's hilarious to me.

Dog days are over. Time to vote by November 3rd. Time to win.

ICE taking a father away while dropping his kid off at school. It happened earlier today on Junction Blvd, Queens.

A win! A federal judge in Washington issued a longer-term injunction, blocking the Trump administration from removing or damaging any more trees on the grounds of East Potomac Golf Links.

At a campaign stop in Texas, Trump spoke to the crowd gathered there. "Our country has never done better," he said, "You'll see it very soon." Never interrupt your enemy when they are the process of making a mistake.

Trump just a announced a violation of international law. Since WWII at least, the victors are NOT entitled to the spoils according to law.

BREAKING WaPo: A federal grand jury just REJECTED an attempt by the Trump Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.

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"So, that’s all to say: get comfortable, grab a drink, and smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. This could take a while."

Turnout rate in the Israeli election was up to 74.3% in the latest update with still two hours to go. The record is 86.9% in the 1949 election. Even if turnout passes just 80% by polls closing, it would be the highest turnout rate in nearly 60 years.

Day 1707 of the war in Ukraine and here's the latest daily thread. It's one of those days when things are a little more awkward than usual, but I'll do my best to maintain the high standards you expect. Fact checked news & analysis , always delivered with humanity and humour.

Trump just threatened to withhold federal disaster relief from North Carolina if the state votes Democratic in the midterms. Let me remind you again: no president in history has politicized and weaponized natural disasters the way Trump has.

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

We're suing Secretary Hegseth for withholding information from the public about the Pentagon’s plan to study the “effectiveness” of women in ground combat roles. As the Navy’s first woman helicopter pilot, Joellen Oslund is proof that women have served with distinction for decades.

It's VERY useful right now to watch elections in other countries: like Serbia, Brazil, & Israel. It's fascinating to see democracy emerge victorious in 2 countries. And to discover how panic over the impact of mass voting--democracy--will affect a 3rd BIG numbers of people voting are a GOOD THING

The polls are open in Israel for several more hours, and the voter turnout rate is already the highest its been since 1969. Total vote has already exceeded the last election. I say again: this is *with* several hours still left to vote. Really, really not a great sign for Netanyahu.

Record turnout in Israeli elections. www.cnn.com/2026/10/27/w...

“Flávio has given up. He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”

Just a reminder that this is the guy whose loss triggered panic in the global financial markets. Not just an ecocidal fascist who wanted to burn down the Amazon, but a snivelling little gangster. Just in case we were still labouring under the delusion that this was a good system.

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins

* BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO MISSES SUPREME COURT DEADLINE TO HAND IN PASSPORT TO FEDERAL POLICE -- SOURCE * BRAZIL FEDERAL POLICE CANCEL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S PASSPORTS AFTER DEADLINE MISSED -- SOURCE @reuters.com $EWZ

Roberts wrote the presidential immunity ruling. The articles are already filed. Your representative is home. This letter still puts your name on the record telling them cosponsoring is day one when they return. #BlueWaveIn7Days

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East! Look, there's elections! Unless you're a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, no polling station for you.

Israelis are heading to the polls for the first nationwide election since the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, the deadliest day in the country’s history, and voter turnout is at its highest in 50 years. NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Tel Aviv.

Turnout in Israel is currently 44.9% — the highest ever recorded at 2pm in Israeli history. I'm optimistic this means the end of Netanyahu. Polling won't have reflected just how many will decide on the day that they cannot vote for the man who presided over the biggest slaughter of Jews since WW2.

Not even scandals, actual crimes, like crimes that carried capital sentences in the past.

There are credible allegations of rape against the president, and evidence his administration has taken steps to cover up his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile. This story is being covered more aggressively by People Magazine than the NY Times, Wash Post, or Wall St Journal.

The Trump Presidential Library will have an entire wing devoted to Trump’s sworn denials.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

One of those moments I'll never forget.

Some of the most meaningful moments on the campaign trail have been spending time up in the Sault with the Bay Mills and Sault tribes. We must protect tribal sovereignty, protect our Great Lakes, and ensure everyone can get a good job and know that our basic rights and dignities are preserved.

MOTHER JONES: “THEY WENT TO JARED… Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats and sell out America.” And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They ignore the irony of the present FBI Director, “Poodle Room” Patel, regularly lying to Congress.

Everyone knows that well. bsky.app/profile/fre-...

With almost no advance warning, DHS has suspended its Acquisition Forecast Planning System tool. Contractors relied on this to see what new contracts the agency would be soliciting — and so did we. Now it looks like no new advanced notice will be given between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5.

Kushner took a $50 mn bribe from the Emiratis to orchestrate the firing of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, according to Matt Cole's new book, Princes and Thieves, out today. To be clear, this is a serious felony, if true.

All eyes on the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington today — its operations contract with GEO Group is set to expire today. No new contract or extension has been awarded yet. ICE has also expressed interest in purchasing the facility.

A U.N.-backed inquiry is reporting that Russia committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine by intentionally attacking energy infrastructure, which left millions of people without electricity and heat in freezing temperatures.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

My Republican mother early voted for Independents…. A win is a win.

This November, Mainers will decide the direction of this whole country. Is it for the billionaires and Trump, or everyday people like us?

“Most of my true heroes in this life have been women. In my experience, they have borne most of the brunt of an often broken society, but somehow managed to move it forward anyway. Progress often walks hand-in-hand with the persecuted. Misogyny and mediocrity are no match for our mothers.” noelcasle

I don't care for how this has become almost a joke people throw in along with how he's old and fat and orange rather than a stomach-churning, existentially horrifying thing for a nation to know about its head of state.

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.