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Exactly what we need in the absence of a functioning U.S. Department of Justice. An organization of ex-prosecutors and investigators who can put cases together for future prosecutors who will restore accountability for corrupt federal officials and those who benefit from that corruption.

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

And, again. wapo.st/4yPWbRx

BREAKING: The U.S. government is granting visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family following his defeat in Brazil's presidential election.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Marco Rubio, harboring a fugitive

People not understanding how polls worked was bad enough. People thinking Polymarket odds mean anything at all is infinitely worse.

Kyiv. Evening. Power outage. Missile threat. I’m choosing a small induction hob that can work with my new EcoFlow. Hot food in winter can help. Gas cookers? I told them no. A few minutes ago I registered for a tour of artists’ studios. Survival and Art. My immediate plans.

MAHA!

Great interview by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social, on the subject -- dear to my heart -- of how people come to their political positions. (Hint: it's not through rational thought & argumentation, but through emotion, affiliation, & identity.)

The degree to which they have destroyed the credibility of the Justice Department and the FBI is breathtaking. That these DOJ lawyers would go into a hearing of this sort, saying what they’re saying makes some mockery of the law.

Highly recommend this essay from climate economist Noah Kaufman -- a needed corrective to the misguided arrogance that most economists bring to the subject of climate policy.

From the Dems House Judiciary report:

this man is a gotdamned patriot

Late October morning in Kyiv. We were under attack last night. Once again (I’ve lost count), ‘my’ bridge was hit. It’s closed to cars and metro trains. I’m making a warcoffee. Electricity is back. Just for a few hours. So, life has its treats, for sure.

In the last few weeks, the Trump admin has: 🔺 Tried to stop California from counting 20k ballots 🔺 Preemptively sued Alaska from certifying results of a key race — if the Republican loses 🔺 Inserted itself into Michigan's election That’s not all. Here's how it's already meddling in the midterms 👇

bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

Check out how easy this is.

this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

Once you pardon someone, they have no basis for refusing to testify… Can’t plead the 5th if you can no longer be incriminated. Trump won’t pardon junior staffers because he needs them to be afraid of going down.

Donald Trump literally making us sicker www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Drone debris falls on Kyiv like steel rain. The mayor keeps us informed about the damage it causes. We pretend we have umbrellas to hide under. Saturday evening. Drone attack again. I look out of the window to check whether it’s raining or not.

Donald Trump doesn't even hide that he wants to seize control of our elections. It’s all part of his authoritarian project.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Oh good, we’ve made it to the “advertising discrete partnerships with the CIA” stage of this goatfuck. I remember when Marco was supposed to be the reasonable one.

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Oh you don’t say www.texastribune.org/2026/10/23/k...

And it is utterly illegal and unconstitutional

Rainy day in Kyiv. But I do love rain. To stand under a tree without an umbrella. To listen to the heavy sound of drops falling from the leaves. You won’t see it in the media or perhaps anywhere else. There is autumn in Kyiv. Autumn.

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

I understand the freakout here but honestly this one reads as a sign of weakness to me a) peltola is going to win by more than the second dan sullivan's margin b) this argument is pathetic, and if their strategy is 'throw pathetic shit at the wall and hope something sticks' I'm less worried

🚨 HERE WE GO AGAIN: Trump's DOJ has filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska's Senate election if Democrat Mary Peltola defeats Republican Dan Sullivan.

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

This is fucking insane. It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

I really don't think most people appreciate how much damage air pollution does to our bodies & brains. Even in the last 10 years the science has progressed a ton & everything it has discovered is *grim*.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

New Republican conflict of interest just dropped.

⚡️️️️️️️Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine. "Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour remains in effect, the official said.

NSF funding is delayed. Last year, all applications for 2026 were suspended. Grant applications for high-power equipment for cutting edge research are sitting in purgatory. Instead of transparency, there is lack of clarity. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Two years later, DOJ still fighting over whether Trump's blanket pardon for Jan. 6 defendants inadvertently swept in other egregious crimes committed by Jan. 6 defendants. Kelley was convicted by a jury of conspiring to murder his investigators. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Sodium-ion batteries scaling up.