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691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

Aren’t we all tired of this stinky beast and his bullshit?

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

📸 Ernst Haas • New York 1950s

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge J. Michael Luttig: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

🗳️ New York early vote update 📊 In 2022, the last midterm 🗽 1,178,674 voters in New York voted early in person over the nine days 9.7% of active enrolled voters #EarlyVoteNewYork

It’s actually quite the opposite. The best thing any Democrat can do is just not sound like a Republican, no matter what Republicans are nattering on about currently. I wish they would understand this.

This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

I recently had the chance to spend some time with US Senate candidate Troy Jackson of Maine and shared some thoughts as both a writer in Maine and a Maine voter. shaystewartbouley.substack.com/p/vote-like-...

People briefly emerged from their bunkers in the violent dystopian hellscape that is New York City to parade their dogs in Halloween costumes on the Upper West Side. There was much cuteness.

The students, many from marginalized communities, learn to conjure up candy, do card tricks — and face the world with a confident, creative and resilient mindset. n.pr/4z9IMVq

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FLORIDA — Insane: Winter Park police called on 3 year old for being too good at soccer because 5 year olds couldn’t get the ball from him. (H/T @the_public_defender2) More: blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli... Their TikTok account: www.tiktok.com/@nevadaney10...

One of the most emotionally charged moments of the 2026 election unfolded in Cleveland as thousands gathered to support Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, just days after a controversial Republican campaign advertisement turned her traumatic childhood into a political battleground....

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

A Democratic lawmaker sounded the alarm Friday over at least 18 rural Alaska polling places that were advertised online but hadn't opened, all in villages the New York Times described as "key to Democratic hopes.

"Right now, we’re living in Trump’s world, in Vance’s world, in Hegseth’s world. .. This is what a world without empathy looks like. It’s a world of constant othering, of constant rage .. But nothing flourishes in that world." This is very well articulated A fascinating read:

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

NEW: A woman featured in a Republican attack ad accusing a Democrat of being “dangerous” for children actually PLEADED GUILTY TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT after driving drunk with her own kids in the car, per the Washington Post.

“C.D.C. has lost about 30% of its staff since last year, including many members of the rabies team, which no longer has the capacity to advise state officials after hours…The agency also temporarily suspended rabies testing this spring, a pause that lasted for months.”

I visited MLK Community Hospital in South LA, the only safety-net hospital serving poor patients in the area. The ER was built for 25,000 patients a year; it gets 120,000. I saw patients getting treated in the gift shop, the chapel, in tents, even outdoors. And this is before the Medicaid cuts.

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

George Clooney fired back at Trump for calling him a “Hollywood elite”: “I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance, shoes, and worked night shifts. I went eight years without health insurance.

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Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Inside the hidden chamber that controls Lincoln Center's magnificent fountain gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Conditions for the incarcerated women inside LA County's Century Regional Detention Facility haven't improved. Worms are still found in the water. When a commissioner pressed a sergeant about it, they replied, "worms are good for you."

Why Is New York Denying This Native American Tribe Recognition? The Montaukett, the original inhabitants of the Hamptons, were stripped of their land and tribal rights a century ago. They’ve been fighting to regain recognition ever since. Read more: bit.ly/4kb4y6k

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The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.

It looks like it may be worse than just betrayal; it looks like betrayal plus crooked side deals for Trump and cronies.

AG works for America, not the president. Throw dirty bitch tiny man Todd Blanche into prison.