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Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

🚨Illinois Governor JB Pritzker calls for Trump to be REMOVED via the 25th Amendment: "There is something genuinely wrong with this man..." The calls to remove Trump are growing LOUDER.

BREAKING: BRAZIL JUST HANDED THE FAR RIGHT ANOTHER ASS-KICKING. 🇧🇷 Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is projected to win a historic fourth presidential term, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of Donald Trump.

Our taxpayer dollars have funded this white supremacist trillionaire who is using his winnings—some half a billion dollars—to try and shove Republican candidates down our throats and avoid investigation and prosecution. www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

All right Habs fans that was win number one. Everyone can settle down now #habs

Is Matheson captain while Suzuki is out? #habs

In 2022, Mike Lawler said: “Before you vote tomorrow, fill up your tank and go grocery shopping — it will inform your decision.” So we took him up on that. Before early voting starts tomorrow, try it. Then tell me if the system’s working for you. It shouldn’t be this hard. You deserve better.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

🚨 MASSIVE BREAKING: Vanity Fair reports that Dutch intelligence accessed Kushner’s hacked iPhone and uncovered alleged secret financial arrangements involving Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Israel… We’re talking about accounts reportedly holding BILLIONS. Are you actually SURPRISED?! Now, go VOTE!! 😎🇺🇸✨

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...

Mike Rogers was just caught on tape talking about how he wanted to make sure that there were retired cops who could intimidate voters in the city of Detroit. We deserve the right to vote. People have fought and died for that right. No more election deniers.

"Ramaswamy’s campaign’s callousness, mendacity, and shoddy staff work would be a liability in any race. But it seems especially likely to hurt him in an environment where Republicans already have a problem with a nagging child sexual abuse scandal."

Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

Tell me why there are so many commercials during this hockey game and they’re all GOP smear commercials. There shouldn’t be any during the game #habs

Dobes looks a little more relaxed tonight #habs

With Meta shutting down No Kings, Ellison blocking TikTok ads for a documentary on Elon, Amazon supplying tech for ICE.... It's a good time to remember that this story has played out before.

“It's funny how little we reflect on the fact that we assassinated the leader of a country.” From killing its Supreme Leader to breaking nuclear agreements, @rhodesben.bsky.social argues that Iran has no incentive to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. anymore. zeteo.com/p/why-on-ear...

this is like a reverse "daisy." an ad so reprehensible that it detonates the candidate's campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

Man, Vivek Ramaswamy REALLY loves child rapists. What a sick fuck.

The surprising conservative backlash against Justice Alito www.vox.com/politics/506...

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.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Trump sycophant Bari Weiss Exposed for Pushing CBS to Smear Democratic Candidates CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has been pushing reporters to use incendiary language and go on goose chases in attempt to attack Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico.

Tell me again how big the budget deficit is? How’s inflation? Gas ⛽️ prices? How many days off did you guys take in the last 2 years? It’s almost like we don’t have a #Congress!

Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account

“Donald Trump’s treachery was predictable and predicted. Even so, watching him throwing a financial lifeline to Putin as the monstrous mob boss murders Ukrainians is sick-making stuff. The president’s “October Suprise” was a stab in the back.” charliesykes.substack.com/p/russia-rus...

Zelenskyy to Bloomberg: “I believe steps have been taken to convince Ukraine to capitulate.” Troubling. We’re in a dangerous moment.

Welker: "Who do you think is to blame for the disruptions to the Starlink and Starshield services?" Zelensky: "Of course, the message came from government…It was the message from American government to limit this and SpaceX did it." Welker: "Has service been restored?" Zelensky: "No."

New in PN: Steve Levitsky on the slide into “competitive authoritarianism” "Perhaps the biggest reason the upcoming midterm elections are so critical is because they represent a last chance for voters to stop the American system of government from sliding into full-blown authoritarianism."

This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

The Canadiens with more overtime magic against the Sabres. Don’t be concerned about their record. In this Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal, I’ll tell you why. globalnews.ca/news/1210668...

Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

Here’s a thought- when new technologies are released, they should have to be submitted for approval like drugs are. They could then have restrictions placed on them as to how and when they can be used instead of the wild west situation we have now.

One of the many things the Democrats need to do is completely divorce the U.S. federal government from everything Musk owns. This guy's a monster with enormous power and he's destabilizing democracies all over the globe. It's time to fight back.

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Andrii Klymenko, editor-in-chief of BlackSeaNews, maritime expert: Russia has launched a (modern) war against the EU and NATO in the Black Sea. This is no longer "salami slicing." I would advise at least Romania, which has no love for Putin, to immediately deploy its naval forces -

The Big Ugly Bill cut taxes for the richest people in America. It is the biggest wealth transfer from poor folk to rich folk that we've seen.

The denaturalization push against Ilhan Omar is so much worse than even previous abuses of federal authority and investigative power. It’s not just that it’s a targeted investigation, but that it’s an effort to achieve something that could NEVER possibly be legitimate.

It’s already at the point of the season where I’m going to start muting overly critical Habs fans. It’s not productive and irritates me no end #habs

Dobes is looking a bit tight tonight. So far he’s ok