Jeff Quinton

A fascist opened fire on people of colour in Trappes and Verriere near Paris, killing one person and injuring 5 more incl a 12 yo girl who was shot 8 times. He opened fire at a children's playground and a hijabi woman. He also shot dead a young black man. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

sure

Interview in Texas Monthly in which fmr Speaker of the Tx House (R, obv) says that, "for now" says he'll leave senate election choice blank--but that could change, and "there's not a world in which I can vote for Ken Paxton." (Or Bo French or the LG!) www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

if you believe that Melania Trump negotiated a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, I've got a $5,000 Trump dividend and some Melania memecoin to sell you

Of pumps and chumps.

Megyn Kelly Leads the MAGA Mean Girls quintonretort.substack.com/p/megyn-kell...

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

GIBNEY: “Elon Musk’s genius is stock pumping. He’s not a genius inventor. He never invented anything.” (H/T @marco.foster)

Sanctioned Russian vessel the Patria, which has been shuttling between ports on the west coast of Africa since March this year and was last seen loitering off the coast of Lagos is on the move again. Planet satellite imagery captured the vessel at the Port of Douala, Cameroon on October 16th.

MUST READ: Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush and son of another President Bush, explains why he voted for James Talarico. In part: “My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton's record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico.”

Mark Cuban wants to crack open the market for rare disease treatments www.statnews.com/2026/10/21/m... via @statnews.com

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

WITKOFF TO PUTIN (yes, that Putin): “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian — you are a humanitarian also, sir. I salute that. I commend you.” 🤯 we are so cooked. Russia was never a hoax.

Every Republican running for office in Ohio should be asked if they disavow the extremism of Vivek Ramaswamy

Wrote a thing about how it doesn't really matter whether Zuck shut down the No Kings Insta on purpose or if it was an accident. The problem is relying on him in the first place. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/a...

People who have been around politics a long time may be struck as I was by the sheriff's signature on this arrest warrant for Amy Acton's stepfather, who at the time was a fugitive. Does the name James Traficant ring a bell?

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Trump's Gas Price Problem: Iran, Putin, and the Midterms

Idk what I was originally expecting, but it’s somehow eleventy gazillion times worse

Girls! Stop fighting. You're both pretty..

"Again and again, Collins comes back to the same twisted argument: Only she can limit the damage her party is doing." It's weak tea, @saletan.bsky.social writes in this examination of what she does with her power, and more to the point, what she doesn't do with it. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-case-a...

OUCH -- Trump refuses to endorse JD Vance for 2028 and says "we've never talked about it"

ironically, a program seemingly designed to just give money to the regime's friends and allies is textbook fraud

there’s no middle ground position on this. either musk is forcibly rooted out of government infrastructure or every war proceeds at the whims and dictates of a generational buffoon

They DM'd us this 2 minutes before publishing their official statement

State auditors are calling for tighter controls and monitoring of outside law firms hired by state agencies, after finding a lack of procedures in the attorney general's office make it difficult to track millions paid to nearly 100 firms. marylandmatters.org/2026/10/20/a...

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

Imagine you call in Trump to campaign as a last ditch effort and he tells everybody you’re going to lose and starts talking about hot men’s asses instead

Look, we all knew Ramaswamy was a massive piece of shit but apparently he was really worried that we didn't know *just* how massive a piece of shit he was, so, great job, Vivek, you've certainly cleared that one up, haven't you

The guy who made his fortune by giving Alzheimer’s patients and their families false hope just tried to exploit the sex abuse his opponent suffered as a child for his own political gain. Republicans are a Mad Libs of depraved cruelty and moral degeneracy. Just horrible people.

The DOJ's voter roll letter to California is "highly, highly irregular" and raises serious questions about whether it violates the NVRA and the Supreme Court's own ruling, says Cato Institute’s Stephen Richer. https://ow.ly/9SFF50ZZll3

Chris Christie on Ramaswamy: "...the most obnoxious blowhard in America." Nikki Haley to Ramaswamy: "You’re just scum.”

WWE's Saudi Blood Money: Is Crown Jewel Worth Someone's Life? open.substack.com/pub/dmvwrest...

Benny Johnson Threatened to Sue Milo Over Gay Sex Allegations. Then He Chickened Out.

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...

“.. The collective results of the new survey reveal an electorate that has lost faith in the president ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yeah I agree with this. It's worse when they actually know better.

Hi. Some of us predicted this very thing might happen. www.techdirt.com/2025/05/27/w...

Ukrainian and Sudanese immigrants living in the United States with temporary protected status that was scheduled to end Monday, will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, Homeland Security officials said over the weekend. marylandmatters.org/2026/10/19/r...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge from a group of Montgomery County parents who claim that the county's lottery system for admission to middle school magnet programs decreases Asian American students in the programs. marylandmatters.org/2026/10/19/s...

move over D-Day -- Trump says his Venezuela raid was "the greatest military maneuver ever"