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Is there a ticker somewhere updating the number of women who have accused Trump of tape? How many will it take before Congress acts to impeach Trump?

Poe’s deliquescing M[itch] Valdemar stirs briefly to slime the decaying Trump.

“We have to be able to run the football and convert on third down,” said the Eagles’ Nick Sirianni and every other football coach from Pop Warner to the NFL.

Nine days until Election Day. What happens when loyalty to one man becomes more important than an oath to the Constitution? And what happens if those in power refuse to accept the voters' decision? My latest essay: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/nine-days-...

Trump’s Justice Department has sued to block Alaska’s Senate results if Republican Dan Sullivan loses. With 8 days before the midterms, I break down Trump’s threat to democracy and why America is ready to rebuke his regime. youtu.be/Fa7UbNXSVyM

Attn: U.S. Treasury: Please remit check for $1 million after reading. electionlawblog.org/2026/ohio-su...

And then he said that the Yankees won the pennant and that the Jets won yesterday.

Dems to wield the power of the purse against the illicit persecution of Trump critics that entail targeted efforts to defund Trump’s baseless investigations & prosecutions. Plus, subpoenas at many levels to expose the corrupt processes by which Trump orders underlings to carry out these directives.

NEW: Epstein lawyer and estate co-executor Darren Indyke testifies today before House Oversight. And based on what witnesses, including Epstein victims, told the FBI and DOJ about their interactions with him, there are ongoing questions about what he knew and when. www.ms.now/news/as-epst...

To paraphrase Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons”: “Why, Todd, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for [a whale]!”

“I am disgraced, impeach’d and baffled here, pierced to the soul.” “Richard II”

“I will say boldly that both religion and virtue have received more real discredit from hypocrites than the wittiest profligates or infidels could ever cast upon them.” “Tom Jones,” by Henry Fielding

It wasn’t that long ago that the Department of Justice and the office of the Attorney General were respected.

“We have witnessed a mass derangement that has destabilized the world... The corruption is breathtaking, and the lying that accompanies it extraordinary, but somehow it has produced mostly indifference fueled by the type of cynicism that made it possible for Trump to rise in the first place.”

“I must obey. His art is of such power,” said Caliban.

“That’s my noble master! What shall I do? Say, what? What shall I do?” “The Tempest”

“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool,” wrote Voltaire.

Miranda to Caliban: “You repulsive slave! You who are completely resistant to any effort to make you good, and are instead capable of every evil thing!” “The Tempest”

“I pray thee, cease thy counsel, which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.” “Much Ado About Nothing”

Blanche lies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“He was not born to shame; upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.”

why Blanche needs to face impeachment

Recommended reading for anyone in politics and covering politics today. Parallels to Trump in “The Winter’s Tale,” “Coriolanus,” “Julius Caesar,” “King Lear,” and “Richard III.”

“The head of the Dept of What Used To Be Justice will not rule out meddling in the midterms. Never mind that the executive branch has no Constitutional role in the process of state certification of election results, and that any attempt [to interfere] would be a blatant exercise in criminality.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower,” wrote Albert Camus. Photo by Kirk Schlea

“People like Vivek and Vance think Trumpism and MAGA is ascendant…the depravity, the malevolence, the viciousness—they think that there’s still a large enough body of people out there that gets kind of flushed out of the woodwork by this kind of thing, to support them, to support Vivek and this ad.”

I asked the great @electproject.bsky.social to sum up the early voting thus far. His answer: More than 16 million have voted early, Dems and indys outpacing 2018, Rs lagging. "We’re looking at really modern historic rates of voting," he says. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

Wow. This is a fantastic ad.

Trump is gonna be pissed that Witkoff didn’t call Trump a humanitarian.

Suzy Becker in “The New Yorker”

The anti-free-speech head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, is threatening to punish news outlets that publish polls showing Trump's deep unpopularity. We are sliding into a dictatorship, and it would be helpful if major media would do their duty and warn the public.

staytuned.substack.com/p/one-of-the...

“[Republicans] have not delivered in two years. Gas prices are up, the cost of health care is up, the Medicaid cuts endangered rural hospitals all over the country. They have no message on what they are going to deliver, because it has been a string of broken promises from day 1 with this Congress.”

Democrats are competitive in Texas. Talarico leads in Senate polls, Pulido's a favorite to flip a House seat, and Hinojosa narrowly trails for governor. If any win—esp. Talarico—it won't only shift institutional power, it'll be a psychic shock to the right. No wonder they're nervous. My latest:

“Don’t waste time pretending there’s a shred of legitimacy to MAGA outrage. Don’t let the media tendency to elevate that outrage into double-sided ‘controversy’ lead to pulled punches and mealymouthed apologies or equivocation.”

A broad part of the electorate is too apathetic, too willfully uninformed and therefore too negligent to recognize and confront the assault on our rights.

Political language, Orwell wrote, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Ever true today, Sullivan writes, in the timid and misleading framing that “undermines reporting at major news organizations.”

“It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp should strike such terror to his enemies,” wrote Shakespeare in “Henry VI, Part 1.” Trump is enabled because of Republicans paralyzed by cowardice.

“A president who cared at all about what is good for America wouldn’t pursue disastrous policies for the slim chance of saving his own political skin. But this is, after all, Trump we’re talking about.”

“People are extremely disappointed in Trump. They think the economy is doing horribly. The more he shows up, the more he reinforces this overall political environment that is demoralizing Republicans, fracturing independents, and motivating Dems to come out and vote to stop the Trump-aligned party.”

Republicans “have no intention of cleaning up the criminality in their party. As long as they’re committed to maintaining the GOP’s professional pipelines as they exist, the only way to root corruption out of politics is to make people of low character think twice about entering those pipelines.”

“What America is lacking in the wake of our long, dark national nightmare is a service program…aimed not only at deploying legions of teachers, medical professionals, construction workers, and other laborers across the country but also at reframing our entire idea of what civic service means.”

Is it the New York Times, or the NY Times Pitchbot?

“Let me pocket up my pedlar’s excrement.” “The Winter’s Tale”

“The shame hereof will make me hide my head.” “Henry VI, Part 1”

The Book of Zacharia is a quick read.

In honor of Oscar Wilde, born on this day in 1854: Whenever Republicans agree with me I always know I must be wrong.

“The U.S. and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural & political heritage dating back thousands of years to ancient Rome,” said Trump on this day in 2019. Yes, dating back to when the American president in 44 B.C. threatened to extort Julius Caesar unless he awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize.