Jon Atkins

NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973./

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

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.

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

These bits are astonishing (or maybe not, since the US has forever thought of its soldiers as cannon fodder):

RFK Jr. likes to claim that the current measles outbreak isn’t his fault. Nobody here will be surprised to hear that he is lying again. Under his “leadership”, the CDC didn’t respond to a request to validate a test that could diagnose cases faster. They said they had other priorities.

There are bombshells and there's this www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Who would have guessed that giving into Trump would lead him to ask for more and more, testing the breaking point and your loyalty?

Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention

brutal

“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...

A disgraceful way to treat military families.

Oct. 10: Musk responds "Zelensky has gone too far" on X to Trump comments about Ukraine hitting Russian refineries Oct. 14: Ukrainian drone operators lose unrestricted access to Starlink for strikes; Musk posts that any slowdown is POTUS's decision. But actually:q www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Innocent people were killed by a belligerent foe of the United States because of this choice made by the President and the richest man in the world. It is gross failure and they should both be stripped of all power.

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

Data that would have told us what impact the One Big Beautiful Bill had on Americans — scheduled for release by the IRS in July — never became public.

New Mexico Magazine has a long running column titled One of Our 50 is Missing about stories like this. www.newmexicomagazine.org/culture/one-...

Has to be a better solution to shoplifting diapers than killing the baby needing them.

Reyes, before she wraps up golf course hearing, says her family has been texting her, "freaking out" over CNN report about death threats bc of this case. "A federal judge is getting death threats over a golf course. I really don’t think that’s what the founders envisioned."

It’s been long enough that I can talk about this vaguely. A family friend refused cancer treatment. He didn’t want medical costs to drain his retirement. He was obsessed with taking care of his wife and two kids. He died less than 6 months after telling us that. Few things radicalized me more.

Marc Andreessen is constantly lying about his personal political views. As someone who was a Republican political consultant during the Obama years, I can tell you: Andreesen was a Republican. We all saw him as such. He pretends now to have been on the left. Nope, he was always a rw libertarian.

Last week I wrote about how Texas politicians’ “free speech” campaign has led to a campaign of academic censorship in the state’s universities that exceeds even the McCarthy era (🎁🔗) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

“We’re almost dead in the water because our workforce is gone,” said Scott Brannock of Jacksonville-based Tidewater Homes and the Northeast Florida Builders Association. “We have national builders who are missing projections … because they have slabs sitting on the ground and no one to frame.”

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a pic of a boat you like.

NEW: Ahmed Soliman’s lawyers tell me he is seriously ill and has been hospitalized. They don’t know what exactly is wrong bc an Equatoguinean attorney was not allowed him to see him today. A federal judge ordered him returned nine days ago. He should already be here. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

James Talarico, Gina Hinojosa SAY HIS NAME It’s not a general billionaire it’s a very specific billionaire. Especially in in Texas. Say it.

This is barely getting any attention as Russia’s escalating attacks turn deadly. Over the past few days, several tankers have been attacked, two have sunk, and several people have been killed. One of the tankers was attacked today in Romania’s territorial waters. So in NATO territory.

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

As there should be, but also as if Republicans haven’t consistently tried to erase nearly everything that Democrats have accomplished throughout most of my lifetime.

Me, on a walk at dusk: Good morning. I mean good afternoon. Good evening. Passerby: All of the above. Glad the brain is working smoothly.

Nothing LLMs have done make me think they’re conscious. Instead, they’re making me more open to the possibility that humans aren’t conscious.

An elderly family member of mine moved rabidly right wing about 10 years ago. My brother blocked Fox News on their TV and things returned to normal. A recent study showed being on X moves you to the right rapidly and rabidly. Thankfully my friends who stayed there tell me it doesn't affect them.

⚡️ Russia's initial 300,000-tonne diesel deal covers under two hours of global demand but funds its war. united24media.com/world/what-r...

Re-upping this in light of today’s inflation numbers.

Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.

So the US has limited Starlink use for Ukraine even tho Ukraine did not attack Russian oil refineries as they asked? What the hell esle do they want from us? To surrender?

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

I confuse wombats and wumpuses (wumpi?).

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

But Facebook tells me that Spencer Pratt tweeted that Talarico is off the campaign trail because he’s in a mental health facility…. because obviously Republicans in other states would be the first to know. /s

JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

If the Hepatitis B vaccine trial RFK Jr. has funded in Guinea-Bissau were ethical, he’d be doing it in the U.S. Instead, he’s preying on infants in one of the poorest countries in the world, which also happens to have a high prevalence of Hep B. Infants will suffer b/c RFK Jr. is anti-vax.

Has he stopped the Iran war 8 times yet?