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JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

Energy Secretary Chris Wright blames Democrats for high gas prices alongside a Fox News graphic showing gas up by $1.22 cents a gallon since last year under total Republican control

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

i wrote about the GORP

This is a lawsuit only in the same sense that any old crazy person can roll up to the courthouse and hand in a napkin scrawled in crayon about how the lizard people are eating their thoughts.

NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”

NEW: Denver Archbishop James Golka leads a prayer for President Trump, alongside Trump’s faith advisor Paula White, who called the Black Lives Matter movement the anti-Christ and suggested Christians will have to answer to God if they don’t vote for Trump

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

Trump's affordability message: "Did you ever see a pile of a million dollars in hundred dollar bills? It's big!"

At our "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall in Portland, AOC broke down why corporate-backed politicians are afraid of people like her and Troy Jackson.

🚨 Imagine tapping the screen for your chosen candidate and watching the machine switch your vote to Marsha Blackburn, a Republican. Voters in Tennessee are sounding the alarm. Check the review screen carefully before you cast your ballot so your vote is actually counted! #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

Man. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Jon Stewart on Mike Rogers: “He was a real pain in our ass in 2010 when we fought for the Zadroga Act for 9/11 first responders. He called it a New York problem and voted against it, all while claiming to respect the heroes of 9/11. It was all bullshit.”

Q: Who have you voted for in the past? Voter: I’ve voted for Donald Trump, I’ve voted for Greg Abbott. Republican my whole life. Q: So why are you switching teams? Voter: I am seeing what we need. This is what America needs. This is what Texas needs. We need someone like James Talarico.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Cornyn on Starlink being throttled in Ukraine: "I don't believe that Elon Musk would do this without at least the acquiescence of the White House. I think it's frankly shameful. I think we should be supporting the victim, not the aggressor."

Abolish ICE.

The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

Zelenskyy on Fox & Friends: "I always said we are open to negotiate in any format, any topics, but don't speak about us without us please"

Abdul El-Sayed on JD Vance: "I think America is big enough for all of us. His view of America is small like him. It's about pointing to other people and making the argument that the reason *you* don't have is because of *them.*" El-Sayed came on our pod. It's good: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

“.. The US refining industry is running the hardest **for this time of the year** in at least 25 years (ever?). October is when typically many plants go into seasonal maintenance, but that has been delayed due to eye-watering margins and the pressure from Trump.” - @javierblas.bsky.social ⛽️

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

Trump: "Every month I get a report that tens of thousands of soldiers are killed [in Ukraine]. It's the craziest thing I've ever heard of. And over what?" Well, it all started with the Pechenegs and the Ruriks if you ask Putin. ​But when it comes to Ukraine, it’s very simple: we were attacked and

YIKES -- Trump loses his shit at a reporter for the third time during this Q&A -- "Wait wait -- Quiet. Quiet!!!! What's wrong with you? Are you a SICK person?"

Q: You're offering 1% to whistleblowers for turning in what you're defining as fraud. The False Claims Act, which has been on the books since 1863, offers between 10 and 25%-- TRUMP: At 1% people will make millions and millions of dollars

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of North Carolina voters could be disenfranchised over minor technical issues with their ballots after a court upheld new GOP-backed rules, new data reveals. Ballots are already being rejected at a rate of ~3% — double the rate seen in 2022. https://demdock.com/4ivnewh

The Dem voting base clearly believes the establishment is spineless. This has redounded to the benefit of progressive. But they want to spend their capital directly on transformative policy that can’t become law without doing the cringe resistance stuff first. www.offmessage.net/p/progressiv...

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

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.

Rep Smith: I think this points towards the necessity of removing Trump from office. Jen Rubin: Would you be in favor of impeachment and removing him from office? Rep. Adam Smith: Absolutely. I don’t see where we have a choice, given what he’s doing.

Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

"Now that the Trump/Putin alliance has been indelibly formalized, denial is no longer a remotely reasonable option" — @davidrlurie.com

The grifting is off the charts.

Reading this really fucked me up last night. I suppose rape profiteering has been around as long as war profiteering. They’re siblings. That said, there’s something about the unapologetic attitude of betting on the implications of gang rape that bruised the inside of my soul last night.

EVERYTHING seems more expensive nowadays, and it's only gotten worse under Trump 2.0.

Incentivizing Trump voters to call in their suspicions about about black and brown people? What's the worst that could happen?

Trump: "Russia is not helping Iran" Iran:

In 2024, Ken Paxton sued Texas cities to block the legalization of marijuana. He has received over $350,000 from Big Beer and alcohol, an industry aiming to block the legalization of marijuana.

Powerful words from @aoc.bsky.social. America does not belong to any one race, religion, or creed. It is big enough for all of us who believe in democracy and in our Constitution and in leaving a future that is better for our kids.

French riots are the new Hunter’s laptop which was the new migrant caravan which was the new Ebola On Monday, Fox covered the riots every hour from 5 a.m. to midnight — a total of more than 2 hours of airtime www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fre...

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.

Wow. “A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments & congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Energy Secretary Wright is campaigning with Ken Paxton today in Texas. A reminder that government officials partaking in campaign events should not be normal.

If the president introduces you by your official title at a campaign rally, you're supposed to make clear you're not there on govt business Burgum & Lutnick didn't. FCC Chair Carr did, then talked FCC business Our complaint from @democracydefendersfund.org & RSFUSA in the morning report👇 -TN

Susan Collins on Kavanaugh: "I'm very disappointed in his his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. There was no way for me to anticipate that."