Democratic Socialist, LFC diehard, Michigan Man, deconstructing Christian, occasional web developer, and SQL/payment systems engineer. I parent two furbabies with my wife.
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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape."
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Note, the MOST IMPORTANT change is that they swapped FBI agents (and added critical elements that were missing from the original affidavit). This is clean up, the obstruction charge is likely only the excuse to do that.
While you were sleeping: DOJ files superseding complaint, adds obstruction counts in case against former FBI agents Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides
Preliminary hearing set for today at 11 am.
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Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
I've clearly missed something not being terminally online lately. What the hell is this insanity? Elected congressman just brandishing a pistol in front of the goddamn Cheesecake Factory for clout at the Nazi bar?
These assholes need to get a life.
Exclusive: Jennifer Shuford, the CDC’s deputy director and chief medical officer, is leaving the administration after a short tenure.
“I am leaving to spend more time with my family,” Shuford said in a statement.
Guessing two things are going on: 1) the need to verify an extremely serious allegation, which I respect; 2) this story being “more of the same” or what we already think/know about Trump, which is problematic. Him being a good guy would be news, but him being accused of rape is just Tuesday
I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.
The heart of MAGA is just performative cruelty and gutter behavior to appeal to what they think is this vast majority of nasty shitheads. It's lucrative for empty trolls like Clay Tavis, who exist to weaponize sadism and ignorance for personal profit. But the bill will eventually come due.
The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
Here’s the relevant language in the DOJ lawsuit. It asks for the election not to be certified if Peltola’s margin of victory is smaller than the number of votes cast for the third-party Sullivan. (I expect this to be laughed out of court.)
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BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning.
BLANCHE: That's not what it says
BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?
I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.
pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail
And on AI: “I don’t want to depend on Chinese nor American AI. I want to create a Brazilian intelligence.” He also mentioned having Brazilian data centres dealing with our intelligence.
“We will no longer be a peripheral country. We want to be central.”
In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.
look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.
Evangelical Christian fundamentalism is why Brazil just might elect Flavio Bolsonario, a far-right traitor to the nation.
Non-religious people *must* do much better at community and mutual aid. This is a global problem.
Fascism's chief tool is religious delusions.
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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
In his talk at Princeton, @marcelias.bsky.social noted that the election suppression he worried about was less ICE at the polls and more ICE putting up traffic checkpoints and other things that made access to the polls much harder.
And it looks like we’re seeing a version of that in Brazil.
The way the Lions not only stopped the Packers from a TD, but then the Packers shot themselves with the delay of game/missed FG—only for it to turn into a flurry of strikes by Goff to the best receiver tandem in football (St Brown/Jamo) and a TD was BEAUTIFUL.
“I’m proud that I have more complaints than any other officer or sheriff in the state,” Sheriff Keith Swank said at a public hearing in June in Pierce County, Washington. Voters next month are deciding a measure that would end his term early.
31 rushes, 35 yards. Carr is 14/23 for 124 and a pick.
Y'all need to apologize to Bryce. He was not the problem. The line is subpar, no run game, you could put any top QB back there and they would struggle because teams can just hang back and play the pass.
#Michigan
That ruling came a year ago this coming week, so, it’s almost the anniversary of the guy not legally allowed to be the U.S. Attorney (absent nomination and Senate confirmation) running the office. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
A reminder also that this office has no U.S. Attorney, and the guy running the office — as first assistant — was ruled to have improperly served too long as the appointed U.S. Attorney.
NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy.
DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...