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2/ "The Alaska lawsuit proves that Trump will contest ballots that are validly and legally cast, and Todd Blanche will do whatever Trump tells him to do. 👉🏼I don’t think anybody is truly prepared for how dirty Trump is going to play."👈🏼

One of the things that Trump said in his propaganda speech that Kash Patel used to predicate the investigation that led to charges against Floris and Benavides is that we had to prevent hacks. But Kash hasn't done that. The FEC got hacked this week.

Amy Klobuchar is the frontrunner for Minnesota governor, but Democrats are in a tough fight to secure both chambers of the legislature. Neither party has room for error in contests that will decide whether Democrats hold the state governing trifecta or if the GOP blocks Klobuchar's agenda.

WaPo unpacks DOJ's flimsy charges of illegal voting. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

How Jeanine Pirro Offered Up Evidence to Indict Kash Patel emptywheel.net/2026/10/28/h...

Israel potentially being unable to move past Netanyahu because the supposed moderates can't stomach making a coalition with Arabs really says a lot about how deep the racism is there.

Suffolk University's Ohio poll for USA Today: Senate: Sherrod Brown (D): 47, Jon Husted (R-inc): 44, all others 2% or less. Governor: Amy Acton (D): 48, Vivek Ramaswamy (R): 44, Don Kissick (L): 4. www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

The votes initially haven’t been there for a lot of things (ending slavery, women’s right to vote, interracial marriage, bodily autonomy, same sex marriage, etc.) but we did the fucking thing anyways because IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear. “After defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is now overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.” #Solar

This guy gets it

Hey, #BNSF, you know what makes looting trains possible in the first place? Not putting enough tracks on your mainlines for your trains to get out of the way of each other. But you knew this which is why so much of your network is singletracked […]

And…the #manosphere takes yet another hit as the Alexander brothers are each sentenced to 30 years for drugging and raping dozens of women - So-called alpha-male perverts get 3 decades behind bars. FAFO suckers […]

This bobby jindal?

I thought the US was blocking immigrants from South America with ties to violent gangs

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Alaska governor. Kreiss-Tomkins would be the state's first Democratic leader in 24 years.

ICYMI

The genocidal state cannot stop itself from continuing to commit a genocide, and all the ‘ceasefire’ has meant is reduced media coverage. Israel has never stopped murdering civilians and destroying homes.

"...some of the state’s most rural counties have rejection rates ranging from 16% to 30%..." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kirill Dmitriev once threatened to sue me bc I said he, rather than RDIF, was sanctioned, in part bc my humble little blog noted that the ENTIRE POINT, since Dmitriev has been cultivating Trump in 2017, was to force him to raise sanctions to pay him off. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

“The US is letting a convicted Bolsonaro spy chief [Alexandre Ramagen] stay in Florida. Brazil wants answers. Former intelligence director Alexandre Ramagem fled after his conviction for trying to overturn Brazil’s 2022 election.” 10/22/26… 1/ share.google/goujYJzMdBtL...

And now he's leaving. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...

Trump's pals have been busy: "3 officials, incl one from Saudi Arabia & another in the top ranks of the Houthis, as well as a private intelligence analyst, told AP that the Houthis and other Iranian allies have benefited from Russian intelligence, as well as Chinese capabilities"

"Republican Congressman David Rouzer of Wilmington hasn't spent money on TV ads since 2018. That changed a few weeks ago when his campaign began airing commercials touting his record." From @wunc.org

“ A 15-year-old boy has become the first child in #Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease after receiving gene therapy at Manning Family Children’s in New Orleans. Phillip Mullin, who has been hospitalized more than 100 times because of the disease, rang a bell Friday to […]

Absolutely wild story out of Michigan involving the MAGA loyalist who wants to take over the state's university system. www.metrotimes.com/news/booze-b...

"The Trump administration is exploring a new concession to Russia: lifting sanctions on the country’s flagship government investment fund, long viewed by U.S. officials as one of the Kremlin’s most powerful tools of international influence."

A nice profile of the technocratic Dem who found himself running against rabid racist Bo French.

Musk, who along with Marco Rubio, has killed 100s or 1000s, mostly children, by cutting USAID, and was hired by Trump to steal your data, and who is donating a half a billion $$ to MAGA-GOP candidates, is less mature than a 5 year old.

Justin Pearson's response: "Men of faith––let alone men who are married, in their fifties, and in public office––have no business sending unsolicited nude photos to women."

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I wish my voice carried to every voter we need: Vote EARLY, help someone else do the same.

In other news, Reflect Orbital is still completely dangerous and useless, and everyone knows it: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomy-and-society/a-satellite-company-tested-sunlight-as-a-service-without-astronomers-knowledge/

#SCOTUS does it again.

Woot! I love that Steve Castor is this witness (tho they are not treating his "sharing of information" as an interview, bc he lied about materiality). We don't know who ACTUALLY led the interview for Floris and Benavides, but Caroline Nabity did for Laura Demhrow two days before Floris.

Did you know we’re below the minimum recommended amount of oil, and just barely above the *statutory minimum* in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Lowest level since 1982, and gas is still through the roof. What happens when the war in Iran kicks back off?

Yes, I'm sure that'll stop people making fun of this guy.

Melania's another stable genius.

Autonomous drones following running people through the woods, without GPS. Developed, with military funds at a public university. This is not dual use anymore, this is single use. There is only one use here. Sometimes I worry that I'm becoming a negative […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

No one hates regular Americans more than Trump and Vance

Incidentally, little known fact: At least one of the Jan6ers (a MAGA tourist), a Brazilian, made sure to get proof of pardon so he could continue to pursue his asylum case that his prosecution would have precluded.

Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

Obligatory Simpsons thought of everything comment:

The new complaint basically confesses that their key witness is a hearsay witness to facts that the Hunter Biden investigative team, uh, misrepresented.

DOJ is now claiming they can add an obstruction charge -- the one they added to cover up their problems in the first affidavit -- without probable cause that Floris and Benavides committed obstruction.

Tennessee Republican Brent Taylor, running to flip a House seat his party radically gerrymandered, reportedly sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021. Taylor faces Democrat Justin Pearson for a seat that Trump won 60-39 under the new lines. www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downba...

Follow @annabower.bsky.social for coverage of the Floris/Benavides case.

To Trump, "honest elections" = only elections he or his candidates win.

was just thinking if we had gotten taco trucks on every corner halloween night would be even more amazing

Eat hearty, US! "FDA rarely inspects the foreign facilities exporting the vast majority of fresh produce to the US, a Washington Post investigation has found, creating a major blind spot when it comes to U.S. food safety."

Another typical Trump DOJ thing