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No to Fascist billionaire rule! This is interminably unacceptable.

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Congressmen urge Trump, Musk to give Ukraine ability to destroy missile launchers in Russia – media #Ukraine

The calculation is simple: there are a lot more of us than the billionaires and the dumb gullible people they manipulate.

On the same day, huge crowds are welcoming Machado back to Venezuela. Her return was blocked for months by the US-backed regime. Pressure from below finally made it impossible for Trump and Rodriguez to keep her out

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

TURN OFF THEIR AMPLIFICATION, and wean away from Megalomusk and Zuck's media

Fascist containment! Lula is declared winner of Brazil's election as Bolsonaro rejects results

A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart.

From Thomas Wright, a perfect demonstration of Beltway analytical smarts that really don't furnish a coherent explanation of the Trump-Putin relationship. Trump does not pursue an enlightened self-interest foreign policy. And neither does Putin. So this mode of analysis doesn't advance things.

OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

Is Zach Lahn, the GOP gubernatorial candidate for Iowa (who actually lives in Kansas) actually a self-made man? As this NYT exposé suggests, he's actually more of a Koch Brothers-made-man.

The second storm to hit the U.K. this weekend has caused widespread travel disruption and power outages in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern England.

The evidence is very clear: Abdul El-Sayed has no relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. On the other hand, Mike Rogers does have a relationship, and he voted to fund the Brotherhood's move to disassemble the Egyptian secret police (which was in fact a reasonable position).

Forty miles separate the Israeli beach of Jaffa from the beach in Gaza City, but they are worlds apart. NPR's Frank Langfitt and Anas Baba report a tale of two beaches. n.pr/3W7n2e6

Anyone else never gonna be able to unsee this? Or just us?

Trump issued a scathing rebuke of Obama, calling him a “grossly incompetent President” who gave Iran a “road to a Nuclear Weapon.”

I've been saying this all along.

The GOP's latest plot to take away women's reproductive rights? Transphobia.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

If he offered anything in return for the money, even just conversations with his father-in-law, then he would have violated U.S. bribery laws and the foreign agent statute. trib.al/aYl2OWe

The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

A very weird tale of intrigue involving businessmen who are wannabe spies. I've encountered a lot of folks like this in the past. But I puzzle over why FT thinks this merits a write up. www.ft.com/content/dcb5...

Larry Kudlow was a longtime notorious coke head. And sometimes it shows. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump has reportedly been complaining to close aides about his son's poor judgment after learning that a substantial portion of his nuptials were funded by a Russian oligarch.

😱 🎃 Halloween Terror 🎃😱

44 minutes of violence followed by 16 minutes of ads every hour. TV is unwatchable - a series of 15 second bursts of meaningless images . Haven't been a good movie made since before the days of blacklisting.

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Science is important. 🥰

The people who would vote for the odious, morally rotten Vivek Ramaswamy are the same people who would vote for the morally rotten Donald Trump. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Whatever became of the statue of limitations ? apple.news/ACx22Olb3T5O...

Let's start responding to the descendants of colonizers the way they address anyone not white male. My theory is they won't like it very much. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How did this insanity start? I'm serious. Were citizens simply placated enough that they didn't bother rocking the boat? Were they intimidated? Is it because he dirty rich now have so much power, own so many resources, that it's starting to affect the 99%? When did this creep in?

Trump is as bad at running Venezuela as he is at running the US. Neither the US or Venezuela is seeing any benefits. apple.news/AyiX9C65zQFe...

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

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There it is. Elon Musk admits it. “That loophole was closed last week.” In a deranged post on X, Musk openly acknowledges that SpaceX recently restricted Ukraine’s ability to use Starlink.

🔥 OBAMA: “Trump should be on HGTV. He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory…. He’s clearly not focused on lowering prices for you.”

Obama argues that we won’t fix our political problems unless we rediscover our moral compass first

Obama points out that while we may be struck with Trump for two more years, we are not stuck with a spineless Congress

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown introduced former President Barack Obama to the stage to roaring crowds Saturday at Cleveland Public Auditorium, marking Obama's first visit to Ohio since 2018.

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama