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I’m from the empire of the District of Columbia.

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Kyiv has once again come under ballistic missile attack in the past few minutes.

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.

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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.

Just speaking for myself but I was completely fine not knowing what Matt Yglesias thought about basically anything

You would not believe what that exorcist charged. Anyhow, should be fixed!

You're an amazing writer for a dachshund.

I am so bone-tired of white people - which is awkward because I *am* white people. Also, we will see this lad in the World Cup in 20 years.

She’s prouder of Dazzle than of her daughter

Hasn't she worked her whole life in offices? This is the kind of shit you learn to say in your sleep in meetings

Trump claims bump after pumping slumping schlump's plum rump

“When they go low, step on them.” Money quote from my latest @atrupar.com Public Notice commentary. Please, read, rave-or-rant, share, and support PN! open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

"Nobody trying to stop billionaires from being taxed has proposed anything to save MLKCH or any other lifeline hospital serving millions of poor people." I think the discourse around Prop 40 has lost the point that if we don't pass it our community hospitals are totally and utterly fucked.

Is there a better illustration of Minnesota exceptionalism than that map claiming that Minnesotans' other favorite state is Canada

Trump looks so happy here. Also, he got an A+ on his latest tricky dementia screening: Bragged to the crowd how he ID’ed a snake from a line-up of other animals. #NuclearCodes

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

This is how it works repeatedly with Trump — something pretty much everyone agrees is fucked up then Trump jumps in to side with the fucked up thing, and the result is not a story that's like "Trump sides with fucked up thing" but to change the fucked up thing to instead become "controversial"

WEIRD Walz was absolutely right.

I needed to know what day the semester ends at my own university; it only took me a web search and 8 separate clicks to find

fondly remembering the MAGA freakout over lizzo, a classically trained flautist, playing the james madison flute in the library of congress

Ruin a song by adding “In My Pants” to the title. “Doin’ the Hokey-Pokey in My Pants”

Somebody paid money to find out that Hunter Biden is slightly less unpopular than Don Jr which is, on the one hand, an utter waste of money, but on the other hand, hilarious.

Nothing gets Vance more excited than antisemitic conspiracism.

UPDATE: This flight may also stop in Equatorial Guinea. We will be monitoring for all potential stops.

Also the “war secretary” has gotten Botox injections for vanity reasons including at the Special Missions Auxiliary Clinic which is… a very funny detail to people in the military /pentagon etc who are aware of the clinic

It was quickly becoming apparent that Nelson might have slightly overstated his qualifications on the job application.

Science is inherently political and when our government is actively hostile to science as a whole, publications should be able to write about it without being censored. Alas. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Looks disturbingly as if National Guard may have been shot by … National Guard. [Not the main point here, and the guy is no Boy Scout, but why was this shoot-out repeatedly headlined as, “National Guard shot,” when it was a civilian who received the more serious injury?]

no amnesty

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

"Beyond Cosmopolitanism challenges these assumptions, finding more support for immigration in Europe than many people realize. In fact, there are more Europeans who support immigration than Europeans who oppose immigration."

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James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

LET FOOD INTO GAZA Palestinians are struggling to find any food in the markets. Israel is shutting off supply again. Great powers are reducing WFP funding. A horrible famine is already underway. Do not let Israel do this. Speak out. END THE SIEGE LET FOOD INTO GAZA NOW

This entire thread, hoo-whee. 🥺 “Race realism,” like “heritage American” (and “JQ” or Jewish Question) belongs in museums, not lecture halls. Shame on Oriel College at Oxford for accommodating this (organized by Reform UK, ofc). Shame.

The Arlington, Virginia County Board has sued the Trump administration to prohibit it from authorizing armed federal agents to be present at polling places.