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This guy gets it

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.

“People are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. Were making a frickin’ fortune.”

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Wonder if they’ll be mad about Trump saying he doesn’t give a damn about us getting gouged at the pump because he’s making trillions or that data centers are great because of the profits for the wealthy.

Feeling your blood pressure rise watching the Sunday shows where they platform abusive jerks? The antidote is the dulcet sound of Andy McCabe and I discussing the weekly news on the latest episode of UnJustified. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

Sen. Adam Schiff tells NBC that Pete Hegseth and "anyone who has knowledge of what happened" should testify before the Senate on Ukraine's Starlink disruptions. "Somebody is lying here. Maybe they're all lying in different ways, but we need to find out."

The Acton campaign immediately went to work to monetize Vivek’s blunder through texting and email solicitations. Great to see that it paid off.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Remember that DOJ wasn't sure they had the voting file at one point.

Tonight Students Saved Democracy in Serbia. 🇷🇸 They won the election. The Student List movement unites youth, academics, and civic voices across Serbia. Grounded in anti-corruption reforms, democratic integrity, transparent governance, this movement brings hope to many. Vučić conceded defeat!

Super surprised that CBS didn’t expose Tina Peters. Did you know there’s a FREE news podcast that answers to no one? @dailybeanspod.com

I’m in California. I have a car.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

In case facts still matter

Jon Husted voted against the release of the Epstein files just weeks after receiving a maximum campaign contribution from an Epstein co-conspirator. Ohioans deserve strong leaders in Washington, not pedophile protectors.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Today, 62 former U.S. ambassadors and national security leaders endorsed my campaign for U.S. Senate. Their service spans five decades under Democratic and Republican presidents. Many were confirmed by Senator Collins herself.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

What a disgusting pig.

I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

House Majority PAC, which supports Democratic candidates, argues that the House battlefield is expanding in the final week of the midterms The group says the GOP-authored gerrymandering appears to be backfiring and opening up new opportunities to flip GOP seats

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.

Bill Maher said “fuck you” and called us bitches for being upset he dined with Trump. Then Trump tore into Maher on Truth Social calling him a lying, losery coward. That’s funny to me.

Alright folks, here we go! Ask me anything, 20ish mins, gogo

“Nobody invokes the Insurrection Act over people walking down the street with signs. It doesn't happen.” 🙄 Trump and his allies are *openly* floating using the Insurrection Act to seize voting machines or ballots in order to upend an election they expect to lose.

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

And what are Witkoff and Kushner doing? That's right, almost nothing. Except for passing along greetings from Putin’s aide to the First Lady.

The great Oleksandra Matviichuk is absolutely right to draw attention to the horrible humanitarian crisis in Oleshky. All Putin, Witkoff, and Kushner can do is invert and traduce the meaning of “humanitarianism,” in the best traditions of Russian propaganda.

BOMBSHELL! A $25 BILLION Alaska gas deal tied to Putin, Russian money and a friend of Don Jr.? Dean Blundell raises explosive questions about Trump’s so-called peace talks and who stands to profit. #USDemocracy deanblundell.substack.com/p/bombshell-...

Elon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason. He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.

"Put together, these actions suggest a far more sophisticated legal strategy to overturn elections than we saw in 2020." ICYMI, @amandacarpenter.bsky.social on how to stop it:

So true… 👇

Independent journalist @marisakabas.bsky.social shares what she learned about “Tommy” — the heckler featured in Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s viral video — and his ties to the GOP, Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, and prominent Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht.

Trump is literally killing Americans—you!—to increase profits for his corporate cronies. Putting greed—not America—first and making Americans gasp (for clean air) again. Good work, NYT.

$4,700 more. That’s how much extra Trump’s tariffs and Trump’s war have cost the average American family. Republicans promised lower prices on day ONE. It's been 600+ days.

He’s spent $158 million pushing Ken Paxton on Texas,; and we’re all still waiting for one single post about Paxton’s positive virtues.

NEW: Democrats moved to intervene in Trump’s DOJ lawsuit to block Alaska’s Senate results if Democrat Mary Peltola beats incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. They called it an “unprecedented pre-emptive strike on democratic elections.” https://demdock.com/4i2dIAN

What's causing the DOJ freakout? Maybe it's the early vote Texas early voting is up 74% from 2022 & Kansas has more than doubled And DDF has a dozen+ national law firms ready w/ complaints drafted How ready we are, in this week's publisher's note 👇 -TN

Ric Grenell allegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year: access to "POTUS," "VIP events" and administration officials, according to a text message, reviewed by Axios, that the White House counsel is investigating. I have no faith in this WH counsel.

"Automated customer service systems tasked with handling our data and money are driving us crazy. Whether you’re trying to return a purchase, cancel a subscription or recover a hacked account, getting actual help requires a Homeric quest past a morass of junk."

Russia was focused “in a bipartisan way” on trying to harm American politicians who had been supportive of Ukraine. The video targeting Talarico appeared as Steve Witkoff visited Moscow as pressing for an end to the war in Ukraine and, more broadly, tensions between the US and Russia.

Putin brought up the deal when he met with Witkoff and Kushner at the Kremlin on Sept. 5. Putin proposed it get done as a way of showing Russians that they can do business with the United States. The Americans responded that they'd work on it, seeing it as a way to build good will with the Kremlin.

Ronan Farrow reported in a 2023 New Yorker piece that the Pentagon signed a contract to keep Musk from cutting off Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity at will. Colin Kahl described it as a way to lock in service so Musk couldn’t just flip the switch, considering Musk's known antipathy towards Ukraine

The allegations in the Jared story have a known true core, which was exposed in the (failed) Tom Barrack prosecution none of you know about. The prosecution was a referral from Mueller, but Barr tried to sabotage it, as he did all other referrals in summer 2019. emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/j...

They’ve already started. They filed a suit today to effectively throw out Alaska’s election results if Dan Sullivan (the incumbent) doesn’t win