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Based on WSJ sources, Trump administration officials are reportedly floating former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán for UN secretary-general, potentially backed by the US, Russia and China.

What a surprise.

Newport Bayfront is a good place to avoid today.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

I know that everyone is focused on Trump's attacks in California and Alaska. My team is fighting in court in both places. But understand the fight for free and fair elections is much broader. Elias Law Group is currently litigating 92 voting and election cases in 42 states plus DC.

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

A Russian energy giant secretly financed a US gas project in Alaska, while that same project was being discussed by Putin with Witkoff and Kushner as part of talks supposedly aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. The US company’s CEO resigned after discovering the Russian money.

Make a Plan to VOTE (and early if you can)! Drop off your ballot at any convenient Official Ballot Drop Site before 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3: multco.us/dropsites

I am the America First candidate. But you don't have to take it from me... See our new ad, airing on TV exclusively on Fox News and Newsmax.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

The oath of office is more than words. After decades of service across the federal government, one thing remains unchanged: the pride and meaning of taking that oath to serve the American people. Listen to our Executive Director, Steven Cash, talk about taking the oath of office.

We’re standing for the Constitution once again – and pushing back against the Trump administration’s attempts to cast doubt on the midterm elections. Oregonians can be confident that our elections will be safe, secure, and accurate this fall.

NEW: Shortly after the DOJ filed a dangerous lawsuit preemptively challenging the results of Alaska's U.S. Senate race if the Republican loses, Trump had something to say. "I'm the one that said 'do it,'" he told journalists. https://demdock.com/47DOkLC

President Trump said Friday that he is no longer looking into the outside consulting work conducted by a pair of his top political advisers after they donated to his presidential library.

🚨BREAKING: Democrats have asked a federal judge to move quickly in their lawsuit seeking to stop the White House from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and demanding that states remove voters from registration rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

Mike Rogers, Michigan’s GOP Senate candidate, says he wants off-duty police officers at Detroit’s polling places. Marc Elias breaks down just how cynical Rogers’ suggestion is — and how we can learn from history’s mistakes. Most people will see the headline. Follow us to know what it means.

The horrible despicable soulless slimy Republican Party of sewer dwellers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers Excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, by Matthew Cole www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Senior prosecutors whose careers span almost two decades — and are registered Democrats — told me most of them have planned a mass exodus from the office should Tarkenton take it over. “I will not stay to work for someone who has not done this job in any meaningful way,” Katie McNulty said.

Blatantly illegal. Rubio needs to be hauled in front of Congress when we finally get a Congress. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

The State Department has asked some foreign service officials up for promotion who they voted for in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, raising concerns the agency is violating a federal law that bars politicized personnel decisions within the nonpartisan ranks.

Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton spoke to CNN’s Lauren Fox as backlash grows against her opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, whose campaign put out a controversial ad featuring her estranged mother. Read more: https://cnn.it/4zNbefC

The cobbles at Yaquina Head are in fine form today.

CARTOON OF THE DAY H/T @sketchyrepublic.bsky.social

PATHETIC. The American man was imprisoned and tortured as a result of the Russian illegal occupation of Kharkiv area - Izym. They make him shake hands and thank the Russians. PR election stunt to follow.

truer words were never spoken Don

The corruption is just staggering. Dozens of dozens of pardons being given out to wealthy criminals paying millions for them. The US government is for sale to the highest bidders & DOJ operates as Trump’s consigliere. Have you had enough of this yet America? I know the world has.

Thanks for always having my back ❤️ see you on the campaign trail.

It's time to defund Elon. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Should read “known oligarchic back-channel to Putin works to make US president look even weaker on Russia than he already is, yielding triple win for Putin” www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Happy Pile On Day.

The government of Israel openly supports and is aligned with the US Republican Party and vice-versa. And the two parties continue to tamper in each other's elections.

Mark Zuckerberg should understand that Republicans won’t always be in charge. If Democrats take the Senate, he will be forced to answer to Congress about his company’s abuse of tax credits to avoid paying its fair share while it builds AI data centers.

Per WSJ, Putin has proposed a meeting with Trump and Xi next month (supposedly when DJT visits China) “to decide Ukraine's fate”.

We are all seeing this, right?

Just going to drop the full video here. You're in good hands, Michiganders. Good night.

Portland, Oregon NoKings4 protest, 17Oct2026

This guy.👇 Any Democrats that are wandering around, biting their nails trying to figure out what to do. Follow the leader.

About 60-70 demonstrators have gathered Saturday morning on all sides of an intersection near a Happy Valley Grocery Outlet for this month’s No Kings protest with a focus on voting.

Ontario is solid red. Nice to see.

Every conversation I’ve had with my MAGA relatives for the last ten years distilled into three sentences.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis SLAMS Trump for suspending Russia sanctions