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Keul says her passport had been taken when she arrived, leaving her unable to leave the pageant. After she returned to Switzerland, she says Trump called and made the same offers again. She turned him down.

Later that day, Keul stated, Trump invited her to a hotel suite and raped her. She says she was left bleeding and bruised, and that Trump repeated his promises to help her and told her “the show must go on.”

A former Miss Switzerland contestant has accused Donald Trump of raping her at the Plaza Hotel in 1993. Now House Judiciary Committee Democrats are calling for an independent special counsel to investigate allegations involving Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

This is a rare moment of bipartisanship. And a reliable indication that Darline Graham is a horrible, inexperienced nepo-candidate.

I still feel like all the street parties when Biden was declared the winner were just memory wiped. But we could have that again.

Reading: Trump’s cuts have exposed US to ‘cascade’ of El Niño dangers, experts warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country." ~Fmr. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918. Roosevelt was born OTD in 1858. Image: NPS/Sagamore Hill collection.

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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

A win for voters! A federal appeals court has denied the Trump administration’s request to stop California from counting mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters it claims are “likely not U.S. citizens”. The challenge was rejected because the underlying data is incorrect and flawed.

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most

New Post! Climate Justice Gets a Boost From Faith Leaders ift.tt/8HfBIuj

Thank you @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

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

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

Whether we’re aware of it or not, our brains are profoundly impacted by the environmental conditions around us. A new landmark report describes how climate change impacts our brains, who’s most at risk of harm, and what we can do about it. #ClimateAction #climatechange #mentalhealth #brainhealth

A political earthquake in Serbia as a student-backed movement wins the parliamentary election, ending more than a decade of dominance by a Moscow-backed populist leader. n.pr/4jCFLbd

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

In case facts still matter

Nothing and no one should stand between New Yorkers and their right to vote — least of all the government.
 Early voting is happening now through November 1. Election Day is November 3. See you at the polls!

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

It’s a decision to spend fewer dollars on SNAP while funding random elective wars and ICE and ads for Trump

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

A federal judge struck down a Trump administration ban on issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, but immigrants continue to be stuck in their countries. Attorneys say the federal government is slow-walking the processing of visas on purpose. n.pr/4i89mYP

Unforeseen a year ago, Democrats now have a real chance at taking the majority in the U.S. Senate. https://to.pbs.org/4hMVJye

Republicans redrew Congressional district lines to try to tilt the midterms in their favor. But now they are facing expensive and competitive races they had hoped to outmaneuver. n.pr/4jGUEtc

President Trump is planning to open up some of the nation's last pristine forests to road building and timber companies. But those who work in the woods say it won't do enough to revive the industry. n.pr/4yAumMJ

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

A new proposed $70,000 fee for international students who are seeking to work in the U.S. after graduation is the latest Trump administration policy targeting scholars from abroad. https://to.pbs.org/47r7lkt