Matt Ford

"Guys like Obama don't see it. They don't see dirt, they don't see filth. He doesn't see broken ornaments...The White House, President Obama is a symbol of America. It has to be clean." Feels like the focus on hygiene and cleanliness might be standing in for something here!

President Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch. If completed, it will cast shadows on many graves and monuments in nearby Arlington National Cemetery, the @washingtonpost.com's 3-D analysis found. On some days, Trump's arch would even shade the grave and eternal flame of JFK.

Quite a coda to this NYT article on the Ramaswamy ad with Acton’s mother. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

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.

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Breaking: Ninth Circuit on 2-1 Vote Rejects DOJ’s Attempt to Get an Injunction Pending Appeal for California to Segregate Ballots electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...

Ad astra.

Watching Brazil from USA and it must be amazing to live in an actual electoral democracy — where the candidate who gets the most votes wins.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Prediction markets really not beating the "we just reflect information you could easily gather yourself" allegations there

This really is America’s Game of the Week

“‘For the first time in my adult life, I’m seeing a change of government. After so many years under the same leadership, I’m happy that I’ll finally get to live in a free, normal country,’ said Milos Milutinovic, 24, an engineering student.”

Hopefully the judge asks them to clarify what “investigation” or “further procedures” could discern the voters’ will better than casting a ballot.

this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

Most people don’t know this, but the winner of Steelers/Saints gets to form the next French government.

It gets through Aranda!

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

The Executive Branch has no authority to regulate states’ election decisions as to candidate qualifications, and the choice to file a lawsuit like this just days before an election speaks volumes about the political corruption festering at the top levels of the DOJ.

As part of the series, I'm looking at the way corporations squeeze customers, borrowers, and employees. The first entry is to look at right-to-repair, a signature issue for Dem. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez. It's a popular reform, but will it get far? newrepublic.com/article/2169...

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

“Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services.”

If it brings her joy, why did he have to tell her to do it?

One feature of the cases Trump is bringing against Democrats is that they are not based on traditional political corruption, which the Supreme Court has made much harder to prosecute.

Amazing story, also I'm sorry what

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Elon absolutely sucks but this is just a preview of the kind of control AI companies are playing for with their push into government, education, and every other industry

This is quite possibly the most vile, despicable political attack ad I have ever seen. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

“Eviction fees helped the justice of the peace in one part-time suburban court earn more compensation last year – over $400,000 – than the chief justice of the US supreme court earns.”

No disrespect to Deebo and some disrespect to Aiyuk, but adding a true WR1 to this team unlocked so many things for us.

The 5th Circuit confirms that Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas has been temporarily suspended from hearing cases after a judicial investigation determined she likely suffers from a mental condition interfering with her ability to perform her job. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

‼️‼️ Outgoing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller endorses Democrat Clayton Tucker over Nate Sheets, who he accuses of being a "snake" with a porn addiction. Miller was once a close Trump ally + among Texas's most rightwing GOPers but has been critical of Abbott, data centers and the hemp ban.

Trump has gotten away with other renaming efforts because a lot of things use USGS names by default. That obviously won’t work here.

Well, this is a new one

I have some follow-up questions for the Eagles medical staff.