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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

New airport book incoming

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ by Matthew Cole examines how bank accounts linked Kushner to Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia: vanityfair.visitlink.me/qHPzPB

Again: Vivek Ramaswamy is in politics only because he was JD Vance's friend at Yale. He & JD met Peter Thiel together; Peter then kept JD as a protege and financially supported him. Vivek worked a real job and got real investors for his scam biotech firm, but wouldn't be here without his pals.

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Paul LePage plans to sunbathe in Florida while Mainers struggle to heat their homes this winter.

Because it's just an empty frame with an air compressor inside to keep it suctioned. No car with a full load out of car stuff in it would be able to do this.

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

Y’all have been in charge for decades @marshablackburn literally wtf are you talking about

Thom Tillis criticized Trump regime's criminal case vs Comey. Now he is signing off on two lawyers as fed judges "despite their involvement in the high-profile prosecution" of Comey. Yet elite media/political world in DC take Tillis seriously www.politico.com/newsletters/...

BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."

Well said, Dan! 👏🏼

She done lost her damn mind.

UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.

The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

(1/X) Check out a typical Harper's letter signatory's Twitter feed and you'll mostly *still* find 80% complaints about the "woke left", even in the midst of the greatest government crack-down on free speech in at least 60 tears. Why? Because the "free speech" movement is donor/patron-driven.

Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

UPDATE: I just listened to the press conference with Oz & Vance...and sure enough, just as I suspected, they're apparently relying heavily on AN AI MODEL to "decide" which ACA enrollees meet the financial eligibility standards and which ones don't.

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

After reading (as you should!) the @propublica.org barnburner on Susan Collins, consider this from RDP in 2021: Biden Needs to Fire the FBI Director prospect.org/2021/04/28/b...

"Several Trump Org executives who had previously traveled to the island to explore real estate deals and who even registered the Trump trademark there in 2008 have in recent months returned to Cuba under the aegis of Dominari Holdings for meetings" Lee Schlenker, Ed Augustin for @theguardian.com

Fascinating

Bo and Sunny Obama romp around the White House grounds in 2013

Host: A Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin secretly bankrolled much of Don Jr's wedding, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses.

Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family.

The gutting of local journalism continues. I started as an intern at the Lexington Herald-Leader, which laid off a majority of its reporters today. The McClatchy company was bought by a hedge fund that promised to be a good steward of journalism. And here we are... www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...

Brian Williams had some choice words for a pair of recent New York Times headlines at the Status Summit. More from the event coming soon on Youtube.

If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.

If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.

It's like cuntnado. So many absolutely terrible people destroying themselves. James fucking Johnson. You absolutely fucking love to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...

"We just don't have British resident donors, British entities, that would support us. That's the grim reality" "There are a lot of people in your position who, for completely understandable reasons, can't declare ... the reality is we can easily get away with it ... [Le Carre]" - James Orr 10m40s

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

🧊✈️ YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬 ⚠️ A GlobalX jet (tail: N319NV) bound for San Diego makes circles in the sky after takeoff before aborting its mission & returning to the ICE hub in Harlingen 👀

Every. day. Everyday one of these ICE charter planes has to abort takeoff, or do an emergency return, or has a decompression, or gets stuck somewhere for 20+ hours with shackled immigrant passengers trapped onboard. And we never find out why. There is no transparency.

NEW/SCOOP: After a yearlong #FOIA battle, I finally obtained Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer form from BOP. But the agency redacted its rationale for moving the convicted sex offender to a minimum-security prison Read it in this special edition of FOIA Files 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Yet another layer of the Epstein coverup has been revealed. This one involves Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison transfer, days after her private meeting with Todd Blanche. youtube.com/shorts/QqKua...

Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it

Bari Weiss has time and time again proven that she is the bad faith shill that many accused her of being when she took over @cbsnews.com See BS News has fallen and should be disregarded as serious news. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

ICYMI, I dug up the full story of the death of Darline Graham's parents back when she was 11 years old, which she cited as an argument against "government-run health care." But what happened to her parents actually makes a strong case FOR government health care: newrepublic.com/article/2148...

New, at Can We Still Govern?: I talked to Annie Lowrey about her new book, "The Time Tax" on the administrative burdens that people encounter when they interact with the safety net. On HR1: "People are going to die. Health clinics are going to shut down." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/annie-lowr...

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house