I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape."
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At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says.
The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze
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
Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.
This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up.
Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking.
The media response is "yawn."
Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.
El-Sayed: This is like the 3rd campaign stop where Donald Trump can't help but mention somebody's ass. When I get to DC, I'm just gonna make sure that I never let him see mine…
The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."
Over half of all mail ballots spoiled in North Carolina’s largest county are due to new strict rules passed by the GOP-controlled state board of elections.
The county is also a Democratic stronghold that could sway election results in the battleground state.
JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks.
A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...
NEW: Mail ballots in North Carolina's largest county are being rejected at rates higher than the rest of the state — over 50% are due to a new GOP rule on envelope sealing.
"We've had voters who we've had to mail them four or five different ballots," one official said. https://demdock.com/4dU9RTT
🚨 NEW: The mother featured in Vivek Ramaswamy’s $4 MILLION attack ad against Amy Acton was found “not credible” by a court in an animal neglect case involving newborn kittens left in a 120°F car. Two kittens died.
The disturbing details Ramaswamy’s ad leaves out:
📍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄, 𝐍𝐂:
ICE agents pointed a gun at U.S. citizen Atilio Portillo, smashed his truck windows and handcuffed him and his U.S.-citizen nephew for nearly 30 minutes. Both were released, but his brother was detained. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.
The Pentagon denied us access to take photos, but we obtained some anyway.
A story in global affairs:
wapo.st/3WF2YQo
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.
Ohio’s Evil A-hole
It’s Wednesday. There are 13 days until Election Day. Trump’s envoys grovel before a war criminal, it was Elon all along and Vivek Ramaswamy is a special kind of scumbag.
I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee).
But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.
“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.
even by normal oppo standards this story is bonkers — basically vivek and co (and acton’s shitty mother) are accusing acton of fabricating horrific stories of child sexual abuse that are clearly documented in court records
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...
I'm not kidding, the guy simply has to be at the very least deported at the end of this. If we're doing "he's not from here" shit, he is the most not from here guy alive. He needs jail or deportation the second it's viable to do it.
NEW AD: “Ken Paxton says I don't have his experience — and he's right.
I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party.
And I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.”
BREAKING:
A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon.
His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal.
He got his pardon not long after.
Full Story: nyti.ms/47vemAQ
NEW AD: “Ken Paxton says I don't have his experience — and he's right.
I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party.
And I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.”
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad.
"This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
A baby girl was killed in her stroller today by a Russian drone strike in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv Region. Her name was Anhelina. Her mother died as well.
An absolutely barbaric strike on a park full of families with children.
6 people have been confirmed killed so far, including other children.
Ossoff: "Maybe you saw Trump so desperate that he's begging Putin for diesel. But listen to this -- at the very same time, the White House is brokering the sale of billions in Russian energy assets to people who fund the Trump family and the Trump campaign. Y'all remember Jared Kushner?"
Outstanding.
More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation.
Light. Him. Up.
Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."
BREAKING
The BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith for a deposition to defend itself against Trump's defamation lawsuit.
Smith didn't object to the subpoena.
Team Trump opposes. buff.ly/cf6GaG2
Hear us out: The richest person in the world should not be allowed to dump hundreds of millions to affect the midterm elections.
This is not a radical idea. We need campaign finance reform.
Ten years ago today.
In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...
Video shows him pinned face down and handcuffed, crying because his arm was broken and begging for paramedics. Local police eventually got him to medical care. A bike ride in your own neighborhood should never end like this.
Correct. It closes if a beloved loop for bikers and runners as well as several spots known for hosting large family gatherings. And it manages to leave the space with fewer golf holes than it had before. It’s a travesty.
This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists.
/photos not my own.
This is Mad King stuff. Trump and his party are facing a potential drubbing in the midterms, the war in Iran ain't over, prices are increasing, the deficit is ballooning—and he's fixated on a (stupid) plan for redoing a public golf course.
Trump doesn’t care about the general public. His only concern is walling off public lands into private enclaves and business opportunities for himself and wealthy cronies.
No Kings response to Meta:
“In the 24 hours before our account was shut down, we posted only a handful of times and livestreamed to thousands. Meta's "high-frequency" excuse doesn't add up…We need answers about why this happened & immediate action to ensure it never happens again.”
Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
Russia is cooperating with Iran. So why is Trump cooperating with Russia?
Like the diesel deal, this decision is a gift to the very forces attacking our service members.
(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies.
.. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.”
@thr.comwww.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
I'd like to know:
1) Did certain legislators insist that the presidential waiver be put into the Graham Act? If so, who?
2) Is it typical for such legislation to be written in such a way that it allows presidents to do whatever they want?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Trump blocking Lindsey Graham Act sanctions is guaranteed to expand, extend and escalate fascist Russia’s war against Ukraine and the United States. That’s precisely why Putin ordered Trump to do it.
TN-9: A reminder that @justinjpearson.bsky.social opponent Brent Taylor taunted anti-ICE protestors by literally sucking on an ice cube while attending a Core Civic fundraiser to start session
Ugly stuff