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People who don't take public transportation will also suffer if public transportation goes away.

complete silence.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I mean, it's not like there's a story on the President's sexual abuse of minors to cover.

Even setting aside the two accusers whose stories are shakier, we have three strong and credible direct accusations. Then we have three more young women who have evidence of Trump participating in Epstein's trafficking ring.

This report has a lot more information than that one less-than-credible accusations against Trump. If people read (I know, it's an impossible ask), you'll see there are three more I would deem extremely well-evidenced and credible.

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."

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

There is a candidate for local office in Berkeley who refuses to disclose their campaign expenses. And they've changed treasurer three times, currently to a treasurer with no address, phone, or email. @estupido.fyi rate this campaign 1-10

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Republican campaigns and political action committees have spent nearly $3 million at President Trump’s businesses since he returned to office. And spending at Mar-a-Lago has tripled compared to Trump's first term. This is clear profiteering.

The case opens the door for other federal employees to sue to get their jobs back. This is not an ideal process since it is costly for all concerned to go to court. That is why we used to have a credible and bipartisan appeals process. But the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to gut it.

Key passage from the decision. "Indeed, to accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system." Of course, the concern is that SCOTUS will overturn this (though I don't imagine this is the ideal case for Trump).

Very good news, because the DOJ was arguing that SCOTUS rulings allowed it to pervert the civil service system. Comey was arguing that internal appeals processes were simply no longer functional because they have been so politicized. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-art-an...

Also in addition to people deliberately gaming the system for various reasons, "skin in the game" can only increase motivation which doesn't increase accuracy for people who don't have any special access to information or insight, it just encourages them to believe harder in their ungrounded wishes

Another banger from @vermontgmg.bsky.social. The only solution will be expropriating all the ill-gotten gains secured by the Trump Crime Family & all their hangers-on (the Witkoffs, the Lutnicks, the Kushners), and criminal indictments, convictions & prison. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

People have made it clear they want affordable health care, not higher premiums and less coverage. Last year, Republicans cut health care all to give tax breaks to billionaires. Now, the effects are being felt everywhere.

New photo of Vivek Ramaswamy's 8th grade teacher protesting Vivek over his latest ad: "SHAME ON YOU, VIVEK! I TAUGHT YOU BETTER!"

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.

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.

Is anybody else noticing all the updated consumer service agreements coming into their emails recently? We’re speeding into an era of arbitration over class action to protect corporations. Pretty sure this can’t be good for the 99.99% in the US

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

A birth certificate absolutely makes you an American, you racist POS.

Also— 💰️ $8,000: the room rate for Jan 6, 2021. And Trump got it. Hotel manager claimed they set room service records that week. 💰️ $415: the average room rate at downtown D.C. luxury hotels on Jan. 6

Some hotel-related numbers:— 💰️ 33: Foreign govt's with representatives spotted at the hotel 💰️ 29: Members of Trump’s cabinet spotted at the hotel (out of 38) 💰️ 36: Senators spotted at the hotel or whose campaigns spent money there (all GOP except Manchin)

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

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.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

turns out that voting is a very good way to kick right wing authoritarians out of power

the obama/cheesecake factory is giving me flashbacks to when he said he liked arugula and the pundits went fucking nuts about how this was elitist. they have always been garbage who don't deserve oxygen

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

There was always legal review and sometimes it was a pain but there wasn't the same dread of getting sued that we've got now. It's sad. The climate for free expression is definitely being chilled.

We've got to reimpose penalties for lying. With the main penalty being that you will no longer be taken seriously if you get caught in a blatant lie, let alone a pattern of lying. This "say anything" era for public figures has got to end.

Why should we believe the guy who lied about not doing this?

So all those Facebook profiles on us, even the “shadow profiles” on people with no Facebook presence, were just a practice run, or an inspiration for this? Great. theconversation.com/shadow-profi...