Norm Borden

But how do you replace hundred year old trees?

Under Bari Weiss' direction, CBS News falsifies Angie Nixon's response to a simple question about Cuba. It's not the old CBS News.

Huge headlines around the world. In major US media, unreported. Something's fishy here.

More evidence emerges linking unrest in France to large-scale Russian influence operations. Both Macron and Merz discuss it. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

“The nonprofit that helped get Cornel West on presidential ballots in 2024 received all of its funding that year through a conservative political network that has been bankrolled by Elon Musk, tax records reviewed by Sludge show.” 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/s1Keh9Qx6ZDV...

Red States really dislike colleges and universities because they consistently produce people who don't vote Republican anymore. So they've moving to degrade them, converting them into institutions much more like high schools. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Trump administration has hailed a recent wave of right-wing election victories across South America. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UQ5d

🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors ordered Washington state in letters Monday to set aside ballots from over 400 people they alleged, without evidence, were noncitizens illegally registered to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Beatrice Keul, testified that she was introduced by Jeffrey Epstein to Donald J Trump, who then brutally raped her in a hotel room in Atlantic City, NJ, and her claims were deemed credible by a panel of the House Judiciary Committee today. The NYT has decided that this is not reportable news.

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.

RFKjr picks MAHA-aligned researcher to head mental health institute, overruling advice from experts. www.science.org/content/arti...

US measles cases hit 4,588, more than twice last year’s tota www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

Many Medicare Patients Could Lose Access to Remote Monitoring Devices kffhealthnews.org/medicare/rem...

This week’s cover is “Polling Place” by Barry Blitt. Explore the issue: www.newyorker.com/magazine

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado arrived in Caracas Sunday night, capping a daylong journey through five states that drew crowds of supporters and raised expectations for a return to democracy.

The object of Trump's economic policies appears to be to impoverish the American middle class while further concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a tiny plutocratic elite. Trump's tariffs have pushed up the cost of

BYD’s rapid ascent means it’s overtaken Volvo and Toyota in the ranks of foreign carmakers in Korea. That’s a growing risk to local heavyweights Hyundai and Kia.

Scientists discovered that human brain organoids, which are small neural clusters derived from stem cells, could identify the Braille alphabet with a high degree of accuracy. www.404media.co/computers-ma...

“Lula supporters are starting to gather…at the heart of São Paulo, in anticipation of a Lula victory. The mood is upbeat but tense, amid suspicions that there has been a deliberate pro-Bolsonaro campaign to sabotage public transport systems to stop Lula voters reaching polling stations...” 10/25/26

Has тrump thought of this?

Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer authorized armed volunteers to work for his office with little guidance. “If anybody came for anyone based on a law that he didn’t agree with, he would deputize a room full of people,” says a local community advocate.

Just as American cattle went to market, Trump's action added unease to an industry already facing uncertainty.

Many experts see the midterm elections as yet another “fulcrum point” for U.S. democracy. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/23/m...

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

Because Bari Weiss knows that science is a fraud if it contradicts the interests of the Ellisons and her other masters. www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

Is this the justification/rationale for tech accelerationism??? If the “Antichrist’s arrival is a necessary precursor to the 2d Coming of Christ,” then “[s]hould we even be looking to delay the end of the world? Maybe we shld just accelerate, put the pedal to the floor &… get it all over with…” 1/

deduction of up to $323mn, more than double what he paid for the entire resort. The most important source of Trump's wealth has consistently been tax fraud.

course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825mn. He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general concluded that two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a

Trump doesn't pay taxes. So why should you? Trump pulled in $1.4bn from crypto grifts in 2025, plus more than $200mn from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500mn. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the

Melania taking credit for something the Pope did? I’m shocked.

I’ve already come up with a half dozen conspiracies after seeing this.

😬 Trump sounds like hell during bizarre pre-rally gaggle 😬 Trump could barely speak, but what he said was nutso. He claimed his uncle invented radar, said he could "violate" Prizker and send troops into Chicago, and had a weirdly contradictory answer when asked who he golfed with today. Supercut:

Armed federal agents have been knocking on voters’ doors weeks before Election Day, questioning citizenship, registration and prior voting. A federal judge has now stepped in. What does this mean for voter intimidation and who can actually stop you from voting?

Most Americans have no idea that their First Lady actually used to live in Moscow and speaks fluent Russian.

Here's Melania Trump's senior advisor Marc Beckman turning up on Kremlin TV's Вести program to tout Melania's miraculous brokering of peace between Russia and Ukraine so that a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city could be resupplied. He says that Melania has "wonderful relations with the Kremlin," too.

The Epistemology of Hunter Biden's "Laptop" emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/t...

The North Slope has been made safe for Russia. The only stupider thing would be to buy back the LNG from Russia. US executives quit $25bn gas venture over claims of secret Russian control www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Obama points out that while we may be struck with Trump for two more years, we are not stuck with a spineless Congress

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Opposition figures join Tel Aviv protesters demanding an independent October 7 inquiry.

With voting underway, the Trump administration is trying to stop ballots from being counted, sending federal agents to voters’ homes, and threatening election officials with prosecution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers — forest where wolf packs used to live is now an expanse of mud www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

10/22/2026- The Cheering Section www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/oc...