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🇩🇪 For the first time, the Bundeswehr has acknowledged the threat of Russian sabotage against German troops in Germany as "significant." This is the second-highest threat level on the country's armed forces' internal scale, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine. Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

11-year-old Arina Koval was also killed by Russians yesterday in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region. Her brother Artem and her mom Lilia are in the hospital.

Watch for this dementia pattern. The cycles start long but they get shorter and shorter over time.

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...

15. "Inflation is up again,” Pete Buttigieg said. “Not because of a pandemic. Not because of a natural disaster. Because of Trump’s war, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks. It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.”

Charlie Sykes criticizes President Trump's ongoing appeasement of Vladimir Putin, labeling it as "treachery" in a recent essay.

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Calling a federal judge histrionic is quite the litigation strategy, let’s see how that works out for them!

The military wants you to commit to it but it won't commit to you. That's how the idea of voluntary service dies and nations turn to forced conscription when they need cannon fodder.

THE LAST TESTIMONY, sequel to The Sixth Faction, out in February! Art is by @creepcaptain.bsky.social and it’s…excellent

Trump and Elon are killing Ukrainians for Putin now: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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

> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...

My friend Sam Karas was detained for almost three hours while reporting on the border wall construction in the Big Bend region. She was detained by a "bearded man" who claimed he worked for one of the wall contractors. bigbendsentinel.com/2026/09/20/b...

"[Donald Trump] is the most lawless president in American history. I don't think anyone even comes close. And the attempt to require the U.S. Postal Service to interfere with elections—that he knows he will lose—is itself an impeachable offense."

#DorisMiller was born the son of black sharecroppers in Waco, Texas. The renaming of the battleship after Trump is an insult to all Texans. Miller is a source of #Texas pride.

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Camp David has been used to host world leaders since 1943. Nothing new needs to be built.

One of the largest Wildberries logistics centers, covering more than 200,000 square meters, is on fire in Koledino, Russia's Moscow region. Logistics warehouses are also burning in Domodedovo following a drone attack.

The R's have been doing this for decades, at least back to Reagan. A slow, steady drip of "America First"; a propaganda of fear mongering laced with religion and so-called patriotism.

FITCH SAYS ON THE UNITED STATES THAT FISCAL PRESSURES WILL INCREASE AS MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY EXPENDITURES EXPAND BY NEARLY 1 PERCENTAGE POINT OF GDP BY 2032, ADDING THAT GRIDLOCK AND GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS MAY BECOME MORE LIKELY AND POSSIBLY MORE PROTRACTED AS WELL

These are the actions of an authoritarian state. Instead of investigating the agent who killed Alex Pretti, Trump's DHS conducted sweeping surveillance of Minnesota organizations that were peacefully standing up to this Administration's lawlessness. Despicable.

ICE plans to equip agents with gloves that can deliver electric shocks. What could possibly go wrong?!

You struggle to buy groceries and fill your tank. Healthcare is increasingly unaffordable and parents wonder how to pay for childcare or even ensure basic nutrition. But this sick, corrupt sociopath is blowing close to a billion dollars for White House vanity projects. 82 days until the midterms.

Senate Democrats are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after reports of deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea that has been deployed since November.

Well, it's not like Ohio voters will be mad about this -- I'm sure they love Big Pharma billionaires and hate people who suffer from Alzheimer's.

NEW: DHS spent months gathering information on dozens of Minnesotans as it sought to crack down on the state's anti-ICE protests, according to legal filings. Through the campaign, DHS collected information on constitutionally protected activities in churches, parks, schools and private group chats.

By hook or by crook, Trump is hellbent on getting his name on the Kennedy Center & his hand-picked board is all too happy to try & make it happen. Can you imagine if Trump spent time & energy on things Americans actually care about, like lowering costs & ending his war in Iran?

I’ve covered all kinds of Jan. 6 rioters who were re-arrested after receiving Trump pardons, but none of them faced accusations quite like the hair-touching guy — who was found guilty in DC yesterday. “It’s just a creepy thing to do,” the judge said. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is stationed in the Middle East, are so poor that sailors have tried to jump overboard. Trump also gutted the VA, firing thousands of workers who are veterans themselves. Remember this when Trump and Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism.

Agreed.

Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>

Good framing.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Dana Bash showed in this interview exactly how to handle a gaslighting sociopath. This is precisely how journalists should deal with all of them, including Trump.

Head Start has helped over 30 million kids since 1965. It was built to give poor children a fair shot before kindergarten. Now the Trump administration wants to gut the standards that make it work, while calling it “cutting red tape.”

Def. Sec. Pete Hegseth promised it "would be the most transparent administration ever.” As the US-led war against Iran enters its sixth month, the offering to the public is less information about the conflict and its direction, even as the costs continue to mount. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Not surprised in the least.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose for the fourth consecutive week to its highest level in a year, another setback for prospective homebuyers hoping for a break from elevated home loan borrowing costs.

There are three big problems for Blanche with crooked Trump deal he incubated: (1) the slush fund for cop-beaters and MAGA-loons, (2) the Trump family tax fraud amnesty scam, and (3) they pulled it off through collusion and possible “fraud on the court.”

61 years ago, Medicaid and Medicare were created. Now, these programs help 130 million Americans receive the lifesaving health care they need. Senate Democrats are committed to reversing Republicans’ $1 trillion health care cuts to ensure every American has access to affordable health care.

if you don't test, you keep the numbers down