Alex Parks

In Iowa, the Republican gubernatorial candidate actually lives in Kansas and appears to be fully financially dependent on his wife's family (she's from the Koch Brothers family), while his lieutenant governor candidate is fully dependent on his parents, who are suing hm for $275,000 in unpaid rent.

Thread 🧵 Over 170 House Dems sent a letter to AG Blanche condemning Trump's raid on @ilhanmn.bsky.social's home. Letter available here & in tweets below, you will find who *didn't* sign including Pelosi, Hoyer, Stevens, Scholten, Golden, Moskowitz & dozens more: defendilhan.com

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

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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.

Simon & Shuster has responded to Jared Kushner's threats by accelerating the release of Matt Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early (today). Buy your copy immediately. www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

It’s a nice feeling that I don’t have to worry too much about this garbage person losing give the state of the rest of the national map. Don’t let him in, folks!

Seems about right that this love fest coincides with trumps mental decline. Just a couple of retirement home residents buttering each others buns

Feels important!

Elon Musk's audacious campaign to keep Alex Gibney's Musk out of theaters and social media shows the fantastic power Musk wields in America today, especially the power to squelch his critics. www.status.news/p/elon-musk-...

Recent incidents at the Palisades nuclear power plant include one instance in which a bundle of fuel rods nearly tipped over during refueling, and another in which a contractor fell into a reactor cavity: arstechnica.visitlink.me/6gKx4L

This is explosive. In the Witkoff/Kushner discussions with the Kremlin with respect to the sale to a Trump-backed consortium of LUKoil's foreign assets, Trump has offered a slice of his big Alaska project to a Russian major close to Putin. The structure is designed to entangle US investments

US executives quit as Trump turns control over massive Alaska energy project to Putin underlings. The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture says Russian energy giant Novatek was given control of the project by Trump, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership

NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from USPS’ cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected.

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Killing FEMA is one of those weird conservative obsessions that I truly don’t understand through any lens. Is it simply that it’s one federal program they can control unilaterally? Some Putin obsession? Can anyone explain?

This is all nuts but the last two minutes in particular are… woo boy

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

Again, the scandalous thing about Elon Musk spending $276 million on the 2026 midterms is NOT how *much* money it is. The scandal is how *little* money this is *to him.* Compared to his net worth, this is roughly equal to the median American my age spending $40.

On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...

Just remember this the next time they tell you they couldn’t possibly do anything about the child exploitation, racism, and antibdemocracy activity running rampant on their platforms

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

On the scale of horror happening globally I know this isn’t high on the list but it’s still disturbing

(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.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

New in PN: Who wants to visit an authoritarian America? "Data shows the US on its way to being as unpopular a tourist destination as Russia, & for roughly the same reasons. In both countries, a tourist who runs afoul of the govt might spend months in a freezing warehouse without no legal counsel."

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

It’s inspiring to see such a broad range of candidates operating at this level all at once. Like something else good could be actually around the corner this time around - a new type of politics vs a new type of politician which is what the last decade has amounted to

Whoa I almost forgot design could be used for good

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I would simply love a local leader who didn’t want me dead

📸 Check out the handwritten application we submitted to found a private school in West Virginia. We were approved as a microschool. A state spokesperson said it “does not approve or deny the operation of microschools for any reason.” Read the full story: https://propub.li/4AU2wxz

Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.

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The fact that this is happening in the context of everything else in the news about the death penalty is… a choice among choices. Just wow.

Seriously does anybody actually make or do anything anymore? Is someone trying to improve a product or invent something new or is everyone just buying and selling everyone else

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social should never be allowed to live this down