Peter Principle

🚨 BREAKING: Travis County judge granted Gina Hinojosa's request to inspect Greg Abbott's unredacted Musk emails. Judge Mauzy set Thursday 10 AM as the DEADLINE for Abbott to let her see them. Abbott tried to keep them hidden, calling them "intimate and embarrassing."

House Dems Report: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the 1990s. The DOJ & FBI are doing everything they can to keep the 🇺🇸 people in the dark about it.” The report: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

ICE vs the clergy

Science is inherently political and when our government is actively hostile to science as a whole, publications should be able to write about it without being censored. Alas. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

You can read all about Trump's love for little girls in the House Judiciary Dems' 50-page report released this morning. He has a particular fettish for crushing their nipples as he molests them, it notes.

Abolish ICE.

Post Edited: “Trump’s Election Attacks Enter New Pre-emptive Phase” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/trumps-election-attacks-enter-new-pre-emptive-phase/

Trump's comments are clear disinhibition manifestations of acute senile dementia, but US corporate media refuses to report on or discuss it in a clinical context.

BREAKING: People who vote for opposition party are in favor of opposition. Details on Whiskey Friday . . . www.cbsnews.com/video/new-po...

A group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers is launching a new organization to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that they say President Donald Trump's Justice Department is ignoring.

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

John Oliver: “It does feel that the [GOP] has been getting way too comfortable with some, at best, Nazi-adjacent sh*t. Nazis getting power doesn’t historically bode well for anyone, including, for what it’s worth, Nazis, who didn’t exactly have the best 1945.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Under Lulu, Amazon deforestation rates have been plummeting—by 41%. The planet won tonight. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Imagine it's 1932, and the headline in the NYT is: "In Antisemitic Rant, Hitler Seeks to Stir the National Socialist Base in Bavaria" What would Holocaust scholars say now about painting eliminationist rhetoric as just another campaign tactic? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/u...

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

All of this

i'm sure he'll make lots of nice friends there. www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...

It’s notable that Elon Musk does so many weird things he largely gets a pass for running a super eugenic breeding program.

Looks like it's game on for the insurrectionists in Brazil. Lula doesn't have much time to make a move. At least this time it's happening while he's already in power . . . apnews.com/article/braz...

‼️ An “unprecedented confrontation” is unfolding between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir regarding an effort by Israel’s political leadership to order some kind of military action relating to Iran just before Tuesday’s election, Israel’s Channel 12 reports.

The former CEO of a naval defense contractor told FBI agents he cut cash-for-contracts deals with South Carolina’s two most powerful members of Congress — Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn.

To borrow a phrase in a different language from a different struggle: ¡No pasarán! I wish we could've said the same. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Anthropic’s Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

If Lula really is on his way to one of the biggest comebacks in political history, it's a lead pipe cinch the Trump regime and Brazilian fascists will begin plotting either a 2021-style insurrection and/or a military coup. Lula has to get the jump on them. He can't afford to make Biden's mistake.

FLORIDA — Insane: Winter Park police called on 3 year old for being too good at soccer because 5 year olds couldn’t get the ball from him. (H/T @the_public_defender2) More: blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli... Their TikTok account: www.tiktok.com/@nevadaney10...

“There are people who are openly white supremacists that are consolidating power at record speed in such a way that they are stripping away all of the rights, opportunities, and access points for you and your family. If that don’t move you, it ain’t nothing that I can say that can move you.”

Right-aligned pollsters have now released 81 polls into the Senate battlegrounds since Sept 10th. Given all the issues we've had with fake/manipulated polling would assume there would be more interest in learning about what this is. For this stuff is to polling what Fox News is to news. 1/

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

Trump Has Pushed Off 13% Off Food Stamps https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/25/trump-has-pushed-off-13-off-food-stamps/?ap=b

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...

Elon Musk has given Greg Abbott $500K in campaign cash. Musk's companies have received $1.6 billion in tax incentives and $30 million in grants funded by Texas taxpayers. Texans deserve to know what else he's gotten in return.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

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

Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security wanted CISA, an agency that protects election systems, to acquire and hack a voting machine, which shocked staffers. “This goes against everything CISA represents,” a former official said.

Using the Presidency to manufacture himself billions in tax breaks through golf courses. Scam artist doesn’t even begin to describe this President. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

The attorney who wrote the lawsuit received $1.4M to his firm from Trump PACs for repping Trump’s criminal co-conspirator and witnesses to his crimes. Blanche’s firm received ~$10M from Trump PACs for criminal defense. Usually, they admit they just do Trump’s bidding — until that causes blowback.

Jocelyn Benson: I defeated Trump's plan to overturn an accurate election, a plan that escalated into a tragedy at our US Capitol on January 6th. I had to shelter in my home protecting my kid while people with guns protested on my front lawn because of lies that they'd been fed about our election.

Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, said, “It’s wrong to run this ad.” President Trump called it “very powerful.”

"The GloriFi legal battle includes well over a dozen overlapping lawsuits, many of which are pending in bankruptcy court in Dallas. These cases are not Mr. Jackson’s only legal entanglement. A prolific litigant, Mr. Jackson, an entrepreneur, ... has said that he has been deposed at least 25 times."

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As Texas’ top legal official, Ken Paxton has defended some of the country’s most restrictive abortion laws — under which several pregnant women died because they couldn’t get the care they needed. He could soon join federal anti-abortion efforts.

Mwahahahaha - Marco Rubio, probably

"In total, since taking office again, Mr. Trump exempted 202 facilities in 39 states & Puerto Rico from clean-air regulations that were going into effect. Some were among the country’s worst industrial polluters, including chemical manufacturers, copper smelters & coal-burning power plants." MAHA!

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...