Philip Gourevitch

set up a nesting box with cam nine days ago and this morning got a prospective tenant - fingers crossed that his mate will approve

Why have the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good and the impunity for their killlers not been an issue in Dems midterm campaigns? I know there’s no shortage of issues but those were defining atrocities of Trump Two which every Republican owns.

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.

He keeps hinting in his speeches that there are going to be some big surprises next week and a couple people in his administration are going to be remembered in history books. It seems like no one really knows what to do with that information so it’s just passing casually

Thumb on the Scales

Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Growing body of evidence demonstrates that Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and "DOJ and FBI are doing everything they can to keep the American people in the dark about it." - House Judiciary Democrats democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The federal agency has sent critical funding to the state after Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Ida and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just shut it down totally and forever

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

Records show that counties billed ICE millions before New York passed a law banning them from holding the agency’s detainees.

The project comes with an outlandish price tag, and there’s a cost in focusing so much attention on the oft-proposed but never-built development as well, experts tell The City Reporter.

Don Jr watching brazil results must be going through some things.

Watching Brazil from USA and it must be amazing to live in an actual electoral democracy — where the candidate who gets the most votes wins.

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

This thread comes to a close... ... as we now have a final result. Let the records show that, with 92% of the vote countywide, Lula is up 3.3%. (Can he end up doubling his 2022 margin?)

Zuckerberg defeated in Brazil election.

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

The everyday outrageous claims made in the Michigan race are so mad that for a moment here, I thought: huh, and now the BBC is suggesting that Abdul El-Sayed is actually Austin Tice

Vibes from Brazil

Despite the transportation (and other kinds of) election sabotage by the right today, it is very much looking like Lula is going to pull this off anyway and win

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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

The next 10 days will be monumental, with elections in Serbia, Brazil, Israel and the US. This one was a victory for democracy.

This has all become so normalised and yet... this is not normal.

did the deed

Note that his score card does not involve the US getting anything

And then the Russian company, presented with the evidence we had gathered, acknowledged in a statement: Yes, we are moving to take a large stake in the Polar LNG project in Alaska. Story was nailed. A bit hard to follow with all the names. But this is confirmation. Had not been previously disclosed.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

One sure benefit of a good dem midterm: being able to check one’s news feed again without any clips of people pretending to take Mike Johnson seriously

Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

We don’t know if the early vote will be predictive because all Republicans could just be waiting to vote until Election Day. But what this means in practice is that to win, Trump/GOP will have to have the most successful EDay mobilization operation in modern history— and that it’s completely stealth

This is a very good analysis by a former CIA analyst supporting what other Iran watchers have been arguing: the Iran war has produced more hardline and less cautious Iranian leaders. This helps explain why Trump keeps getting it wrong and isn't finding it easy to end this catastrophic war.

Recent reporting suggests it's not if but when Israel and the US launch major new strikes on Iran. The famous definition of insanity--doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Sure this is a nonsense poll - but in case the idea of a Harris-Vance contest doesn’t alarm you enough check out that an unconstitutional 3d Trump term is supposedly more popular among Rs than Pete or AOC are among Ds.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

reading up on my NYC city council candidates before going early voting — and there’s a lot going on in this guy’s statement

Mrs. Miller complains that Dems want to [checks her highlighted passage] prosecute those who committed federal crimes

Trump White House openly discussing itself as a flagrant criminal enterprise.

It’s just one crime against humanity sagger another with this poisonius guy and his goons. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Water repellent/water proof clothing.