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Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.

Elon Musk has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has spent in his entire lifetime.

"In a series of interviews with Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee, Beatrice Keul said Trump raped her that year in 'brutal' fashion in a hotel room at Trump’s Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City after the pair spent time with Jeffrey Epstein ..."

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

October 25, 2026

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

Trump detests the free enterprise system. He believes in a Soviet-style command economy with total government control. He favors foreign trade based on bribery. He opposes competition. That's why, when a foreign country like Taiwan manufactures a product, Trump says they're "stealing" our business.

Gaslighting 101: The AG is literally calling us crazy for thinking Trump will use the levers of government power to overturn the results of an election, when he has a documented history of doing just that. That’s tyranny.

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

October 23, 2026

"After fighting Chavistas and their Russian, Iranian, and Cuban allies for so long, nobody in Venezuela’s historically pro-American democratic opposition ever expected a U.S. administration to stand in their way. But if it does, they are preparing to fight that obstacle too."

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

We used to live in a world where we didn’t really think about state supreme courts in other states. But now, they’re incredibly important, and nowhere more so than when it comes to the role they play in handling election challenges. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

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The Republican Party is giving us cancer. The New York Times doesn't say it that directly, but its investigation proves it.

It's a Klan rally.

The level of hatred and harassment that Trump is directing at Ilhan Omar is appalling. He's inciting some disturbed person to commit violence against her. The entire Republican Party already has blood on its hands, and it's eager for more.

I wish!

I thought he was going to drain the swamp?

"In recent weeks, Russia has ramped up those efforts. Most of the Russian content so far, spread by bot networks around the world, has targeted Democratic candidates, especially in closely contested Senate races that could determine control of Congress." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

NEW: Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice is looking into launching more California-style lawsuits to block “a number of states” from counting ballots for the midterm election. Under the Constitution, states — not the president — run elections, including counting ballots.

October 22, 2026

Glad to see more Democrats recognizing that if Elon Musk donates to your opponent, it is an absolute *gift* to you as long as you draw attention. He's a deeply unpopular, dorky white supremacist asshole who's using his billions to try and buy off politicians. Light. Him. Up.

Republicans appear to be building a case to potentially challenge the election outcomes in states that refuse to allow them (or help them) to remove people alleged to be non-citizens (using lists known to be riddled with errors) from voting rolls.

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"They are unanimous in their hate for me -- and I welcome their hatred" -- FDR, October 31, 1936

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The second Trump term in two photos: How it started (November 6, 2024) / How it’s going (October 21, 2026)

Dictator Move of the Day.

WATCH: “Mike Rogers was a real pain in our ass.” jon stewart rips Rogers for claiming to support the troops yet standing in the way of health care for 9/11 first responders. (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering filing lawsuits against additional states before or after the midterms as part of its effort to force states to investigate alleged noncitizens on their voter rolls, according to an NBC News report. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Just another day in the corrupt Trump regime

The humanitarian Putin bombed more civilians today. Maybe Witkoff should spend a couple weeks in Kyiv to see first hand how much of a humanitarian his friend in Moscow is.

CNN montage of creepy old perv Trump lusting after men on the campaign trail.

⚠️ A GOP-controlled election board in South Carolina is attempting to suppress the Black vote by closing voting sites ahead of the midterms, a local Democratic official said. Not only that, but ACLU lawyers say the board is also breaking the law: https://demdock.com/4yvNZWt

Disaster aid shouldn’t be subject to political hijacking, but the criminals in the White House don’t care about anything but their own money and power.

🧵🧵🧵 If you think Putin is a “humanitarian,” vote for Republicans. If you don’t, DON’T.

JD Vance is the guy who married a woman who is a US citizen because of the 14th Amendment. The same 14th Amendment Vance and Trump are trying to repeal.

Worth watching this emerging story: Wedgewood Polls alleged to be fake; has been picked up & amplified/integrated by established sources & other pollsters; may be tied to prediction market trading; is likely to throw doubt upon current poll numbers (which will feed "rigged election" rumors later).

As Ramaswamy doubles down on his new ad featuring a woman who chose her pedophile rapist husband over her own daughter, his victim, let me remind you that this story happened literally one week ago. They really, really, really want to lock up the pedophile vote.

Here's Vivek Ramaswamy with his "rape victims should quit whining" campaign theme.

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Vance is like the kid in high school who envied the bullies and the power they manipulated over their victims, and who now has his chance to live out his bullying fantasies.