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Went to the NYT homepage to see if they have anything on the new rape allegations leveled at Trump (they do not), saw this, and noped out.

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...

Yissss

this man is a gotdamned patriot

A fine bromance!

Check out how easy this is.

Gas prices are “temporarily” high, says the president. That’s because Republicans are temporarily in power. Vote.

guys, if you work for the puppy crushing factory, the technology you build is going to be used to crush puppies

Dems do this for free — I’ve been calling Iowa all week! My Iowan relatives are lit up! 🔥 🔥 🔥

Telling a woman to shut up when she’s asking about the attack ad you’ve backed calling a pedophilia victim a loser is like a turducken pf misogyny

After Trump said, "Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?"... all the White House reporters in the gaggle rose up in unison to defend her and to push relentlessly for him to answer the question. [Alarm clock goes off] Damn, that was a nice dream.

festering piece of shit.

Interesting that he didn’t seem to have any concerns when Kegseth’s mother said he was unfit to serve and she provided that warning unsolicited without a campaign influencing her to say it.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Bluesky I know you do not care about golf. But I am telling you that in this specific case, you SHOULD care about golf. I explain in @slate.com what the Trump administration is doing to East Potomac Golf Course in D.C. slate.com/culture/2026...

My God, the Democratic scandals are so pathetic. They are not even scandals. They gotta start doing crypto dinners or something.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

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...

Oh, for god's sake. 2018 cartoon of Sen. Collin and her vote for Kavanaugh.

Christiane Amanpour’s note announcing her coming departure from CNN contains her trademark admonition to journalists: Remember: always be truthful, not neutral. www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/m...

“He's gunna go up to the Upper Peninsula and get a pretty cold welcome.” And the UP said…

Send this to any new grads or early career folks you know who have loans, and are at risk to not get their butts in gear to vote.

Abdul El-Sayed has MAGA fascinated and terrified this election cycle. But I don't think it's (just) because he's Muslim. They don't know how to handle his aggressive and blunt style. It just goes to show the power of Democrats actually fighting back. www.salon.com/2026/10/19/a...

This Black MAGA creator says she “cannot believe the disrespect” after being removed from a San Antonio rally hosted by Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton!?!?! Why would they treat her this way???

new undecided voter at the next NYT roundtable just dropped

This works, because it’s true.

I was so moved by this Christian dad’s response to a despondent trans kid whose father wouldn’t support their care on “Christian” grounds. It’s never OK to use Christ as a weapon of hate. God is love. 💗 www.reddit.com/r/cisparentt...

it was the fuck-aroundest of times, it was the find-outest of times (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

For you youngs who weren't alive for this: Understand that the Chicks were an early rollout of the far right intimidation that we see targeting judges, members of Congress, and ICE protestors now.

In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”

LA No Kings ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Andy Stone runs Comms at Meta. If you believe this, I have a Straight of Hormuz to sell ya. No, really, I *totally* own it. They took the whole account down and then upon restoring took 4 hours to actually allow owners access to post, while said owners were in constant touch demanding access.

When I say we are never letting any of them to take off those red hats and pretend like this didn’t happen, this is why. This is vile bigotry. Nothing less. You don’t get to take off the red hats. Ever.

At the close of trading today, exchange rates: 1 Scaramucci = 2.2 Zacharias Or 1 Zacharia = 0.4545 Scaramuccis www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

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The back story on who got Fox to take Zacharia out will be interesting. First they got her placed, then they made sure Hannity and F&F -- Trump's two main shows -- ripped her to shreds. Impressive work, whoever did it.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Thirty years ago, Susan Collins promised Maine voters she’d serve only two terms. Now she’s a multimillionaire asking them for a sixth. Her current net worth is estimated to be roughly $6.8 million. Not bad for a Senate salary of $174,000 per year.

You’d think a lawmaker would try reading the law before loudly accusing reporters of breaking it. Credit to these reporters for refusing to be bullied out of doing their jobs. Reporters record so the public can get the facts.

Literally dreamt about a stand of Ents storming the White House and pulling his ass out of bedthrough a window, then heading toward Roosevelt Island with him wedged into their canopy, a vine wrapped around his evil mouth.

For a guy who steals expensive pens off the conveyor belt, this slogan is a little too on the nose.

RIP John Barron

Cannot wait to read “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth. Great title, too! wapo.st/4y1SkjL #booksky