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Wow. Watch the whole thing. Some crazy outrageous people in our country.

And then he stiffed them!

When Donald Trump launched his campaign, he was caught hiring paid actors to pad the audience. (I also happened to be the one that busted him doing so). www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

Trump-endorsed Sen. Darline Graham has been hit by another embarrassing snub in her home state ahead of the midterm elections.

VICTORY: A federal court just put the chainsaws down at East Potomac Park The plan was to turn a public park into a private tournament course for Trump & wealthy golfers. The trees stay while we fight it out in court @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are on the case 👇- TN

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

why would u ever take the Americans even marginally seriously

Appeals court rejects DOJ’s bid to quickly force California to set aside ballots politi.co/4zbadOF

Trump says Brazil election looked ‘rigged’ after Bolsonaro loses politi.co/4zlGiTR

UPDATE: Four Chicago-area Democratic Congress members react to the arrest of a downstate registered sex offender accused of sending suspicious letters with a white substance to their offices. The substance turned out to be salt chicagotribune.com/2026/10/26/dow www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/26/d...

Reuters: US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CHARGES FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY WITH TRANSMITTING NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION IN 2016 -COURT DOCUMENT

I voted! Have you? jacksonformaine.com/vote

The former ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent labelled CBS News a “disaster” amid its new Trumpy leadership.

DOORDASH IS IN ADVANCED TALKS TO ACQUIRE INSTACART - WSJ

Star Trek's Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in TOS and seven Star Trek films, has sadly passed away at the age of 90.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Brazilians beat back fascism by... voting harder? Organized offline and online around an election, using a mix of strategies aimed at both turnout and persuasion. Showed up in large numbers, and despite some very wealthy interests arrayed against them, succeeded? Huh. Pretty neat how that works.

BERMAN: Who's making a 'freakin fortune' as Trump put it with high oil and gas prices? REP. PETE SESSIONS: You know, I'm not really sure, John

Anthropic plans to list under the ticker symbol “ANT.”

Ruthann Kurose, the Seattle activist who fought for redress and reparations for Japanese Americans after World War II, died Oct. 15 at age 75.

An American student with a disability is suffering from a broken wrist and a black eye after ICE wrongfully tackled and detained him in Santa Maria. Americans didn’t ask to be brutalized by ICE. They sure as hell shouldn’t be paying for its actions with broken limbs.

First Musk said he did not disable Starlink for Ukraine. Now he's confessing to disabling it but says he was justified in doing so. Congress, if you can hear me, we need hearings when Dems take over. www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/e...

HAPPENING NOW: 9th Circuit Oral Arguments on DOJ's lawsuit against California voters. DOJ is arguing that there is massive amounts of non-citizens voting, and the harm is irreparable because once the ballot is separated from its envelope, you can't trace it to the voter. 1/

Ninth Circuit just finished hearing oral argument in DOJ's case to sequester 20K mail-in ballots in California IMHO, most likely outcome: dismissal for lack of jurisdiction, with District Judge Carter hearing case Tuesday. Two of 3 on panel seemed skeptical of DOJ's case on merits too.

Breaking | Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returned to Venezuela, challenging the U.S.-backed government as she pushes for presidential elections.

UPDATE: The DOJ is asking a federal appeals court to reject California's motion to dismiss their lawsuit stopping state election officials from counting tens of thousands of ballots. The request comes just hours before oral arguments in the case are set to begin.

There has been an extraordinary effort to get low propensity voters to cast ballots this election and it appears to be working. 42% of the voters in Harris County TX yesterday skipped at least one of the last three elections. And you can see that number is growing daily.

JUST IN: 2 more Trump admin filings in 20K suspected foreign CA voters fight at 9th Cir. Opposing CA motion to dismiss: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Reply in favor of emergency injunction: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28.... Args at 1pm PT. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is back to haunt GOP’s midterms www.salon.com/2026/10/25/t...

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.

All of Europe is watching Musk.

Obama points out that while we may be struck with Trump for two more years, we are not stuck with a spineless Congress

You can build a whole movement on this observation: that real men get shit done, serve others, uphold justice, treat their women with respect, etc. Legions of men are adrift. And they are getting scammed hand over fist.

Obama points out that values (or lack thereof) are just as big a problem for our civic society as affordability

Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign manager, Bill Stepien, told CNN’s Table For Five on Saturday that Americans are tired of corruption in government during Trump’s second term, and want to know what ever happened to “draining the swamp.” www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

With Election Day less than two weeks away, tune in to find out why you should vote for @amyactonoh.bsky.social and @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social.

Jared Kushner is crushed by Dutch intelligence. Jared Bin Lyin.

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be.

Happy Birthday, @merkley.senate.gov! Thank you for your dedicated public service, tireless advocacy, and commitment to making life better for Oregonians. Wishing you a wonderful birthday and a great year ahead!

A lot of dictatorships try to make these kind of arrangements when things go south. Important to remember there are other kinds of criminal, civil and reputational accountability pardons can’t touch. And if you’re pardoned you have no 5th amendment rights.

Ohio! I’m heading to Cleveland for a rally to support @amyactonoh.bsky.social and @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social. Make sure you have a plan to vote: IWillVote.com/OH

"Right now, we’re living in Trump’s world, in Vance’s world, in Hegseth’s world. This is what a world without empathy looks like. It’s a world of constant othering, of constant rage, of a constant belief that life is a zero-sum game. But nothing flourishes in that world." — @snipy.bsky.social

Early this morning, the ACLU intervened in DOJ's lawsuit aimed at meddling in Alaska's election results. They filed this motion to dismiss DOJ's lawsuit. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

The GOP has now made a consistent practice in the 2026 elections of platforming adjudicated pedophiles to attack the Democrats on culture war issues. It seems to be a hallmark for the entire campaign, and serves to justify descriptions of the GOP as the "Pedophile Party." wapo.st/4ieRiLA

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

UPDATE: 9th Cir. orders state to respond by noon PT Saturday. Judges on panel not disclosed. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...