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Love this!!

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.

WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

Israel Has Committed Genocidal Acts in Gaza Since Cease-Fire, U.N. Human Rights Panel Says www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

This is a rare moment of bipartisanship. And a reliable indication that Darline Graham is a horrible, inexperienced nepo-candidate.

Per a new report from House Democrats, Trump's DOJ is withholding evidence of his ties to Epstein and slow-walking the complete release of the Epstein files. It's time to end the cover-up and expose the truth. Remember this when you cast your ballot. www.ms.now/news/house-j...

Over 3,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their homes in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron since Friday, as Netanyahu carries out collective punishment in a bid to shore up support ahead of Israel’s elections on Tuesday.

Wow. You don't make a lot of friends exploiting clergy. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

A hopeful sign

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

President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

Thanks for this. I’ve never been to a CF, and didn’t understand the reference. (Cheesecake has never been my go-to dessert)

Trump is unable to name one issue voters care about in this clip. Not one.

Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.

The researchers found the Environmental Protection Agency’s minimum reporting levels masked widespread contamination.

More than 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools have been filed with the Education Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

SCOTUS blocked the USPS rule that Trump demanded in a bid to restrict mail voting. But a different USPS policy affecting when mail is postmarked could still pose obstacles. Experts say people should mail forms and ballots as early as they can.

ICE said Antonio Moreida jumped onto the hood of their vehicle. Now a local police investigation concludes that an ICE agent struck him with his SUV. The routine lying by ICE is the result of the example set by leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.

Amy Acton: As a young child, my brother and I experienced a lot of child abuse and neglect. We moved countless times as kids, and even wound up living in a tent in the middle of winter. And now my opponent has chosen to exploit my childhood to save his struggling campaign. But it's not going to work

DAVID AXELROD: "As I said when it first saw it, the grotesque ad Vivek Ramaswamy is running is most revealing about Vivek. He launched it at Amy Acton. But his decision to exploit her personal tragedy will go down as a flagrant act of political self-harm."

Nothing is a more convincing admission that you know your entire administration is corrupt than giving criminal pardons to EVERYONE.

Trump Justice Department obscures trans victims of prison sexual abuse while singling out trans perpetrators www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Just wow.

I despair that we’re in a social context where it’s viewed as acceptable to say his kind of thinking out loud in public.

James Tallerico goes after Elon Musk on Twitter. 👌

This article came out six weeks ago, there's enough public evidence that @foreignpolicy.com let me say "bribed" without caveat, and still, the new Kushner revelations show he was BRIBED. Directly bribed. Right into secret foreign accounts bribed. Massively corrupt, ultimately world-changing bribes.

SEN. CHRIS MURPHY (D-CT): "Ukraine was winning the war, so 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗸𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮. "I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀."

Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.

He’s Exhibit A on why billionaire wealth should be taxed, why we have to get big money out of politics, why billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to buy up major media, and why our government shouldn’t give them huge military contracts.

THIS 👇 HERE........

Parents can’t go to work if they can’t find child care. Child care IS infrastructure. Let's PASS universal child care.

Elizabeth Warren Is 💯% Correct...

Republicans continue to use our tax dollars to bribe voters weeks before the election. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“leaders in business and in all sectors of our society should work with state and local elected officials to help protect the political process that lies at the heart of our constitutional system.” In Six Decades of Public Life, I Never Thought I Would Write This www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

Not for nothing but PBS does election night coverage and we work really really really hard on it. Union shop as well!

Ahem

So Marine Corps vets who were poisoned only get compensated by the draft dodger if Republicans win. bsky.app/profile/atru...

"'Vivek’s ad with Amy Acton’s mother is one of the most despicable things I’ve ever seen in politics,' Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman of Ohio wrote in a post on X. 'He’s arguably the most unlikable person in the history of people'" www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...