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"My thoughts have often turned to the Middle East, an area which has contributed so much to the religious and cultural heritage of the world today, and whose potential for further rich contributions to civilization is great."= John F Kennedy

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

Serious question: Literally what is the point of blue states being blue if their Democratic tycoons-turn-governors shield billionaires from tax hikes as millions are thrown off healthcare? Isn't the point of voting blue supposed to be electing Dem leaders who don't just do what Republicans do?

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

An 87yo in WI charged 17,766 times for $77k. An 89yo in D.C. charged 26,456 times for $429k. A 76yo in CA charged 27,236 times for $578k. There are thousands of examples like these. Republicans are even worse. We shouldn't have to protect our elderly parents from this.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

There is little meritocracy or competition when it comes to Democratic consultants—they get paid the same regardless of how their candidates perform in the election.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Broke: Abolish ICE Woke: Abolish MBA www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

There's a real effort from a class of very aloof, sensible economists to undermine the emerging antitrust movement. They fell over themselves to dismiss "greedflation," a theory that keeps finding validation, as hysterical populism. Egg on their faces, I guess. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Devastating news for “what about Sudan” posters as Israel makes it state policy that they “consider friendly” the RSF

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

there is a kind of collective suicidal exhaustion in the 70+ crowd as though the unspoken wish is to beat the end of civilization by being entombed alive with their family and possessions to all die together, the friction of living finally at an end, suburban pharoahood culminated

corruption and fraud above a certain amount should be treated as seriously as murder. because fraud kills. corruption kills. when a congressman pushes a bill to, say, build a highway because they personally will make $3 million selling land for that project, we should lock them up for life.

Time to brush off an old classic

They are absolutely doubling down on a bold faced lie. They are betting the bank that people will believe what they say as opposed to the video evidence. Incredible. And incredibly insulting to all of us who can watch the video.

every democratic member of congress should be giving meta hell right now, and every democratic state government needs to be announcing investigations for election interference — these were early voting events

The billionaire effort to destroy Prop 40, an effort to snatch back the change they can scrounge from their couch cushions relative to all they've hoarded, shows how they will stop at nothing from being even minimally part of society at all. Even leeches have role in ecosystem; billionaires don't.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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can’t believe OpenAI had someone on staff who thought it was appropriate to record everything that people around him said

Once again. Just like the Paramount Merger Gavin Newsom does what he always does. Sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again. Not only that but endorses a bill that will make it impossible to tax the wealthy at all. www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-...

Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.

“A dated, sourced record of Elon Musk's posts, replies and reposts about Black people” elonmuskhatesblacks.com

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

they can't act on their own, they cannot go rogue. they are computer programs that do what they are programmed to do. they're as responsible for their actions as a grenade is for exploding after somebody pulls the pin

I am feeling attacked

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Why is there no equivalent anti-Flock movement for more invasive surveillance? wamu.org/story/26/10/...

".. According to the new findings, the portion of families behind on loan payments at the end of 2025 soared from about 12% in the prior survey to nearly 20%, a gain of some 67%."

In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

This op-ed really nails it. Universities going all in on generative AI are pulling us backwards on student mental health. Is that the university mission? Is that what a public good looks like? ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/w...

I don't think the Supreme Court is going to get rid of same-sex marriage tomorrow, but when the justice who says that overturning a landmark case is "not realistic" is the *same guy who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade*, you should not take anything he says seriously

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According to a new shadow docket filing with SCOTUS, the Alliance Defending Freedom is arguing that parents of cis kids have a "parental right" to forcibly out trans kids and prevent them from playing. It also seeks further Title IX restrictions in blue states. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“I Got Friends That Will Hurt Her”: Court documents describe audio recordings and video footage that Tyreek Hill wants kept out of his divorce trial. It includes a proposed confidentiality deal that would have barred his estranged wife from sharing video with the NFL.