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The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

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

NEWS: A new report reveals Trump’s personal oil and gas holdings have nearly doubled in value, now worth as much as $81.6 million compared to as much as $46 million last year.   The President is profiting off Americans' suffering. And he couldn't be prouder.

Anyone else never gonna be able to unsee this? Or just us?

from @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social:

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

Don't know about you, but I'm much more worried about voter IQ than voter ID.

Elon Musk said on Saturday that his company SpaceX had throttled the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, disrupting operations that the country relies on to defend itself against Russia. https://to.pbs.org/4yIfgF9

El-Sayed: Trump's bill gutted health care for millions. President Obama passed the legislation that expanded it Crowd Member: Obama is not in the Epstein files either Crowd: Cheers

Donna Arthur — aka Amy Acton’s estranged mother, and the person whose testimony Vivek Ramaswamy devoutly trusts — has been living with her cats, in a car, in a church parking lot, having declined housing assistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

“C.D.C. has lost about 30% of its staff since last year, including many members of the rabies team, which no longer has the capacity to advise state officials after hours…The agency also temporarily suspended rabies testing this spring, a pause that lasted for months.”

Reporter: "Amy Acton's stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, do you change your mind about the ad?" Trump: "No. It's the mother speaking badly.... I don't care."

Trump repeatedly insults reporter for... reporting.  " Quiet. Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?"

This is appalling, illegal, immoral, and 500 other things, by a private citizen who is not even in the same universe as the chain of command.

Vivek Ramaswamy thinks childhood sexual abuse is a character flaw. Being a colossal asshole, apparently, is not.

Corporations backing Ramaswamy: BakerHostetler Bank of America Centene Charter Communications Deloitte DraftKings Duke Energy Giant Eagle Huntington Bank Johnson & Johnson Kroger Nationwide NetJets Pfizer PNC Rocket Companies U.S. Bank and more ... as per www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Bloomberg News: Jan. 6 Attackers Pardoned by Trump for Assaulting Cops Now Want Taxpayer Money. Nearly 200 people granted clemency by Trump are suing for compensation, including dozens convicted of attacking or impeding law enforcement employees.

A 'SpaceX' investor said he’s not only “disgusted…from a humanity perspective” (by restrictions on Starlink in Ukraine), but also because: “.….they've given everybody a reason not to use Starlink, that Starlink isn't reliable for national security for anybody but Trump.”

🚨 ARIZONA: Over 107,000 ACA enrollees have been priced out of coverage entirely. For the remaining ~256,000, unsubsidized enrollees are facing a stunning ~28% average premium hike in 2027 after Republicans let the enhanced subsidies to expire. That is not a typo. acasignups.net/rate_changes...

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

Why doesn’t Jon Husted ever return the favor and compliment Trump’s ass?

There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

A billionaire needed a pardon. His family hired Trump’s former personal lawyer for 50 million dollars. Two weeks later, he got one. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Ukraine lost access to Elon's Starlink satellites, so Jon Stewart called Starlink customer service

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."

“.. Ukraine has been running critically low on Patriot missiles .. .. Russia aims to make Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities unlivable by winter, targeting power plants .. and other infrastructure critical for heating and water supplies.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I can’t believe they went ahead with the game after the entire crowd just watched a man die.

Trump is claiming that the US is running low on Tomahawk missiles because "Biden gave them all to Ukraine." The US has never given any Tomahawk missles to Ukraine. Not even one. Not ever.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a week-long row with the US president.

The husband of a U.S. soldier killed in Trump's Iran war confronts JD Vance over alleged military leadership failures that led to the deaths of his wife and five other service members. JOEY AMOR: “There's a failure in the leadership.” VANCE: “This is literally the first time I've heard of this.”

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😳 (Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party👇🏽)

Hegseth has turned the military into a traveling carnival for freedumb loving knuckleheads and now an airman is dead as a result. nypost.com/2026/10/18/u...

Zelenskyy on Trump: "I hope that he will change his decisions, because I think it's all mistakes. It will not help us and it will not help the United States. But it's not my choice. And I hope he will change his attitude to Putin ... we can't compare me and Putin. He's the aggressor."

Zelenskyy: "If the United States supports Putin, it's unbelievable, it's a tragedy. It's a historic mistake. If United States officially takes the side of Russia, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand."

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions REMAIN in Ukraine, crippling interceptor drones and military operations. He says Ukraine has evidence the restrictions are DELIBERATE after testing Starlink systems in the EU, where they worked perfectly at speeds that cause connections to fail inside Ukraine.

Breaking: Both Musk and the Trump administration were involved in the decision to restrict connectivity. Musk himself proposed imposing speed restrictions on Ukrainian satellite internet terminals. Trump agreed, after which the Pentagon implemented the restrictions

Elon Musk reportedly proposed restrictions that crippled Ukraine’s Starshield drone defences during Russian attacks. Other sources traced the order to the White House. The deliberate slowdown raises questions about possible sabotage of Ukraine’s defences.

Trump says we’re building “more factories and plants right now than at any time in our history.” Factory construction hit a historic record under Biden and has fallen 31% since Trump took office. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

I am surprised the partial outage at IRS.gov has not gotten any coverage. I have not been able to set up an installment plan for two days now, site says my return isn't processed and I'm technically late in filing. Been on hold for an hour...