Mike

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

Under Lulu, Amazon deforestation rates have been plummeting—by 41%. The planet won tonight. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reminded of how tv news looped the images of the military equipment the Biden administration deliberately left behind in Afghanistan for weeks after the withdrawal as if they represented a huge scandal

serious question

This video of Donald Trump stopping to chat, wave and salute non-existent people is a reminder that you’re never too old to have imaginary friends.

There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.

If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.

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...

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Russia is killing children while the US eases sanctions ahead of the midterms.

A reminder that in the 10 years I worked at WaPo, every single news item Dylan Byers wrote about the place contained “facts” I knew to be false. Bro’s entire career is built on single-source stenography of rumors an owner or c-suite chucklehead heard from afar. “Lickspittle” is underselling it.

It’s funny how the GOP campaigned on making things worse including a 922 page project plan for how much worse they would make things yet people are surprised about how bad things are now.

"when the court develops an outsize sense of its own authority and when it uses that authority to impose its policy preferences and, increasingly, its partisan preferences on the rest of us, the arrangement becomes untenable. That has happened before, and it is manifestly the case now."

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Brilliant takedown of Kevin O’Racist.

is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?

The exception: a dangerous and violent crime spree by ICE

REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

The man said he wanted to “see people’s reactions.” trib.al/6x5ZIRx

Tillis is a coward who, even as his political career draws to an end, cannot bring himself to say Trump is bad. He still says the worst problem with Trump is advice he gets from *other people*

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

DOGE thought it could just walk in and take over the United States Institute of Peace—until chief security officer Colin O’Brien decided to block their way. on.wsj.com/4zdItIM

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

They aren’t sending their best

The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.

“.. China's trade position has never been stronger. .. some supply chains are now moving back INTO China. German firms are boosting their China investments .. And polls find China is viewed more favorably than the US in numerous countries for the first time.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

Here's a great new pathway for budding sociopaths to be molded by Andreesen. I just can't wait for the DOGE a-holes to multiply.

Your life saving clinical trail could be TERMINATED by the Trump administration. We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. It's time to talk about it and what you can do to stop this. 🧵 🧪

When people, especially people who don't even live in Texas, but in relatively safe blue states, tell people not to vote for Talarico, I'm almost at the point now that I consider them an enemy. I don't trust them or their motivations. They all don't know how things are here, on the ground. /3

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

Chris Simms my GOAT. He's 100% spot on here

alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office

Trump says he's "banning the free press"

Deeply disappointing that Bash let Mullin continually DODGE the fact that this teenager WAS A US CITIZEN. He keeps saying if you're US citizen, you have nothing to fear. THIS KID WAS A CITIZEN, and he CLEARLY had a lot to fear. He's simply denying reality, and she's letting him get away with it.

Real people are going to suffer because Donald Trump would rather shut the Kennedy Center down than allow it to operate without his name garishly plastered on its side. It's practically the definition of malignant narcissism. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-day-and-...

The board members of the Kennedy Center should not be allowed to anonymously shut down the Center. They should be called out, starting with Donald Trump, Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Linda McMahon, Lee Greenwood, Usha Vance, Elaine Chao, Allison Lutnick, Dan Scavino, Maria Bartiromo, Laura Ingraham.

We have never seen a family in the White House as corrupt as the Trump!! www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Pennsylvanians: If the SAVE Act were to pass, your PA Real ID would no longer be enough to register to vote. This bill is a massive disenfranchisement effort, particularly for married women, young people, and people living in rural areas.