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President Trump says he brought in $21 trillion in new investment, but according to the White House he's off by about $11T⁣ ⁣ That gap could pay every American's grocery bill for a decade. https://youtu.be/ODOd4JOVk64

Russia is launching ballistic missiles at Kyiv right now, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Hegseth for doing FUCKING NOTHING.

A blue wave doesn’t mean Democrats can take their foot off the gas. The real challenge begins after the wins, when it’s time to walk the walk and show voters that the Democratic Party is more than just the “lesser of two evils.” Lavora Barnes writes more:

U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says U.S. was only major economy that failed last year to reduce its carbon pollution or at least slow the growth in how much c02 is spewed by burning fossil fuels. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sunny day flooding in San Francisco amid the city’s highest October tide on record.

There will be all kinds of shenanigans going on, sadly bsky.app/profile/my2c...

Britt McHenry is no longer in her role as a press advisor for Trump’s Department of State following a viral video that showed her throwing a drink at a Wizards game, FOS reports She had just joined the admin last month

The Epistemology of Hunter Biden's "Laptop" emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/t...

A Venezuelan banker’s family gave $3.5 million to help Trump. Then they hired his former lawyer for $50 million. Then Trump pardoned the father.

The contribution limit for an individual is $3,500. Elon Musk, a government contractor, is trying to purchase Congress. Billionaires are smothering our elections for their personal gain. Get big money out of politics.

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

MAJOR SCOOP: Ken Paxton Says He’s Tough on Crime. His Trust Invested $600,000 in a Convicted Fraudster’s Company. w/ @texastribune.org

Behind every Russian missile striking Ukraine is a supply chain that makes its production possible. The EU’s latest sanctions target 1,569 individuals and entities linked to Russia’s military-industrial complex, aiming to disrupt weapons production and limit Moscow’s ability to sustain its attacks.

BREAKING: Central banks around the world are quietly stockpiling four times as much gold as usual and are moving it out of the US, per FORTUNE

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

An exclusive excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

Seizing Elon Musk's assets and trying him for treason would not be the first time in history when enemies of America from among the wealthy saw their fortunes confiscated.

Russia launched a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones across multiple districts of the capital overnight, damaging residential buildings and critical infrastructure.

Trump ordered to sit for deposition in his $10 billion BBC lawsuit, AP reports reut.rs/4idtesn

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In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

Not ideal when you can crack open the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and find that every member of the administration is in there somewhere.

You're paying thousands of dollars while Trump makes billions off the presidency. @warren.senate.gov did the math: Here are the latest inflation numbers and what it has cost you.

The prospect of the world’s strongest ever El Niño cycle has a growing number of money managers racing to prepare their portfolios for the disruption they say is coming.

Texas is not a red state. Texas is a voter suppression state.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a house framer before he was killed by ICE agents. Countless other Latino builders in Texas live in fear of a similar fate

The Gestapo had about 30 officers for a million Germans. They didn’t need more. The neighbors did the rest. Today, the White House opened fraud. gov. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Informant programs don't find the big crooks. Big crooks have lawyers. They find the small, the unpopular, and the people somebody already hated.

A president saying clearly and with his full chest “I am directing the Department of Justice” to do … anything, would have been a five-alarm scandal in previous years. Now? It’s just a Tuesday.

Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

Free Article Link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

NYT reports on the transitioning of Christianity Today from intellectually coherent white Evangelical thought to air headed pro-Trump "Christian Nationalism" under new owners who are obsessed with politics and tired of theology.

New: Couple of guys from Kentucky just put out a new way to track money in politics. Been playing around with it—very impressed.

This is just one example of why we need to pay attention to state judicial races as much as our national offices:

We won't know whether one of Trump's signature economic policies worked to help low and middle income tax filers because Treasury appears to be holding up the data release, which is prohibited by law. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

That website is going to be FLOODED with reports against the Trump Administration. LOLOLOLOL

NRO obtained court records showing Acton did in fact face abuse and her mother and Vivek are just straight up lying www.nationalreview.com/news/amy-act...

Rolling out alleged noncitizen voting prosecutions right before the election instills fear in minority communities, may dampen voter turnout, provides an excuse for GOP losses, serves as a pretext for challenging the results, and is brazen ratfuckery. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

This awful saga is a good glimpse into how MAGA gets propaganda laundered into mainstream discourse by making just enough noise to get news outlets to treat their outrage as a "controversy," which then requires even-handed treatement of both sides' stances: newrepublic.com/article/2168...