Susan Rinkunas

Good morning, internet, and welcome to a new publication that @garnethenderson.com and I have been working on for months

Your sound needs to be on and these headlines need to be on the screen for longer MY GOD

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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.

How is People’s magazine doing better coverage than most legacy media? people.com/former-miss-...

I’ll say it: it shows what disgusting pigs Americans are that they eat their cheesecake right there at the factory instead of waiting for it to be delivered to a store or restaurant

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

That’s where the k-cup goes

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Another item from today's roundup: People aren't even clutching their own pearls anymore. They're having ChatGPT do it for them.

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

literally what MAHA falsely accuses public health of doing

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Important piece: Republicans already strip-mined their donor base, and now are deeply dependent on billionaires. Unless Dems change, they will go the same route, or become electorally uncompetitive.

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...

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in an interview with extremist organization Live Action that his intervention in surrogacy cases is about promoting fetal personhood—an argument that could imperil not just surrogacy, but also abortion, IVF, and some forms of birth control.

Big win! Today a judge ordered that the former BK Dems chair and allies must respect the courts and stop the charade of operating under rules that were repeatedly struck down. He also ordered they can't keep wasting party funds to drag out this legal fight. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

After being in anti-choice hands for many years, the domain "Abortion.org" came up at auction and has been purchased for 5 figure by I Need an A, an org that provides legit info on how to get an abortion.

Absolutely no one: The Daily Wire:

There’s a reason big names writing about abortion access don’t touch stories like this. The most well-known have either directly taken money from reproductive rights groups or huge repro funders, or they’re getting financial help from sponsors supporting repro advocacy. We’re different by design.

Other 👀 bits in here: *former Planned Parenthood Southeast board chair is out *PPSE claims to serve Mississippi but it has no clinics in MS and doesn't offer telehealth there *workers claim that Planned Parenthood Federation of America directed a California affiliate to assume management of PPSE

NEW: A Georgia-based Planned Parenthood affiliate has been hit with three lawsuits alleging discriminatory firings. Six women allege they were fired for pushing back on former interim CEO Mairo Akposé. @autonomynews.co broke the story that Akposé wanted to halt abortion care, and she's also suing

unfortunately we have the ‘biological males’ framing here in the rest of the clip so I am going to have to rescind my ‘see how easy it is, red state dems’ this sucks! do better!

Is the world about to close the portal to hell we opened 10 years ago….

when I've been waiting all day for Sunday night

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Yeah, this man should not be allowed to practice law, and any failure to take away his ability to practice law after all of this would be a part of the end of the rule of law in America.

Me at my performance review

A strong closing message from the leader of the working class party 

holy crap

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

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...