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So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

As always, all the talk about "Democrats harboring foreign criminals" is projection

Similar to what happened in Hungary, Serbia’s RTV-1 publicly apologized to viewers for years of one-sided and uncritical reporting. Presenter Goran Er(r)or said the public service had failed to ask the right questions and had not fulfilled its role. #Serbia

This jerk right here is the first major American political figure of any party who simply refuses to accept the result of any election that his team lost. This attitude in a Presidents destroys the Constitution. It took the United States over 230 years to sink to this low.

you went to yale law school asshole

Bloomberg reports that Russia earned $2.76 billion from oil exports over the past week, a record high since the start of the full-scale invasion. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Clown show.

Vice President JD Vance acknowledged Monday that high gas prices have left some voters undecided ahead of the midterm election, but argued that price spikes happen “every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum.”

Zelensky says sanctions imposed over Russia’s aggression and occupation should only be lifted as part of ending the war, diplomacy, reconstruction and security guarantees. He says Ukraine received no extra Patriot missiles and existing Starlink speeds were reduced. #Ukraine

I don’t know, man, I’m kind of sick of treating Trump and his cronies like they’re just absurd and laughable and not really spending any time talking about the murders, the concentration camps, the millions starved around the world, people living lives beset with threats of violence and erasure.

This headline structure is literally the joke format we use to make fun of people like this

In yesterday’s deserved euphoria over Vucic’s defeat and Lula’s knife-edge re-election, no one noticed that Bulgaria held presidential elections. The pro-Russian incumbent underperformed and the pro-EU challenger beat the polls but turnout was a paltry 20%. Impossible to guess how the runoff will go

the view from Pyongyang

Zelensky says Ukraine has completed its part of the Freya anti-ballistic missile project, while work by 10 partner countries is still ongoing. The system is intended to combine Ukrainian missile technology with European radars, sensors and command systems. #Ukraine

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil won re-election on Sunday, halting a string of conservative victories in Latin America. His right-wing opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, refused to accept the outcome. nyti.ms/4zcqdQp

the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for the role of United Nations Secretary-General. - WSJ Oh hell no!

Judge finds DOJ's firing of Maurene Comey, federal prosecutor in cases involving Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, was unconstitutional. https://cnn.it/4spxklG

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

DEI = two legs = bad IDE = four legs = good

Boris Johnson: "Putin is a bad guy. He radiates a kind of Gollum-like... he's really spooky, very small, and pretends not to speak English when he can speak it damn well. He's behaving like Gollum towards Ukraine. He's got an obsession. It's tragic." An evil obsessed little man

​But they almost always choose to kill Ukrainians because it's easier, it's within their comfort zone. Almost always, except for the few who shattered the "no choice" narrative to pieces.

Defecting is a choice. When you are given a rifle and told to go murder Ukrainian civilians, you actually can choose which way to shoot.

Have you ever looked at a tormented city and wondered how much devastation it takes to kill it? How much more can it endure? Where is the line after which survivors, if any remain, can no longer rebuild? ​We watch russia raze our cities one by one.

🇨🇦 Mark Carney says he’s "concerned" about Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, which led to human casualties and reduced Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. He says Canada can’t rely on a single provider that could flip like that and put Canadians at risk, so he’s going to diversify.

In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

I'm old enough to remember when Jared Kushner thought it was a good idea to use the Russian embassy to conduct secure communications during an American presidential transition

And it was actually a prisoner exchange in which we gave them an actual Russian criminal and we also gave them diplomatic cover in a war of aggression — not only morally shameful and personally humiliating but as a negotiation absolutely laughably unequal.

Let's just make this clear: Witkoff calls the bloodiest dictator, indicted war criminal, and child murderer, Putin, a "humanitarian" not for some massive concession, not for agreeing to stop the war, but for releasing a person they captured in a foreign country where that person was simply living

Additional footage of 2 Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG cruise missiles striking Oryol. We are leaning towards 4/4 instead of 3/4 hits on the Proton Plant, based on the footage. #Russia

How does Rickett's time as Governor counteract Osborn's claim about favoritism to the rich and powerful. What measures did Ricketts take as Governor to address class disparities? What do his "deep connections" to the state have to do with the charge? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

Non sequitur in the Times piece on how "class consciousness seemed to saturate" Nebraska's Senate race. After quoting Osborn's critique of a system that benefits Ricketts & the wealthy, the next paragraph says this statement ignores "Ricketts’s tenure as governor and deep connections" to the state.

thinking again about the sheer number of insiders who are going to claim things that "everyone knew" that there was no record of them mentioning

❗️The Wall Street Journal reports Trump called Elon Musk and asked him to lift Starlink restrictions in Ukraine. Starshield reportedly began working more normally soon after. Ukrainian officials said full functionality had not returned, but speeds were higher than under the restrictions. #Ukraine

Zelensky says Ukraine and Finland agreed to expand cooperation, including greater use of Finnish satellite capabilities. Seven documents worth €300 million were signed during Finnish PM Petteri Orpo's visit to Kyiv, with Nokia and ICEYE involved in the satellite agreement. #Ukraine

Trump declined to confirm whether he personally called Elon Musk about restoring Ukraine's Starlink/Starshield access. "Whether I called or someone else doesn't matter. I think the point is that he restored it," Trump said, referring to Ukraine's access to the satellite service. #Ukraine

Anyone saying "Ukraine has lost the war" is a Russian stooge who is wishcasting and gaslighting. The manipulation aims to justify why Trump and Russia are jointly pressuring Ukraine to capitulate even though the frontline situation doesn't call for it. Russia is NOT advancing!

Remember all those hot takes about how the Republicans were ACTUALLY the party of the working class? Anyway.

Trump now a mortal lock to win the "Nobel Appeasement Prize."

Starting the graph in 2008 is certainly A Choice

Charlie Sykes says Trump is selling pardons from the White House. NYT: Billionaire’s Daughter Hired Former Trump Lawyer for $50 Million.

TRUMP: We gave nothing in exchange for Stephen. We never give anything in exchange for hostages. TRUMP LITERALLY MOMENTS LATER: If I implemented sanctions on Russia, Steven wouldn't be coming out right now.

This could be turned into a movie and just as easily be a comedy as a tragedy as a thriller.