Tom ‘Beardo’ Hilliard

A great deal has been written about the Republican financial advantage going into the midterm elections, but less about its origins. How did President Trump build a $400m+ campaign war chest? By turning over the federal government to the companies and individuals it is supposed to regulate. 

America’s Worst States for Education (2026 Edition) schoolfinance101.com/2026/10/26/a...

Hard to imagine that Putin wouldn't weaponize this information to blackmail Kushner, which kind of explains why he had such a hard time getting security clearance in the US government.

Out canvassing today for Zack Mullock (@mullockforcongress.bsky.social in NJ-2) and turning undecideds was easiest I've ever seen, even though most had never heard of incumbent rep Jeff Van Drew. "Have you noticed your gas costs more?" They had. "That's Trump and Van Drew." And so on.

Incredible story.

Tom the Dancing Bug nails it.

This is the answer for sure. Most important tell is that Ramaswamy is not running this Acton commercial on social media. So he’s definitely targeting older MAGA voters who are mad at their kids.

Consider how well listening to Donald Trump’s promises worked out for Iranian dissidents.

In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected. www.cbpp.org/blog/congres...

In case the Ramaswamy campaign has trouble figuring out "what happened between Amy and her mother," they could read the court record documenting her stepfather's sexual assault. Her mother and stepfather skipped town to avoid being prosecuted!

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I'm happy to advise this project on estimating the cost of attendance for students that advances my initial work from a decade ago. Take a look through all of the resources available here.

There's a lot going on right now, but the ongoing overthrow of the Albanian government after selling itself to Jared & Ivanka might merit further attention.

I second this. An amazing and genuinely thoughtful movie about the impossibility of knowing anyone and the extreme measures artists (including con artists) take to obscure that truth.

Immigrants with harrowing accounts of domestic abuse were detained after contact with local police, sometimes after calling them for help. "I had suffered from domestic violence,” said one woman, whose daughter was still nursing when she was detained. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

Tuition guarantee at work at UT Austin! Modeled on the HAIL intervention at UMich

Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The obstacle to accountability is the President's pardon power. Trump can be expected to announce wall-to-wall pardons for everyone in the chain of command: top to bottom, every agency, extending to outside actors. Perhaps it's time to start planning a constitutional amendment to abolish pardons.

This is a terrific writer. Snap him up!

They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.

Trump is also no longer trying to conceal his desperate midterm play, which is to gaslight midwestern farmers into blaming Ukraine for the high diesel prices caused by his reckless decision to go to war with Iran.

Most Americans support Ukraine and understand that choking off Russian oil and gas earnings is the best way to end the Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory. Unfortunately, Donald Trump and his cronies do not seem to understand. I wonder why that is...

This is obviously false. Why would Trump have chosen the most prestigious and sought-after negotiators in the world, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, if he weren’t serious about…about… Ugh, sorry guys I can’t keep up the gag anymore.

I have a low opinion of Tucker Carlson, but I did not imagine that he (or anyone) would argue that England should have surrendered to Hitler. Rees-Mogg is properly shocked and forceful in response. And yes I know he’s a jerk, but this interview clarifies the gap between jerk and monster.

I mean, right?

Things going great for GOP in midterms...

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

College accreditation overseer NACIQI paralyzed halfway into a Trump admin takeover. Designated enemy is ABA, but the admin remains one vote short of removing their role in accrediting law schools.

A thoughtful article which illuminates why the current round of Witkoff/Kushner visits will yield no significant results. But its purely descriptive focus and defeatist tone provide no guidance for policymakers seeking a path forward in the Ukrainian conflict.

That’s us!

Its people!

Having played pickleball for the first time today, I am ready to explain what it feels like: Like you're playing tennis with a ping pong paddle or maybe playing ping pong on a tennis court. A pickleball field sounds like a troop of monkeys throwing golf balls against the wall forever.

On Monday 9/14, ex-Fetterman staffers launched an anonymous Threads account promising dirt on their former boss. A handful of article reposts followed...then nothing. This morning the account was gone, deactivated in the night. Was it always a troll, or did somebody feel the heat?

Important win against Trump-era corruption in crypto industry.

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