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The Justice Department is drawing up contingency plans to potentially intervene in next week’s midterm elections, three national security officials tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-prep-...

Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

John Oliver goes deep on Nazis in the GOP, cites @talkingpointsmemo.com reporting on Marshall Rawson www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsB...

The Justice Department represents the United States of America, not the president. That’s what White House counsel is for. 

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

Here is a video overview of the NYT investigation @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and I did that examines how President Trump moved first to grant pollution passes to chemical plants. Then former petrochemical lobbyists he appointed moved to make these waivers permanent www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

During this investigation, we traveled to locations around the United States where President Trump has moved to ease pollution rules, including to Port Neches, Tx. where there is a middle school a few blocks from the chemical plant considered by the EPA the largest cancer threat nationwide.

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...

Omg...this is horrific. “So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being Abandoned open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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

6/ He forces military bases to sell his political merch. ON MILITARY BASES, JD! JD! JD!

5/ Trump bought up to $1.6 million of Nvidia stock in August. But guess what? He did it because he knew Nvidia's stock was about to jump because he was about to announce the lifting of export restrictions on Nvidia chips. JD - did you not see that?

3/ Just 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran policy, billions of dollars’ worth of contracts were placed that’d predict oil prices would fall. CFTC staff began to investigate, but were told to lay off. More insider trading - that JD didn't see!

2/ Trump has made millions selling a crypto coin that leapfrogged the competition because Trump sold a pardon to this guy in exchange for help selling his coin. JD, this guy was convicted of terrorist and sex predator financing!!

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

4/ Trump cut a deal with Kazakhstan to make his sons rich off a mining deal. And then he approved $1.6 billion - BILLION - in taxpayer financing to further help his sons. Like wild, nuclear grade self enrichment. Missed that one, JD? Kazakhstan!!

No one has been clearer about "How the 2016 Russian Election Attack Led Donald Trump to Destroy US Hegemony" than Marcy. What's more depressing than Putin's success is how Trump has scared our media from reporting on the geopolitical story of the century with three words: Russia, Russia, Russia.

golly gee, who could have predicted this? www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-vot...

Two US officials and a Western official said ‌leaders at the Defense Department received a message from inside the White House that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed. www.reuters.com/world/europe... #SpaceX #Starshield #Trump #Ukraine

appears that hegseth impulsively blurted this out to look tough, but had not discussed it with others prior, causing admin to scramble. he did not think through the consequences of livestreaming. these do not seem like good qualities for someone making war-related decisions.

Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self

In exchange for a promise that they personally will receive a series of corrupt but lucrative business deals, Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are trying to secure release of hundreds of millions in frozen Russian assets and their return to the Kremlin. www.ft.com/content/5435...

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

Trump on Iran: “I probably went a little too far. I’m sorry, because I don’t know who the hell we’re dealing with anymore.”

Scoop: "More than half of the top holders listed as competing for seats at President Trump's next meme coin dinner have used cryptocurrency exchanges that prohibit U.S. customers" @gabekaminsky.bsky.social, Madeline May,Steve Reilly for @cbsnews.com

It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.

Trump, Witkoff, Kushner, musk, are doing everything to help terrorist Russia murder Ukrainians. Siding with terrorists, restricting Starlink on top of funding genocide. This is beyond outrageous

October 12, 2026 -- Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.

Russia has not only provided intelligence support to Iran but, as it turns out, has also supplied missiles to the Iranians. (Bloomberg News) Americans were killed by Iranian attacks using these weapons. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

READ THIS: The man who was the commanding general of Fort Hood when Nidal Hasan went on his shooting rampage, and who signed the actual death warrant authorizing Hasan's execution, is absolutely opposed to televising the firing squad. He speaks eloquently for himself here.

The Republican Party is on the side of Russia against Ukraine. It’s not me saying that, it’s their cult leader. bsky.app/profile/atru...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

300,000 tons is the equivalent of 93 million gallons of diesel. U.S. daily consumption? 160 million gallons. So 13-14 hours’ worth. Won’t really move the needle on prices in the market.

Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

@saletan.bsky.social makes the case against Trump and looks at evidence Jack Smith brought up in a deposition last year: “  If you think that Trump believed the election was stolen…DOJ officials told him that they didn't believe it was stolen…He knew he was telling them to lie.”

This was an awesome indictment of Trump by @saletan.bsky.social w/evidence bombs dropped by Jack Smith during the hearings and testimony. Good watch. Full vid: 📺 youtu.be/AzZ4Bcxv-1Q?...

@mayor.nyc.gov Only an occasional New York visitor- have always wondered why the city government doesn’t commission or even raffle off to artist (students& professionals etc) the blank ugly hallways & stairwells in the subway. The subway walls have the potential to be art galleries for all.

If you think things are tight now, wait until the Big, Ugly Bull take effect. You have no idea what’s coming! #momsky#sheshed

literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!