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(🚨) ANNOUNCEMENT: PROOF is now doing what no other outlet has, and what no form of journalism other than metajournalism *can*—it’s itemizing 100 ways Trump is working to steal the midterms. Not minor assaults. Not rumors. Confirmed schemes—sourced and cited. Here’s Part III. Please share it widely.

Add Jared to the list. Begin hearings and, if true, prosecution in January.

Hilarious: DOJ interrupts a Feeb getting his ass handed to him by defense attorneys for Kash's targets to announce the no-bill on a Cassidy Hutchinson indictment. WTF Ned Hedley was doing there IDK.

When Trump says he doesn't "give a damn" about high gas prices because "we're making a fortune" -- he means it literally: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

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#LockThemUp

Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

Just some remarkable moves in Crystal Ball but holy hell it'll be tremendous if Figures can keep that seat. centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

A nice profile of the technocratic Dem who found himself running against rabid racist Bo French.

This goes to the heart of the MAGAt fever dreams behind this case: Grassley, Johnson, and John Solomon are all furious that they weren't allowed to use Andrii Telizhenko bc of this briefing. They're trying to rehab him. But if they say it pertained to the laptop, then the laptop is RU disinfo.

Wow. Stephen Miller is about the change the rules on who can claim asylum.

Woody Harrelson has done an ad "for Exxon". Well worth watching

Jeffrey Sterling, ex CIA: The military is punishing Maj Watson while claiming to follow the very rules that forbid it. Art. 13 of the UCMJ says no one being held for trial may be punished, and that pretrial confinement may be no 'more rigorous than the circumstances require to insure his presence'.

WATCH: @hasandpiker helping students vote… what a monster!

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www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-lul... That win matters beyond the Borders of Brazil!

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Note: In 2016 Trump won with the help of coordinated messaging amplified by bots. He still relies on that coordinated messaging, tho the Epstein schism undermined that some. But this SEEMS to say you don't stay off Xitter and Facebook--you coordinate to game it.

Reup: The non-answers Todd Blanche gave to Dana Bash and Margaret Brennan yesterday make total sense when you see how much he is pursuing the plot Jeffrey Clark planned on pursuing if HE had been made AG. Clark's plan anticipated political violence. emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...

So far no sign of a response from Trump on Truth Social. Should be epic when it happens. 😜

I keep saying this: Stephen Miller is trying hard to preemptively scapegoat someone ELSE in case the GOP loses Texas. But they're naming him by name. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Reaganomics 2.0

Note, the MOST IMPORTANT change is that they swapped FBI agents (and added critical elements that were missing from the original affidavit). This is clean up, the obstruction charge is likely only the excuse to do that.

During an interview with Roop Raj on a local Fox affiliate in Detroit, Michigan Trump made several misleading and false statements about the auto industry and U.S. manufacturing. I've included a brief fact check.

Overnight, DOJ rolled out a new (draft) complaint against Nikki Floris and Brad Benavides, the FBI agents Jeanine Pirro claims lied to cover up their knowledge of Hunter Biden investigation. It reveals the FBI had misrepresented a key witness' knowledge of the Hunter Biden investigation.

So back on October 5, DOJ charged Jim Comey via information for information about a FISA story that Jim Baker tried to correct. They didn't get an indictment before the statute of limitations expired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Depending on how you count, the charges Trump has filed against Comey have been declined 5X: Lying abt leaking to Richman: Declined in 2019, EDVA declined, then Halligan charged 8647: USSS declined to charge, then charged in EDNC Yahoo: declined by John Durham 2017, then again by Barr in 2020

Every single one of these prior declinations was done under Trump. Every single one of these new charges involves a promotion of the person who indicted. He also has nominated two of the EDNC players to be judges.

The HJC Report on Epstein has me genuinely wondering why Trump didn't just fuck or even rape Melania like he did everyone else Epstein and Zampolli dealt him. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

REPRESENT!

Yup. The only way my voting county in MI shows up red is at the big donor category. Those are either the DeVoses or the Meijers.

SUPER cool map that shows which party is getting small donor funds, broken down by county. There are tabs for the big Senate races too. votehub.com/2026/10/24/2...

Ohio: Oh yes, the Dem Gubernatorial candidate HAS TOO excelled despite a nightmarish childhood. MN: Oh yes, the Dem Senate candidate IS TOO really smart and always has been in spite of economic challenges. Who's next?

Via @popular.info, here are the corporations backing the pro-child rape Ramaswamy: substack.com/inbox/post/2...

Everyone keeps repeating Trump's claim that he didn't trade anyone for Stephen Hubbard, but on October 9 (the day he betrayed Ukraine) Trump chose not to extradite someone far more important: Mikhail Zvinchuk, who interferes in US and European democracy. emptywheel.net/2026/10/21/t...

Jeebus the visuals here.

This is an important point and one way we should use this VF article. Even if the most damning part -- the bank accounts -- is not true, we do know Kushner is a literal agent (financial advisor) to the Saudis and UAE. How the hell is he running negotiations?

This bullshit complaint by DOJ trying to get Alaska to toss out the result of the senate election is a Stan Woodward joint, obviously. Complaint here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Stan Woodward Defies Rules of Gravity to Attack Minnesota Judges emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/s...

Just today I wrote about Jared and Minnesota. Yesterday I wrote about the stolen docs case and the power struggle around Susie Wiles. The day before about Trump's support for Russia and Alina Habba's corruption. These people literally have zero shame about lying like MAGAts do.

In its attack on the midterm elections in California, the Trump DOJ has taken an extraordinary new step that exemplifies how far off the rails it has gone under Trump II. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The mother covered-up the sexual abuse of Amy Acton and this windbag doesn't care about it!

The woman asking these questions is NBC's Monica Alba.

Anthony Scaramucci: “I'll stipulate that Trump is an agent of Putin.”