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Kushner took a $50 mn bribe from the Emiratis to orchestrate the firing of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, according to Matt Cole's new book, Princes and Thieves, out today. To be clear, this is a serious felony, if true.

I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

Donald Trump Jr. spent two days in August on a hunting trip in Mongolia with Umar Kremlev, the Russian businessman with ties to Putin who helped pay for the presidential son's wedding weekend festivities, the @ft.com.web.brid.gy reports. www.ft.com/content/f41f...

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

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.

* HASSETT: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS A MYTH @bloomberg.com

From the same article. HOW IS THIS A VICTORY?

It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

1. A group formed last week called “Progressive Alliance of Wisconsin” is attacking David Crowley, the state’s Democratic nominee for governor, with hundreds of thousands in attack mailers. A Popular Information investigation has linked the effort to GOP operatives.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

In all likelihood this story ends badly www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

This seems like a big deal

Five state-funded #Florida charter schools have paid more than $30 million over the last four years to two private companies run by Erika Donalds, wife of GOP gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds. Read more at: www.bradenton.com/news/state/a... via @bradenton.com

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

This is explosive. In the Witkoff/Kushner discussions with the Kremlin with respect to the sale to a Trump-backed consortium of LUKoil's foreign assets, Trump has offered a slice of his big Alaska project to a Russian major close to Putin. The structure is designed to entangle US investments

Every accusation is a confession www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...

#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' dopey Amendment 3 property tax "reform" likely to make South #Florida flooding problems worse, say experts. www.wlrn.org/environment/... via @jenstaletovich.bsky.social

ICE agents seen near early voting sites in two #Florida counties. County election supervisors contact FBI www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/l... via @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

NEW: A high-ranking Republican tried to curb the unchecked growth of West Virginia’s school voucher program. Then three PACs — bankrolled by pro-school choice billionaires like the Koch family and Jeffrey Yass — worked to take him down. with @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social

Current and former defense officials say former Wall Street executives have taken hold of a wing of the Pentagon and they’re favoring people and companies with close ties to the Trump administration.

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. 😳

Hear us out: The richest person in the world should not be allowed to dump hundreds of millions to affect the midterm elections. This is not a radical idea. We need campaign finance reform.

Today's must-read: A story that lays out, step by step, how the Hope #Florida scandal unfolded -- and how it blew up in Gov. Ron DeSastrous' face & ended his wife's political career before it even started. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Trump administration has diverted $86 million in teen pregnancy prevention funds from local programs to an AI-led firm with ties to a top HHS official.

#Florida pro-Amendment 3 PAC spent millions on GOP operative connected to "ghost candidate" election fraud scandal www.cltampa.com/news/florida... via @cltampabay.bsky.social

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Trump doesn’t care about the general public. His only concern is walling off public lands into private enclaves and business opportunities for himself and wealthy cronies.

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

#Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds' plan to lower electricity bills could RAISE them instead, experts say. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A White House ballroom donor who organized meetings for Don Jr. and 1789 Capital in Europe has had a good year: he's been named as chair of a $201 million government-backed enterprise fund, received a waiver on sanctions, and more. Meet Konstantin Sokolov talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-ballr...

Fox News has given less than 2 minutes of airtime to Monday's report that Ken Paxton had partied overseas with two fugitives from U.S. justice amid their multi-day fixation on James Talarico’s temporary absence from the campaign trail due to illness. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Joe Rogan is using his show to peddle misinformation about voter fraud and accuse Democrats of stealing elections — and his episodes that contain election misinformation have greater viewership than those that don't.

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.

“We’ve created a system where we depend heavily on physicians trained abroad, and at the same time, we create immigration policies that make it harder for those physicians to enter, to train, to remain in the country." floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/13/r...

Will Bunch introduces us to Pastor Molis Augustave in York Co, PA. In his manifesto — which reads like a “Letter from Birmingham Jail” for the mass-deportation age — Augustave expressed gratitude for those who fought for him and put him on the front page and TV newscasts in York, but despaired

I’ve said this before, Trump is Saruman without the intellect, real hair, and fashion sense.

Insider trading used to require an insider Now Truth Social reportedly sells Wall Street early access to Trump's posts for up to $100K a month We rep SF City Atty. Chiu in the suit to stop it, more in this week's publisher's note 👇 -TN

Do you ever think about how rarely it's mentioned that Musk was found guilty by a jury of his peers of defrauding investors before he launched the largest, and possibly most fraudulent IPO, ever?

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

11-3-26: Stain Removal

DOJ “has hastily hired a new crop of 130 people -- some w/ criminal records, minimal experience, tarnished work histories, hyperpartisanship and downright bizarre public statements.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...