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The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

From the Dems House Judiciary report:

Social Security is projected to run out of the funds that it needs to pay full benefits by 2032. It’s up to progressives to turn this threat around on the right and improve America’s most cherished (and socialistic) support system while they’re at it. prospect.org?p=146821

Meanwhile in New Haven. #YaleRecord

Also, pay attention to what Elon Musk is now saying and doing in US politics. This is extreme, extraordinary and unprecedented.

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Elon Musk was introduced at a MAGA rally as “the greatest capitalist in history.” Reviewing Alex Gibney’s “Musk,” Paul M. Barrett writes that Musk instead combined “an uncanny ability to hoover up government subsidies and contracts with a P.T. Barnum-level talent for hucksterism.”

Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Another person has died in ICE custody — this is the 28th known death this year. The cruelty of this rogue agency is beyond unconscionable. Abolish ICE.

New Brazil rules: share Dr. Andrews’ new ad 10x more to counteract negative GOP attacks👇 #LFG bsky.app/profile/dran...

Hungary showed the way. Keep going.

October 26, 2026

“If you want all families to care about your policy, make it universal.” Lawmakers in New Mexico say that their new childcare program will be harder to take away because all families are benefiting from it:

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

President Trump doesn’t give a damn how much it costs to fill your gas tank—as long as he and his friends are making a fortune. trib.al/VODqcqe

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

The people who trade in despair, including progressives on here, are not their enemies. They are their handmaidens.

Today’s required reading

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

How he did it

Good one, Pete.

Gas prices are “temporarily” high, says the president. That’s because Republicans are temporarily in power. Vote.

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

Pretty pretty pretty cute

Wtf Santa Fe?

“Shellie Flockhart, who called Iowa Democratic House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott “dangerous” for kids, pleaded guilty after authorities said she drove drunk with her children in the car in 2017.“

Compendium of grotesque and vitriolic lies right here for you.

It turns out that this was the reason for the manifestation by our hotel today.💔

"Alexander says he didn’t come back to Ingram to help deport his neighbors... he just ended up making it part of his job. Alexander and Ingram’s other patrol officer had delivered at least 70 people to immigration agents. Within a year, they would hand over the equivalent of 10% of Ingram to ICE."

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

Demonstration in Madrid, as seen from our hotel window.

Trump wanted to create an Orban style autocracy & take away everyone’s liberties. But Orban knew u need to be popular when u put that into effect. But in just 20 months Trump failed so hard he’s more unpopular than any midterm Prez in 80 yrs. Chump just doesn’t have the cards. 🤣

Peggy Flanagan: "In Minnesota, fraudsters are getting prosecuted and going to prison. In Donald Trump's Washington, they are getting pardoned. We are not the same."

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

East Potomac Park has 3 golf courses, mini golf, a playground, picnic spots & a road locals run & bike on Trump's plan could swap most of that for a single 18-hole course @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are in court to keep it public More @nytimes.com👇 -TN

Good things

Every single thing we learn about how Ramaswamy and his campaign have been operating over these past weeks in the decision to attack Acton in this way show in ever more abhorrent ways that they are morally incapable of the task of governing.