Mike Rodriquez

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Not a single Democrat anywhere should be afraid of doing this to absolutely every Republican who takes money from Elon Musk in 2028.

But culturally, they need a world in which sexual assault claims are presumptively false. Because if you acknowledge that the great majority are true, it becomes pretty much impossible to maintain that the dozens of accusations against Trump are all fabrications.

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Lord I see what Brazil and Serbia have and I want it for myself

I asked UNH's archivist to create a file of letters protesting the "weeding" of 30% of the library's books. Future researchers need to know faculty did not let the books "go gentle into that good night" (30+ books on Dylan Thomas to be culled). 🗃️ #skystorians www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

If you want to know how complete the right-wing capture of the public narrative is: people were shocked a dozen years ago at birtherism being pointed at Obama. Yesterday, Trumpists said AES was not an American *even though he has a birth certificate* — and none of those outlets even made it news.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Bye Hetzner. "We confirm the email regarding PHP was sent from our side. We cannot determine why it did not reach your inbox at the expected time. Contact your email provider to investigate the delivery delay." Narrator: they sent the email hours later than they said. Headers show a 4 sec. delay.

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Obama: "Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa. You got a Muslim man, a Jewish woman, fighting for you in the US senate. That's something, Michigan, you can be proud of!"

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This admission alone is an impeachable offense

Getting special exemptions for SpaceX that put it into stock indices unprecedentedly early, thereby getting money from big funds that can buy only safe investments, was worth more to Musk than all the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s spent trying to buy elections. Much more. Incredibly corrupt.

Did he think this was a private message or something?

Everyone has kind of laughed it off but there’s actually now an official investigation by multiple organizations into why my US election ballot hasn’t been released from US customs in a month without any explanation.

Remember when the President directing the DOJ to do literally anything would be a months long scandal that would almost certainly end in impeachment? I miss those days.

This needs to be said openly: This is what happens when the government is led by someone who attempted a coup d’etat, and his agencies are run by his stooges.

putting this guy in the economic dirt would be the easiest thing in the world. all his money is based on either regulatory credit arbitrage or straight up government largesse. you could wipe him out with a stroke of a pen. you could also then jail him. and then deport him.

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

There's a scenario in which the Supreme Court gets this case in December and three justices involved in Bush v. Gore on behalf of Bush will be asked whether confusion is grounds to reject election results.

It's already starting. Yesterday Todd Blanche refused to rule out election interference.

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Came to DC for a conference, and it's... at a hotel overlooking the golf course Trump is trying to wreck. You could see some of the tree stumps from the hundreds of trees they cut down which made the judge so angry.

It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

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“I don’t know who the hell you are, but you better be careful,” he said, an odd remark considering I’d identified myself not 10 minutes earlier. When the same thing happened minutes later, he lost it completely..."

Let’s just recall that she is talking about a twelve-year-old.

So where do folks host their own websites and domains these days? Digital Ocean has known issues. Hetzner can't be arsed to even tell me as a customer that there is a PHP issue, let alone update their repos so I can update. So, all my sites are down. Where to go from here? Help!!!

Vance is in Ohio to support the Ramaswamy campaign, which is in hot water for an ad in which they promote a woman who sided with her husband after he was arrested for raping her 12-year-old daughter. For his intro song, they chose ... Jerry Lee Lewis, who famously married his 13-year-old cousin.

The president shouting "fake news" is bad enough, but the FCC commissioner threatening to punish broadcasters for promoting "fake news" like "the president is historically unpopular" is so much worse. Add this clown to the list of officials who need to be impeached and removed.

He expects to show NATO that the US will no longer come to their support because he now controls Trump and will use this to press US disengagement from NATO.

After he's gone, we're going to find out it was so much worse than we now know.