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BREAKING: A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to Sunday’s election, per WaPo

“Brazil probes foreign financing, including group [the Rockbridge Network] linked to Vance,” Peter Thiel, and Chris Buskirk 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/AYBFyqwGiylo...

So ... are we cutting off diplomatic recognition of the elected government in Brazil? Are we sponsoring a government in exile? Have they thought this through at all?

It’s time to have a serious conversation about this shift in philanthropic dollars to fund science, in the broader context of the Trump administration’s war on science as a public good. Thank you to @heidiledford.bsky.social for covering this. MY HOT TAKES 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired. trib.al/gANTbMx

It's amazing how editors will say "we can't see inside this public figure's mind," "we can't assume their intentions" — and then write stuff like this.

As I said in a reply: I'm afraid that I no longer have the energy to put on my "International Relations Professor" hat and work through what's wrong with the various justifications offered by TrumpCronies. They just want to help Putin and enrich themselves. Everything else is bullshit.

Just a moment to parse the phrase "unsolicited dick pics" and ask what is the going rate and market for solicited dick pics? I may not be the most adventurous satyr in these woods, but I don't hear very much about actual women, even at their most flirtatious, requesting penis portraiture in tribute.

For several days I have been hearing rumors of an ICE detainee death that ICE was not reporting. I've just learned a local journalist has confirmed it and will publish soon. Now I read this and see there are actually TWO deaths ICE is not reporting. www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee...

I urge all to read this second of a series of essays from @vermontgmg.bsky.social . We have become numb to the *level* of corruption in this administration, yet we must continue to be outraged in order to right what is a sinking ship. It can be done!

By my count, that is the twelfth time an ICE-chartered aircraft has flown past EG since Judge Hinderaker ordered the government to facilitate his return. Yes, the judge is aware.

US executives quit as Trump turns control over massive Alaska energy project to Putin underlings. The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture says Russian energy giant Novatek was given control of the project by Trump, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership

lemme see if I get it GRU hacks Kushner's iPhone Dutch intelligence (MIVD) then recruits GRU spy, gives them hacked phone MIVD discovers that Kushner has 2 bank accounts (one Azerbaijani, one Israeli) where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposit money

I know exactly what side I'm on. I don't know who I hate more, but I put Trump and Putin in EXACTLY the same box. And Musk seems equally allied to both of these cockroaches.

this has never felt more true. it's rapists and their defenders all the way down.

Executive Order Designates Shaking Empty Beer Can At Wife As Official Language Of U.S. http://theonion.com/executive-order-designates-shaking-empty-beer-can-at-wife-as-official-language-of-u-s/

WTF. Wait till it pans out.

He stopped Ukrainian interceptor drones in flight, letting Russian missiles and drones through that were aimed at civilians.

Agree w Tom. I’ll stress it’s utterly pathetic of Trump to think of Russia as a peer when it is vastly inferior. What’s worse is that this overestimation is music to Putin’s ears, prevents him from recognizing that russia has lost in Ukraine, and inspires him to dream about even bigger conquests.

This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This is the result of 7+ years of Trump's attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social, Somali-Americans, & the Muslim community. Everyone, regardless of party, must speak out against this fascistic abuse of power. If they can do this to a sitting Congresswoman, they can & will do it to anyone.

The question is not "why has Donald betrayed Ukraine?" The question is "how big a cut of unfrozen Russian assets will Donald get for betraying Ukraine?"

There are very, very few problems in the history of international relations which can be solved by bombing people. I am pleading with tears in my eyes for you all to believe me: This problem is entirely solvable by bombing Russia.

Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Goebbels. Bormann, Streicher...these were guys just like you and me. They jsit needed someone to hug it out with them. Maybe buy them a beer. Fucking hell. This is America now.

Pete Hegseth wasn't lying about us getting to see someone die on live TV.

The key part is at the end of this clip where Jackson calls out Collins for her role as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. She could have done more than simply vote for war powers resolutions to stop the Iran War. The power of the purse is the ultimate war power.

ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.

Remember: ICE lied so often about people posing threats to them, to justify their violence in Chicago, that a Chicago federal judge wrote it was "difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything" ICE said. Do you know what it takes to get a Fed district judge to WRITE THAT in a ruling?

prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

This opening by Bob Smietana is perfection! A must read!

Ramaswamy made his money through a scam. That's not success; it’s corruption. This election is the big chance in our lifetime to do something about the people who think politics is just there to enable ever bigger personal grifts.

even if Trump were to kidnap Zelensky like he did Maduro because the US establishment is weak and cowardly to allow such travesty, Ukraine’s next leader wouldn’t deliver Ukraine to the Trump-Putin alliance. Ukraine would continue to resist and fight for its independence.

Like Putin, Trump has launched his own war of aggression.

Trump’s deal with Putin is illegal. In 2022, the US Congresses passed the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act, explicitly prohibiting the import of russian energy resources into the United States. Legally, Trump is not allowed to make a deal with Putin.

JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

Why is there no equivalent anti-Flock movement for more invasive surveillance? wamu.org/story/26/10/...

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

Your children do not owe you relationship, full stop.

That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.

🇷🇺 A very interesting glimpse into the mysterious Russian soul. 👀 “For some reason, here they pay 14 million for a death, but only 700,000 for a life.” — Russian journalist Dmitry Borisenko discusses Russia’s death cult with Pavel Ivanov.

Holy shit.